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# Can I Attach Multiple Ports to an Instance?

## Problem

Is it possible to add multiple fixed IP ports to an instance?

## Environment

* Platform9 Managed OpenStack - All versions.
* Neutron
* Nova

## Answer

* Openstack allows adding multiple ports to an instance but any ports added after the first one need to be configured manually.
* The majority of the OpenStack images have only one interface configured by default which is why only the first IP gets configured on the only interface found within the image.

## Additional Information

The following blueprint, once implemented, will allow OpenStack to configure secondary interfaces within the instance.

<https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/multiple-fixed-ips-network-information>


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