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Hi all,

As you are all probably aware there are a bunch of new projects that 
have suddenly sprung up on Stackforge.  One of these is 'Libra' which is 
a toolset for Load Balancer as a Service.  It is currently specific to 
HP Cloud's setup but we are working to make it more generic.

Libra provides the following three components:

* A Node Pool Manager - to spin up and manage a hot spare set of HAProxy 
based load balancers ready to configure.  It supplies details of these 
nodes to the API server using a REST interface.
* A Worker - to sit on the load balancer nodes and configure HAProxy 
changes, it communicates with the API server using gearman
* A Command Line Client - to talk to an LBaaS API (currently Atlas based)

For technical reasons we do not yet have the source of the API server on 
Stackforge but with a few minor changes to both projects it could be 
made to work with Mirantis' LBaaS solution.  We also want to make the 
pool manager more generic so that it can be used for other projects.

The code is currently in an alphaish state as we finalise some things 
and get testing up and running.  But feel free to poke around and ask 
any questions.

It can be found on github at https://github.com/stackforge/libra and 
uses git-review as with other Openstack/Stackforge projects.

Kind Regards
-- 
Andrew Hutchings - LinuxJedi - http://www.linuxjedi.co.uk/