Open Stack

All:

I am trying to get a clear understanding of where or if Global Load Balancing as a Service fits within the OpenStack ecosystem.  I have included a list of basic use cases that I think a Global Load Balancing service should provide:

	• Route traffic (HTTP/FTP/Database/etc...) across multiple data centers without having a single point of failure (i.e. LBaaS Virtual IP address)
	• Monitor health of defined endpoints (load balancers or servers) with protocol-specific health checks
	• Route traffic to another data center in the event of a health check failure
	• Route traffic based on a requestor’s geographical location (GeoIP)
	• Route traffic based on latency between requestor and defined endpoints

Please let me know if you have any opinions/recommendations on this matter or are interested in solving this problem.

Kind regards,

Tom Creighton