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Hi folks, my comments inlined:


On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 6:13 AM, Youcef Laribi <Youcef.Laribi at citrix.com>wrote:

>  Jorge,
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> Thanks for taking the time to put up a requirements list. Some comments
> below:
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>    - Static IP Addresses
>       - Our current Cloud Load Balancing (CLB) offering utilizes static
>       IP addresses which is something our customers really like, especially when
>       setting up DNS. AWS for example, gives you an A record which you CNAME to.
>
> This should also already be addressed, as you can today specify the VIP’s
> IP address explicitly on creation. We do not have DNS-based support for LB
> like in AWS ELB though.
>
Right, it's already there. Probably that's why it confused me :)

>
>    - Active/Passive Failover
>       - I think this is solved with multiple pools.
>
> The multiple pools support that is coming with L7 rules is to support
> content-switching based on L7 HTTP information (URL, headers, etc.). There
> is no support today for an active vs. passive pool.
>
I'm not sure that's the priority. It depends on if this is widely supported
among vendors.


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>    - IP Access Control
>       - Our current CLB offering allows the user to restrict access
>       through their load balancer by blacklisting/whitelisting cidr blocks and
>       even individual ip addresses. This is just a basic security feature.
>
> Is this controlling access to the VIP’s IP address or to pool members IP
> addresses? There is also a Firewall service in Neutron. Could this feature
> better fit in that service?
>
Agree, it's better to utilize what fwaas has to offer.

Eugene.

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> Youcef
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> *From:* Jorge Miramontes [mailto:jorge.miramontes at RACKSPACE.COM]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 19, 2014 11:44 AM
>
> *To:* OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
> *Subject:* Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron][LBaaS] Requirements Wiki
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> Oleg, thanks for the updates.
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> Eugene, High/Medium/Low is fine with me. I really just wanted to find a
> way to rank even amongst all of 'X' priorities. As people start adding more
> items we may need more columns to add things such as this, links to
> blueprints (per Ryan's idea), etc. In terms of the requirements marked with
> a '?' I can try to clarify here:
>
>
>
>    - Static IP Addresses
>
>
>     - Our current Cloud Load Balancing (CLB) offering utilizes static IP
>       addresses which is something our customers really like, especially when
>       setting up DNS. AWS for example, gives you an A record which you CNAME to.
>
>
>    - Active/Passive Failover
>
>
>     - I think this is solved with multiple pools.
>
>
>    - IP Access Control
>
>
>     - Our current CLB offering allows the user to restrict access through
>       their load balancer by blacklisting/whitelisting cidr blocks and even
>       individual ip addresses. This is just a basic security feature.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> --Jorge
>
>
>
> *From: *Eugene Nikanorov <enikanorov at mirantis.com>
> *Reply-To: *"OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage
> questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> *Date: *Wednesday, March 19, 2014 7:32 AM
> *To: *"OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <
> openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron][LBaaS] Requirements Wiki
>
>
>
> Hi Jorge,
>
>
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> Thanks for taking care of the page. I've added priorities, although I'm
> not sure we need precise priority weights.
>
> Those features that still have '?' need further clarification.
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> Thanks,
>
> Eugene.
>
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> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Oleg Bondarev <obondarev at mirantis.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Jorge,
>
>
>
> Thanks for taking care of this and bringing it all together! This will be
> really useful for LBaaS discussions.
>
> I updated the wiki to include L7 rules support and also marking already
> implemented requirements.
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>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Oleg
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Jorge Miramontes <
> jorge.miramontes at rackspace.com> wrote:
>
> Hey Neutron LBaaS folks,
>
> Per last week's IRC meeting I have created a preliminary requirements &
> use case wiki page. I requested adding such a page since there appears to
> be a lot of new interest in load balancing and feel that we need a
> structured way to align everyone's interest in the project. Furthermore,
> it appears that understanding everyone's requirements and use cases will
> aid in the current object model discussion we all have been having. That
> being said, this wiki is malleable and open to discussion. I have added
> some preliminary requirements from my team's perspective in order to start
> the discussion. My vision is that people add requirements and use cases to
> the wiki for what they envision Neutron LBaaS becoming. That way, we can
> all discuss as a group, figure out what should and shouldn't be a
> requirement and prioritize the rest in an effort to focus development
> efforts. ReadyŠsetŠgo!
>
> Here is the link to the wiki ==>
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Neutron/LBaaS/requirements
>
> Cheers,
> --Jorge
>
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