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Sounds about right to me. I guess I agree with your agreement. :)
Does anyone actually oppose this arrangement?

--Adam

From: Stephen Balukoff <sbalukoff at bluebox.net<mailto:sbalukoff at bluebox.net>>
Reply-To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>
Date: Friday, May 2, 2014 7:53 PM
To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron][LBaaS] Use-Cases with VPNs Distinction

Hi guys,

Yep, so what I'm hearing is that we should be able to assume that either all members in a single pool are adjacent (ie. layer-2 connected), or are routable from that subnet.

Adam-- I could see it going either way with regard to how to communicate with members:  If the particular device that the provider uses lives outside tenant private networks, the driver for said devices would need to make sure that VIFs (or some logical equivalent) are added such that the devices can talk to the members. This is also the case for virtual load balancers (or other devices) which are assigned to the tenant but live on an "external" network. (In this topology, VIP subnet and pool subnet could differ, and the driver needs to make sure that the load balancer has a virtual interface/neutron port + IP address on the pool subnet.)

There's also the option that if the "device" being used for load balancing exists as a virtual appliance that can be deployed on an internal network, one can make it publicly accessible by adding a "neutron floating IP" (ie. static NAT rule) that forwards any traffic destined for a public "external" IP to the load balancer's internal IP address.  (In this topology, VIP subnet and pool subnet would be the same thing.) The nifty thing about this topology is that load balancers that don't have this static NAT rule added are implicitly "private" to the tenant internal subnet.

Having seen what our customers do with their topologies, my gut reaction is to say that the 99.9% use case is that all the members of a pool will be in the same subnet, or routable from the pool subnet. And I agree that if someone has a really strange topology in use that doesn't work with this assumption, it's not the job of LBaaS to try and solve this for them.

Anyway, I'm hearing general agreement that subnet_id should be an attribute of the pool.


On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 5:24 AM, Eugene Nikanorov <enikanorov at mirantis.com<mailto:enikanorov at mirantis.com>> wrote:
Agree with Sam here,
Moreover, i think it makes sense to leave subnet an attribute of the pool.
Which would mean that members reside in that subnet or are available (routable) from this subnet, and LB should have a port on this subnet.

Thanks,
Eugene.


On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Samuel Bercovici <SamuelB at radware.com<mailto:SamuelB at radware.com>> wrote:
I think that associating a VIP subnet and list of member subnets is a good choice.
This is declaratively saying to where is the configuration expecting layer 2 proximity.
The minimal would be the VIP subnet which in essence means the VIP and members are expected on the same subnet.

Any member outside the specified subnets is supposedly accessible via routing.

It might be an option to state the static route to use to access such member(s).
On many cases the needed static routes could also be computed automatically.

Regards,
               -Sam.

On 2 במאי 2014, at 03:50, "Stephen Balukoff" <sbalukoff at bluebox.net<mailto:sbalukoff at bluebox.net>> wrote:

Hi Trevor,

I was the one who wrote that use case based on discussion that came out of the question I wrote the list last week about SSL re-encryption:  Someone had stated that sometimes pool members are local, and sometimes they are hosts across the internet, accessible either through the usual default route, or via a VPN tunnel.

The point of this use case is to make the distinction that if we associate a neutron_subnet with the pool (rather than with the member), then some members of the pool that don't exist in that neutron_subnet might not be accessible from that neutron_subnet.  However, if the behavior of the system is such that attempting to reach a host through the subnet's "default route" still works (whether that leads to communication over a VPN or the usual internet routes), then this might not be a problem.

The other option is to associate the neutron_subnet with a pool member. But in this case there might be problems too. Namely:

  *   The device or software that does the load balancing may need to have an interface on each of the member subnets, and presumably an IP address from which to originate requests.
  *   How does one resolve cases where subnets have overlapping IP ranges?

In the end, it may be simpler not to associate neutron_subnet with a pool at all. Maybe it only makes sense to do this for a VIP, and then the assumption would be that any member addresses one adds to pools must be accessible from the VIP subnet.  (Which is easy, if the VIP exists on the same neutron_subnet. But this might require special routing within Neutron itself if it doesn't.)

This topology question (ie. what is feasible, what do people actually want to do, and what is supported by the model) is one of the more difficult ones to answer, especially given that users of OpenStack that I've come in contact with barely understand the Neutron networking model, if at all.

In our case, we don't actually have any users in the scenario of having members spread across different subnets that might not be be routable, so the use case is somewhat contrived, but I thought it was worth mentioning based on what people were saying in the SSL re-encryption discussion last week.


On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Trevor Vardeman <trevor.vardeman at rackspace.com<mailto:trevor.vardeman at rackspace.com>> wrote:
Hello,

After going back through the use-cases to double check some of my
understanding, I realized I didn't quite understand the ones I had
already answered.  I'll use a specific use-case as an example of my
misunderstanding here, and hopefully the clarification can be easily
adapted to the rest of the use-cases that are similar.

Use Case 13:  A project-user has an HTTPS application in which some of
the back-end servers serving this application are in the same subnet,
and others are across the internet, accessible via VPN. He wants this
HTTPS application to be available to web clients via a single IP
address.

In this use-case, is the Load Balancer going to act as a node in the
VPN?  What I mean here, is the Load Balancer supposed to establish a
connection to this VPN for the client, and simulate itself as a computer
on the VPN?  If this is not the case, wouldn't the VPN have a subnet ID,
and simply be added to a pool during its creation?  If the latter is
accurate, would this not just be a basic HTTPS Load Balancer creation?
After looking through the VPNaaS API, you would provide a subnet ID to
the create VPN service request, and it establishes a VPN on said subnet.
Couldn't this be provided to the Load Balancer pool as its subnet?

Forgive me for requiring so much distinction here, but what may be clear
to the creator of this use-case, it has left me confused.  This same
type of clarity would be very helpful across many of the other
VPN-related use-cases.  Thanks again!

-Trevor
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