[openstack-dev] [neutron][lbaas][octavia] what are the main differences between the two

Daniel Comnea comnea.dani at gmail.com
Tue May 5 05:14:15 UTC 2015


Thanks a bunch Doug, very clear & helpful info.

so with that said those who run IceHouse or Juno are (more or less :) )
dead in the water as the only option is v1 ...hmm

Dani

On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 10:21 PM, Doug Wiegley <dougwig at parksidesoftware.com>
wrote:

> lbaas v1:
>
> This is the original Neutron LBaaS, and what you see in Horizon or in the
> neutron CLI as “lb-*”.  It has an haproxy backend, and a few vendors
> supporting it. Feature-wise, it’s basically a byte pump.
>
> lbaas v2:
>
> This is the “new” Neutron LBaaS, and is in the neutron CLI as “lbaas-*”
> (it’s not yet in Horizon.)  It first shipped in Kilo. It re-organizes the
> objects, and adds TLS termination support, and has L7 plus other new
> goodies planned in Liberty. It similarly has an haproxy reference backend
> with a few vendors supporting it.
>
> octavia:
>
> Think of this as a service vm framework that is specific to lbaas, to
> implement lbaas via nova VMs instead of “lbaas agents". It is expected to
> be the reference backend implementation for neutron lbaasv2 in liberty. It
> could also be used as its own front-end, and/or given drivers to be a load
> balancing framework completely outside neutron/nova, though that is not the
> present direction of development.
>
> Thanks,
> doug
>
>
>
>
> > On May 4, 2015, at 1:57 PM, Daniel Comnea <comnea.dani at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm trying to gather more info about the differences between
> >
> > Neutron LBaaS v1
> > Neutron LBaaS v2
> > Octavia
> >
> > I know Octavia is still not marked production but on the other hand i
> keep hearing inside my organization that Neutron LBaaS is missing few
> critical "pieces" so i'd very much appreciate if anyone can provide
> detailed info about the differences above.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dani
> >
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