[openstack-dev] [lbaas] [octavia] [barbican] Relationship between Octavia and Barbican and Octavia 1.0 questions
Maish Saidel-Keesing
maishsk at maishsk.com
Thu May 21 12:45:55 UTC 2015
Thanks Brandon
On 05/20/15 22:58, Brandon Logan wrote:
>
> Just to add a few things,
>
> Barbican is not yet implemented in Octavia, though the code is there,
> we just need to spend a few hours hooking it all up and testing it out.
>
>
> Also, the security groups are used by octavia right now so that only
> the ports on the listener are accessible. Basically if a loadbalancer
> has listeners on ports 80 and 443, the vip ports will only allow
> traffic on those ports. It shouldn't allow other traffic.
>
That is great to hear. I assume that if we are using security groups we
will also be able to define rules regarding which networks the listeners
are allowed to accept traffic from?
Is that assumption correct?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brandon
>
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> *From:* Doug Wiegley <dougwig at parksidesoftware.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 21, 2015 12:49 AM
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> *Subject:* Re: [openstack-dev] [lbaas] [octavia] [barbican]
> Relationship between Octavia and Barbican and Octavia 1.0 questions
> Hi Maish,
>
> Thanks for the feedback, some answers below. Please also be aware of
> the lbaas use cases session tomorrow at 9am (yuck, I know),
> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/YVR-neutron-lbaas-use-cases
>
>
>> On May 19, 2015, at 12:05 AM, Maish Saidel-Keesing
>> <maishsk at maishsk.com <mailto:maishsk at maishsk.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Going over today's presentation "Load Balancing as a Service, Kilo
>> and Beyond"[1] (great presentation!!) - there are a few questions I
>> have regarding the future release:
>>
>> For Octavia 1.0:
>>
>> 1. Can someone explain to me how the flow would work for spinning up
>> a a new Amphora with regards to interaction between Neutron, LBaaS
>> and Barbican?
>> Same question as well regarding how the standby is created and its
>> relationship with Barbican.
>
> The lbaas API runs inside neutron-server. The general flow is:
>
> - User interacts with neutron CLI/API or horizon (in liberty), and
> creates an LB.
> - Lbaas plugin in neutron creates logical models, fetches cert data
> from barbican, and calls the backend lbaas driver.
> - The backend driver does what it needs to to instantiate the LB.
> Today this is a synchronous call that waits for the nova boot, but by
> Liberty, it will likely be an async call to the octavia controller to
> finish the job.
>
> Once Octavia has control, it is doing:
>
> - Get REST calls for objects,
> - Talk to nova, spin up an amphora image,
> - Talk to neutron, plumb in the networks,
> - Send the amphora its config.
>
>>
>> 2. Will the orchestration (Heat) also be implemented when Octavia 1.0
>> is released or only further down the line?
>> If not what would you suggest be the way to orchestrate LBaaS until
>> this is ready?
>
> We need to talk to the Heat folks and coordinate this, which we are
> planning to do soon.
>
>>
>> 3. Is there some kind of hook into Security groups also planned for
>> the Amphora to also protect the Load Balancer?
>
> Not at present, but I recorded this in the feature list on the
> etherpad above.
>
>>
>> I think that based on the answers to these questions above -
>> additional questions will follow.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eAKur8lErU
>> --
>> Best Regards,
>> Maish Saidel-Keesing
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Best Regards,
Maish Saidel-Keesing
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