Open Stack

Excerpts from Jay Pipes's message of 2013-12-26 08:58:10 -0800:
> On 12/26/2013 07:43 AM, skywalker.nick at gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi stackers,
> > I'm preparing for an OpenStack cloud in the production system. I've
> > achieved HA and load balancing for most of the components to a certain
> > degree.
> > Finally I find it hard for Neutron to do such configuration. Are there
> > any ways to run multiple l3-agents and dhcp-agents and cluster them
> > together?
> 
> Right, the Neutron L3 agent is the only OpenStack service that is not 
> stateless, and therefore you cannot use traditional load-balancing 
> across a set of identical nodes.
> 
> That said, there's nothing wrong with running multiple L3 nodes, with 
> routers for different tenants hosted on different L3 agents. We do this 
> successfully in our deployment using a custom Neutron scheduler that my 
> colleague Alan Meadows wrote [1] and a Python script (also written by 
> Alan) that runs in cron looking for failures on an L3 agent and if 
> found, moves the routers from the failed node to a working one. [2]
> 

This sounds pretty great Jay. Do you have plans to submit it to Neutron
as a standard feature? Pretty much everybody needs this.