Open Stack

 Just a bump! Any help would be great guys:)

MW

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Marcus White
<roastedseaweed.k at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I had some basic questions on a load balancer we are considering for
> Swift. Some of them might be pretty stupid and basic.
>
> 1. Assuming layer 7 is what would be used for openstack services like
> keystone and Swift, not layer 4? I saw a layer 4 in front of a layer 7
> in one of the diagrams, didnt really understand why that was needed.
>
> 2. Do typical installations use SSL termination within the load
> balancer and then normal http sessions beyond that to, say the proxy
> for Swift or keystone?
>
> 3. Is round robin at layer 7 is what is used?
>
> 4. This might be another stupid question, minus Horizon, you dont
> really need the load balancer to do cookies or sessions or any
> stickiness? For all else, it would just be load balancing round robin?
>  With horizon, for the specific session, it would need to go to the
> same endpoint in the back end?
>
> 5. Is anyone using geo-DNS or a global load balancer for Swift multi site?
>
> TIA,
> --MW