[Openstack] load balancer as a service for all protocols

Priyanka ppnaik at cse.iitb.ac.in
Mon May 16 14:03:24 UTC 2016


Hi Nitish,
It should be a LBaaS.

Thanks,

Priyanka
On Monday 16 May 2016 07:35 PM, nithish B wrote:
> Hi Priyanka,
> When you say you want to load balance between a set of VMs, will this 
> load balancer be another VM or should it be a LBaaS. Please let me know.
>
> Regards,
> Nitish B.
>
> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 7:22 PM, Priyanka <ppnaik at cse.iitb.ac.in 
> <mailto:ppnaik at cse.iitb.ac.in>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Nitish,
>
>     Thanks for the response. But can this be used for VMs on openstack
>     cloud. There is no plugin in openstack for this.
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Priyanka
>     On Monday 16 May 2016 07:14 PM, nithish B wrote:
>>     Hi Priyanka,
>>     You could have a look at IPVS
>>     <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_Virtual_Server>. It is part of
>>     the linux kernel and load balances at the transport layer.
>>
>>
>>     Regards,
>>     Nitish B.
>>
>>     On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 6:46 PM, Priyanka <ppnaik at cse.iitb.ac.in
>>     <mailto:ppnaik at cse.iitb.ac.in>> wrote:
>>
>>         Hi,
>>
>>          I have a openstack juno cloud with one controller+neutron
>>         node and three compute nodes. I want to create a load
>>         balancer for balancing the load on a set of VMs of same type.
>>         The load to these VMs would come from VMs on the same subnet
>>         and the the communications are using different protocols i.e.
>>         TCP and UDP. I read about HAproxy lbaas and lvs lbaas.
>>         HAproxy is protocol dependent which would not suit for the
>>         multiple protocol scenario and LVS is a plugin on the router
>>         which too would not work. Are there any variation of lbaas to
>>         suit this need. Also, can any of the above (HAproxy or LVS)
>>         be modified to suit my need? Please guide me on this.
>>
>>         Thanks,
>>
>>         Priyanka
>>
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