[Openstack] load balancer as a service for all protocols

nithish B bestofnithish at gmail.com
Mon May 16 14:35:24 UTC 2016


Hi Priyanka,
You can use OpenStack LBaaS with LVS driver to achieve this.

Reference: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Neutron/LBaaS/LVSDriver

Hope this helps. Feel free to get back to me for any queries.

Thanks.
Nitish B.

Regards,
Nitish B.

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 7:33 PM, Priyanka <ppnaik at cse.iitb.ac.in> wrote:

> 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> 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> 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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