Neutron/LBaaS
There is a lot of interest in term of "Load-balancer-as-a-Service" in OpenStack. Multiple people have proposals for APIs, use cases, etc.
This page is a collection point for that information leading up to the Grizzly OpenStack summit in Oct.
Agenda for OpenStack Summit
- Session 1, John Gruber (F5 Networks), Eugene Nikanorov (Mirantis) (Tue 10/16)
- Physical, Virtual, Software
- Quantum Integration
- Equilibrium/Quantum Integration PoC demo
- Session 2 – Youcef Laribi (Citrix Systems), Serge Maskalik (VMWare) (Wed 10/17)
- Tenant APIs, Pay Loads
- Session 3 – Brent Busby (eBay/PayPal), Serge Maskalik (VMWare), Roman Alekseenkov (Mirantis) (Wed 10/17)
- Operator APIs, Pay Loads
- Definition of scope for the first release - see session #4 notes at http://etherpad.openstack.org/grizzly-quantum-lbaas
Link to Existing Resources
E.g.,: descriptions of use cases, existing proposals, existing code repos
Equilibrium (Mirantis LBaaS)
- Project overview: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1DRgQhZJ73EyzQ2KvzVQd7Li9YEL7fXWBp8reMdAEhiM
- Screencast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgAL-kfdbtE
- API draft: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=11WWy7MQN1RIK7XdvQtUwkC_EIrykEDproFy9Pekm3wI
- Roadmap: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1yJZXI0WfpAZKhHaLQu7LaxGLrs4REmn0a5bYVbvsCTQ
- Code repositories:
- Main: https://github.com/Mirantis/openstack-lbaas
- CLI tool: https://github.com/Mirantis/openstack-lbaas-cli
- Integration with Horizon (Essex): https://github.com/Mirantis/openstack-lbaas-horizon
- F5 BigIP Driver: https://github.com/gapinc/openstack-lbaas-f5-bigip
- Quantum integration: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1tZxt-AiSBVtcadUymWGskTzw6eD_Tfgp9sKeCxVAUG8
Atlas project
- Atlas project resources: http://wiki.openstack.org/Atlas/Resources
eBay/PayPal Project
- Overview, Resource Model, APIs & PayLoads - attachment:eBay-PayPal-LBaaS
- Updated resource model for Provider Side API : attachment:eBay LB Resource Model.png
LBaaS w/ resource model focused on config re-use
- Quantum/LBaaS/LBaaS_reuse_option - resource model & API suggestions (Serge Maskalik)
- LBaaS/CoreResourceModel/proposal - revised resource model suggestion (Youcef Laribi)
Network Load Balancing Integration with Quantum Considerations
LBaaS Integrated with Quantum (Sam Bercovici)
LBaaS with Quantum (Alex Gosse)
Key Open Questions
- integration with Quantum, modeling/resources (networks, devices, chaining of network services)