Revision as of 23:39, 15 October 2012

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

• Initial Discussions Document

LBaaS Integrated with Quantum (Sam Bercovici)

• https://docs.google.com/a/nicira.com/document/d/10HpTpvRzjqDhnGnWFdMv19mENbb_TsMMvAAozzSu8hc/edit

LBaaS with Quantum (Alex Gosse)

• https://docs.google.com/a/nicira.com/document/pub?id=1B8Xu8Td05dd_ar4aTej8pA3UDH8f3-bE8h5Oyg6Z2OU

Key Open Questions

• integration with Quantum, modeling/resources (networks, devices, chaining of network services)