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Revision as of 07:57, 12 October 2012 by Serge (talk)

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 - /FirstRelease

Link to Existing Resources

E.g.,: descriptions of use cases, existing proposals, existing code repos

Equilibrium (Mirantis LBaaS)

Atlas project

eBay/PayPal Project

LBaaS w/ resource model focused on config re-use

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)