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* (before stack.sh) Checkout the latest review from the above link.
 
* (before stack.sh) Checkout the latest review from the above link.
* '''AFTER''' stack.sh finishes, copy the local_settings file as follows:
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* '''AFTER''' stack.sh finishes, copy the local_settings file and restart the web server to load the new local_settings.
 
<pre>cd /opt/stack/horizon/openstack_dashboard/local
 
<pre>cd /opt/stack/horizon/openstack_dashboard/local
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== Topology Setup ==  
 
== Topology Setup ==  

Revision as of 01:36, 5 March 2013

Getting the Code

Currently, both the quantum, python-quantumclient, and devstack code is under review. Please pull from the following reviews to get the latest code:

Devstack Setup

Add the following lines to your localrc:

enable_service q-lbaas
Q_SERVICE_PLUGINS=quantum.plugins.services.agent_loadbalancer.plugin.LoadBalancerPlugin

Then run stack.sh

Horizon LBaaS support

  • (before stack.sh) Checkout the latest review from the above link.
  • AFTER stack.sh finishes, copy the local_settings file and restart the web server to load the new local_settings.
cd /opt/stack/horizon/openstack_dashboard/local
cp local_settings.py.example local_settings.py
sudo service apache2 restart

Topology Setup

Spin up three VMs, two to be servers, and one to be a client.

nova boot --image <image-uuid> --flavor 1 server1
nova boot --image <image-uuid> --flavor 1 server2
nova boot --image <image-uuid> --flavor 1 client

Get the UUID of the private subnet.

quantum subnet-list

Create a Pool:

quantum lb-pool-create --lb-method ROUND_ROBIN --name mypool --protocol HTTP --subnet-id <subnet-id> 

Create Members (using the IPs of server1 and server2):


nova list 

quantum lb-member-create --address <server1-ip> --protocol-port 80 mypool
quantum lb-member-create --address <server2-ip> --protocol-port 80 mypool

Create a Healthmonitor and associated it with the pool:

quantum lb-healthmonitor-create --delay 3 --type HTTP --max-retries 3 --timeout 3
quantum lb-healthmonitor-associate <healthmonitor-uuid> mypool

Create a VIP

quantum lb-vip-create --name myvip --protocol-port 80 --protocol HTTP --subnet-id <subnet-id> mypool

note the address for use below.

Validation

We now have two hosts with a load balancer pointed at them, but those hosts are serving up any HTTP content.

A simple trick is to use netcat on the hosts to implement a simple webserver. For example, run:

while true; do echo -e 'HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\n\r\n<servername>' | sudo nc -l -p 80 ; done 

replacing <servername> with "server1" and "server2" as appropriate. Once the server is started, you'll see incoming HTTP GET requests.. that's the load balancer health check in action!

If you have python installed, you can also create an index.html with the text "server1" or "server2" then in the same directory run: python -m SimpleHTTPServer)

Finally, to test real load balancing, from your client, use wget to make sure your requests are load-balanced across server1 and server2 as expected.

wget -O - http://<server1-ip> 
wget -O - http://<server2-ip> 

Then use wget to hit the VIP IP several times in succession. You should bounce between seeing server1 and server2.

wget -O - http://<vip-ip> 
wget -O - http://<vip-ip> 
wget -O - http://<vip-ip> 
wget -O - http://<vip-ip> 

Full list of LBaaS CLI commands is available at Quantum/LBaaS/CLI

Troubleshooting

LBaas is implemented similar to L3 + DHCP using namespaces. You can use "ip netns list" to find the namespace named qlbaas-<pool_id>, and then test connectivity from that namespace.

Use "screen -x stack" to view the q-svc and q-lbaas tabs for errors.

Grep syslog for "haproxy" to see messages from Haproxy (though they are quite cryptic!)