Revision as of 02:51, 12 October 2012

Resource Model

Top Objects

Top objects in the resource model focused around config re-use and enterprise-targeted feature set:

1. Virtual-server: A virtual server is a traffic-management object represented by a set of IP address and a service. Clients send application traffic to a virtual server, which then directs the traffic according to your configuration instructions.

2. Application-profile: An application profile contains the configuration to manage application-specific network traffic in a variety of ways, depending on the protocols and services being used. For example, you can configure SSL client certificates before passing requests on to a target server. After configuring a profile, you associate the profile with a virtual server. The virtual server then processes traffic according to the values specified in the profile.

3. Pool: A load balancing pool is a logical set of devices, such as web servers, that you group together to receive and process traffic.

4. Member: A pool member represents the application running on backend server.

5. Monitor: A health monitor can monitor the health or performance of either pool members or servers.

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ApplicationProfile Properties

This table illustrates the settings as part of ApplicationProfile. We can pre-define a set of profiles and user is able to create custom profile by inheriting from it.

Object Definition

This section illustrates the object scheme in JSON format by usng an example configuration:

1. 4x VirtualServers for HTTP, HTTPS, TCP and HTTP Redirection

2. 2x Pools, each has 2x members

3. 3x Monitors with different types

Note: As part of global configuration, user need to import the Certificates/Keys, Trust Client CAs and CRLs. In LoadBalancer configuration, user can specify SSL settings as part of ApplicationProfile by using the references to those objects.

{
  "loadBalancer": {
    "virtualServer": [
      {
        "id": "1",
        "name": "http_lb",
        "description": "virtualServer for http traffic",
        "VirtualIps": { "ipAddress": "192.168.1.101" },
        "protocol": "HTTP",
        "port": "80",
        "connectionLimit": "1000",
        "rateLimit": "100",
        "enabled": "true",
        "applicationProfile": { "id": "1" },
        "pool": { "id": "1" }
      },
      {
        "name": "https_lb",
        "description": "virtualServer for https traffic",
        "VirtualIps": { "ipAddress": "192.168.1.101" },
        "protocol": "HTTPS",
        "port": "443",
        "enabled": "true",
        "applicationProfile": { "id": "2" },
        "pool": { "id": "2" }
      },
      {
        "name": "https_passthrough_lb",
        "description": "virtualServer for https passthrough traffic",
        "VirtualIps": { "ipAddress": "192.168.1.101" },
        "protocol": "HTTPS",
        "port": "443",
        "enabled": "true",
        "applicationProfile": { "id": "3" },
        "pool": { "id": "2" }
      },
      {
        "name": "tcp_lb",
        "description": "virtualServer for tcp traffic",
        "VirtualIps": { "ipAddress": "192.168.1.101" },
        "protocol": "TCP",
        "port": "8080",
        "enabled": "true",
        "applicationProfile": { "id": "3" },
        "pool": { "id": "1" }
      },
      {
        "name": "http_redirect_lb",
        "description": "virtualServer for http redirection ",
        "VirtualIps": { "ipAddress": "192.168.1.101" },
        "protocol": "HTTP",
        "port": "800",
        "enabled": "true",
        "applicationProfile": { "id": "4" }
      }
    ],
    "pool": [
      {
        "id": "1",
        "name": "http-pool",
        "description": "pool for http and https traffic",
        "algorithm": "ROUND_ROBIN",
        "healthMonitors": { "healthMonitor": "1" },
        "member": [
          {
            "ipAddress": "192.168.4.103",
            "weight": "10",
            "port": "80",
            "healthMonitors": {
              "healthMonitor": { "id": "3" }
            },
            "connectionLimit": "100000",
            "condition": "enabled"
          },
          {
            "ipAddress": "192.168.4.104",
            "weight": "11",
            "port": "80"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "2",
        "name": "https-pool",
        "description": "pool for http and https traffic",
        "algorithm": "IP_HASH",
        "healthMonitors": {
          "healthMonitor": { "id": "2" }
        },
        "member": [
          {
            "ipAddress": "192.168.4.103",
            "weight": "10",
            "port": "80"
          },
          {
            "ipAddress": "192.168.4.104",
            "weight": "11",
            "port": "80"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "applicationProfiles": {
      "applicationProfile": [
        {
          "id": "1",
          "name": "http_profile",
          "insertXForwardedFor": "true",
          "sessionPersistence": {
            "method": "COOKIE",
            "cookieName": "JSESSIONID",
            "cookieMode": "INSERT"
          }
        },
        {
          "id": "2",
          "name": "https_profile",
          "persistence": {
            "method": "COOKIE",
            "cookieName": "JSESSIONID"
          },
          "sslPassthrough": "false",
          "clientSsl": {
            "verifyRequired": "false",
            "serverCertificate": "server-cert-1",
            "caCertificates": { "caCertificate": "ca-cert-1" },
            "crlCertificates": { "crlCertificate": "crl" },
            "ciphers": "AES256"
          }
        },
        {
          "id": "3",
          "name": "ssl_profile",
          "persistence": { "method": "SSL_SESSION_ID" },
          "sslPassthrough": "true"
        },
        {
          "id": "4",
          "name": "http_redirection_profile",
          "httpRedirect": { "destUrl": "https://www.company.com/login" }
        }
      ]
    },
    "monitorService": {
      "checkTimeout": "60",
      "monitors": {
        "monitor": [
          {
            "id": "1",
            "type": "HTTP",
            "interval": "10",
            "timeout": "20",
            "method": "GET",
            "path": "/",
            "expected": "\"200-204\""
          },
          {
            "id": "2",
            "type": "HTTPS",
            "interval": "10",
            "timeout": "20",
            "method": "SSL"
          },
          {
            "id": "3",
            "type": "TCP",
            "interval": "10",
            "timeout": "30"
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}

How F5 BIG-IP gets configured

To translate this resource model to F5 Big-IP, user will:

1. Create a set of profiles, which define the persitence, ssl, http configurations.

2. Create two virtualServers:

• a) VS_http: address 192.168.1.101, port 80, attach default http profile to this virtualserver, attach cookie persistence profile to this virtualserver.

b. VS_https: address 192.168.1.101, port 443, attach default https profile to this virtualserver, attach ssl session id persistence profile to this virtualserver.

3. Create two pools:

• a) Pool_http: algorithm RR, add two members 192.168.4.103:80 + 192.168.4.104:80, attach predefined HTTP monitor to the pool

b. Pool_https: algorithm RR, add two memebers 192.168.4.103:8443 + 192.168.4.104:8443, attach predefined HTTPS monitor to the pool, user customized HTTPS_2 monitor to member 192.168.4.103

4. Configure default pool for each VirtualServer:

• a) VS_http use Pool_http as the default pool

b. VS_https uses Pool_https as the default pool

API

This table lists the API exposed and comparison to eBay LBMS and Equilibrium LBaaS APIs: