Chapter 5. Creating Load-balancing service flavors

Procedure

1. Access the remote shell for the OpenStackClient pod from your workstation:

   $ oc rsh -n openstack openstackclient

2. List the capabilities for each driver:

   $ openstack loadbalancer provider capability list <provider>

   Replace <provider> with the name or UUID of the provider.

   Example

   $ openstack loadbalancer provider capability list amphora

   The command output lists all of the capabilities that the provider supports.

   Sample output

   +-----------------------+---------------------------------------------------+
   | name                  | description                                       |
   +-----------------------+---------------------------------------------------+
   | loadbalancer_topology | The load balancer topology. One of: SINGLE - One  |
   |                       | amphora per load balancer. ACTIVE_STANDBY - Two   |
   |                       | amphora per load balancer.                        |
   | ...                   | ...                                               |
   +-----------------------+---------------------------------------------------+

3. Note the names of the capabilities that you want to include in the flavor that you are creating. You will use these capability names later when you create the profile for the flavor.

4. Exit the openstackclient pod:

   $ exit

Procedure

1. Access the remote shell for the OpenStackClient pod from your workstation:

   $ oc rsh -n openstack openstackclient

2. Create a flavor profile:

   $ openstack loadbalancer flavorprofile create --name <profile_name> --provider <provider_name> --flavor-data '{"<capability>": "<value>"}'

   Example

   In this example, a flavor profile is created for the amphora provider. When this profile is specified in a flavor, the load balancer that users create by using the flavor is a single amphora load balancer.

   $ openstack loadbalancer flavorprofile create --name amphora-single-profile \
   --provider amphora --flavor-data '{"loadbalancer_topology": "SINGLE"}'

   Sample output

   +---------------+--------------------------------------+
   | Field         | Value                                |
   +---------------+--------------------------------------+
   | id            | 72b53ac2-b191-48eb-8f73-ed012caca23a |
   | name          | amphora-single-profile               |
   | provider_name | amphora                              |
   | flavor_data   | {"loadbalancer_topology": "SINGLE"}  |
   +---------------+--------------------------------------+

Procedure

1. Access the remote shell for the OpenStackClient pod from your workstation:

   $ oc rsh -n openstack openstackclient

2. Create a flavor:

   $ openstack loadbalancer flavor create --name <flavor_name> \
   --flavorprofile <flavor-profile> --description "<string>"

   Tip

   Provide a detailed description so that users can understand the capabilities of the flavor that you are providing.

   Example

   In this example, a flavor has been defined. When users specify this flavor, they create a load balancer that uses one Load-balancing service instance (amphora) and is not highly available.

   $ openstack loadbalancer flavor create --name standalone-lb --flavorprofile amphora-single-profile --description "A non-high availability load balancer for testing."

   Sample output

   +-------------------+--------------------------------------+
   | Field             | Value                                |
   +-------------------+--------------------------------------+
   | id                | 25cda2d8-f735-4744-b936-d30405c05359 |
   | name              | standalone-lb                        |
   | flavor_profile_id | 72b53ac2-b191-48eb-8f73-ed012caca23a |
   | enabled           | True                                 |
   | description       | A non-high availability load         |
   |                   | balancer for testing.                |
   +-------------------+--------------------------------------+

   Note

   Disabled flavors are still visible to users, but users cannot use the disabled flavor to create a load balancer.

Procedure

1. Confirm that the system OS_CLOUD variable is set for your cloud:

   $ echo $OS_CLOUD
   my_cloud

   Reset the variable if necessary:

   $ export OS_CLOUD=my_other_cloud

   As an alternative, you can specify the cloud name by adding the --os-cloud <cloud_name> option each time you run an openstack command.

2. Create a load balancer using the load-balancing flavor provided.

   EXAMPLE

   In this example, a non-secure HTTP load balancer (lb1) is created on a public subnet (public_subnet), using the flavor (amphora-4vcpus):

   $ openstack loadbalancer create --name lb1 \
   --vip-subnet-id public_subnet \
   --flavor amphora-4vcpus --wait