Chapter 13. Creating availability zones for load balancing network traffic at the edge

Procedure

1. Source your credentials file.

   Example

   $ source ~/centralrc

2. Gather the names of the Compute service AZs that you will use to name your Load-balancing service AZs.

   Important

   The names of the Load-balancing service AZ that you create must match the names of your Compute service AZs.

   $ openstack availability zone list --compute

   Sample output

   +------------+-------------+
   | Zone Name  | Zone Status |
   +------------+-------------+
   | az-central | available   |
   | az-dcn1    | available   |
   | az-dcn2    | available   |
   | internal   | available   |
   +------------+-------------+

3. Gather the IDs for the management networks that you will use to create your Load-balancing service AZs:

   $ openstack network list -c Name -c ID

   Sample output

   +--------------------------------------+--------------------------+
   | ID                                   | Name                     |
   +--------------------------------------+--------------------------+
   | 10458d6b-e7c9-436f-92d9-711677c9d9fd | lb-mgmt-az-dcn2-net      |
   | 662a94f5-51eb-4a4c-86c4-52dcbf471ef9 | lb-mgmt-net              |
   | 6b97ef58-2a25-4ea5-931f-b7c07cd09474 | lb-mgmt-backbone-net     |
   | 99f4215b-fad8-432d-8444-1f894154dc30 | heat_tempestconf_network |
   | a2884aaf-846c-4936-9982-3083f6a71d9b | lb-mgmt-az-dcn1-net      |
   | d7f7de6c-0e84-49e2-9042-697fa85d2532 | public                   |
   | e887a9f9-15f7-4854-a797-033cedbfe5f3 | public2                  |
   +--------------------------------------+--------------------------+

4. Create an AZ profile. Repeat this step to create an AZ profile for each Load-balancing service AZ that you want to create:

   $ openstack loadbalancer availabilityzoneprofile create \
   --name <AZ_profile_name> --provider amphora --availability-zone-data '{"compute_zone": "<compute_AZ_name>","management_network": "<lb_mgmt_AZ_net_UUID>"}'

   Example - create profile for az-central

   In this example, an AZ profile (az_profile_central) is created that uses the management network (lb-mgmt-net) on a Compute node that runs in the Compute AZ (az-central):

   $ openstack loadbalancer availabilityzoneprofile create \
   --name az_profile_central --provider amphora --availability-zone-data \
   '{"compute_zone": "az-central","management_network": \
   "662a94f5-51eb-4a4c-86c4-52dcbf471ef9"}'

5. Repeat step 4 to create an AZ profile for each Load-balancing service AZ that you want to create.

   Example - create profile for az-dcn1

   In this example, an AZ profile (az-profile-dcn1) is created that uses the management network (lb-mgmt-az-dcn1-net) on a Compute node that runs in the Compute AZ (az-dcn1):

   $ openstack loadbalancer availabilityzoneprofile create \
   --name az-profile-dcn1 --provider amphora --availability-zone-data \
   '{"compute-zone": "az-dcn1","management-network": \
   "a2884aaf-846c-4936-9982-3083f6a71d9b"}'

   Example - create profile for az-dcn2

   In this example, an AZ profile (az-profile-dcn2) is created that uses the management network (lb-mgmt-az-dcn2-net) on a Compute node that runs in the Compute AZ (az-dcn2):

   $ openstack loadbalancer availabilityzoneprofile create \
   --name az-profile-dcn2 --provider amphora --availability-zone-data \
   '{"compute-zone": "az-dcn2","management-network": \
   "10458d6b-e7c9-436f-92d9-711677c9d9fd"}'

6. Using the AZ profile, create a Load-balancing service AZ. Repeat this step for any additional AZs, using the appropriate profile for each AZ.

   Example - create AZ: az-central

   In this example, a Load-balancing service AZ (az-central) is created by using the AZ profile (az-profile-central):

   $ openstack loadbalancer availabilityzone create --name az-central \
   --availabilityzoneprofile az-profile-central \
   --description "AZ for Headquarters" --enable

   Example - create AZ: az-dcn1

   In this example, a Load-balancing service AZ (az-dcn1) is created by using the AZ profile (az-profile-az-dcn1):

   $ openstack loadbalancer availabilityzone create --name az-dcn1 \
   --availabilityzoneprofile az-profile-az-dcn1 \
   --description "AZ for South Region" --enable

   Example - create AZ: az-dcn2

   In this example, a Load-balancing service AZ (az-dcn2) is created by using the AZ profile (az-profile-az-dcn2):

   $ openstack loadbalancer availabilityzone create --name az-dcn2 \
   --availabilityzoneprofile az-profile-az-dcn2 \
   --description "AZ for North Region" --enable

Procedure

1. Source your credentials file.

   Example

   $ source ~/centralrc

2. To create a load balancer for a DCN environment, use the loadbalancer create command with the --availability-zone option and specify the appropriate AZ.

   Example

   For example, to create a non-terminated HTTPS load balancer (lb1) on a public subnet (public_subnet) on availability zone (az-central), you would enter the following command:

   $ openstack loadbalancer create --name lb1 --vip-subnet-id \
   public_subnet --availability-zone az-central

3. Continue to create your load balancer by adding a listener, pool, health monitor, and load balancer members.