Ubuntu 24.04

OpenStack Flamingo : Create LoadBalancer Image2025/11/28

 

Install and Configure OpenStack Load Balancing as a Service (Octavia).

This example is based on the environment like follows.

------------+--------------------------+--------------------------+------------
            |                          |                          |
        eth0|10.0.0.30             eth0|10.0.0.50             eth0|10.0.0.51
+-----------+-----------+  +-----------+-----------+  +-----------+-----------+
|   [ dlp.srv.world ]   |  | [ network.srv.world ] |  |  [ node01.srv.world ] |
|     (Control Node)    |  |     (Network Node)    |  |     (Compute Node)    |
|                       |  |                       |  |                       |
|  MariaDB    RabbitMQ  |  |      Open vSwitch     |  |        Libvirt        |
|  Memcached  Nginx     |  |     Neutron Server    |  |      Nova Compute     |
|  Keystone   httpd     |  |      OVN-Northd       |  |      Open vSwitch     |
|  Glance     Nova API  |  |  Nginx  iSCSI Target  |  |   OVN Metadata Agent  |
|  Cinder API           |  |     Cinder Volume     |  |     OVN-Controller    |
|                       |  |    Octavia Services   |  |                       |
+-----------------------+  +-----------------------+  +-----------------------+

[1] Create a LoadBalancer Image and add it to Glance. It's OK to work on any node. (example below is on Control Node)
# create an instance image

root@dlp ~(keystone)#
apt -y install podman

root@dlp ~(keystone)#
mkdir /var/lib/containers/tmpdisk

root@dlp ~(keystone)#
podman run --privileged -it -v /var/lib/containers/tmpdisk:/mnt centos:stream9 /bin/bash

bash-5.1#
cd /mnt

bash-5.1#
dnf -y install centos-release-openstack-epoxy epel-release sudo

bash-5.1#
dnf --enablerepo=crb -y install openstack-octavia-diskimage-create debootstrap python3-octaviaclient

bash-5.1#
chmod 440 /etc/shadow

bash-5.1#
octavia-diskimage-create.sh -i centos-minimal

.....
.....
Successfully built the amphora image using amphora-agent from the master branch.
Amphora image size: /mnt/amphora-x64-haproxy.qcow2 561733120
bash-5.1#
exit
# add to Glance

root@dlp ~(keystone)#
openstack image create "Amphora" --tag "Amphora" --file /var/lib/containers/tmpdisk/amphora-x64-haproxy.qcow2 --disk-format qcow2 --container-format bare --private --project service
# add [flavor] for Amphora instance

root@dlp ~(keystone)#
openstack flavor create --id 100 --vcpus 1 --ram 2048 --disk 10 m1.octavia --private --project service
# add a security group for Amphora instance

root@dlp ~(keystone)#
openstack security group create lb-mgmt-sec-group --project service
# allow required ports for security group

root@dlp ~(keystone)#
openstack security group rule create --protocol icmp --ingress lb-mgmt-sec-group

root@dlp ~(keystone)#
openstack security group rule create --protocol tcp --dst-port 22:22 lb-mgmt-sec-group

root@dlp ~(keystone)#
openstack security group rule create --protocol tcp --dst-port 80:80 lb-mgmt-sec-group

root@dlp ~(keystone)#
openstack security group rule create --protocol tcp --dst-port 443:443 lb-mgmt-sec-group

root@dlp ~(keystone)#
openstack security group rule create --protocol tcp --dst-port 9443:9443 lb-mgmt-sec-group

[2] Configure Octavia service to set instance ID or security group ID.
root@network:~#
openstack image list

+--------------------------------------+------------+--------+
| ID                                   | Name       | Status |
+--------------------------------------+------------+--------+
| 8bd7f5e1-98c6-4bf1-bd82-e60bcba12e80 | Amphora    | active |
| c8be4fc8-a3f7-4859-9ae7-8b3843baa619 | Ubuntu2404 | active |
+--------------------------------------+------------+--------+

root@network:~#
openstack flavor list --all

+-----+------------+-------+------+-----------+-------+-----------+
| ID  | Name       |   RAM | Disk | Ephemeral | VCPUs | Is Public |
+-----+------------+-------+------+-----------+-------+-----------+
| 1   | m1.tiny    |  2048 |   10 |         0 |     1 | True      |
| 100 | m1.octavia |  2048 |   10 |         0 |     1 | False     |
| 2   | m1.small   |  4096 |   10 |         0 |     2 | True      |
| 3   | m1.medium  |  8192 |   10 |         0 |     4 | True      |
| 4   | m1.large   | 16384 |   10 |         0 |     8 | True      |
| 5   | m2.medium  |  8192 |   10 |        10 |     4 | True      |
+-----+------------+-------+------+-----------+-------+-----------+

root@network:~#
openstack network list

+---------------------------------+---------+----------------------------------+
| ID                              | Name    | Subnets                          |
+---------------------------------+---------+----------------------------------+
| 3d439616-ee5c-49b9-ac27-        | private | ca5e015c-a5cb-4c2e-a390-         |
| 9525818605d8                    |         | d0ac1bd05916                     |
| 7457c2ad-572e-4cb9-86c0-        | public  | 0143ec7e-f39a-43ac-8c12-         |
| 20f4e89da51b                    |         | 78e2b9d27ba7                     |
+---------------------------------+---------+----------------------------------+

root@network:~#
openstack security group list

+--------------+--------------+--------------+-----------------+------+--------+
| ID           | Name         | Description  | Project         | Tags | Shared |
+--------------+--------------+--------------+-----------------+------+--------+
| 667334f1-    | secgroup01   | secgroup01   | b45ce8ac12c749e | []   | False  |
| a73b-4079-   |              |              | 49e933c84334e79 |      |        |
| 990a-        |              |              | de              |      |        |
| fc247d301dd8 |              |              |                 |      |        |
| da62ebb1-    | lb-mgmt-sec- | lb-mgmt-sec- | 17d8e190750a402 | []   | False  |
| 8db1-46d5-   | group        | group        | d920eedf933aea3 |      |        |
| ae8a-        |              |              | 58              |      |        |
| 863376f8f8a6 |              |              |                 |      |        |
| ea2c7bfe-    | default      | Default      | a74433b11b71428 | []   | False  |
| 3160-42aa-   |              | security     | b949de54795e408 |      |        |
| 97fa-        |              | group        | e7              |      |        |
| fc99b52d99e9 |              |              |                 |      |        |
+--------------+--------------+--------------+-----------------+------+--------+

root@network:~#
vi /etc/octavia/octavia.conf
# add into [controller_worker] section

[controller_worker]
client_ca = /etc/octavia/certs/client_ca.cert.pem
amp_image_tag = Amphora
# specify [flavor] ID for Amphora instance
amp_flavor_id = 100
# specify security group ID for Amphora instance
amp_secgroup_list = da62ebb1-8db1-46d5-ae8a-863376f8f8a6
# specify network ID to boot Amphora instance (example below specifies public network [public])
amp_boot_network_list = 7457c2ad-572e-4cb9-86c0-20f4e89da51b
network_driver = allowed_address_pairs_driver
compute_driver = compute_nova_driver
amphora_driver = amphora_haproxy_rest_driver 

root@network:~#
systemctl restart octavia-api \
octavia-health-manager \
octavia-housekeeping \
octavia-worker

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