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Dan Radez
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Dan Radez joined the OpenStack community in 2012 in an operator role. His experience is focused on installing, maintaining, and integrating OpenStack clusters. He has been given the opportunity to internationally present OpenStack content to a range of audiences of varying expertise. In January 2015, Dan joined the OPNFV community and has been working to integrate RDO Manager with SDN controllers and the networking features necessary for NFV. Dan's experience includes web application programming, systems release engineering, and virtualization product development. Most of these roles have had an open source community focus to them. In his spare time, Dan enjoys spending time with his wife and three boys, training for and racing triathlons, and tinkering with electronics projects.
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LBaaS setup


Before we get to walking through these templates, we need to enable the Load Balancer as a Service (LBaaS) functionality of Neutron. Packstack does not configure it when it installs Neutron. There are a couple of configuration files to be updated and a couple of services to restart. First off, ensure that HAProxy is installed on the control node:

control# yum install -y haproxy

Note

Note that the contents of the file referenced in this chapter should not be replaced in their entirety. The configuration options listed are intended to be updated and the rest of the file left intact. If the contents of the files edited here include only the contents referenced here, then LBaaS will not be enabled properly, and this Heat template will fail to launch.

Next, edit /etc/neutron/neutron.conf on the control nodes and add the value lbaas to the service_plugins configuration option. If there are already values, leave them there and add lbaas to the comma-delimited list. Mine was commented...

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Dan Radez joined the OpenStack community in 2012 in an operator role. His experience is focused on installing, maintaining, and integrating OpenStack clusters. He has been given the opportunity to internationally present OpenStack content to a range of audiences of varying expertise. In January 2015, Dan joined the OPNFV community and has been working to integrate RDO Manager with SDN controllers and the networking features necessary for NFV. Dan's experience includes web application programming, systems release engineering, and virtualization product development. Most of these roles have had an open source community focus to them. In his spare time, Dan enjoys spending time with his wife and three boys, training for and racing triathlons, and tinkering with electronics projects.
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