REMINDER: the IRC meeting will happen in 5 minutes on #openstack-meetings. On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Eugene Kirpichov <ekirpic...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello community, > > We at Mirantis have had a number of clients request functionality to > control various load balancer devices (software and hardware) via an > OpenStack API and horizon. So, in collaboration with Cisco OpenStack > team and a number of other community members, we’ve started > socializing the blueprints for an elastic load balancer API service. > At this point we’d like to share where we are and would very much > appreciate anyone participate and provide input. > > The current vision is to allow cloud tenants to request and > provision virtual load balancers on demand and allow cloud > administrators to manage a pool of available LB devices. Access is > provided under a unified interface to different kinds of load > balancers, both software and hardware. It means that API for tenants > is abstracted away from the actual API of underlying hardware or > software load balancers, and LBaaS effectively bridges this gap. > > POC level support for Cisco ACE and HAproxy is currently implemented > in the form of plug-ins to LBaaS called “drivers”. We also started some > work on F5 drivers. Would appreciate hearing input on what other > drivers may be important at this point…nginx? > > Another question we have is if this should be a standalone module or a > Quantum plugin… Dan – any feedback on this (and BTW congrats on the > acquisition =). > > In order not to reinvent the wheel, we decided to base our API on > Atlas-LB (http://wiki.openstack.org/Atlas-LB). > > Here are all the pointers: > * Project overview: http://goo.gl/vZdei > * Screencast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgAL-kfdbtE > * API draft: http://goo.gl/gFcWT > * Roadmap: http://goo.gl/EZAhf > * Github repo: https://github.com/Mirantis/openstack-lbaas > > The code is written in Python and based on the OpenStack service > template. We’ll be happy to give a walkthrough over what we have to > anyone who may be interested in contributing (for example, creating a > driver to support a particular LB device). > > All of the documents and code are not set in stone and we’re writing > here specifically to ask for feedback and collaboration from the > community. > > We would like to start holding weekly IRC meetings at > #openstack-meeting; we propose 19:00 UTC on Thursdays (this time seems > free according to http://wiki.openstack.org/Meetings/ ), starting Aug 2. > > -- > Eugene Kirpichov > http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekirpichov
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