Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron][LBaaS][Octavia] Floating IP management

2014-10-15 Thread Vijay Venkatachalam
Venkatachalam [mailto:vijay.venkatacha...@citrix.com] Sent: 15 October 2014 05:38 To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron][LBaaS][Octavia] Floating IP management Thanks for the doc. The floating IP could be hosted directly by the lb backend/lb

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron][LBaaS][Octavia] Floating IP management

2014-10-15 Thread Phillip Toohill
driver. Thanks, Vjay From: Vijay Venkatachalam [mailto:vijay.venkatacha...@citrix.com] Sent: 15 October 2014 05:38 To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron][LBaaS][Octavia] Floating IP management Thanks for the doc. The floating IP

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron][LBaaS][Octavia] Floating IP management

2014-10-15 Thread Vijay Venkatachalam
: [openstack-dev] [Neutron][LBaaS][Octavia] Floating IP management I felt guilty after reading Vijay B. 's reply :). My apologies to have replied in brief, here are my thoughts in detail. Currently LB configuration exposed via floating IP is a 2 step operation. User has to first create a VIP

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron][LBaaS][Octavia] Floating IP management

2014-10-15 Thread Phillip Toohill
@lists.openstack.orgmailto:openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron][LBaaS][Octavia] Floating IP management I'm unsure the meaning of hosting FLIP directly on the LB. There can be LB appliances (usually physical appliance) that sit at the edge and is connected to receive

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron][LBaaS][Octavia] Floating IP management

2014-10-14 Thread Susanne Balle
Nice diagrams. :-) Thanks. Susanne On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Phillip Toohill phillip.tooh...@rackspace.com wrote: Diagrams in jpeg format.. On 10/12/14 10:06 PM, Phillip Toohill phillip.tooh...@rackspace.com wrote: Hello all, Heres some additional diagrams and docs. Not

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron][LBaaS][Octavia] Floating IP management

2014-10-14 Thread Vijay B
Hi Phillip, Adding my thoughts below. I’ll first answer the questions you raised with what I think should be done, and then give my explanations to reason through with those views. 1. Do we want to add logic in the plugin to call the FLIP association API? We should implement the logic in

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron][LBaaS][Octavia] Floating IP management

2014-10-14 Thread Vijay Venkatachalam
: [openstack-dev] [Neutron][LBaaS][Octavia] Floating IP management Nice diagrams. :-) Thanks. Susanne On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Phillip Toohill phillip.tooh...@rackspace.commailto:phillip.tooh...@rackspace.com wrote: Diagrams in jpeg format.. On 10/12/14 10:06 PM, Phillip Toohill

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron][LBaaS][Octavia] Floating IP management

2014-10-12 Thread Phillip Toohill
Hello all, Heres some additional diagrams and docs. Not incredibly detailed, but should get the point across. Feel free to edit if needed. Once we come to some kind of agreement and understanding I can rewrite these more to be thorough and get them in a more official place. Also, I understand

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron][LBaaS][Octavia] Floating IP management

2014-10-07 Thread Brandon Logan
I'll add some more info to this as well: Neutron LBaaS creates the neutron port for the VIP in the plugin layer before drivers ever have any control. In the case of an async driver, it will then call the driver's create method, and then return to the user the vip info. This means the user will

[openstack-dev] [Neutron][LBaaS][Octavia] Floating IP management

2014-10-06 Thread Phillip Toohill
Hello All, I wanted to start a discussion on floating IP management and ultimately decide how the LBaaS group wants to handle the association. There is a need to utilize floating IPs(FLIP) and its API calls to associate a FLIP to the neutron port that we currently spin up. See DOCS here: