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OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook, Third Edition

You're reading from   OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook, Third Edition Over 110 effective recipes to help you build and operate OpenStack cloud computing, storage, networking, and automation

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
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ISBN-13 9781782174783
Length 436 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Cody Bunch Cody Bunch
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Keystone – OpenStack Identity Service FREE CHAPTER 2. Glance – OpenStack Image Service 3. Neutron – OpenStack Networking 4. Nova – OpenStack Compute 5. Swift – OpenStack Object Storage 6. Using OpenStack Object Storage 7. Administering OpenStack Object Storage 8. Cinder – OpenStack Block Storage 9. More OpenStack 10. Using the OpenStack Dashboard 11. Production OpenStack Index

Configuring HA Proxy for high availability

The steps in the preceding recipe configure a two-node HA Proxy setup that we can use as a MariaDB endpoint to place in our OpenStack configuration files. Having a single HA Proxy acting as a Load Balancer to a highly available multimaster cluster is not recommended, as the Load Balancer then becomes our single point of failure. To overcome this, we can simply install and configure keepalived, which gives us the ability to share a FloatingIP address between our HA Proxy servers. This allows us to use this FloatingIP address as the address to use for our OpenStack services.

Getting ready

Log in to the two HA Proxy servers created in the previous recipe as root.

How to do it...

As we have two identical HA Proxy servers running—one on address 172.16.0.248, and another at 172.16.0.249—we will assign a floating "virtual IP" address of 172.16.0.251, which is able to attach itself to one of the servers and switch over to the other...

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