Chapter 8. Using HAProxy for Load Balancing
OpenStack Neutron provides Load Balancer as a Service to distribute traffic to your application that is running on the virtual machines. In this chapter, we will explore the Neutron load balancer service plugin with the following recipes:
- Installing and configuring the Neutron load balancer service plugin
- Creating a load balancer pool using Horizon
- Creating a load balancer pool using CLI
- Adding a load balancer member using Horizon
- Adding a load balancer member using CLI
- Adding a load balancer health monitor using Horizon
- Adding a load balancer health monitor using CLI
- Creating a Virtual IP using Horizon
- Creating a Virtual IP using CLI
- Making the load balancer accessible to the Internet
- Testing the load balancer
- Viewing the load balancer on the network node
