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...