openstack-manuals/doc/ha-guide/source/controller-ha-haproxy.rst

HAProxy

HAProxy provides a fast and reliable HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer for TCP or HTTP applications. It is particularly suited for web crawling under very high loads while needing persistence or Layer 7 processing. It realistically supports tens of thousands of connections with recent hardware.

Each instance of HAProxy configures its front end to accept connections only to the virtual IP (VIP) address. The HAProxy back end (termination point) is a list of all the IP addresses of instances for load balancing.

Note

Ensure your HAProxy installation is not a single point of failure, it is advisable to have multiple HAProxy instances running.

You can also ensure the availability by other means, using Keepalived or Pacemaker.

Alternatively, you can use a commercial load balancer, which is hardware or software. We recommend a hardware load balancer as it generally has good performance.

For detailed instructions about installing HAProxy on your nodes, see the HAProxy official documentation.

Configuring HAProxy

1. Restart the HAProxy service.

2. Locate your HAProxy instance on each OpenStack controller node in your environment. The following is an example /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg configuration file. Configure your instance using the following configuration file, you will need a copy of it on each controller node.

   global
    chroot  /var/lib/haproxy
    daemon
    group  haproxy
    maxconn  4000
    pidfile  /var/run/haproxy.pid
    user  haproxy
   
   defaults
    log  global
    maxconn  4000
    option  redispatch
    retries  3
    timeout  http-request 10s
    timeout  queue 1m
    timeout  connect 10s
    timeout  client 1m
    timeout  server 1m
    timeout  check 10s
   
   listen dashboard_cluster
    bind <Virtual IP>:443
    balance  source
    option  tcpka
    option  httpchk
    option  tcplog
    server controller1 10.0.0.12:443 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
    server controller2 10.0.0.13:443 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
    server controller3 10.0.0.14:443 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
   
   listen galera_cluster
    bind <Virtual IP>:3306
    balance  source
    option  mysql-check
    server controller1 10.0.0.12:3306 check port 9200 inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
    server controller2 10.0.0.13:3306 backup check port 9200 inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
    server controller3 10.0.0.14:3306 backup check port 9200 inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
   
   listen glance_api_cluster
    bind <Virtual IP>:9292
    balance  source
    option  tcpka
    option  httpchk
    option  tcplog
    server controller1 10.0.0.12:9292 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
    server controller2 10.0.0.13:9292 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
    server controller3 10.0.0.14:9292 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
   
   listen glance_registry_cluster
    bind <Virtual IP>:9191
    balance  source
    option  tcpka
    option  tcplog
    server controller1 10.0.0.12:9191 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
    server controller2 10.0.0.13:9191 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
    server controller3 10.0.0.14:9191 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
   
   listen keystone_admin_public_internal_cluster
    bind <Virtual IP>:5000
    balance  source
    option  tcpka
    option  httpchk
    option  tcplog
    server controller1 10.0.0.12:5000 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
    server controller2 10.0.0.13:5000 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
    server controller3 10.0.0.14:5000 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
   
   listen nova_ec2_api_cluster
    bind <Virtual IP>:8773
    balance  source
    option  tcpka
    option  tcplog
    server controller1 10.0.0.12:8773 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
    server controller2 10.0.0.13:8773 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
    server controller3 10.0.0.14:8773 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
   
   listen nova_compute_api_cluster
    bind <Virtual IP>:8774
    balance  source
    option  tcpka
    option  httpchk
    option  tcplog
    server controller1 10.0.0.12:8774 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
    server controller2 10.0.0.13:8774 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
    server controller3 10.0.0.14:8774 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
   
   listen nova_metadata_api_cluster
    bind <Virtual IP>:8775
    balance  source
    option  tcpka
    option  tcplog
    server controller1 10.0.0.12:8775 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
    server controller2 10.0.0.13:8775 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
    server controller3 10.0.0.14:8775 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
   
   listen cinder_api_cluster
    bind <Virtual IP>:8776
    balance  source
    option  tcpka
    option  httpchk
    option  tcplog
    server controller1 10.0.0.12:8776 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
    server controller2 10.0.0.13:8776 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
    server controller3 10.0.0.14:8776 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
   
   listen ceilometer_api_cluster
    bind <Virtual IP>:8777
    balance  source
    option  tcpka
    option  tcplog
    server controller1 10.0.0.12:8777 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
    server controller2 10.0.0.13:8777 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
    server controller3 10.0.0.14:8777 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
   
   listen nova_vncproxy_cluster
    bind <Virtual IP>:6080
    balance  source
    option  tcpka
    option  tcplog
    server controller1 10.0.0.12:6080 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
    server controller2 10.0.0.13:6080 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
    server controller3 10.0.0.14:6080 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
   
   listen neutron_api_cluster
    bind <Virtual IP>:9696
    balance  source
    option  tcpka
    option  httpchk
    option  tcplog
    server controller1 10.0.0.12:9696 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
    server controller2 10.0.0.13:9696 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
    server controller3 10.0.0.14:9696 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
   
   listen swift_proxy_cluster
    bind <Virtual IP>:8080
    balance  source
    option  tcplog
    option  tcpka
    server controller1 10.0.0.12:8080 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
    server controller2 10.0.0.13:8080 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5
    server controller3 10.0.0.14:8080 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 5

   Note

   The Galera cluster configuration directive backup indicates that two of the three controllers are standby nodes. This ensures that only one node services write requests because OpenStack support for multi-node writes is not yet production-ready.

   Note

   The Telemetry API service configuration does not have the option httpchk directive as it cannot process this check properly.

1. Configure the kernel parameter to allow non-local IP binding. This allows running HAProxy instances to bind to a VIP for failover. Add following line to /etc/sysctl.conf:

   net.ipv4.ip_nonlocal_bind = 1

2. Restart the host or, to make changes work immediately, invoke:

   $ sysctl -p

3. Add HAProxy to the cluster and ensure the VIPs can only run on machines where HAProxy is active:

   pcs

   $ pcs resource create lb-haproxy systemd:haproxy --clone
   $ pcs constraint order start vip then lb-haproxy-clone kind=Optional
   $ pcs constraint colocation add lb-haproxy-clone with vip

   crmsh

   $ crm cib new conf-haproxy
   $ crm configure primitive haproxy lsb:haproxy op monitor interval="1s"
   $ crm configure clone haproxy-clone haproxy
   $ crm configure colocation vip-with-haproxy inf: vip haproxy-clone
   $ crm configure order haproxy-after-vip mandatory: vip haproxy-clone