[lxc-users] Has anyone ever configured or used LPVS with LXD/LXC before?

[brian mullan]

correction... I mis-typed IPVS in a couple places... its IPVS not LPVS...
sorry.


On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 8:45 AM, brian mullan <bmullan.mail at gmail.com> wrote:

> A few years ago I'd done some experimentation with LPVS but that was
> before I began using LXC/LXD and had forgotten about it since.
>
> LPVS has been in the Linux kernel for nearly 15 years now!
>
> Recently I read that someone has utilized LPVS capabilities with docker
> containers:
> https://blog.codeship.com/kernel-load-balancing-for-
> docker-containers-using-ipvs/
>
> That Uber dev also put out a GO application to help admin/provision the
> IPVS called GORB:
> https://github.com/kobolog/gorb
>
> GORB (Go Routing and Balancing) is described as:
>
> Go Routing and Balancing
>> This daemon is an IPVS frontend with a REST API interface. You can use it
>> to control local IPVS instance in the Kernel to dynamically register
>> virtual services and backends. It also supports basic TCP and HTTP health
>> checks (called Gorb Pulse).
>>
>>    - TCP: tries to establish a TCP connection to the backend's host and
>>    port.
>>
>>
>>    - HTTP: tries to fetch a specified location from backend's host and
>>    port.
>>
>> Backends which fail to pass the health check will have weights set to
>> zero to inhibit any traffic from being routed into their direction. When a
>> backend comes back online, GORB won't immediately set its weight to the
>> previous value, but instead gradually restore it based on backend's
>> accumulated health statistics.
>>
>> GORB also supports basic service discovery registration via *Consul
>> <https://www.consul.io/>: *just pass in the *Consul* endpoint to GORB
>> and it will take care of everything else – your services will be registered
>> with names like nginx-80-tcp. Keep in mind that you can use Consul's
>> built-in DNS server to make it even easier to discover your services!
>>
>> Check out these* slides for my DockerCon EU 2015 talk
>> <http://www.slideshare.net/kobolog/ipvs-for-docker-containers>* for more
>> information about IPVS, GORB and how to use it with Docker.
>
>
>
> There is already a *Consul* setup/config tool for LXD:
>  https://github.com/badmadrad/lxd-consul
> <https://github.com/badmadrad/lxd-consul>
>
> So I thought I'd ask if anyone had any experience setting up or using LPVS
> with LXD containers?
>
> Brian
>
>
>
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