OVN as Provider Driver for Octavia¶
Octavia has integrated support for provider drivers where any third party Load Balancer driver can be integrated with Octavia. Functionality related to this has been developed in OVN and now OVN can now be supported as a provider driver for Octavia.
OVN Provider driver has few advantages when used a provider driver for Octavia over Amphora, like:
OVN can be deployed without VMs. So there is no additional overhead of VMs as is required currently in Octavia when using the default Amphora driver.
OVN Load Balancers can be deployed faster than default Load Balancers in Octavia (which use Amphora currently) because of no additional deployment requirement.
Since OVN supports virtual networking for both VMs and containers, OVN as a Load Balancer driver can be used succesfully with Kuryr Kubernetes[1].
Limitations of OVN Provider Driver¶
OVN has its own set of limitations when considered as an Load Balancer driver. These include:
OVN currently supports TCP and UDP. So Layer-7 based Load Balancing is not possible with OVN. However, once Layer-7 support is integrated in OVN, this issue can be resolved.
There are no Health Monitors currently in OVN’s Driver for Load Balancer. Therefore Health Checking is not possible with OVN.
Currently, OVN driver supports a 1:1 protocol mapping between Listeners and associated Pools i.e. Listener which can handle TCP protocol can only be associated with pools associated to TCP protocol. Pools handling UDP protocol cannot be linked with TCP based Listeners. This limitation will be handled in the upcoming core OVN release.
Creating OVN based Load Balancer¶
OVN provider driver can be tested out on DevStack using the configuration options in:
#
# Sample DevStack local.conf.
#
# This sample file is intented to be used for using OVN as Octavia's Provider
# driver.
#
[[local|localrc]]
DATABASE_PASSWORD=password
RABBIT_PASSWORD=password
SERVICE_PASSWORD=password
SERVICE_TOKEN=password
ADMIN_PASSWORD=password
enable_plugin networking-ovn $GIT_BASE/openstack/networking-ovn
enable_service ovn-northd
enable_service ovn-controller
enable_service networking-ovn-metadata-agent
enable_service q-svc
# Disable Neutron agents not used with OVN
disable_service q-agt
disable_service q-l3
disable_service q-dhcp
disable_service q-meta
DISABLE_AMP_IMAGE_BUILD=True
enable_plugin octavia $GIT_BASE/openstack/octavia
enable_service octavia
enable_service o-api
enable_service o-hk
disable_service o-cw
disable_service o-hm
[[post-config|$OCTAVIA_CONF]]
[api_settings]
enabled_provider_drivers = amphora:'Octavia Amphora driver',ovn:'Octavia OVN driver'
Kindly note that the configuration allows the user to create Load Balancers of both Amphora and OVN types.
Once the DevStack run is complete, the user can create a load balancer in Openstack:
$ openstack loadbalancer create --vip-network-id public --provider ovn
+---------------------+--------------------------------------+
| Field | Value |
+---------------------+--------------------------------------+
| admin_state_up | True |
| created_at | 2018-12-13T09:08:14 |
| description | |
| flavor | |
| id | 94e7c431-912b-496c-a247-d52875d44ac7 |
| listeners | |
| name | |
| operating_status | OFFLINE |
| pools | |
| project_id | af820b57868c4864957d523fb32ccfba |
| provider | ovn |
| provisioning_status | PENDING_CREATE |
| updated_at | None |
| vip_address | 172.24.4.9 |
| vip_network_id | ee97665d-69d0-4995-a275-27855359956a |
| vip_port_id | c98e52d0-5965-4b22-8a17-a374f4399193 |
| vip_qos_policy_id | None |
| vip_subnet_id | 3eed0c05-6527-400e-bb80-df6e59d248f1 |
+---------------------+--------------------------------------+
The user can see the different types of loadbalancers with their associated providers as below:
+--------------------------------------+------+----------------------------------+-------------+---------------------+----------+
| id | name | project_id | vip_address | provisioning_status | provider |
+--------------------------------------+------+----------------------------------+-------------+---------------------+----------+
| c5f2070c-d51d-46f0-bec6-dd05e7c19370 | | af820b57868c4864957d523fb32ccfba | 172.24.4.10 | ACTIVE | amphora |
| 94e7c431-912b-496c-a247-d52875d44ac7 | | af820b57868c4864957d523fb32ccfba | 172.24.4.9 | ACTIVE | ovn |
+--------------------------------------+------+----------------------------------+-------------+---------------------+----------+
Now we can see that OVN will show the load balancer in its loadbalancer table:
$ ovn-nbctl list load_balancer
_uuid : c72de15e-5c2e-4c1b-a21b-8e9a6721193c
external_ids : {enabled=True,
lr_ref="neutron-3d2a873b-b5b4-4d14-ac24-47a835fd47b2",
ls_refs="{\"neutron-ee97665d-69d0-4995-a275-27855359956a\": 1}",
"neutron:vip"="172.24.4.9",
"neutron:vip_port_id"="c98e52d0-5965-4b22-8a17-a374f4399193"}
name : "94e7c431-912b-496c-a247-d52875d44ac7"
protocol : tcp
vips : {}
Next, a Listener can be created for the associated Load Balancer:
$ openstack loadbalancer listener create --protocol TCP --protocol-port /
64015 94e7c431-912b-496c-a247-d52875d44ac7
+---------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| Field | Value |
+---------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| admin_state_up | True |
| connection_limit | -1 |
| created_at | 2018-12-13T09:14:51 |
| default_pool_id | None |
| default_tls_container_ref | None |
| description | |
| id | 21e77cde-854f-4c3e-bd8c-9536ae0443bc |
| insert_headers | None |
| l7policies | |
| loadbalancers | 94e7c431-912b-496c-a247-d52875d44ac7 |
| name | |
| operating_status | OFFLINE |
| project_id | af820b57868c4864957d523fb32ccfba |
| protocol | TCP |
| protocol_port | 64015 |
| provisioning_status | PENDING_CREATE |
| sni_container_refs | [] |
| timeout_client_data | 50000 |
| timeout_member_connect | 5000 |
| timeout_member_data | 50000 |
| timeout_tcp_inspect | 0 |
| updated_at | None |
+---------------------------+--------------------------------------+
OVN updates the Listener information in the Load Balancer table:
$ ovn-nbctl list load_balancer
_uuid : c72de15e-5c2e-4c1b-a21b-8e9a6721193c
external_ids : {enabled=True, "listener_21e77cde-854f-4c3e-bd8c-9536ae0443bc"="64015:", lr_ref="neutron-3d2a873b-b5b4-4d14-ac24-47a835fd47b2", ls_refs="{\"neutron-ee97665d-69d0-4995-a275-27855359956a\": 1}", "neutron:vip"="172.24.4.9", "neutron:vip_port_id"="c98e52d0-5965-4b22-8a17-a374f4399193"}
name : "94e7c431-912b-496c-a247-d52875d44ac7"
protocol : tcp
vips : {}
Next, a Pool is associated with the Listener:
$ openstack loadbalancer pool create --protocol TCP --lb-algorithm /
ROUND_ROBIN --listener 21e77cde-854f-4c3e-bd8c-9536ae0443bc
+---------------------+--------------------------------------+
| Field | Value |
+---------------------+--------------------------------------+
| admin_state_up | True |
| created_at | 2018-12-13T09:21:37 |
| description | |
| healthmonitor_id | |
| id | 898be8a2-5185-4f3b-8658-a56457f595a9 |
| lb_algorithm | ROUND_ROBIN |
| listeners | 21e77cde-854f-4c3e-bd8c-9536ae0443bc |
| loadbalancers | 94e7c431-912b-496c-a247-d52875d44ac7 |
| members | |
| name | |
| operating_status | OFFLINE |
| project_id | af820b57868c4864957d523fb32ccfba |
| protocol | TCP |
| provisioning_status | PENDING_CREATE |
| session_persistence | None |
| updated_at | None |
+---------------------+--------------------------------------+
OVN’s Load Balancer table is modified as below:
$ ovn-nbctl list load_balancer
_uuid : c72de15e-5c2e-4c1b-a21b-8e9a6721193c
external_ids : {enabled=True, "listener_21e77cde-854f-4c3e-bd8c-9536ae0443bc"="64015:", lr_ref="neutron-3d2a873b-b5b4-4d14-ac24-47a835fd47b2", ls_refs="{\"neutron-ee97665d-69d0-4995-a275-27855359956a\": 1}", "neutron:vip"="172.24.4.9", "neutron:vip_port_id"="c98e52d0-5965-4b22-8a17-a374f4399193", "pool_898be8a2-5185-4f3b-8658-a56457f595a9"=""}
name : "94e7c431-912b-496c-a247-d52875d44ac7"
protocol : tcp
vips : {}
Lastly, when a member is created, OVN’s Load Balancer table is complete:
$ openstack loadbalancer member create --address 10.10.10.10 /
--protocol-port 63015 898be8a2-5185-4f3b-8658-a56457f595a9
+---------------------+--------------------------------------+
| Field | Value |
+---------------------+--------------------------------------+
| address | 10.10.10.10 |
| admin_state_up | True |
| created_at | 2018-12-13T09:26:05 |
| id | adf55e70-3d50-4e62-99fd-dd77eababb1c |
| name | |
| operating_status | NO_MONITOR |
| project_id | af820b57868c4864957d523fb32ccfba |
| protocol_port | 63015 |
| provisioning_status | PENDING_CREATE |
| subnet_id | None |
| updated_at | None |
| weight | 1 |
| monitor_port | None |
| monitor_address | None |
| backup | False |
+---------------------+--------------------------------------+
$ ovn-nbctl list load_balancer
_uuid : c72de15e-5c2e-4c1b-a21b-8e9a6721193c
external_ids : {enabled=True, "listener_21e77cde-854f-4c3e-bd8c-9536ae0443bc"="64015:pool_898be8a2-5185-4f3b-8658-a56457f595a9", lr_ref="neutron-3d2a873b-b5b4-4d14-ac24-47a835fd47b2", ls_refs="{\"neutron-ee97665d-69d0-4995-a275-27855359956a\": 1}", "neutron:vip"="172.24.4.9", "neutron:vip_port_id"="c98e52d0-5965-4b22-8a17-a374f4399193", "pool_898be8a2-5185-4f3b-8658-a56457f595a9"="member_adf55e70-3d50-4e62-99fd-dd77eababb1c_10.10.10.10:63015"}
name : "94e7c431-912b-496c-a247-d52875d44ac7"
protocol : tcp
vips : {"172.24.4.9:64015"="10.10.10.10:63015"}
[1]: https://docs.openstack.org/kuryr-kubernetes/rocky/installation/services.html
