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Install and Configure OpenStack Load Balancing as a Service (Octavia).

This example is based on the environment like follows.

------------+--------------------------+--------------------------+------------
            |                          |                          |
        eth0|10.0.0.30             eth0|10.0.0.50             eth0|10.0.0.51
+-----------+-----------+  +-----------+-----------+  +-----------+-----------+
|   [ dlp.srv.world ]   |  | [ network.srv.world ] |  |  [ node01.srv.world ] |
|     (Control Node)    |  |     (Network Node)    |  |     (Compute Node)    |
|                       |  |                       |  |                       |
|  MariaDB    RabbitMQ  |  |      Open vSwitch     |  |        Libvirt        |
|  Memcached  Nginx     |  |     Neutron Server    |  |      Nova Compute     |
|  Keystone   httpd     |  |      OVN-Northd       |  |      Open vSwitch     |
|  Glance     Nova API  |  |  Nginx  iSCSI Target  |  |   OVN Metadata Agent  |
|  Cinder API           |  |     Cinder Volume     |  |     OVN-Controller    |
|                       |  |    Octavia Services   |  |                       |
+-----------------------+  +-----------------------+  +-----------------------+

[1] Create a LoadBalancer Image and add it to Glance. It's OK to work on any node. (example below is on Control Node)
# create an instance image

root@dlp ~(keystone)#
apt -y install podman

root@dlp ~(keystone)#
mkdir /var/lib/containers/tmpdisk

root@dlp ~(keystone)#
podman run --privileged -it -v /var/lib/containers/tmpdisk:/mnt centos:stream9 /bin/bash

bash-5.1#
cd /mnt

bash-5.1#
dnf -y install centos-release-openstack-dalmatian epel-release sudo

bash-5.1#
dnf --enablerepo=crb -y install openstack-octavia-diskimage-create debootstrap python3-octaviaclient

bash-5.1#
chmod 440 /etc/shadow

bash-5.1#
octavia-diskimage-create.sh -i centos-minimal

.....
.....
uccessfully built the amphora image using amphora-agent from the master branch.
Amphora image size: //amphora-x64-haproxy.qcow2 551654912
bash-5.1#
exit
# add to Glance

root@dlp ~(keystone)#
openstack image create "Amphora" --tag "Amphora" --file /var/lib/containers/tmpdisk/amphora-x64-haproxy.qcow2 --disk-format qcow2 --container-format bare --private --project service
# add [flavor] for Amphora instance

root@dlp ~(keystone)#
openstack flavor create --id 100 --vcpus 1 --ram 2048 --disk 10 m1.octavia --private --project service
# add a security group for Amphora instance

root@dlp ~(keystone)#
openstack security group create lb-mgmt-sec-group --project service
# allow required ports for security group

root@dlp ~(keystone)#
openstack security group rule create --protocol icmp --ingress lb-mgmt-sec-group

root@dlp ~(keystone)#
openstack security group rule create --protocol tcp --dst-port 22:22 lb-mgmt-sec-group

root@dlp ~(keystone)#
openstack security group rule create --protocol tcp --dst-port 80:80 lb-mgmt-sec-group

root@dlp ~(keystone)#
openstack security group rule create --protocol tcp --dst-port 443:443 lb-mgmt-sec-group

root@dlp ~(keystone)#
openstack security group rule create --protocol tcp --dst-port 9443:9443 lb-mgmt-sec-group

[2] Configure Octavia service to set instance ID or security group ID.
root@network:~#
openstack image list

+--------------------------------------+------------+--------+
| ID                                   | Name       | Status |
+--------------------------------------+------------+--------+
| ca826f70-b37f-43ef-acda-baf047b43991 | Amphora    | active |
| f1c2157b-e54b-42c2-a09d-885d21b7aa72 | Ubuntu2404 | active |
+--------------------------------------+------------+--------+

root@network:~#
openstack flavor list --all

+-----+------------+-------+------+-----------+-------+-----------+
| ID  | Name       |   RAM | Disk | Ephemeral | VCPUs | Is Public |
+-----+------------+-------+------+-----------+-------+-----------+
| 1   | m1.tiny    |  2048 |   10 |         0 |     1 | True      |
| 100 | m1.octavia |  2048 |   10 |         0 |     1 | False     |
| 2   | m1.small   |  4096 |   10 |         0 |     2 | True      |
| 3   | m1.medium  |  8192 |   10 |         0 |     4 | True      |
| 4   | m1.large   | 16384 |   10 |         0 |     8 | True      |
| 5   | m2.medium  |  8192 |   10 |        10 |     4 | True      |
+-----+------------+-------+------+-----------+-------+-----------+

root@network:~#
openstack network list

+---------------------------------+---------+----------------------------------+
| ID                              | Name    | Subnets                          |
+---------------------------------+---------+----------------------------------+
| cb803bda-6f08-4ae3-9018-        | public  | b691b066-62df-45be-a5ee-         |
| 1c4320ad0295                    |         | 911e347174ba                     |
| fb4dc320-1981-4914-9d3f-        | private | daeaa092-2e5d-44de-9de4-         |
| f8fd757c4562                    |         | 51bea52b51b4                     |
+---------------------------------+---------+----------------------------------+

root@network:~#
openstack security group list

+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+------+
| ID              | Name            | Description     | Project         | Tags |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+------+
| 1308edaf-2ae3-  | secgroup01      | secgroup01      | 407400ec8d16434 | []   |
| 44fc-8763-      |                 |                 | e9badf4ceb9d71f |      |
| 29b850697257    |                 |                 | 1e              |      |
| b80ba15a-79dc-  | default         | Default         | 5039718bba1c4de | []   |
| 435c-9f1d-      |                 | security group  | 9bb4b792bedfb35 |      |
| def9c599002e    |                 |                 | 8d              |      |
| eab3d0e5-c858-  | lb-mgmt-sec-    | lb-mgmt-sec-    | e5fb0e2eb880471 | []   |
| 44c3-8460-      | group           | group           | a9101084118997e |      |
| db7fcf22af70    |                 |                 | 43              |      |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+------+

root@network:~#
vi /etc/octavia/octavia.conf
# add into [controller_worker] section

[controller_worker]
client_ca = /etc/octavia/certs/client_ca.cert.pem
amp_image_tag = Amphora
# specify [flavor] ID for Amphora instance
amp_flavor_id = 100
# specify security group ID for Amphora instance
amp_secgroup_list = eab3d0e5-c858-44c3-8460-db7fcf22af70
# specify network ID to boot Amphora instance (example below specifies public network [public])
amp_boot_network_list = cb803bda-6f08-4ae3-9018-1c4320ad0295
network_driver = allowed_address_pairs_driver
compute_driver = compute_nova_driver
amphora_driver = amphora_haproxy_rest_driver 

root@network:~#
systemctl restart octavia-api \
octavia-health-manager \
octavia-housekeeping \
octavia-worker

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