Brocade LBaaS Plugin Driver (v2 Data Model Support)

Problem Description

URL of the launchpad blueprint: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/neutron-brocade-lbaas-driver

Brocade LBaaS Plugin and Driver for the Brocade ADX Load Balancer Devices for the LBaaS in Neutron.

Proposed Change

The driver will implement the interfaces according to the driver interfaces mentioned in the spec https://review.openstack.org/100690 for the blueprint https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/lbaas-objmodel-driver-changes

The following managers will be implemented:

  • LoadBalancerManager

  • ListenerManager

  • PoolManager

  • MemberManager

  • HealthMonitorManager

Implementation is composed of Plugin Driver and Brocade Device Driver.

Brocade LBaaS Plugin Driver extends/implements the driver interfaces as mentioned above and forwards the request to the device driver.

The device driver communicates with the Brocade ADX Load Balancer Device (Physical and Virtual) via SOAP/XML APIs. The device driver use SUDs python module for the SOAP/XML API calls.

Supported Features

Protocols: HTTPS, HTTP, TCP LB Algorithms: ROUND_ROBIN, LEAST_CONNECTIONS Session persistence: SOURCE_IP Health Monitoring: TCP, HTTP, HTTPS Stats retrieval CRUD on loadbalancer, listener, pool, healthmonitor, member Additional lbaas features supported as part of framework in kilo release (TERMINATED_HTTPS, L7 etc)

Product Versions supported

ADX 12.5 and above Virtual ADX 3.0, 3.1 and above

Exceptions

Brocade LBaaS Device Driver will raise one of the following exceptions
ConfigError . Raised when a configuration exception occurs

on the load balancer device

UnsupportedFeature . Raised when a particular feature is not yet

supported by the Device Driver

UnsupportedOption . Raised when an unsupported value is

specified for an attribute.

Data Model Impact

None

REST API Impact

None

Security Impact

None

Notifications Impact

None

Other End User Impact

None

Performance Impact

None

IPv6 Impact

Will support ipv6 at the same level as neutron lbaas.

Other Deployer Impact

service_provider entry in the neutron-lbaas.conf file needs to be updated to reflect Brocade as one of the service_provider for the plugin to be effective.

Brocade Device Driver must be installed prior to using this driver

Developer Impact

None

Community Impact

None

Alternatives

None

Implementation

Assignee(s)

https://launchpad.net/~pattabi

Work Items

  • Brocade plugin driver code

  • Unit tests

  • Voting CI

Dependencies

Testing

  • Unit Tests

  • Brocade QA

  • Existing LBaaS tests provide complete coverage, if driver is installed and configured (as our CI will do)

Tempest Tests

Brocade ADX CI will run existing LB tempest tests with Brocade ADX/vADX.

Functional Tests

Brocade ADX CI will run existing LB functional tests with Brocade ADX/vADX.

API Tests

Brocade ADX CI will run existing LB API tests with Brocade ADX/vADX.

Documentation Impact

None

User Documentation

None

Developer Documentation

None

References

None