Add LBaaS panels to Dashboard Mitaka Mirantis!

The Dashboard panels for managing LBaaS v2 are available starting with the Mitaka Mirantis release, after install plugins LBaaS plugin for fuel

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LBaaS v2 has several new concepts to understand:

Load balancer

• The load balancer occupies a neutron network port and has an IP address assigned from a subnet.

Listener

• Load balancers can listen for requests on multiple ports. Each one of those ports is specified by a listener.

Pool

• A pool holds a list of members that serve content through the load balancer.

Member

• Members are servers that serve traffic behind a load balancer. Each member is specified by the IP address and port that it uses to serve traffic.

Health monitor

• Members may go offline from time to time and health monitors divert traffic away from members that are not responding properly. Health monitors are associated with pools.

LBaaS v2 has multiple implementations via different service plug-ins. The two most common implementations use either an agent or the Octavia services. Both implementations use the LBaaS v2 API.

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On your Controller

Clone the neutron-lbaas-dashboard repository and check out the release branch that matches the installed version of Dashboard:

apt-get install -y git
cd /usr/local/src/sahara-dashboard
git clone https://git.openstack.org/openstack/neutron-lbaas-dashboard
cd neutron-lbaas-dashboard
git checkout origin/stable/mitaka

Install the Dashboard panel plug-in:

python setup.py install

Copy the _1481_project_ng_loadbalancersv2_panel.py file from the neutron-lbaas-dashboard/enabled directory into the Dashboard openstack_dashboard/local/enabled directory.

cp neutron_lbaas_dashboard/enabled/_1481_project_ng_loadbalancersv2_panel.py /usr/share/openstack-dashboard/openstack_dashboard/local/enabled/

Enable the plug-in in Dashboard by editing the local_settings.py file and setting enable_lb to True in the OPENSTACK_NEUTRON_NETWORK dictionary.

vim /etc/openstack-dashboard/local_settings.py

cd /usr/share/openstack-dashboard/
python manage.py compress --force
python manage.py collectstatic --noinput

Restart Apache to activate the new panel:

sudo service apache2 restart