Learning OpenStack Networking - Third Edition

Building a load balancer

To demonstrate the creation and use of load balancers in Neutron, this section is dedicated to building a functional load balancer based on the following scenario:

"A project has a simple Neutron network architecture composed of a router attached to both an external provider network and internal tenant network. The user would like to load balance HTTP traffic between two instances, each running a web server on port 80. Each instance has been configured with an index.html page containing a unique server identifier."

A diagram of the requested topology can be seen here:

This demonstration assumes that two instances named ...