[rdo-dev] HAProxy 2.2 in RDO repositories

[Carlos Goncalves]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 1:58 PM Alan Pevec <apevec at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi Carlos,
>
> > Octavia roadmap includes adding support to new features and performance
> improvements only available starting in HAProxy 2.0. CentOS 8 ships with
> HAProxy 1.8, and according to the package maintainer there are no plans to
> provide HAProxy 2.x in a foreseeable future.
> > I have rebuilt HAProxy 2.2 from Fedora rawhide against CentOS 8 and
> CentOS Stream in [1] and validated it passed Octavia tests in [2] [3]
> (patchset 3, ignore newer ones).
> > We would like to check if it would be possible to provide the latest
> stable LTS HAProxy 2.2 in RDO repositories.
>
> Since HAProxy is networking related and could be used outside
> OpenStack, I'd like to consider building and hosting it by rebooted
> NFV CentOS SIG.
> We should avoid pilling up deps in RDO repos, adding them is the last
> option as per our deps guidelines [1]
>

Works for me.


>
> Can you also give us short intro how is haproxy included and used in
> Octavia?
> If it were a containerized service, we might be able to take the
> container image from Openshift/OKD ?
>

The HAProxy RPM is installed in the base operating system,
a non-containerized environment. The amphora provider, the reference
open-source provider, orchestrates the life-cycle of amphorae instances
(service VMs) including HAProxy to deliver load balancing services to
tenant application environments.


>
> Cheers,
> Alan
>
> [1] https://www.rdoproject.org/documentation/requirements/
>
>
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