[rdo-dev] HAProxy 2.2 in RDO repositories

[Alfredo Moralejo Alonso]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 11:14 AM Alfredo Moralejo Alonso <
amoralej at redhat.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 2:52 PM Carlos Goncalves <cgoncalves at redhat.com>
> wrote:
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>> 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.
>>>
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> I'll bring the topic in next NFV SIG meeting
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>> We should avoid pilling up deps in RDO repos, adding them is the last
>>> option as per our deps guidelines [1]
>>>
>>
>> Works for me.
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>>>
>>> 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.
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> haproxy is used out of octavia/amphora to balance across api services,
> iirc, so we should check with other consumers in TripleO.
>

I've built haproxy-2.2.2 and pushed to
https://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/8/nfv/x86_64/network-extras/ for
testing.

First CI jobs show an issue when balancing redis traffic in TripleO
deployment. I've sent a fix for it in:

https://review.opendev.org/#/c/749525/

I'll try to involve maintainers for other impacted services to validate it.


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