[rdo-dev] HAProxy 2.2 in RDO repositories

[Carlos Goncalves]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2020, 16:19 Alfredo Moralejo Alonso <amoralej at redhat.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 11:14 AM Alfredo Moralejo Alonso <
> amoralej at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 2:52 PM Carlos Goncalves <cgoncalves at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>
>> I'll bring the topic in next NFV SIG meeting
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>

Cool, thank you very much!

I'm currently on PTO (back on Sept 14). If you or one of my Octavia
colleagues want to give that build a spin, feel free to play with
https://review.opendev.org/#/c/744102/


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