OpenStack Neutron provides Load Balancer as a Service to distribute traffic to your application that is running on the virtual machines. In this chapter, we will explore the Neutron load balancer service plugin with the following recipes:
Installing and configuring the Neutron load balancer service plugin
Creating a load balancer pool using Horizon
Creating a load balancer pool using CLI
Adding a load balancer member using Horizon
Adding a load balancer member using CLI
Adding a load balancer health monitor using Horizon
Adding a load balancer health monitor using CLI
Creating a Virtual IP using Horizon
Creating a Virtual IP using CLI
Making the load balancer accessible to the Internet
Testing the load balancer
Viewing the load balancer on the network node