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Configuring HAProxy (optional)
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HAProxy provides load balancing services and SSL termination when hardware
load balancers are not available for high availability architectures deployed
by OpenStack-Ansible. The default HAProxy configuration provides highly-
available load balancing services via keepalived if there is more than one
host in the ``haproxy_hosts`` group.

.. important::

  Ensure you review the services exposed by HAProxy and limit access
  to these services to trusted users and networks only. For more details,
  refer to the :ref:`least-access-openstack-services` section.

.. note::

  For a successful installation, you require a load balancer. You may
  prefer to make use of hardware load balancers instead of HAProxy. If hardware
  load balancers are in use, then implement the load balancing configuration for
  services prior to executing the deployment.

To deploy HAProxy within your OpenStack-Ansible environment, define target
hosts to run HAProxy:

   .. code-block:: yaml

       haproxy_hosts:
         infra1:
           ip: 172.29.236.101
         infra2:
           ip: 172.29.236.102
         infra3:
           ip: 172.29.236.103

There is an example configuration file already provided in
``/etc/openstack_deploy/conf.d/haproxy.yml.example``. Rename the file to
``haproxy.yml`` and configure it with the correct target hosts to use HAProxy
in an OpenStack-Ansible deployment.

Making HAProxy highly-available
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

If multiple hosts are found in the inventory, deploy
HAProxy in a highly-available manner by installing keepalived.

Edit the ``/etc/openstack_deploy/user_variables.yml`` to skip the deployment
of keepalived along HAProxy when installing HAProxy on multiple hosts.
To do this, set the following::

.. code-block:: yaml

   haproxy_use_keepalived: False

To make keepalived work, edit at least the following variables
in ``user_variables.yml``:

.. code-block:: yaml

   haproxy_keepalived_external_vip_cidr: 192.168.0.4/25
   haproxy_keepalived_internal_vip_cidr: 172.29.236.54/16
   haproxy_keepalived_external_interface: br-flat
   haproxy_keepalived_internal_interface: br-mgmt

- ``haproxy_keepalived_internal_interface`` and
  ``haproxy_keepalived_external_interface`` represent the interfaces on the
  deployed node where the keepalived nodes bind the internal and external
  vip. By default, use ``br-mgmt``.

- On the interface listed above, ``haproxy_keepalived_internal_vip_cidr`` and
  ``haproxy_keepalived_external_vip_cidr`` represent the internal and
  external (respectively) vips (with their prefix length).

- Set additional variables to adapt keepalived in your deployment.
  Refer to the ``user_variables.yml`` for more descriptions.

To always deploy (or upgrade to) the latest stable version of keepalived.
Edit the ``/etc/openstack_deploy/user_variables.yml``:

.. code-block:: yaml

   keepalived_use_latest_stable: True

The HAProxy playbook reads the ``vars/configs/keepalived_haproxy.yml``
variable file and provides content to the keepalived role for
keepalived master and backup nodes.

Keepalived pings a public IP address to check its status. The default
address is ``193.0.14.129``. To change this default,
set the ``keepalived_ping_address`` variable in the
``user_variables.yml`` file.

.. note::

   The keepalived test works with IPv4 addresses only.

You can define additional variables to adapt keepalived to your
deployment. Refer to the ``user_variables.yml`` file for
more information. Optionally, you can use your own variable file.
For example:

.. code-block:: yaml

   haproxy_keepalived_vars_file: /path/to/myvariablefile.yml

Configuring keepalived ping checks
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

OpenStack-Ansible configures keepalived with a check script that pings an
external resource and uses that ping to determine if a node has lost network
connectivity. If the pings fail, keepalived fails over to another node and
HAProxy serves requests there.

The destination address, ping count and ping interval are configurable via
Ansible variables in ``/etc/openstack_deploy/user_variables.yml``:

.. code-block:: yaml

   keepalived_ping_address:         # IP address to ping
   keepalived_ping_count:           # ICMP packets to send (per interval)
   keepalived_ping_interval:        # How often ICMP packets are sent

By default, OpenStack-Ansible configures keepalived to ping one of the root
DNS servers operated by RIPE. You can change this IP address to a different
external address or another address on your internal network.

Securing HAProxy communication with SSL certificates
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The OpenStack-Ansible project provides the ability to secure HAProxy
communications with self-signed or user-provided SSL certificates. By default,
self-signed certificates are used with HAProxy. However, you can
provide your own certificates by using the following Ansible variables:

.. code-block:: yaml

    haproxy_user_ssl_cert:          # Path to certificate
    haproxy_user_ssl_key:           # Path to private key
    haproxy_user_ssl_ca_cert:       # Path to CA certificate

Refer to `Securing services with SSL certificates`_ for more information on
these configuration options and how you can provide your own
certificates and keys to use with HAProxy.

.. _Securing services with SSL certificates: configure-sslcertificates.html

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