Load Balancer with HAProxy (v12.11.3-LTS)

Published by RightScale on Nov 20, 2012Revision: 7

Description

This ServerTemplate is on the LTS Lineage. For the latest Infinity version, see the Infinity Lineage
For a description of the Infinity and LTS lineages, see ServerTemplate Release Methodology

This ServerTemplate configures an HAProxy load balancer and Apache server. It is designed to work in a hybrid cloud setting, and with application server and database ServerTemplates as part of a three-tier web architecture. It also includes iptables management for clouds that do not have firewall services.

Key Features:

Supports both HTTP and HTTPS
Firewall management within a three-tier scalable web architecture
Utilizes RightScale tag-based routing for connecting to application servers
Routes to multiple application servers based on subdomain

Release Notes:
Load Balancer with HAProxy Release Notes

Application versions:

Apache 2.2.3
HAProxy 1.3.26

Supported compute clouds:

Amazon Web Services EC2
Citrix CloudStack (2.2 and Acton)
Datapipe
IDC Frontier
Logicworks
OpenStack
Rackspace
SoftLayer

Supported MultiCloud Images:

CentOS 5.8 - Amazon, CloudStack, Datapipe, IDC Frontier, Logicworks, OpenStack, Rackspace, SoftLayer
Ubuntu 10.04 - Amazon, CloudStack, Datapipe, IDC Frontier, Logicworks, Rackspace
RHEL 5.8 - Amazon

Cookbook Repo: git://github.com/rightscale/cookbooks.git of RightScale (v12.11.3-LTS)
Cookbook Repo: git://github.com/rightscale/rightscale_cookbooks.git of RightScale (v12.11.3-LTS)
MultiCloudImage: RightImage_Ubuntu_10.04_x64_v5.8 - VMWare_v12_LTS [rev 1]
MultiCloudImage: RightImage_CentOS_5.8_x64_v5.8_v12_LTS [rev 1]
MultiCloudImage: RightImage_CentOS_5.8_x64_v5.8_v12_LTS_EBS [rev 1]
MultiCloudImage: RightImage_CentOS_5.8_x64_v5.8_v12_LTS_HVM_EBS [rev 2]
MultiCloudImage: RightImage_RHEL_5.8_x64_v5.8_v12_LTS [rev 1]
MultiCloudImage: RightImage_Ubuntu_10.04_x64_v5.8 - KVM_v12_LTS [rev 1]
MultiCloudImage: RightImage_CentOS_5.8_x64_v5.8 - XenServer_v12_LTS [rev 1]
MultiCloudImage: RightImage_Ubuntu_10.04_x64_v5.8 - XenServer_v12_LTS [rev 1]
MultiCloudImage: RightImage_Ubuntu_10.04_x64_v5.8_v12_LTS [rev 1]
MultiCloudImage: RightImage_Ubuntu_10.04_x64_v5.8_v12_LTS_EBS [rev 1]
MultiCloudImage: RightImage_CentOS_5.8_x64_v5.8 - VMWare_v12_LTS [rev 1]
MultiCloudImage: SoftLayerImage_CentOS_5.8_x64_v5.8_v12_LTS [rev 1]
MultiCloudImage: SoftLayerImage_Storage_CentOS_5.8_x64_v5.8_v12_LTS [rev 1]
MultiCloudImage: RightImage_CentOS_5.8_x64_v5.8 - KVM_v12_LTS [rev 1]
Recipe: lb::handle_attach
Recipe: block_device::setup_ephemeral
Recipe: app::request_loadbalancer_allow
Recipe: web_apache::setup_monitoring
Recipe: lb::do_attach_all
Recipe: app::request_loadbalancer_deny
Recipe: lb::handle_detach
Recipe: lb::setup_load_balancer
Recipe: lb::setup_monitoring
Recipe: lb::setup_reverse_proxy_config
Recipe: lb_haproxy::default
Recipe: logging::default
Recipe: rightscale::default
Recipe: rightscale::install_tools
Recipe: web_apache::setup_frontend
Recipe: sys::do_reconverge_list_enable
Recipe: sys::setup_swap
Recipe: sys_firewall::default
Recipe: sys_firewall::do_list_rules
Recipe: sys_firewall::setup_rule
Recipe: sys_ntp::default
Recipe: web_apache::default
Recipe: web_apache::do_restart
Recipe: web_apache::do_start
Recipe: web_apache::do_stop
Recipe: sys::do_reconverge_list_disable
RepoPath: RightScale (v12.11.3-LTS) [rev 9]