Load Balancer as a Service (LBaaS) for OpenStack
Transform OpenStack Load Balancer for Advanced Application Services
OpenStack is the defacto choice for open-source cloud orchestration in private cloud deployments due to its programmability, automation, and flexibility. However, OpenStack integration with legacy load balancers still falls short of automation and self-service.
Why? Legacy load balancing appliances are extremely complex to integrate, require manual provisioning and can’t scale on demand. At the same time, open source solutions do not have enterprise-grade features to move workloads into production. As a result, enterprises using OpenStack still need a modern, multi-cloud solution that eliminates the input-driven manual steps and does the heavy lifting with built-in automation and analytics.
The Avi Vantage OpenStack LBaaS Solution
Avi solves these challenges by integrating natively with OpenStack components to deliver a fully orchestrated, self-service driven OpenStack LBaaS architecture. Avi Vantage provides on-demand autoscaling in response to changing performance and load requirements, automated provisioning of L4-L7 services, and web application security resulting in intelligent LBaaS for OpenStack implementations.
In addition, Avi’s App Insights give unparalleled visibility into end-to-end timing, real user metrics, client logs, and much more. With Avi, companies can automate application services while accelerating OpenStack implementation.
Avi LBaaS and Integration with OpenStack Components
Capabilities
- Native integration with OpenStack Neutron LBaaS, Nova, Keystone and Horizon
- REST APIs for all application services to enable openstack automation
- Full featured software load balancers on any VM or x86 server
- Actionable analytics for application performance and security
- Single point of control for distributed load balancers
Benefits
- 90% faster application provisioning in OpenStack environments
- Visibility through application insights to ensure optimal performance and faster incident resolution
- Centralized policy control across Openstack private clouds, data centers or public cloud environments
- 50% less TCO compared to legacy application delivery controllers for OpenStack
The setup and usage of Avi was straightforward. It literally took us 20 minutes to get a highly available instance deployed, configured and integrated into our OpenStack cloud, which was awesome.