Advanced networking services
Besides routing and firewall, OpenStack supports a few other commonly used networking technologies. Let's take a quick look at these without delving too deep into the respective commands.
Load Balancing as a Service (LBaaS)
Virtual machine instances created in OpenStack are used to run applications. Most applications are required to support redundancy and concurrent access. For example, a web server may be accessed by a large number of users at the same time. One of the common strategies to handle scale and redundancy is to implement load balancing for incoming requests. In this approach, a load balancer distributes an incoming service request onto a pool of servers, which processes the request, thus providing higher ...
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