OpenStack-Ansible HAProxy server

This Ansible role installs the HAProxy Load Balancer service.

To clone or view the source code for this repository, visit the role repository for haproxy_server.

Default variables

# Validate Certificates when downloading hatop. May be set to "no" when proxy server
# is intercepting the certificates.
haproxy_hatop_download_validate_certs: yes

# Set the package install state for distribution packages
# Options are 'present' and 'latest'
haproxy_package_state: "latest"

## Haproxy Configuration
haproxy_rise: 3
haproxy_fall: 3
haproxy_interval: 12000

## Haproxy Stats
haproxy_stats_enabled: False
haproxy_stats_bind_address: 127.0.0.1
haproxy_stats_port: 1936
haproxy_username: admin
haproxy_stats_password: secrete
haproxy_stats_refresh_interval: 60

# Default haproxy backup nodes to empty list so this doesn't have to be
# defined for each service.
haproxy_backup_nodes: []

haproxy_service_configs: []
# Example:
# haproxy_service_configs:
#   - service:
#       haproxy_service_name: haproxy_all
#       haproxy_backend_nodes: "{{ groups['haproxy_all'][0] }}"
#       # haproxy_backup_nodes: "{{ groups['haproxy_all'][1:] }}"
#       haproxy_port: 80
#       haproxy_balance_type: http
#       haproxy_backend_options:
#         - "forwardfor"
#         - "httpchk"
#         - "httplog"
#       haproxy_backend_server_options:
#         - "inter 3000"                # a contrived example, there are many server config options possible
#       haproxy_acls:
#         white_list:
#           rule: "src 127.0.0.1/8 192.168.0.0/16 172.16.0.0/12 10.0.0.0/8"
#           backend_name: "mybackend"
#      haproxy_frontend_acls:
#          letsencrypt-acl:
#            rule: "path_beg /.well-known/acme-challenge/"
#            backend_name: letsencrypt

galera_monitoring_user: monitoring
haproxy_bind_on_non_local: False

## haproxy SSL
haproxy_ssl: true
haproxy_ssl_all_vips: false
haproxy_ssl_dh_param: 2048
haproxy_ssl_self_signed_regen: no
haproxy_ssl_cert: /etc/ssl/certs/haproxy.cert
haproxy_ssl_key: /etc/ssl/private/haproxy.key
haproxy_ssl_pem: /etc/ssl/private/haproxy.pem
haproxy_ssl_ca_cert: /etc/ssl/certs/haproxy-ca.pem
haproxy_ssl_self_signed_subject: "/C=US/ST=Texas/L=San Antonio/O=IT/CN={{ external_lb_vip_address }}/subjectAltName=IP.1={{ external_lb_vip_address }}"
haproxy_ssl_cipher_suite: "{{ ssl_cipher_suite | default('ECDH+AESGCM:DH+AESGCM:ECDH+AES256:DH+AES256:ECDH+AES128:DH+AES:RSA+AESGCM:RSA+AES:!aNULL:!MD5:!DSS') }}"
haproxy_ssl_bind_options: "force-tlsv12"
# activate letsencrypt option
haproxy_ssl_letsencrypt_enable: false
# choose the certbot install method, 'distro' for a package manager repo, or downloaded with the certbot-auto script 'certbot-auto'
haproxy_ssl_letsencrypt_install_method: "certbot-auto"
haproxy_ssl_letsencrypt_certbot_auto_binary: "{{ haproxy_ssl_letsencrypt_install_path }}/{{ haproxy_ssl_letsencrypt_download_url | basename }}"
haproxy_ssl_letsencrypt_certbot_binary: "{{ (haproxy_ssl_letsencrypt_install_method == 'certbot-auto') | ternary(haproxy_ssl_letsencrypt_certbot_auto_binary, 'certbot') }}"
haproxy_ssl_letsencrypt_certbot_backend_port: 8888
haproxy_ssl_letsencrypt_pre_hook_timeout: 5
haproxy_ssl_letsencrypt_certbot_bind_address: "{{ ansible_host }}"
haproxy_ssl_letsencrypt_email: "example@example.com"
haproxy_ssl_letsencrypt_download_url: "https://dl.eff.org/certbot-auto"
haproxy_ssl_letsencrypt_venv: "/opt/eff.org/certbot/venv"
haproxy_ssl_letsencrypt_config_path: "/etc/letsencrypt/live"
haproxy_ssl_letsencrypt_install_path: "/opt/letsencrypt"
haproxy_ssl_letsencrypt_setup_extra_params: ""
haproxy_ssl_letsencrypt_cron_minute: "0"
haproxy_ssl_letsencrypt_cron_hour: "0"
haproxy_ssl_letsencrypt_cron_weekday: "0"

# hatop extra package URL and checksum
haproxy_hatop_download_url: "https://github.com/jhunt/hatop/archive/v0.8.0.tar.gz"
haproxy_hatop_download_checksum: "sha256:bcdab1664358ec83027957df11bbeb322df1a96d414a3ccc4e211532b82c4ad2"

# Install hatop
haproxy_hatop_install: true

# The location where the extra packages are downloaded to
haproxy_hatop_download_path: "/opt/cache/files"

## haproxy default
# Set the number of retries to perform on a server after a connection failure
haproxy_retries: "3"
# Set the maximum inactivity time on the client side
haproxy_client_timeout: "50s"
# Set the maximum time to wait for a connection attempt to a server to succeed
haproxy_connect_timeout: "10s"
# Set the maximum allowed time to wait for a complete HTTP request
haproxy_http_request_timeout: "5s"
# Set the maximum inactivity time on the server side
haproxy_server_timeout: "50s"
# Set the HTTP keepalive mode to use
# Disable persistent connections by default because they can cause issues when the server side closes the connection
# at the same time a request is sent.
haproxy_keepalive_mode: 'forceclose'


## haproxy tuning params
haproxy_maxconn: 4096

# Parameters below should only be specified if necessary, defaults are programmed in the template
#haproxy_tuning_params:
#  nbproc: 1
#  bufsize: 384000
#  chksize: 16384
#  comp_maxlevel: 1
#  http_maxhdr: 101
#  maxaccept: 64
#  ssl_cachesize: 20000
#  ssl_lifetime: 300

# Add extra VIPs to all services
extra_lb_vip_addresses: []

# Add extra TLS VIPs to all services
extra_lb_tls_vip_addresses: []

# Option to override which address haproxy binds to for external vip.
haproxy_bind_external_lb_vip_address: "{{ external_lb_vip_address }}"

# Option to override which address haproxy binds to for internal vip.
haproxy_bind_internal_lb_vip_address: "{{ internal_lb_vip_address }}"

# Make the log socket available to the chrooted filesystem
haproxy_log_socket: "/dev/log"
haproxy_log_mount_point: "/var/lib/haproxy/dev/log"

# Ansible group name which should be used for distrtibuting self signed SSL Certificates
haproxy_ansible_group_name: haproxy_all

Required variables

None.

Dependencies

None.

Example playbook

---
- name: Install haproxy
  hosts: haproxy
  user: root
  roles:
    - { role: "haproxy_server", tags: [ "haproxy-server" ] }
  vars:
    haproxy_service_configs:
      - service:
          haproxy_service_name: group_name
          haproxy_backend_nodes: "{{ groups['group_name'][0] }}"
          haproxy_backup_nodes: "{{ groups['group_name'][1:] }}"
          haproxy_port: 80
          haproxy_balance_type: http
          haproxy_backend_options:
            - "forwardfor"
            - "httpchk"
            - "httplog"
          haproxy_backend_arguments:
            - 'http-check expect string OK'