Load Balancer as a Service

A single-node version load balancer as a service.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

python3, django, ansible, libvirt, docker.

# libvirt
sudo apt install qemu-kvm libvirt-bin virt-manager virt-viewer virtinst
sudo apt install libvirt-python libvirt-dev
pip3 install libvirt-python

# ansible
sudo apt-get install ansible libssl-dev
pip3 install ansible

# django
sudo pip3 install Django

# docker
pip3 install docker

Installing

1. create a admin namespace using ip:

sudo ip netns add admin_ns

2. To use the virtual machine, first create a virtual machine as a template.

   1. download a centos 7 image
   2. create a new vm named using virt-install.
   3. name it as zlu24vm1, add user zecao and password 123.

3. Run the server

   1. enter the Server directory
   2. python3 manage.py makemigrations
   3. python3 manage.py migrate
   4. python3 manage.py runserver port-number

4. Run the client

   1. enter the Client directory
   2. change the port-number in the client.py to the server port-number
   3. change the coreesponding template file.
   4. run it: python3 client.py template/insCreate.json

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments

• This project is a course project of NCSU CSC792
• We would like to express our very great appreciation to Professor Anand.