openstack

Virtual IPs (VIPs) are widely used to enable high availabilty for IT infrastructure services. Although the use case is very common, it is surprisingly tricky to set up in an OpenStack environment without a deeper knowledge about neutron and its port security mechanisms. In this blog post I will walk you through the creation of a pair of VMs that share a VIP via the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) on an OpenStack cloud.