vlet/zen-ubuntu

Zenloadbalancer for Ubuntu

Zenloadbalancer 3.7 for Ubuntu 14.04

Zen Load Balancer is an Open Source Load Balancer Project that provides a full set of tools to run and manage a complete load balancer solution which includes: farm and server definition, networking, clustering, monitoring, secure certificates management, logs, configuration backups, uplink load balancing support, and much more.

Community edition is availiable as a iso with preinstalled Debian 6 x86_32, that is not suitable for installation as separate package for any other debian-based distros and platforms.

This github repo is a hack around original zenloadbalancer-3.7 debian package with this changes:

• Removed all bundled binary components: pound, mini-httpd, pen, ucarp, and etc (they are required as dependencies of package)

• Installation adapted for Ubuntu 14.04 (x86_64)

Build binary and source packages

$ git clone https://github.com/vlet/zen-ubuntu zenloadbalancer-3.7

$ tar cf --exclude='*/debian*' zenloadbalancer_3.7.orig.tar zenloadbalancer-3.7

$ gzip zenloadbalancer_3.7.orig.tar

$ cd zenloadbalancer-3.7

$ dpkg-buildpackage

Package will be available in the top dir: zenloadbalancer_3.7-1ubuntu11_all.deb

Installation

Before instaling zenloadbalancer you will need to build those perl packages (not available in official ubuntu repos):

• libdata-validate-ip-perl
• libfile-grep-perl
• libgd-3dbargrapher-perl
• liblinux-inotify2-perl
• libnet-ssh-expect-perl

But this is not a problem to build it yourself, for example:

$ dh-make-perl make --build --cpan file-grep
...
dpkg-deb: building package `libfile-grep-perl' in `../libfile-grep-perl_0.02-1_all.deb'.
...

$ sudo dpkg -i libfile-grep-perl_0.02-1_all.deb

After installing all required modules, install zenloadbalancer package:

$ sudo dpkg -i zenloadbalancer_3.7-1ubuntu11_all.deb

Disclaimer

zenloadbalancer removes all configuration from /etc/network/interfaces and start managing instarfaces by itself. So you are required to have a direct concole access to server (via kvm or ilo) if something going wrong.

DON'T install it on production server or your workstation , test package on a separate (virtual) instance.

It's real horrible inside ;-)