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:
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Removed all bundled binary components: pound, mini-httpd, pen, ucarp, and etc (they are required as dependencies of package)
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Installation adapted for Ubuntu 14.04 (x86_64)
$ 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
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
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 ;-)