How to Autoscale in Apache Cloudstack using LiquiD AutoScaler
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The document details the setup and functioning of the Liquid Autoscaler for CloudStack, which automates server provisioning based on load thresholds without requiring coding skills. The system improves responsiveness, reduces costs, and enhances energy consumption efficiency by adding or reducing server instances as needed. Key setup steps include user registration, API configuration, and defining load-balancer settings, after which performance monitoring is initiated.
How to Autoscale in Apache Cloudstack using LiquiD AutoScaler
- 1. How to Autoscale in Cloudstack Using LiquiD AutoScaler Works with any load-balancer and no coding skills required
- 2. Overview • Autoscaling: the process of automatically provisioning extra servers when server load jumps over a threshold and automatically decreasing server capacity if load is low. • Benefits: – Better responsiveness – Lower costs – Lower energy consumption • Presented solution: – Works with any CloudStack compatible load-balancer – Does not require any coding skills – Fully integrated in CloudStack
- 3. How does it work?
- 4. How does it work? • LiquiD AutoScaler: – Runs on a VPS – Monitors the performance of the resource through the load-balancer that is in front of the web server(s) – Monitors as if it is an actual website/app user (instead of based on RAM / CPU) – In case performance falls under a pre-determined threshold, it spins up an extra spot instance, making use of CloudStack’s API
- 5. Prerequisites • Before setting up AutoScaler, there are a few prerequisites: – A correctly set-up load-balancer rule in CloudStack with a public IP. – A prepared template that will be used to generate spot instances. – The Load-balancer, webserver, AutoScaler and template must all be in the same datacenter. – The AutoScaler must be able to make an external connection to an e- mail server, a route to the internet and be able to make an http connection to a public IP address.
- 6. Overview of the setup steps • The following steps have to be done to setup LiquiD AutoScaler 1. Register user and company 2. Choose password 3. Provide CloudStack API details 4. Choose the datacenter 5. Set main settings (load-balancer, template, compute offering, maximum and minimum spot instances) 6. Optional: set advanced settings 7. Start the AutoScaler and monitor performance
- 7. Step 1: register user and company
- 8. Step 2: choose a password
- 9. Step 3: provide API details
- 10. Step 4: choose the datacenter
- 11. Step 5: set main settings
- 12. Step 5: set main settings • Select the load-balancer that runs your public IP and to which the spot instances will be added. • Select the template used by your spot instances. It consists of a base OS image and application. • Select the compute offering for new spot instances. • Select the maximum number of spot instances that are allowed to spin up. A higher number allows for more stability in a high load situation, but might also lead to higher costs. • Select the minimum number of spot instances that are required to spin up.
- 13. Step 6: set advanced settings (opt)
- 14. Step 6: set advanced settings (opt) • LiquiD AutoScaler has default settings, but it is possible to customize these. • Set the upper and lower thresholds, which decide when AutoScaler will spin up or spin down a spot instance. – The highest value of 100 means that webservers run at 100% efficiency and that 100% of capacity is available. – The lowest value of 0 means that 0% of capacity is available. A website user would experience a very slow responding website/app, so slow that he might try to refresh, or worse, leave the webpage/app. – By default, the values are set to 90 (upper) and 20 (lower). • Set the hold period, the period for which the most recently provisioned spot instance will remain active, starting when the value has passed the lower threshold. • Set the boot delay, the period that the AutoScaler will wait after scaling up before scaling up again. • Determine the monitoring frequency, being the number of times per minute that AutoScaler checks the performance of the resource through the load- balancer.
- 15. Step 7: start and monitor status
- 16. Step 7: start and monitor status • After setting up the AutoScaler, the last step is to start it. The AutoScaler status will show that it is Running. • Users can pause the AutoScaler, for example during maintenance. • The screen shows the amount of spot instances active. • In case Resource Availability is consistently green, AutoScaler will scale down a provisioned spot instance. In case Resource Availability is consistently red, AutoScaler will scale up a spot instance. • It shows whether the AutoScaler is in the process of booting up a spot instance and it shows how long the down scale hold period is remaining. • For convenience, it shows the monitored load-balancer, and the template and compute offering used for new spot instances.
- 17. Further information • LiquiD AutoScaler has now been set up correctly. • AutoScaler should be available through your IaaS provider. If it is not available at your provider, please contact the LiquiD AutoScaler team at info@liquidns.com. • For further information: – Help section in AutoScaler – Product website: www.liquidns.com "Apache", "CloudStack", "Apache CloudStack", the Apache CloudStack logo, the Apache CloudStack Cloud Monkey logo and the Apache feather logos are registered trademarks or trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. “LiquiD AutoScaler”, “LiquiD”, and the LiquiD logo are trademarks of Treestle B.V..