Load Balancer Flavor Profiles

Overview

Flavor profiles define the compute capacity and topology configuration allocated to load balancing appliances. Administrators create named flavors that users select at load balancer provisioning time. Flavors abstract provider-specific settings into human-readable capacity tiers — e.g., standard, ha, and high-performance.

Administrator Access Required — This operation requires the admin role. Contact your Polystack administrator if you do not have sufficient permissions.

Flavor Architecture

Concept	Description
Flavor Profile	Provider-specific settings template (topology, compute class, etc.)
Flavor	Named, user-visible tier based on a flavor profile. Users select flavors at provisioning.

A flavor profile is always associated with a specific provider. Multiple flavors can reference the same profile.

Create a Flavor Profile

Create a flavor profile

A flavor profile wraps provider-specific settings:

Create standard single-topology profile

openstack loadbalancer flavorprofile create \
  --name standard-profile \
  --provider amphora \
  --flavor-data '{"loadbalancer_topology": "SINGLE"}'

Create HA active-standby profile

openstack loadbalancer flavorprofile create \
  --name ha-profile \
  --provider amphora \
  --flavor-data '{"loadbalancer_topology": "ACTIVE_STANDBY"}'

Create named flavors for users

Expose profiles as named flavors:

Create standard flavor

openstack loadbalancer flavor create \
  --name standard \
  --flavorprofile standard-profile \
  --description "Standard single-instance load balancer" \
  --enable

Create HA flavor

openstack loadbalancer flavor create \
  --name ha \
  --flavorprofile ha-profile \
  --description "High-availability active-standby load balancer" \
  --enable

Verify flavors are available

List available flavors

openstack loadbalancer flavor list

Flavors appear in the list with status enabled — you can now select them when creating a load balancer.

Flavor Profile Settings Reference

Setting	Provider	Description
`loadbalancer_topology`	amphora	`SINGLE` or `ACTIVE_STANDBY`
`compute_flavor`	amphora	Nova flavor for the appliance instance
`amp_image_tag`	amphora	Tag identifying the appliance image in the Image Service
`availability_zone`	amphora	Restrict appliance placement to a specific AZ

Manage Flavors

openstack loadbalancer flavor list

openstack loadbalancer flavor show standard

openstack loadbalancer flavor set standard --disable

openstack loadbalancer flavor delete standard

openstack loadbalancer flavorprofile list

Disabling a flavor prevents new load balancers from using it but does not affect existing load balancers. Deleting a flavor profile that is referenced by a flavor will fail — delete the flavor first.

Recommended Flavor Set

For most production deployments, provide at least two flavors:

Flavor Name	Profile	Use Case
`standard`	Single topology	Development, testing, non-critical workloads
`ha`	Active-standby	Production workloads requiring high availability

Next Steps

Provider Drivers

Understand provider-specific flavor profile settings.

Quotas

Control how many load balancers projects can provision across all flavors.

Architecture

Understand how appliance topology affects data plane resilience.

Admin Troubleshooting

Diagnose flavor-related provisioning failures.

Core Services

Other Services

Overview

Flavor Architecture

Create a Flavor Profile

Create a flavor profile

Create named flavors for users

Verify flavors are available

Flavor Profile Settings Reference

Manage Flavors

Recommended Flavor Set

Next Steps

Provider Drivers

Quotas

Architecture

Admin Troubleshooting

​Overview

​Flavor Architecture

​Create a Flavor Profile

Create a flavor profile

Create named flavors for users

Verify flavors are available

​Flavor Profile Settings Reference

​Manage Flavors

​Recommended Flavor Set

​Next Steps

Provider Drivers

Quotas

Architecture

Admin Troubleshooting

Overview

Flavor Architecture

Create a Flavor Profile

Flavor Profile Settings Reference

Manage Flavors

Recommended Flavor Set

Next Steps