Konvey NLB

Konvey is a plain simple network Layer-4 (UDP/TCP) load-balancer.

It’s only goal is to accept remote traffic and ship it back to one of the many application backend, through round-robin algorithm (with health check support).

Konvey can either be used to:

• load-balance traffic from private network to private network
• load-balance traffic from public network (i.e. Internet) to private network, in association with Kawaii. In such a scenario, Kawaii holds public IP address exposure, and route public traffic to Konvey instances, through NAT settings.

As with Kawaii, Konvey uses Kowabunga’s concept of Multi-Zone Resources (MZR) to ensure that, when the requested region features multiple availability zones, a project’s Konvey instance gets created in each zone, making it highyl resilient.

Resource Creation

As a projectAdmin user, one can create a Konvey load-balancer instance. Example below will spawn a load balancer named acme-lb in eu-west region for project acme, forwarding all TCP traffic received on port 443 to backend acme-server instance (on port 443 as well).

• Code:
• TF

data "kowabunga_region" "eu-west" {
  name = "eu-west"
}

resource "kowabunga_konvey" "lb" {
  name      = "acme-lb"
  project   = kowabunga_project.acme.id
  region    = data.kowabunga_region.eu-west.id
  failover  = true
  endpoints = [
    {
      name         = "HTTPS"
      protocol     = "tcp"
      port         = 443
      backend_port = 443
      backend_ips  = [kowabunga_kompute.server.ip]
    }
  ]
}