Working with highly available routers

With a few exceptions, creating and managing an HA router is no different from its standalone counterpart. Neutron's router management commands were covered in the previous chapter, and the exceptions can be found in the following sections.

 

 

Creating highly-available routers

Users with the admin role can create highly-available routers using the --ha argument with the openstack router create command shown here:

openstack router create --ha ROUTER 

Users without the admin role do not have the ability to override the default router type and cannot specify the --ha argument.

Deleting highly-available routers

To delete a highly-available router, simply use the openstack router delete command shown here:

openstack router delete ROUTER 

Note

When all HA routers in a project are removed, the HA network used for communication between routers stays behind. That network will be reused upon the creation of HA routers at a later time.