
:guide-id: deploy-aws-accelerator-loadbalancer
:guide-title: Deploying an AWS Global Accelerator load balancer
:guide-summary: Deploy an AWS Global Accelerator as the load-balancer building block in a multi-site deployment.
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= Deploying an AWS Global Accelerator load balancer

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This topic describes the procedure required to deploy an AWS Global Accelerator to route traffic between multi-site {project_name} deployments.

This deployment is intended to be used with the setup described in the link:{links_high-availability_concepts-multi-site_url}[{links_high-availability_concepts-multi-site_name}] {section}.
Use this deployment with the other building blocks outlined in the link:{links_high-availability_bblocks-multi-site_url}[{links_high-availability_bblocks-multi-site_name}] {section}.

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== Audience

This {section} describes how to deploy an AWS Global Accelerator instance to handle {project_name} client connection failover for multiple
availability-zone {project_name} deployments.

== Architecture

To ensure user requests are routed to each {project_name} site we need to utilise a load balancer. To prevent issues with
DNS caching on the client-side, the implementation should use a static IP address that remains the same
when routing clients to both availability-zones.

In this {section} we describe how to route all {project_name} client requests via an AWS Global Accelerator load balancer.
In the event of a {project_name} site failing, the Accelerator ensures that all client requests are routed to the remaining
healthy site. If both sites are marked as unhealthy, then the Accelerator will "`fail-open`" and forward requests to a site
chosen at random.

.AWS Global Accelerator Failover
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An AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB) is created on both ROSA clusters in order to make the Keycloak
pods available as Endpoints to an AWS Global Accelerator instance. Each cluster endpoint is assigned a weight of
128 (half of the maximum weight 255) to ensure that accelerator traffic is routed equally to both availability-zones
when both clusters are healthy.

== Prerequisites

* ROSA based Multi-AZ {project_name} deployment

== Procedure
. Create Network Load Balancers
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Perform the following on each of the {project_name} clusters:
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.. Login to the ROSA cluster
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.. Create a Kubernetes load balancer service
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.Command:
[source,bash]
----
cat <<EOF | kubectl apply -n $NAMESPACE -f - #<1>
  apiVersion: v1
  kind: Service
  metadata:
    name: accelerator-loadbalancer
    annotations:
      service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-additional-resource-tags: accelerator=${ACCELERATOR_NAME},site=${CLUSTER_NAME},namespace=${NAMESPACE} # <2>
      service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-type: "nlb"
      service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-healthcheck-path: "/lb-check"
      service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-healthcheck-protocol: "https"
      service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-healthcheck-interval: "10" # <3>
      service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-healthcheck-healthy-threshold: "3" # <4>
      service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-healthcheck-unhealthy-threshold: "3" # <5>
  spec:
    ports:
    - name: https
      port: 443
      protocol: TCP
      targetPort: 8443
    selector:
      app: keycloak
      app.kubernetes.io/instance: keycloak
      app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: keycloak-operator
    sessionAffinity: None
    type: LoadBalancer
EOF
----
<1> `$NAMESPACE` should be replaced with the namespace of your {project_name} deployment
<2> Add additional Tags to the resources created by AWS so that we can retrieve them later. `ACCELERATOR_NAME` should be
the name of the Global Accelerator created in subsequent steps and `CLUSTER_NAME` should be the name of the current site.
<3> How frequently the healthcheck probe is executed in seconds
<4> How many healthchecks must pass for the NLB to be considered healthy
<5> How many healthchecks must fail for the NLB to be considered unhealthy
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.. Take note of the DNS hostname as this will be required later:
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.Command:
[source,bash]
----
kubectl -n $NAMESPACE get svc accelerator-loadbalancer --template="{{range .status.loadBalancer.ingress}}{{.hostname}}{{end}}"
----
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.Output:
[source,bash]
----
abab80a363ce8479ea9c4349d116bce2-6b65e8b4272fa4b5.elb.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com
----
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. Create a Global Accelerator instance
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.Command:
[source,bash]
----
aws globalaccelerator create-accelerator \
  --name example-accelerator \ #<1>
  --ip-address-type DUAL_STACK \ #<2>
  --region us-west-2 #<3>
----
<1> The name of the accelerator to be created, update as required
<2> Can be 'DUAL_STACK' or 'IPV4'
<3> All `globalaccelerator` commands must use the region 'us-west-2'
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.Output:
[source,json]
----
{
    "Accelerator": {
        "AcceleratorArn": "arn:aws:globalaccelerator::606671647913:accelerator/e35a94dd-391f-4e3e-9a3d-d5ad22a78c71", #<1>
        "Name": "example-accelerator",
        "IpAddressType": "DUAL_STACK",
        "Enabled": true,
        "IpSets": [
            {
                "IpFamily": "IPv4",
                "IpAddresses": [
                    "75.2.42.125",
                    "99.83.132.135"
                ],
                "IpAddressFamily": "IPv4"
            },
            {
                "IpFamily": "IPv6",
                "IpAddresses": [
                    "2600:9000:a400:4092:88f3:82e2:e5b2:e686",
                    "2600:9000:a516:b4ef:157e:4cbd:7b48:20f1"
                ],
                "IpAddressFamily": "IPv6"
            }
        ],
        "DnsName": "a099f799900e5b10d.awsglobalaccelerator.com", #<2>
        "Status": "IN_PROGRESS",
        "CreatedTime": "2023-11-13T15:46:40+00:00",
        "LastModifiedTime": "2023-11-13T15:46:42+00:00",
        "DualStackDnsName": "ac86191ca5121e885.dualstack.awsglobalaccelerator.com" #<3>
    }
}

----
<1> The ARN associated with the created Accelerator instance, this will be used in subsequent commands
<2> The DNS name which IPv4 {project_name} clients should connect to
<3> The DNS name which IPv6 {project_name} clients should connect to
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. Create a Listener for the accelerator
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.Command:
[source,bash]
----
aws globalaccelerator create-listener \
  --accelerator-arn 'arn:aws:globalaccelerator::606671647913:accelerator/e35a94dd-391f-4e3e-9a3d-d5ad22a78c71' \
  --port-ranges '[{"FromPort":443,"ToPort":443}]' \
  --protocol TCP \
  --region us-west-2
----
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.Output:
[source,json]
----
{
    "Listener": {
        "ListenerArn": "arn:aws:globalaccelerator::606671647913:accelerator/e35a94dd-391f-4e3e-9a3d-d5ad22a78c71/listener/1f396d40",
        "PortRanges": [
            {
                "FromPort": 443,
                "ToPort": 443
            }
        ],
        "Protocol": "TCP",
        "ClientAffinity": "NONE"
    }
}
----
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. Create an Endpoint Group for the Listener
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.Command:
[source,bash]
----
CLUSTER_1_ENDPOINT_ARN=$(aws elbv2 describe-load-balancers \
    --query "LoadBalancers[?DNSName=='abab80a363ce8479ea9c4349d116bce2-6b65e8b4272fa4b5.elb.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com'].LoadBalancerArn" \ #<1>
    --region eu-west-1 \ #<2>
    --output text
)
CLUSTER_2_ENDPOINT_ARN=$(aws elbv2 describe-load-balancers \
    --query "LoadBalancers[?DNSName=='a1c76566e3c334e4ab7b762d9f8dcbcf-985941f9c8d108d4.elb.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com'].LoadBalancerArn" \ #<1>
    --region eu-west-1 \ #<2>
    --output text
)
ENDPOINTS='[
  {
    "EndpointId": "'${CLUSTER_1_ENDPOINT_ARN}'",
    "Weight": 128,
    "ClientIPPreservationEnabled": false
  },
  {
    "EndpointId": "'${CLUSTER_2_ENDPOINT_ARN}'",
    "Weight": 128,
    "ClientIPPreservationEnabled": false
  }
]'
aws globalaccelerator create-endpoint-group \
  --listener-arn 'arn:aws:globalaccelerator::606671647913:accelerator/e35a94dd-391f-4e3e-9a3d-d5ad22a78c71/listener/1f396d40' \ #<2>
  --traffic-dial-percentage 100 \
  --endpoint-configurations ${ENDPOINTS} \
  --endpoint-group-region eu-west-1 \ #<3>
  --region us-west-2
----
<1> The DNS hostname of the Cluster's NLB
<2> The ARN of the Listener created in the previous step
<3> This should be the AWS region that hosts the clusters
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.Output:
[source,json]
----
{
    "EndpointGroup": {
        "EndpointGroupArn": "arn:aws:globalaccelerator::606671647913:accelerator/e35a94dd-391f-4e3e-9a3d-d5ad22a78c71/listener/1f396d40/endpoint-group/2581af0dc700",
        "EndpointGroupRegion": "eu-west-1",
        "EndpointDescriptions": [
            {
                "EndpointId": "arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:eu-west-1:606671647913:loadbalancer/net/abab80a363ce8479ea9c4349d116bce2/6b65e8b4272fa4b5",
                "Weight": 128,
                "HealthState": "HEALTHY",
                "ClientIPPreservationEnabled": false
            },
            {
                "EndpointId": "arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:eu-west-1:606671647913:loadbalancer/net/a1c76566e3c334e4ab7b762d9f8dcbcf/985941f9c8d108d4",
                "Weight": 128,
                "HealthState": "HEALTHY",
                "ClientIPPreservationEnabled": false
            }
        ],
        "TrafficDialPercentage": 100.0,
        "HealthCheckPort": 443,
        "HealthCheckProtocol": "TCP",
        "HealthCheckPath": "undefined",
        "HealthCheckIntervalSeconds": 30,
        "ThresholdCount": 3
    }
}
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. Optional: Configure your custom domain
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If you are using a custom domain, pointed your custom domain to the AWS Global Load Balancer by configuring an Alias or CNAME in your custom domain.
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. Create or update the {project_name} Deployment
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Perform the following on each of the {project_name} clusters:
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.. Login to the ROSA cluster
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.. Ensure the Keycloak CR has the following configuration
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[source,yaml]
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apiVersion: k8s.keycloak.org/v2alpha1
kind: Keycloak
metadata:
  name: keycloak
spec:
  hostname:
    hostname: $HOSTNAME # <1>
  ingress:
    enabled: false # <2>
----
<1> The hostname clients use to connect to Keycloak
<2> Disable the default ingress as all {project_name} access should be via the provisioned NLB
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To ensure that request forwarding works as expected, it is necessary for the Keycloak CR to specify the hostname through
which clients will access the {project_name} instances. This can either be the `DualStackDnsName` or `DnsName` hostname associated
with the Global Accelerator. If you are using a custom domain, point your custom domain to the AWS Global Accelerator, and use your custom domain here.

== Verify
To verify that the Global Accelerator is correctly configured to connect to the clusters, navigate to hostname configured above, and you should be presented with the {project_name} admin console.


== Further reading

* link:{links_high-availability_operate-site-online_url}[{links_high-availability_operate-site-online_name}]
* link:{links_high-availability_operate-site-offline_url}[{links_high-availability_operate-site-offline_name}]


