Loadbalancer Default Timeouts

Adjusting Loadbalancer Default Timeouts

The default timeout for OpenStack LoadBalancers is 30 seconds and can be adjusted using the following annotations:

metadata:
    annotations:
        loadbalancer.openstack.org/timeout-client-data: "70000"
        loadbalancer.openstack.org/timeout-member-data: "70000"

Explanation of the parameters:

  • timeout-client-data: Defines how long the LoadBalancer waits for data from the client (in milliseconds).
  • timeout-member-data: Defines how long the LoadBalancer waits for data from the backend (member) (also in milliseconds).

Further configuration options can be found in the official documentation at this link.

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