Comment 7 for bug 1201249

I agree with you 100% Eugene, absolutely "adding support for haproxy balancer for hosts having no namespace support is a feature with much bigger scope." I think you'd come to find truth to this in anything you do in life that it's always harder to do the right thing than to take the easy way out.

With respect to "its practical need is doubtful," namespace support has to compiled into the kernel, and iproute2 has to be installed, needless to say both of which are not offered in your standard OS deployment. If we continue down this path of eliminating possibilities, then the only people that are going to have the skills to deploy OpenStack are the developers.

If we want OpenStack to trudge down the path to success, then we must make it user friendly, otherwise, people would rather pay for a mainstream provider convenience where these options are not a requirement, but yet an option.