Restarting systemd-networkd breaks keepalived clusters

[sascha arthur]

Hello,

Managing a HA floating IP with netplan and keepalived brings trouble.
Im managing a two node keepalived cluster with a floating IP.
Everything works out except if i run on a the master node (which holds floating ip) "netplan apply".
Prob netplan resets the whole interface, leaving keepalived in a broken state.
This works without any trouble using the old iproute2 approach.

Even setting, net.ipv4.conf.*.promote_secondaries does not help out.

We need definitly an non strict reset option for interfaces in thise case.

[sascha arthur (sarthur)]

Heres a possible workaround until its solved (did not test it, but seems valid): https://chr4.org/blog/2019/01/21/make-keepalived-play-nicely-with-netplan-slash-systemd-network/

Personally i can live with 1-2 sek downtime (on network change), thats why i added a subscribe hook in puppet to restart keepalived.

Will get rid of the workaround as soon as its solved, which is currently hardly worked on it seems.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.