true load balancer

[mike]

for this to happen i believe

a) there needs to be a way to dynamically add/remove upstreams (or at
least mark them active/inactive) from an external call to nginx daemon

b) monitoring has to be there, which could be built in, or could be an
external process. personally i'd be happy with an external monitoring
thing like ldirectord (some sort of healthchecking script) that upon
noticing a server being down tells nginx "stop this upstream" etc.



On 7/23/08, Almir Karic <almir at kiberpipa.org> wrote:
> i'm kinda interested in implementing a true load balancer functionality
> in nginx, my idea is to extend the upstream module so that it would be
> able to dynamically modify the configuration of servers (such as mark
> them down or change the weight) i see two possible ways:
>
> - controlling socket over which you would feed the commands
> - UPSTREAM method (similar to ncache's PURGE), the advantages of this
>  being easier control of configuration file and no need for a dedicated
>  thread to listen on the socket
>
>
>
> the idea is to implement just the controling protocol in nginx, it would
> require some controling daemon/script to actually do anything useful.
>
>
> thoughts? advices?
>
> also any chance of this kind of code making it to official nginx?
>
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