load balancer - add nodes dynamically to upstream

[SplitIce]

Of course Im refering to writing a script to do so.

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 2:32 PM, SplitIce <mat999 at gmail.com> wrote:

> You can modify the config and perform a server reload, thats how I do it.
>
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> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Renjith T <renjith.tom85 at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>    For a particular use case, we are using nginx as a lb (with 'weight's
>> and 'fail_timeout's as mentioned in the wiki here -
>> http://library.linode.com/web-servers/nginx/configuration/front-end-proxy-and-software-load-balancing#sph_software-load-balancing
>> .<http://library.linode.com/web-servers/nginx/configuration/front-end-proxy-and-software-load-balancing#sph_software-load-balancing>
>> )
>>
>> This works great, but we want to add nodes to the lb dynamically ( i.e.
>> change the 'server' entries, by adding a new entry  or delete stale entries
>> altogether).
>>
>> On quick glance,  there is a http upstream module here, -
>> http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpUpstreamModule , that discusses those
>> options used in the lb application.
>>
>> * Is there an api to add server entries / delete entries managed by the
>> upstream module dynamically ?
>>
>> * If the answer to the previous question is no, then can we
>>  ** patch upstream module to provide so or
>>  ** start writing a separate  module similar to 'upstream' , that will
>> provide the api  to do so ?
>>
>> Any other suggestions for dynamically managing the list of servers in
>> upstream. Thanks.
>>
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