In some environments it’s expensive to provide all server machines with externally-resolvable hostnames. We recently added support for “off platform” clients to access servers through an ingress proxy<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GEODE/Client+side+configuration+for+a+SNI+proxy> for this type of environment. I’m proposing to do the same for inter-cluster (“WAN”) communications.
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GEODE/WAN+Configuration+for+an+Ingress+Proxy This improvement will allow one cluster to forward events to another cluster even though the other cluster’s machines do not have resolvable hostnames. Communications will go through a Proxy process hosted in the other cluster with a resolvable hostname. The user-visible changes in this proposal are small, changing the “remote-locators” setting to allow for a new syntax. I’m not proposing to implement a Proxy. There are numerous Proxy products available that could fit into this scheme such as HAProxy, Envoy, and NGIX. I will probably start with an SNI-based implementation and leverage work already done for client/server communications. Please provide feedback by the end of 14 august. Thanks!
