Hey Lee, Yeah, the suggested approach sounds good (using extension methods for functionality which is currently not part of the base loadbalancer API).
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 11:34 PM, Lee Verberne <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I thought I'd contribute support for GCE's new HTTP Load Balancing: > https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/http/ > > I'd like to do it in two steps. The first step would be to add support for > the L7 load balancer. This seems pretty straightforward since there are > already several examples in libcloud. It looks like the way to do this is > to just use a protocol of 'http' to the create_balancer() method. > > The second part will be to add support for URL mapping. I didn't see any > previous implementations of this in libcloud. I expect this will look > something like creating ex_* methods to attach path/host rules to existing > load balancers, but I haven't sketched it out yet. > > I've created https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LIBCLOUD-605 to track > this. > > Let me know if you have any thoughts/concerns/suggestions. > > -lee >
