Hi David, please send your PR for sure! IIRC we made the Loadbalancer pluggable specifically for this use-case. Sounds like a great addition to our possible deployment topologies.
Shameless plug: Would you review the architecture I proposed here: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29289006d190b2c68451f7625c13bb8020cc8e9928db66f1b0def18e@%3Cdev.openwhisk.apache.org%3E In theory, this could make your proposal even leaner in the future. Don't hear me say though we should hold this back, we can absolutely go forward with your implementation first. Just wanted to quickly verify this use-case will also work with what we might plan for in the future. Cheers, Markus