FYI, Apache Synapse project seems moving ahead to attic. On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Imesh Gunaratne <im...@apache.org> wrote:
> +1 for this Lakmal. We have put considerable amount of effort on > implementing Stratos load balancer using Apache Synapse engine. However IMO > Synapse is not designed to implement load balancers rather it is designed > to implement mediation work flows. What we did was, we used its load > balancing endpoint feature to implement a load balancer. > > As a result in some scenarios we identified issues in handling sessions, > managing headers, dynamically exposing HTTP/HTTPS listeners, etc. > > Regarding tenant aware load balancing I think we should be able to write > extensions for each third party load balancer depending on the > extendibility features they support. > > On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Lakmal Warusawithana <lak...@wso2.com> > wrote: > >> Thanks Akila. At the moment tenant aware load balancing not use. Even >> tenant partition not support in latest Stratos. If we want, we can >> implement it via extension IMO. In other-hand, need to rethinking MT >> granularity with present of container support. >> >> On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Akila Ravihansa Perera < >> raviha...@wso2.com> wrote: >> >>> It does make sense since there are powerful widely adopted LBs out >>> there, some are even open source. But if we drop SLB, we would lose >>> tenant-aware load balancing which might come handy at some point. It's not >>> easy to implement tenant aware load-balancing using an external LB with >>> extensions. >>> >>> Just my thought :) >>> >>> On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 9:23 AM, Lakmal Warusawithana <lak...@wso2.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Devs, >>>> >>>> Since we have very comprehensive LB extension and capable of adding any >>>> third party LBs, IMO we should not have Stratos specific LB. I'm proposing >>>> to discontinue Stratos LB after 4.1.0 release. >>>> >>>> Thoughts welcome! >>>> >>>> thanks >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Lakmal Warusawithana >>>> Vice President, Apache Stratos >>>> Director - Cloud Architecture; WSO2 Inc. >>>> Mobile : +94714289692 >>>> Blog : http://lakmalsview.blogspot.com/ >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Akila Ravihansa Perera >>> Software Engineer, WSO2 >>> >>> Blog: http://ravihansa3000.blogspot.com >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Lakmal Warusawithana >> Vice President, Apache Stratos >> Director - Cloud Architecture; WSO2 Inc. >> Mobile : +94714289692 >> Blog : http://lakmalsview.blogspot.com/ >> >> > > > -- > Imesh Gunaratne > > Senior Technical Lead, WSO2 > Committer & PMC Member, Apache Stratos > -- Lakmal Warusawithana Vice President, Apache Stratos Director - Cloud Architecture; WSO2 Inc. Mobile : +94714289692 Blog : http://lakmalsview.blogspot.com/
