+1 for this. Since there are widely used LBs out there IMO we should focus on creating / testing more 3rd party LB integrations and make those available as docker images or cartridges
Thanks, Sajith On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Gayan Gunarathne <gay...@wso2.com> wrote: > +1 for this. > > As there are lot of capable third party LB exists, we can use those in > Stratos with the extension support.Regarding the tenant aware load > balancing, I think LB extensions will be most suitable solution for this as > this MT requirement can be differ from one environment to another. It also > provide more flexibility for end user as well. > > Thanks, > Gayan > > > On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Lakmal Warusawithana <lak...@wso2.com> > wrote: > >> 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/ >> >> > > > -- > > Gayan Gunarathne > Technical Lead, WSO2 Inc. (http://wso2.com) > Committer & PMC Member, Apache Stratos > email : gay...@wso2.com | mobile : +94 766819985 > > > -- Sajith Kariyawasam *Committer and PMC member, Apache Stratos, * *WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.com <http://wso2.com>* *Mobile: 0772269575*
