On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 2:30 PM, Willy Tarreau <w...@1wt.eu> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 10:02:29AM +0200, Frederic Lecaille wrote: > > With server templates, haproxy could preallocate 'server' objects which > > would derive from 'default-server' (with same settings as default server > > settings), but with remaining parameters which are unknown at parsing > time > > (for instance their names, addresses, anything else). In fact here, > names or > > addresses are particular settings: a default server has not any default > name > > or default address. > > Absolutely. And this combined with the recent features of dynamic > consistent > cookies and with Baptiste's upcoming DNS patches will easily result in > pretty > dynamic backends! > > Willy > > I just had a look at the implementation of server-templates. To make it work with DNS resolution, we need to find a way to provide a fqdn to the default-server directive. This might not be too complicated. After this, the magic will happen!!!!
Great work Frederic :) Baptiste