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0 pointssprobertson10y ago0 comments

Lua + Redis is a nice way to do this, I have a small project https://github.com/spro/simon that does dynamic routing and load balancing based on Hostname -> IP:Port sets in Redis. Adding a new route is as simple as:

  sadd backends:hnapi.dev 192.168.0.42:10555

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Tenzer10y ago

Neat! I want to get started on some Lua scripting as well, probably first to just get a bunch of metrics out of Nginx via StatsD. There's access to a whole bunch of numbers via Lua that you otherwise can't get out from the stub_status page.

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