Large number of (dynamic?) backends

Per Buer perbu at varnish-software.com
Mon Mar 30 23:50:15 CEST 2015


On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Kevin Day <toasty at dragondata.com> wrote:

> I have a use case where I need to be able to take an incoming request like
> “/XXX/filename” and translate that to fetching “
> http://nodeXXX.example.com/filename” where there’d literally be hundreds
> of backend servers. i.e. XXX would be a varying 3 digit number.
>
> I saw this post here:
>
>
> https://www.varnish-software.com/blog/truly-dynamic-backend-definition-varnish
>
> From 2012, but I know a lot has changed since then. Is there an easy way
> this can be accomplished now?
>

I talked to PHK about this last thursday. There is code in the master
branch to do this now. However, the VCL bit and a few minor things are
still needed. This will be in the 4.1 release.



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