Is it possible to manage routes in Nginx server dynamically, add and remove them, without stopping it from work, something like a circuit breaker (turn on / turn off) ? (the most closest analogy, I've found is Istio in Kubernetes, that allows to do that) (If this functionality is available within some other Software, please mention it down below)

CodePudding user response：

Yes Nginx supports the circuit breaker option but it's in Nginx plus mode.

Ref article : https://www.nginx.com/blog/microservices-reference-architecture-nginx-circuit-breaker-pattern/

Apart of that many other service mesh are available who support it as you mentioned Istio, LinkerD etc.

i would recommend checking the Traefik proxy which also supports and it's open source : https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/middlewares/http/circuitbreaker/

If you are also familiar with the Kong you can also extend it and install the circuit breaker plugin into and use it.

Plugin example: https://github.com/dream11/kong-circuit-breaker

Checkout my article to how to extend the Kong with custom plugins and use it : https://faun.pub/building-kong-custom-docker-image-add-a-customized-kong-plugin-2157a381d7fd