[Labs-l] saving up some public IP by using a common proxy?

[Platonides]

On 28/09/12 07:12, Ryan Lane wrote:
>> This is on the roadmap for October-December (not sure if it's going to get
>> pushed back or not), a rough detail of what we need is @
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs/Reverse_proxy_for_web_services.
>> Feel free to contribute ideas there.
>>
>> I agree this is something we really need to start working on; however it
>> needs to be done right, so we don't suffer longer term.
>>
> 
> Yep. The hard part about this is that even with host headers is that
> we don't know which backends to send requests to. We need a load
> balancer service that acts as a reverse proxy. Of course, we don't
> really want to write this ourselves. Thankfully, there's a proof of
> concept openstack service for this as a component of quantum. I
> believe HAProxy is one of the first supported services. It's likely
> not acting as a proxy, but we can probably write a plugin to make this
> work.
> 
> - Ryan

Publish a different DNS to the outside (balancer IP address) than from
inside wmflabs (including the balancer) ?