docker-openresty

A couple weeks ago there was some Lua community issues because LuaRocks surpassed 65,535 packages. There was a conflict between this and the LuaRocks implementation under LuaJIT [1] [2], inflicting pain on a narrow set of users as their CI/CD pipelines and personal workflows failed. It was resolved pretty quick, but interesting! [1] https://github.com/luarocks/luarocks/issues/1797 [2] https://github.com/openresty/docker-openresty/issues/276

Throw a host header at it and it will proxy to it! No need to hardcode domains and upstreams in the configuration. Dynamically builds balancers and connection pools from the incoming host header. Could be a workaround for HTTP clients that don't use or leverage keepalives effectively, don't retry and/or don't load balance across all IPs in a DNS record. * Implements retries, keepalives (idle/persistent connection pooling) and load balancing when your client can't! * Optimised nginx Openresty config for speed and high traffic. https://github.com/openresty/docker-openresty * Dynamic connection pooling to any domain using lookups performed by Kong lua-resty-dns-client https://github.com/Kong/lua-resty-dns-client * resolves A, AAAA, CNAME and SRV records, including port * parses /etc/hosts * parses /resolv.conf and applies LOCALDO