Cloud Foundry Day Europe 2024

Currently, the Cloud Foundry routing stack does not support the configuration of features for a specific route. A case in point is the load balancing algorithm between Gorouters and backends. This algorithm is defined globally and is utilized generically to distribute requests among available backends for a given route. The ability to define the load balancing algorithm on a per-route basis could help in optimizing the use of application instances, based on the workloads on the application side. In this talk Tamara and Max, on behalf of the SAP BTP CF Routing team, present several scenarios for which a more flexible approach of per-route functionalities can provide benefits. They are going to highlight a proposed solution that keeps the implementation overhead as simple as possible. Furthermore, they will talk about the current implementation state and challenges we have encountered. This talk is intended to raise some further discussions and ideas that could be integrated as a per-route feature.