This new way is very different from the old one.

I love this new way.

According to this idea, plug-ins will be more like micro-plug-ins, and we
can execute these micro-plug-ins one by one by way of arrangement.

And will make these micro plug-ins become more independent and simple.


On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 5:26 PM Ming Wen <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
> I want to discuss a new idea about plugins, and let me start by explaining
> the existing plugin mechanism, plugins works according to the following
> rules:
> - plugins are executed after the administrator binds them to a route,
> service, unless they are modified again by the admin API
> - plugins are executed in order of priority which hard code
> - plugins are independent of each other, the results of a plu-in will not
> affect another plugin
>
> So, some scenarios are not handled very gracefully by Apache APISIX, such
> as:
> - limit-count for some IPs, and others are unrestricted
> - throw the failed authentication logs to kafka topic A, and others to
> kafka topic B
> - request which block by limit-req need to go through the fault injection
> plugin
>
> For these scenarios, we can now only handle them by creating multiple
> routes, or creating new plugins.
>
> So I think it's time to take `brain` to APISIX to orchestrate plugins. We
> can add an additional plugin orchestrator without any modifications to the
> existing plugins, then we can use decision tree to control plugins.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Thanks,
> Ming Wen, Apache APISIX & Apache SkyWalking
> Twitter: _WenMing
>


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