[Openstack-operators] How are people dealing with API rate limiting?

Silence Dogood matt at nycresistor.com
Tue Jun 14 21:02:48 UTC 2016


+1  also SSL

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Russell Bryant <rbryant at redhat.com> wrote:

> This is the most common approach I've heard of (doing rate limiting in
> your load balancer).
>
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Kingshott, Daniel <
> Daniel.Kingshott at bestbuy.com> wrote:
>
>> We use Haproxy to load balance API requests and applied rate limiting
>> there.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 9:02 AM, Matt Riedemann
>> <mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>>
>> A question came up in the nova IRC channel this morning about the
>> api_rate_limit config option in nova which was only for the v2 API.
>>
>> Sean Dague explained that it never really worked because it was per API
>> server so if you had more than one API server it was busted. There is no
>> in-tree replacement in nova.
>>
>> So the open question here is, what are people doing as an alternative?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> When I was working at Rackspace, we used
>> http://www.openrepose.org/ <http://www.openrepose.org/> to handle multi
>> server rate-limiting for these cases.
>>
>> -Alex
>>
>>
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>> Thanks,
>>
>> Matt Riedemann
>>
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