In the petstore sample, the sessions of the frontend apps are stored in Redis.
On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 1:57 PM, Imesh Gunaratne <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Manuranga, > > Yes, what you are saying it true! We should only use session aware load > balancing for existing applications which has session management features > built into them. > > Ideally when implementing new applications those should be designed in a > way to store their sessions outside the application (irrespective of they > run on containers or not). This can be done with either using a database or > a service (ex: Redis). In that way we can scale the application and session > management service separately and also route request without handling > sessions at the load balancer level. > > Thanks > > On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Manuranga Perera <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We are currently using sessions and session affinity in our apps. But >> going forward, especially in Micro Services/Docker model does it make scene? >> >> Eg: If we bring up a new container due to high load, requests will still >> route to old continents due to the session. If we kill a container that is >> associated with some session where should the request go? >> >> We have written (I think) a session aware router for Docker. It's ok for >> external apps, but I think it defeats the purpose of containerization, due >> to about reasons. >> >> I think the correct way to do this in our apps is to, have authentication >> as a service. A micro service will translate the session-id to a token. App >> depends fully on the token. >> >> What do you think? >> >> -- >> With regards, >> *Manu*ranga Perera. >> >> phone : 071 7 70 20 50 >> mail : [email protected] >> > > > > -- > *Imesh Gunaratne* > Senior Technical Lead > WSO2 Inc: http://wso2.com > T: +94 11 214 5345 M: +94 77 374 2057 > W: http://imesh.io > Lean . Enterprise . Middleware > > -- *Afkham Azeez* Director of Architecture; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/ * <http://www.apache.org/>* *email: **[email protected]* <[email protected]> * cell: +94 77 3320919blog: **http://blog.afkham.org* <http://blog.afkham.org> *twitter: **http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez* <http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez> *linked-in: **http://lk.linkedin.com/in/afkhamazeez <http://lk.linkedin.com/in/afkhamazeez>* *Lean . Enterprise . Middleware*
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