LGTM On Fri, Aug 4, 2023 at 5:04 PM Xin Rong <alins...@apache.org> wrote:
> In the earliest versions, APISIX used Openresty as the runtime, but > OpenResty often failed to meet APISIX's scalability needs. To solve > this problem, we built apisix-base and have been running on it for > over a year. > > > For example, these features can only run in the apisix-base environment: > > * upstream.tls: Enables secure communication between APISIX and > upstream servers. > * etcd.tls: Enables secure communication between APISIX and etcd clusters. > * xrpc/redis: The Redis protocol support allows APISIX to proxy Redis > commands, and provide various features according to the content of the > commands. > * Dubbo proxy: Supports proxying Apache Dubbo requests. > * client-control Plugin: The client-control Plugin can be used to > dynamically control the behavior of NGINX to handle a client request, > by setting the max size of the request body. > * Gzip Plugin: The gzip Plugin dynamically sets the behavior of gzip in > Nginx. > * Wasm Plugin: Allows loading and running WebAssembly modules in APISIX. > * Prometheus Plugin: Optimizing long tail requests caused by excessive > data volume in metrics. > * proxy-control Plugin: The proxy-control Plugin dynamically controls > the behavior of the NGINX proxy. > * Real-ip Plugin: The real-ip Plugin is used to dynamically change the > client's IP address and port as seen by APISIX. > > > Although we still retain compatibility with OpenResty, in practice, > the incompatibility issues between APISIX and OpenResty are often > unresolved. Our usual approach is to skip these issues. Considering > that APISIX will continue to add new features and bug fixes in the > future, these features are often not supported in native OpenResty. At > the same time, we also need to consider compatibility with OpenResty, > which requires extra maintenance work in testing and development. > > > By dropping support for OpenResty, we can remove extra CI jobs and > version checks, making the code simpler. > > What about your opinion? >
