You can simply use a a global variable in the lua script to store the configuration information
And you can initialize that in the __init__ function, which is run at the start of the server. You can see some examples. here - https://docs.trafficserver.apache.org/en/latest/admin-guide/plugins/lua.en.html#ts-stat-create and here - https://docs.trafficserver.apache.org/en/latest/admin-guide/plugins/lua.en.html#example-scripts On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 12:00 PM Walt Karas <wka...@yahooinc.com.invalid> wrote: > > There is a way to do this in the C API (global arguments with > TSUserArgSet/Get). But it doesn't look like these functions are supported > in the Lua API. Can you keep the data in a file, perhaps on a RAM disk to > make access fast? > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 4:41 AM Vishal Garg <gar...@media.net.invalid> > wrote: > > > Hey, > > ATS Version: v9.1 > > OS: Ubuntu 22.04 > > > > I am writing a Lua plugin to allow custom rate limiting logic. > > Right now each request has its own Lua state and thus no variables are > > shared. > > > > I want to have a piece of config loaded which is read only and shared > > across all requests coming in. > > Current implementation loads config from Redis on each request and stores > > it in ctx to be used in multiple stages of a request. > > > > Is there a global variable available in Lua which I can initialize for the > > entire lifetime of ATS running and can be accessed by all requests? > > > > Thanks in advance > > -- > > *Vishal Garg* > > Site Reliability Engineer II > > Autoopt-3 > >
