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On Wednesday, February 27, 2019 at 9:58:18 PM UTC-8, Srini Polavarapu wrote:
>
> Please expect a post on this soon. It will have the details you are 
> looking for but a detailed gRFC will come later. We can continue discussion 
> on that post.
>
> Thanks. 
>
> On Monday, February 25, 2019 at 12:39:27 PM UTC-8, [email protected] 
> wrote:
>>
>> The thing is, that we have implemented a server-side LB which speaks 
>> grpclb and this whole machinery seems to work pretty well - so we wanted to 
>> deploy it any day now. What is more, we wanted to make it open-source and 
>> we had some ideas to develop it further. So, could you be a little bit more 
>> specific on those topics?
>>
>> 1) How long (approximately) will grpclb be still supported? It would be 
>> fair to have some time to migrate to the new solution.
>> 2) How will this new solution look like? I can't find any information 
>> about it, either on grpc's GitHub (no docs) or on this group. When I try to 
>> google "grpc load balancing" I still hit docs about grpclb.
>> 3) Is this XDS solution going to work out-of-the-box, or, similarly to 
>> grpclb we will have to implement some part on our own (I mean, in grpclb we 
>> had to implement server-side of the protocol - how does it work with XDS)?
>>
>> W dniu poniedziałek, 25 lutego 2019 19:19:48 UTC+1 użytkownik Carl 
>> Mastrangelo napisał:
>>>
>>> Like Penn said, you can turn it on (it's experimental), but will 
>>> eventually be replaced.  The flag itself is pretty simple, but the rest of 
>>> the machinery needs to be set up properly for it to work.  We (gRPC 
>>> maintainers) are not comfortable supporting this yet, hence the extra 
>>> effort to turn it on.   The gRPCLB Load Balancer is experimental, so we 
>>> will likely remove it at some point.  We will give a notice in one of the 
>>> upcoming releases that it is deprecated, and then remove it the release 
>>> after.   Since the replacement isn't yet ready, it has not been removed.
>>>
>>> Sorry to be so non-committal, but it seems like XDS is a better long 
>>> term LB solution, and we don't want to support two competing 
>>> implementations.
>>>
>>> On Saturday, February 23, 2019 at 12:48:43 AM UTC-8, [email protected] 
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> And what about SRV records lookup: now I have to set this flag:
>>>>
>>>> io.grpc.internal.DnsNameResolverProvider.enable_grpclb
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> to true, and there was a commit some time ago which enabled it by 
>>>> default: 
>>>> https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java/commit/c729a0f76b244da9f4aebc40896b2fb891d1b5c4
>>>>  
>>>> and now it has been reverted: 
>>>> https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java/pull/5232 - how it is eventually 
>>>> going to be? 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> W dniu piątek, 22 lutego 2019 21:16:54 UTC+1 użytkownik Penn (Dapeng) 
>>>> Zhang napisał:
>>>>>
>>>>> Neither grpclb nor xds will be enabled by default, grpclb need be 
>>>>> explicitly enabled by a service config or a ManagedChannelBuilder option, 
>>>>> and xds need be explicitly enabled by a service config.  Grpclb will 
>>>>> eventually be replaced by xds based solution in the future, but the 
>>>>> grpc-grpclb <https://search.maven.org/search?q=a:grpc-grpclb> maven 
>>>>> artifact will stay and work for a long time (for as many new releases as 
>>>>> possible). When grpclb is not available for a new grpc release, your 
>>>>> client 
>>>>> can still automatically switch to a fallback loadbalancer (pick_first).
>>>>>
>>>>> On Friday, February 22, 2019 at 8:52:16 AM UTC-8, [email protected] 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What is the status of GRPCLB - are there any plans to enable it by 
>>>>>> default and finish the experimental stage (we want to start using it in 
>>>>>> production), or opposite, you plan to abandon it? I am confused, because 
>>>>>> I've read this PR: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java/pull/5232:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> SRV has not yet been enabled in a release. 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *Since work is rapidlyunderway to replace GRPC-LB with a service 
>>>>>>> config+XDS-based solution,there's now thoughts that we won't ever 
>>>>>>> enable 
>>>>>>> grpclb by default* (but
>>>>>>> may allow it to be automatically enabled when using 
>>>>>>> GoogleDefaultChannel
>>>>>>> or similar). Since things are being worked out, disable it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It will be really helpful to us to know, what is the plan for it :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>

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