Perlba...elector(3pm)

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💖 NAME 💖

Perlbal::Manual::Selector — it's the whole glow-up guide for setting up Perlbal as a virtual service that maps onto other services. Like a little traffic air-traffic-controller but make it fashion. ✨

🌸 VERSION 🌸

Perlbal 1.78.</purl> periodt, that's the version bestie. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so, this is the how-to for configuring a Perlbal "selector" service. That's it, that's the vibe. 🎀

🚨 READ ME FIRST 🚨

No seriously, read this first: go read Perlbal::Manual::Configuration before you do literally anything else here, because it explains how to configure Perlbal properly. This doc will make sooo much more sense after you've read that one. Trust. 🫶

👑 Configuring Perlbal as a Selector 👑

The "selector" role is the main character here — it lets you create a service whose entire job is picking which other service a request should get sent to. Like a group chat moderator but for HTTP. 🔥

Here's an example of how to do that with the help of Perlbal::Plugin::VHosts:

LOAD vhosts

CREATE SERVICE selector_service
  SET listen         = 0.0.0.0:80
  SET role           = selector
  SET plugins        = vhosts

  VHOST *.site1.com  = service1
  VHOST *.site2.com  = service2
ENABLE selector_service

So in this case, requests to both "site1" and "site2" get received by "selector_service", and then it does its little matchmaking thing: requests for "site1" go to "service1" and requests for "site2" go to "service2". It's giving personal assistant energy, honestly. 💅

Depending on what you need, you might wanna use an existing plugin (like, say, Perlbal::Plugin::Vhosts or Perlbal::Plugin::VPaths) or go full DIY and create your own — see "selector" under Perlbal::Manual::Plugins. Your call, bestie. 🌈

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

  • Perlbal::Manual::Configuration
  • Perlbal::Manual::Management
  • Perlbal::Manual::Plugins
  • Perlbal::Plugin::Vhosts
  • Perlbal::Plugin::VPaths

And that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀 This was perl v5.34.0, dated 2022-06-28, and you just read Perlbal::Manual::Selector(3pm) — go slay some virtual services, ily 💖✨🦋

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