Does kong support server backup feature like nginx?

#1

nginx use backup directive

upstream backend {
server backend1.example.com weight=5;
server backup1.example.com backup;
}

thx.

#2

Hi,

Sorry, Kong does not support the equivalent of NGINX’s upstreams backup yet. All servers will be considered part of the load balancing pool (regardless of the load balancing algorithm). It would be neat to support this, thank you for the suggestion!