Custom Load Balancing algorithm

Traefik Traefik v3 (beta)
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Hi everyone,

I've the nive diagram with the different stages: router, service, middleware.

I understood that only middleware is exposed to the plugin api. Did I understood correctly or creating a plugin at service level is totally possible.

I want to create a custom load balancer, to redirect request according to query parameters(regexp won't work).
I've hacked a quick test with lua using HAP, but development effort will to big compared to golang.
Thanks in advance for your comments.

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According to doc you can create middleware and provider plugin. I don’t think any plugin has influence on the service that follows in the chain (which service/URL).

You could try to hack the system by doing the request to target service within the middleware and then "return early", not delegating to service down the chain.

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Thanks the pointer but I am not sure if this might be enough. Will try anyway.
Regards