Is it possible to manage routes in Nginx server dynamically, add and remove them, without stopping it from work, something like a circuit breaker (turn on / turn off) ? (the most closest analogy, I've found is Istio in Kubernetes, that allows to do that) (If this functionality is available within some other Software, please mention it down below)
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Yes Nginx supports the circuit breaker option but it's in Nginx plus mode.
Ref article : https://www.nginx.com/blog/microservices-reference-architecture-nginx-circuit-breaker-pattern/
Apart of that many other service mesh are available who support it as you mentioned Istio, LinkerD etc.
i would recommend checking the Traefik proxy which also supports and it's open source : https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/middlewares/http/circuitbreaker/
If you are also familiar with the Kong you can also extend it and install the circuit breaker plugin into and use it.
Plugin example: https://github.com/dream11/kong-circuit-breaker
Checkout my article to how to extend the Kong with custom plugins and use it : https://faun.pub/building-kong-custom-docker-image-add-a-customized-kong-plugin-2157a381d7fd
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