thanks for your prompt response,
i did read through this thread prior and it does relate to my understanding
of the issue.
it seems like we could
1) use ips instead of host names, not ideal due to the dynamic nature of the
ips
2) maintain an upstream configuration externally and use nginx reload
I am trying to configure a least_conn upstream for kubernetes pods and find
that we receive a "host not found in upstream" error on startup if the pod
has not been started.
config snippet:
upstream backend {
least_conn;
server pod0.servicename.namespace.svc.cluster.local:8081;
