Configuration overview
Notes
This document explain how to configure BFE Server directly.
For guide of configure BFE via BFE control plane components, see documents of BFE API Server and BFE Dashboard.
Configuration types
- Normal configuration: For changes to the configuration file to take effect, you must restart the bfe process.
- Dynamic configuration: For changes to the configuration file to take effect, you can either restart or reload the bfe process.
Configuration format
- Normal configuration file: INI format
- Dynamic configuration file: JSON format (except for cerfificate/dict file, etc)
Configuration layout
The main configuration file is named bfe.conf (conf/bfe.conf). To make the configuration easier to maintain, we split it into a set of feature-specific files stored in the conf/<feature>/ directory.
| Category | Layout |
|---|---|
| Main configuration | conf/bfe.conf |
| Configuration about protocol | conf/tls_conf/ |
| Configuration about routing | conf/server_data_conf/ |
| Configuration about balancing | conf/cluster_conf/ |
| Configuration about modules | conf/mod_<name> |