AWS App Mesh retry policies

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Description

AWS App Mesh now supports adding retries to traffic between services.

New or Affected Resource(s)

• aws_appmesh_route

Potential Terraform Configuration

resource "aws_appmesh_route" "serviceb" {
  name                = "serviceB-route"
  mesh_name           = "${aws_appmesh_mesh.simple.id}"
  virtual_router_name = "${aws_appmesh_virtual_router.serviceb.name}"

  spec {
    http_route {
      match {
        prefix = "/"
      }

      retry_policy {
        http_retry_events = [
          "server-error",
        ]
      }

      action {
        weighted_target {
          virtual_node = "${aws_appmesh_virtual_node.serviceb1.name}"
          weight       = 100
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

References

Announcement.
User Guide.
API Reference.

Available in AWS SDK v1.23.18.

AWS App Mesh roadmap:

• Retry Policy aws/aws-app-mesh-roadmap#7

Requires:

• chore(deps): update module aws/aws-sdk-go to v1.24.4 #10011

Related:

• AWS App Mesh HTTP-header-based routing and route priorities #9802

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