Add Feature: Stats contain /nginx status info

[jthurman42]

Proposed changes

Include Nginx status information (/api/<version>/nginx endpoint) when calling GetStats. This metadata contains valuable metadata about the running instance.

This also modified test.conf to allow API writes as required by the test framework. The existing limit_except config did not work testing on an AWS instance of nginx/1.15.2 (nginx-plus-r16-p1)

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[pleshakov]

@jthurman42 thx for the PR. we'll review it shortly

[pleshakov]

Apologies for the delayed review. Please see my suggestions.

This also modified test.conf to allow API writes as required by the test framework. The existing limit_except config did not work testing on an AWS instance of nginx/1.15.2 (nginx-plus-r16-p1)

Are you running NGINX Plus on a VM, not in a container, right?

[jthurman42]

Yes, I've been testing with the Nginx Plus AWS AMI.

Updated from Status to NginxInfo and committed the other requested changes.

[Dean-Coakley]

Thanks!

[pleshakov]

@jthurman42 thanks! please squash your commits into a single one and we'll merge it.

[jthurman42]

Commits squashed. Thank you!