Strategies does not scale well

[JSteunou]

In case of multiple node services, scaled horizontally, passport use (which register a Strategy by name) and authenticate (which get back a Strategy previously registered by name) do not scale well because all the nodes would not shared the same private _strategies store object.

You can have one request initiated on a node but ended on another node for the sso callback when having load balancing and those can have different Strategy configuration for the same name. This can happen when you update your Strategies configuration but restart your node one by one for a high quality of service.

A better way to handle this is to recreate the Strategy for each request and never rely on a store object (so no cache), but the authenticate method get in the way because it only rely on the _strategies internal store See https://github.com/jaredhanson/passport/blob/master/lib/authenticator.js#L463