In this guide, we will learn how to use KongIngress resource to control proxy behavior.
Please follow the deployment documentation to install Kong Ingress Controller onto your Kubernetes cluster.
This guide assumes that the PROXY_IP
environment variable is
set to contain the IP address or URL pointing to Kong.
Please follow one of the
deployment guides to configure this environment variable.
If everything is setup correctly, making a request to Kong should return HTTP 404 Not Found.
$ curl -i $PROXY_IP
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 17:01:07 GMT
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 48
Server: kong/1.2.1
{"message":"no Route matched with those values"}
This is expected as Kong does not yet know how to proxy the request.
We will start by installing the echo service.
$ kubectl apply -f https://bit.ly/echo-service
service/echo created
deployment.apps/echo created
Let's expose the echo service outside the Kubernetes cluster by defining an Ingress.
$ echo "
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
name: demo
annotations:
kubernetes.io/ingress.class: kong
spec:
rules:
- http:
paths:
- path: /foo
backend:
serviceName: echo
servicePort: 80
" | kubectl apply -f -
ingress.extensions/demo created
Let's test:
$ curl -i $PROXY_IP/foo
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 21:38:17 GMT
Server: echoserver
X-Kong-Upstream-Latency: 2
X-Kong-Proxy-Latency: 1
Via: kong/1.2.1
Hostname: echo-d778ffcd8-n9bss
Pod Information:
node name: gke-harry-k8s-dev-default-pool-bb23a167-8pgh
pod name: echo-d778ffcd8-n9bss
pod namespace: default
pod IP: 10.60.0.4
Server values:
server_version=nginx: 1.12.2 - lua: 10010
Request Information:
client_address=10.60.1.10
method=GET
real path=/foo
query=
request_version=1.1
request_scheme=http
request_uri=http://35.233.170.67:8080/foo
<-- clipped -- >
By default, Kong will proxy the entire path to the service. This can be seen in the real path value in the above response.
We can configure Kong to strip out the part of the path defined in the Ingress rule and to only respond to GET requests for this particular rule.
To modify these behaviours, let's first create a KongIngress resource defining the new behaviour:
$ echo "apiVersion: configuration.konghq.com/v1
kind: KongIngress
metadata:
name: sample-customization
route:
methods:
- GET
strip_path: true" | kubectl apply -f -
kongingress.configuration.konghq.com/test created
Now, let's associate this KongIngress resource with our Ingress resource
using the konghq.com/override
annotation.
$ kubectl patch ingress demo -p '{"metadata":{"annotations":{"konghq.com/override":"sample-customization"}}}'
ingress.extensions/demo patched
Now, Kong will proxy only GET requests on /foo
path and
strip away /foo
:
$ curl -s $PROXY_IP/foo -X POST
{"message":"no Route matched with those values"}
$ curl -s $PROXY_IP/foo/baz
Hostname: echo-d778ffcd8-vrrtw
Pod Information:
node name: gke-harry-k8s-dev-default-pool-bb23a167-8pgh
pod name: echo-d778ffcd8-vrrtw
pod namespace: default
pod IP: 10.60.0.9
Server values:
server_version=nginx: 1.12.2 - lua: 10010
Request Information:
client_address=10.60.1.10
method=GET
real path=/baz
query=
request_version=1.1
request_scheme=http
request_uri=http://35.233.170.67:8080/baz
As you can see, the real path value is /baz
.
KongIngress can be used to change load-balancing, health-checking and other proxy behaviours in Kong.
Next, we are going to tweak two settings:
- Configure Kong to hash the requests based on IP address of the client.
- Configure Kong to proxy all the request on
/foo
to/bar
.
Let's create a KongIngress resource with these settings:
$ echo 'apiVersion: configuration.konghq.com/v1
kind: KongIngress
metadata:
name: demo-customization
upstream:
hash_on: ip
proxy:
path: /bar/' | kubectl apply -f -
kongingress.configuration.konghq.com/demo-customization created
Now, let's associate this KongIngress resource to the echo service.
$ kubectl patch service echo -p '{"metadata":{"annotations":{"configuration.konghq.com":"demo-customization"}}}'
service/echo patched
Let's test this now:
$ curl $PROXY_IP/foo/baz
Hostname: echo-d778ffcd8-vrrtw
Pod Information:
node name: gke-harry-k8s-dev-default-pool-bb23a167-8pgh
pod name: echo-d778ffcd8-vrrtw
pod namespace: default
pod IP: 10.60.0.9
Server values:
server_version=nginx: 1.12.2 - lua: 10010
Request Information:
client_address=10.60.1.10
method=GET
real path=/bar/baz
query=
request_version=1.1
request_scheme=http
request_uri=http://35.233.170.67:8080/bar/baz
<-- clipped -->
Real path received by the upstream service (echo) is now changed to /bar/baz
.
Also, now all the requests will be sent to the same upstream pod:
$ curl -s $PROXY_IP/foo | grep "pod IP"
pod IP: 10.60.0.9
$ curl -s $PROXY_IP/foo | grep "pod IP"
pod IP: 10.60.0.9
$ curl -s $PROXY_IP/foo | grep "pod IP"
pod IP: 10.60.0.9
$ curl -s $PROXY_IP/foo | grep "pod IP"
pod IP: 10.60.0.9
$ curl -s $PROXY_IP/foo | grep "pod IP"
pod IP: 10.60.0.9
$ curl -s $PROXY_IP/foo | grep "pod IP"
pod IP: 10.60.0.9
You can experiement with various load balancing and healthchecking settings that KongIngress resource exposes to suit your specific use case.