API GATEWAY
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- API gateway that proxies all the micro-services
- Handle authentication
- Rate request
Prerequisites
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What things you need to install the software and how to install them
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What things you need to read or learn
Docker networks
Create network docker
docker network create api_gateway
Get network docker info
docker network inspect api_gateway
Setup API GATEWAY
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Clone api_gateway
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open terminal on root project
- step 1: build with docker-compose
docker-compose up --build
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step 2: go to localhost:3002 or your IP - 0.0.0.0:3002
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step 3: run command
docker-compose up -d
Add new service
- After add new serice to
api_gateway
, you need to add your service to network layer, exampleapi_gateway
and define container name - Map service to
api_gateway
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Go to /config/gateway.config.yml
Intro
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endpoints: Endpoints are URLs. API Gateway has two different types of endpoints:
- API endpoints
- Service endpoints API Gateway expose APIs through API endpoints. As a gateway, it proxies API requests from API endpoints to microservices referenced in service endpoints.
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policies: A policy is a set of conditions, action and parameters that are evaluated and act on the API request and response flow within API Gateway. Policies within API Gateway utilize API middleware.
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pipelines: A pipeline is a set of policies linked to a set of API endpoints. Policies within a pipeline are evaluated and executed sequentially. An API request is received by the API endpoint and routed through the pipeline for policy execution. The last policy within a pipeline is often a proxy policy that will routes the request to a service endpoint.
apiEndpoints
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Description: API Gateway exposes microservices as APIs through URLs known as apiEndpoints. API consumers may make API requests through the API endpoints.
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Usage:
apiEndpoints: help: # name, used as reference in pipeline host: '*' # required, '*' will not check for host name paths: /help # optional, by default will serve all requests - same as * api: # name, used as reference in pipeline host: '*.com' # wildcard pattern support paths: - '/v1/*' # string or array of strings - '/v2/*' example: # name, used as reference in pipeline host: 'example.com' paths: /v2/* # string or array of strings example2: # It is possible to provide an array of matching conditions in the same apiEndpoint - host: 'example2.com' paths: /v2/* methods: ["GET", "OPTIONS"] scopes: ["example2:read"] - host: 'example2.com' paths: /v2/* methods: ["PUT", "POST", "PATCH", "DELETE"] scopes: ["example2:write"]
- Options
Name | Description |
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host | the hostname to accept requests on |
paths | an array of paths |
methods | an array of methods required to accept requests on |
scopes | an array of scopes required to access such resource |
- Host The host value is a string that will be matched against the ‘HOST’ header of the request.
Examples: Any Domain and Path
apiEndpoints: help: host: '*' paths: /help
Match: cdn.test.example.com/help, example.com/help
, no HOST header 404: cdn.test.example.com, example.com/admin
One Domain with No Subdomains and Path
apiEndpoints: help: host: 'example.com' paths: /help
Match: example.com/help 404: test.example.com/help, example.com
Any 1st Level Subdomain of One Domain and Path
apiEndpoints: help: host: '*.example.com' paths: /help
- Paths Paths can be either a string or array of strings. Wildcard patterns are supported. Paths follow the APIJS routes conventions - Link
Examples:
Exact String Match
- paths:
/admin
- match:
/admin
only - 404:
/admin/bob; /admin/charlie/1; /staff
Deep Level Match without Parent
- paths:
/admin/*
- match:
/admin/bob; /admin/charlie/1
- 404:
/admin
Deep Level Match with Parent
- paths:
['/admin','/admin/*']
- match:
/admin; /admin/bob; /admin/charlie/1
- 404:
/staff
One Level Match without Parent with Variable Assignment
- paths:
'/admin/:id'
- match:
/admin/bob; /admin/charlie
- id:
bob; charlie
- 404:
/admin; /staff
Multi level Sub Dir Match without Parent with Variable Assignments
- paths:
'/admin/:group/:id'
- match:
/admin/ops/bob
- group:
ops
- id:
bob
- 404:
/admin; /admin/bob; /admin/alex/bob/charlie
Multi Multiple Level Sub Dir Match without Parent
- paths:
['/student/*', '/teacher/*','/admin/*']
- match:
- /admin/… multi-level - /student/… multi-level - /teacher/… multi-level
- 404:
- / - /admin; /teacher; /student - /staff
Overlapping The order of the API endpoints specified matters. It is possible to specifiy overlapping patterns through wildcards. More specific patterns should be specified first for prioritized evaluation before more general matching.
Example:
apiEndpoints: tabby: host: '*.tabby.cat.com' paths: '*' # optional, if not specified will default to * cat: host: '*.cat.com' com: host: '*.com'
- Scopes The scopes value is an array of strings that specifies the required scopes that the current credential needs to have in order to access the resource.
Example apiEndpoints: tabby: host: '.tabby.cat.com' paths: '' scopes: - read - write - delete The following api endpoint will be accesible only if the current user has read, write and delete scopes.
serviceEndpoints
- Description: API Gateway receives API requests on apiEndpoints, processes them, and then proxies them to downstream microservices. The serviceEndpoints section specifies the URLs of these proxied microservices.
- Usage:
serviceEndpoints: # downstream microservices cats: # name, used as a reference in pipeline url: "http://auth_service" dogs: # name, used as a reference in pipeline urls: # multiple urls can be used with load balancing - "http://dogs1.example.com" - "http://dogs2.example.com"
- Description A serviceEndpoint must have either a url property with a single string or a urls property with an array of strings.
- Options
Name | Description |
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url | the protocol and hostname to proxy requests to |
urls | an array of URLs, used with load balancing |
pipelines
- Description The pipelines section specify the core API Gateway’s operations by tying together all entities declared in the sections above, through the request and response flow.
Pipelines are an ordered list of policies that are executed for requests received from all linked apiEndpoints.
- Usage Below is a gateway.config.yml that will start API Gateway on http port 3000. It exposes an single apiEndpoint named ‘api’ that listens on all hosts at the root (/) path. There is one pipeline named ‘default’ that will process all requests for the ‘api’.
http: port: 3000 serviceEndpoints: example: # will be referenced in proxy policy url: 'http://example.com' apiEndpoints: api: host: '*' paths: / pipelines: default: apiEndpoints: - api policies: - simple-logger: # policy name - # array of objects with condition\action properties condition: #optional,; defaults to always execute name: pathExact path: /v1 action: message: "${req.method} ${req.originalUrl}" - proxy: # policy name - # array of objects with condition\action properties action: serviceEndpoint: example # see declaration above
- Condition/Action Objects in Policy Policy contains a list of actions with parameters. Each action can be gated by a condition.
Name | Required | Description |
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condition | Optional | A rule that must be satisfied to trigger its corresponding action |
action | Action Parameters for for this specific step |
Full example
http: port: 3000apiEndpoints: login: host: '*' paths: /api/v1/login methods: ["POST"] scopes: ["auth:read"] auth: host: '*' paths: /api/v1/auth* methods: ["POST", "GET"] scopes: ["auth:read"]serviceEndpoints: auth: url: 'http://service_auth'policies: - shd_jwt - shd_rewrite - proxy - rate-limitpipelines: auth: apiEndpoints: - auth policies: - shd_jwt: - rate-limit: - action: max: 60 windowMs: 1000 - proxy: - action: serviceEndpoint: auth changeOrigin: true auth2: apiEndpoints: - login policies: - shd_rewrite: - action: search: /api/v1/login replace: /api/v1/auth/login - rate-limit: - action: max: 60 windowMs: 1000 - proxy: - action: serviceEndpoint: auth changeOrigin: true