A sidecar container for Apicast that handles reverse proxies

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A sidecar for Apicast, enabling proxy support

Why this project ?

Apicast is an API gateway that fetches his configuration and asks for authorization on the 3scale services (hosted in their cloud). The gateway, however, is deployed on-premise in the customer network.

More and more customers enforce the use of an HTTP proxy for outgoing connections. Sometimes, an authentication is required to connect to the proxy.

Currently, apicast does not fully support HTTP proxies. Hence this project provides a sidecar container for Apicast that enables HTTP proxies support.

Deployment

Classic install

First, you will have to build the software. You can do it locally on your Mac using:

brew install golang
git clone https://github.com/nmasse-itix/apicast-sidecar-proxy.git
GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build -o apicast-sidecar-proxy src/itix.fr/forward/main.go

If you run a RHEL or CentOS server, first install go as explained here and build the software:

git clone https://github.com/nmasse-itix/apicast-sidecar-proxy.git
go build -o apicast-sidecar-proxy src/itix.fr/forward/main.go

You can start the proxy by running:

export https_proxy="http://my.proxy:1234" # Adjust to your environment
export THREESCALE_PORTAL_ENDPOINT="https://<TENANT>-admin.3scale.net"
export BACKEND_ENDPOINT_OVERRIDE="https://su1.3scale.net"
./apicast-sidecar-proxy

The proxy start listening by default on port 9090 (admin portal) and 9091 (backend). It will print on the standard output the requests as they go through the proxy.

If you need to close the current terminal and leave the proxy running, you can start it this way:

nohup ./apicast-sidecar-proxy &

If needed, you can stop the proxy with:

pkill apicast-sidecar-proxy

Once the proxy is running, check that it works and configure Apicast.

Run your apicast with specially crafted THREESCALE_PORTAL_ENDPOINT and BACKEND_ENDPOINT_OVERRIDE environment variables:

docker run -d -p 8080:8080 --name apicast -e THREESCALE_PORTAL_ENDPOINT=http://<ACCESS_TOKEN>@172.17.0.1:9090 -e BACKEND_ENDPOINT_OVERRIDE=http://172.17.0.1:9091 -e THREESCALE_DEPLOYMENT_ENV=staging 3scale-amp21/apicast-gateway

Note:

the 172.17.0.1 is the IP address of your Docker host (the IP address of the docker0 interface). You might have to change the IP address in the command line above to match your environment.
the <ACCESS_TOKEN> is your 3scale access token as explained here.

Docker

You can start the proxy using docker:

docker run -d --name=apicast-sidecar-proxy -p 9090:9090 -p 9091:9091 -e https_proxy=http://my.proxy:1234 -e THREESCALE_PORTAL_ENDPOINT=https://<TENANT>-admin.3scale.net -e BACKEND_ENDPOINT_OVERRIDE=https://su1.3scale.net nmasse/apicast-sidecar-proxy

Verify that the container is running with:

docker ps

You can check the proxy logs using:

docker logs apicast-sidecar-proxy

You can stop the proxy with:

docker stop apicast-sidecar-proxy
docker rm apicast-sidecar-proxy

Once the proxy is running, check that it works and configure Apicast.

Run your apicast with specially crafted THREESCALE_PORTAL_ENDPOINT and BACKEND_ENDPOINT_OVERRIDE environment variables:

docker inspect -f '{{.NetworkSettings.IPAddress}}' apicast-sidecar-proxy
PROXY_IP=$(docker inspect -f '{{.NetworkSettings.IPAddress}}' apicast-sidecar-proxy)
docker run -d -p 8080:8080 --name apicast -e THREESCALE_PORTAL_ENDPOINT=http://<ACCESS_TOKEN>@$PROXY_IP:9090 -e BACKEND_ENDPOINT_OVERRIDE=http://$PROXY_IP:9091 -e THREESCALE_DEPLOYMENT_ENV=staging 3scale-amp21/apicast-gateway

Note:

you cannot use the --link switch of the docker run command since it uses entries in /etc/hosts that are not read by apicast
the <ACCESS_TOKEN> is your 3scale access token as explained here.

OpenShift

The rest of this guide expects that your OpenShift environment is configured to work with proxies (as explained here).

TODO

Check that it works

There are some very rough surface checks that ensure the communication is working:

$ curl -D - http://localhost:9090/admin/api/accounts.xml 
HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><error>Access denied</error>

$ curl -D - http://localhost:9091/transactions/authorize.xml
HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Content-Type: application/vnd.3scale-v2.0+xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><error code="provider_key_or_service_token_required">Provider key or service token are required</error>

In both cases, check that the return code is 403 and the response is in XML format.

Development

Build

On Mac, you can use:

brew install golang
GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build -o apicast-sidecar-proxy src/itix.fr/forward/main.go

Package

export VERSION=1.0
export DOCKER_USERNAME="nmasse"
git tag -a v$VERSION -m "Version $VERSION"
git push origin "v$VERSION"
docker build -t $DOCKER_USERNAME/apicast-sidecar-proxy:$VERSION .

Pushing your image to DockerHub (Optional)

To push the a new version to Dockerhub:

docker login -u "$DOCKER_USERNAME" https://index.docker.io/v1/
docker images $DOCKER_USERNAME/apicast-sidecar-proxy:$VERSION --format '{{ .ID }}'
docker tag $(docker images $DOCKER_USERNAME/apicast-sidecar-proxy:$VERSION --format '{{ .ID }}') index.docker.io/$DOCKER_USERNAME/apicast-sidecar-proxy:$VERSION
docker push index.docker.io/$DOCKER_USERNAME/apicast-sidecar-proxy:$VERSION

And to make it available by default (latest tag).

docker images $DOCKER_USERNAME/apicast-sidecar-proxy:$VERSION --format '{{ .ID }}'
docker tag $(docker images $DOCKER_USERNAME/apicast-sidecar-proxy:$VERSION --format '{{ .ID }}') index.docker.io/$DOCKER_USERNAME/apicast-sidecar-proxy:latest
docker push index.docker.io/$DOCKER_USERNAME/apicast-sidecar-proxy:latest

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