envoy-control-plane-example

Example of the control plane server for envoy.

This is an example implementation of envoy control plane written in golang. Envoy is extremely powerful, but learning curve might be steep.

In this example we are dynamically updating Clusters, Endpoints and Routes. More details here

docker-compose contains the following containers:

• control-plane - implementation of xDS server. It listens for xDS DiscoveryRequests on port :5678 and exposes REST API on port 8000 to dynamically add/remove clusters and endpoints(upstreams). CLI script contains examples how to interact with REST API cli.sh

• envoy - is an official image of envoy v1.11.1, it exposes admin interface on port :9901 and HTTP1 listener on :3000

• test-server-dev and test-server-prod simple HTTP servers listens on :8080 and returns info about server (hostname, ip address etc.)

How to use CLI

Usage:
./cli.sh cluster add <name> <url_prefix>
./cli.sh cluster remove <name>
./cli.sh endpoint add <cluster_name> <ip_address> <port>
./cli.sh endpoint remove <cluster_name> <ip_address> <port>
./cli.sh commit

Examples:

To add a new cluster with a URL prefix /api/v1 and 2 upstream hosts. When changes are made, they must be committed with commit subcommand.

cli.sh cluster add backend-cluster /api/v1
cli.sh endpoint add backend-cluster 10.10.0.1 8080
cli.sh endpoint add backend-cluster 10.10.0.2 8080
cli.sh commit

To verify changes, you can navigate to envoy admin interface:

• config_dump
• clusters

How to use this repo

• start with cloning this repo on a local machine

git clone [email protected]:mnaboka/envoy-control-plane-example.git

• start up docker-compose and scale the test-server-dev and test-server-prod to 3 instances

docker-compose up -d --scale test-server-prod=3 --scale test-server-dev=3 --no-recreate

• run docker-compose ps to see all the running instances, we should have 8 containers running

$ docker-compose ps
                     Name                                   Command               State                             Ports
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
envoy-control-plane-example_control-plane_1      /go/bin/control-plane            Up      0.0.0.0:5678->5678/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8000->8000/tcp, 8080/tcp
envoy-control-plane-example_envoy_1              /docker-entrypoint.sh /usr ...   Up      10000/tcp, 0.0.0.0:3000->3000/tcp, 0.0.0.0:9901->9901/tcp
envoy-control-plane-example_test-server-dev_1    /go/bin/server                   Up      5678/tcp, 8000/tcp, 8080/tcp
envoy-control-plane-example_test-server-dev_2    /go/bin/server                   Up      5678/tcp, 8000/tcp, 8080/tcp
envoy-control-plane-example_test-server-dev_3    /go/bin/server                   Up      5678/tcp, 8000/tcp, 8080/tcp
envoy-control-plane-example_test-server-prod_1   /go/bin/server                   Up      5678/tcp, 8000/tcp, 8080/tcp
envoy-control-plane-example_test-server-prod_2   /go/bin/server                   Up      5678/tcp, 8000/tcp, 8080/tcp
envoy-control-plane-example_test-server-prod_3   /go/bin/server                   Up      5678/tcp, 8000/tcp, 8080/tcp

• find ip addresses for our test-server-dev instances

$ docker inspect -f '{{range .NetworkSettings.Networks}}{{.IPAddress}}{{end}}' envoy-control-plane-example_test-server-dev_1 envoy-control-plane-example_test-server-dev_2 envoy-control-plane-example_test-server-dev_3
192.168.240.7
192.168.240.4
192.168.240.8

• create a new envoy cluster called "dev" with provided cli.sh

$ ./cli.sh cluster add dev /dev

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 00:46:09 GMT
Content-Length: 0

$ ./cli.sh endpoint add dev 192.168.240.7 8080

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 00:46:27 GMT
Content-Length: 0

$ ./cli.sh endpoint add dev 192.168.240.4 8080

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 00:46:32 GMT
Content-Length: 0

$ ./cli.sh endpoint add dev 192.168.240.8 8080

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 00:46:38 GMT
Content-Length: 0

$ ./cli.sh commit

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 00:47:59 GMT
Content-Length: 0

• curl envoy to see if it proxies the requests

17:49 $ curl 127.0.0.1:3000/dev 2>/dev/null| jq '.'
{
  "env": "development",
  "hostname": "16a1355951b2",
  "ips": [
    "127.0.0.1/8",
    "192.168.240.8/20"
  ]
}

• verify changes, you can navigate to envoy admin interface:
  • config_dump
  • clusters
• optionally repeat steps for test-server-prod
• great! looks like envoy proxies to the correct upstream host, congrats!