Portal
Portal is an api-driven, in-kernel layer 2/3 load balancer.
Status
Complete/Experimental
Usage:
As a CLI
Simply run portal <COMMAND>
portal
or portal -h
will show usage and a list of commands:
portal - load balancer/proxy
Usage:
portal [flags]
portal [command]
Available Commands:
add-service Add service
remove-service Remove service
show-service Show service
show-services Show all services
set-services Set service list
set-service Set service
add-server Add server to a service
remove-server Remove server from a service
show-server Show server on a service
show-servers Show all servers on a service
set-servers Set server list on a service
add-route Add route
set-routes Set route list
show-routes Show all routes
remove-route Remove route
add-cert Add cert
set-certs Set cert list
show-certs Show all certs
remove-cert Remove cert
add-vip Add vip
set-vips Set vip list
show-vips Show all vips
remove-vip Remove vip
Flags:
-C, --api-cert="": SSL cert for the api
-H, --api-host="127.0.0.1": Listen address for the API
-k, --api-key="": SSL key for the api
-p, --api-key-password="": Password for the SSL key
-P, --api-port="8443": Listen address for the API
-t, --api-token="": Token for API Access
-b, --balancer="lvs": Load balancer to use (nginx|lvs)
-r, --cluster-connection="none://": Cluster connection string (redis://127.0.0.1:6379)
-T, --cluster-token="": Cluster security token
-c, --conf="": Configuration file to load
-d, --db-connection="scribble:///var/db/portal": Database connection string
-i, --insecure[=false]: Disable tls key checking (client) and listen on http (server)
-j, --just-proxy[=false]: Proxy only (no tcp/udp load balancing)
-L, --log-file="": Log file to write to
-l, --log-level="INFO": Log level to output
-x, --proxy-http="0.0.0.0:80": Address to listen on for proxying http
-X, --proxy-tls="0.0.0.0:443": Address to listen on for proxying https
-s, --server[=false]: Run in server mode
-v, --version[=false]: Print version info and exit
-w, --work-dir="/var/db/portal": Directory for portal to use (balancer config)
Use "portal [command] --help" for more information about a command.
For usage examples, see Api and/or Cli readme
As a Server
To start portal as a server run:
portal --server
An optional config file can also be passed on startup:
portal -c /path/to/config.json
config.json
{
"api-token": "",
"api-host": "127.0.0.1",
"api-port": 8443,
"api-key": "",
"api-cert": "",
"api-key-password": "",
"db-connection": "scribble:///var/db/portal",
"cluster-connection": "none://",
"cluster-token": "",
"insecure": false,
"just-proxy": false,
"proxy-http": "0.0.0.0:80",
"proxy-tls": "0.0.0.0:443",
"balancer": "nginx",
"work-dir": "/var/db/portal",
"log-level": "INFO",
"log-file": "",
"server": true
}
API:
Route | Description | payload | output |
---|---|---|---|
Get /services | List all services | nil | json array of service objects |
Post /services | Add a service | json service object | json service object |
Put /services | Reset the list of services | json array of service objects | json array of service objects |
Put /services/:service_id | Reset the specified service | nil | json service object |
Get /services/:service_id | Get information about a service | nil | json service object |
Delete /services/:service_id | Delete a service | nil | success message or an error |
Get /services/:service_id/servers | List all servers on a service | nil | json array of server objects |
Post /services/:service_id/servers | Add new server to a service | json server object | json server object |
Put /services/:service_id/servers | Reset the list of servers on a service | json array of server objects | json array of server objects |
Get /services/:service_id/servers/:server_id | Get information about a server on a service | nil | json server object |
Delete /services/:service_id/servers/:server_id | Delete a server from a service | nil | success message or an error |
Delete /routes | Delete a route | subdomain, domain, and path (json or query) | success message or an error |
Get /routes | List all routes | nil | json array of route objects |
Post /routes | Add new route | json route object | json route object |
Put /routes | Reset the list of routes | json array of route objects | json array of route objects |
Delete /certs | Delete a cert | json cert object | success message or an error |
Get /certs | List all certs | nil | json array of cert objects |
Post /certs | Add new cert | json cert object | json cert object |
Put /certs | Reset the list of certs | json array of cert objects | json array of cert objects |
Delete /vips | Delete a vip | json vip object | success message or an error |
Get /vips | List all vips | nil | json array of vip objects |
Post /vips | Add new vip | json vip object | json vip object |
Put /vips | Reset the list of vips | json array of vip objects | json array of vip objects |
- service_id is a formatted combination of service info: type-host-port. (tcp-127_0_0_3-80)
- server_id is a formatted combination of server info: host-port. (192_0_0_3-8080)
For examples, see the api's readme
Data types:
Service:
json:
{
"host": "127.0.0.1",
"port": 1234,
"type": "tcp",
"scheduler": "wlc",
"persistence": 300,
"netmask": "255.255.255.0",
"servers": []
}
json with a server:
{
"host": "127.0.0.1",
"port": 8080,
"type": "tcp",
"scheduler": "wlc",
"persistence": 300,
"netmask": "",
"servers": [
{
"host": "172.28.128.4",
"port": 8081,
"forwarder": "m",
"weight": 1,
"UpperThreshold": 0,
"LowerThreshold": 0
}
]
}
Fields:
- host: IP of the host the service is bound to.
- interface: Host interface the service is bound to (optional, overrides host).
- port: Port that the service listens to.
- type: Type of service.
- tcp
- udp
- scheduler: How to pick downstream server.
- rr - Round Robin
- wrr - Weighted Round Robin
- lc - Least-Connection
- wlc - Weighted Least-Connection
- lblc - Locality-Based Least-Connection
- lblcr - Locality-Based Least-Connection with Replication
- dh - Destination Hashing
- sh - Source Hashing
- sed - Shortest Expected Delay
- nq - Never Queue
- persistence: Timeout for keeping requests from the same client going to the same server.
- netmask: How to group clients with persistence to servers.
- servers: Array of server objects associated to the service.
Server:
json:
{
"host": "127.0.0.1",
"port": 1234,
"forwarder": "m",
"weight": 1,
"upper_threshold": 0,
"lower_threshold": 0
}
Fields:
- host: IP of the host the service is bound to.
- port: Port that the service listens to.
- forwarder: Method to use to forward traffic to this server.
- g - Gatewaying
- i - Ipip encapsulation
- m - Masquerading
- weight: Weight to perfer this server. Set to 0 if no traffic should go to this server.
- upper_threshold: Stop sending connections to this server when this number is reached.
- 0 - No limit
- lower_threshold: Restart sending connections when drains down to this number.
- 0 - Not set
Vip:
json:
{
"ip": "192.168.0.101/24",
"interface": "eth1",
"alias": "eth1:0"
}
Fields:
- ip: Ip to add to interface. Should be
ip/cidr
- interface: Interface to add ip to
- alias: Alias to assign the ip (can be used as "interface" when adding a service)
Route:
json:
{
"subdomain": "admin",
"domain": "test.com",
"path": "/admin*",
"targets": ["http://127.0.0.1:8080/app1","http://127.0.0.2"],
"fwdpath": "/",
"page": ""
}
Fields:
- subdomain: Subdomain to match on
- domain: Domain to match on
- path: Path to match on
- targets: URIs of servers
- fwdpath: Path to forward to targets (combined with target path)
- page: Page to serve instead of routing to targets
Certificate:
json:
{
"key": "-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----\nMII.../J8\n-----END PRIVATE KEY-----",
"cert": "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----\nMII...aI=\n-----END CERTIFICATE-----"
}
Fields:
- key: Pem style key
- cert: Pem style certificate
Error:
json:
{
"error": "exit status 2: unexpected argument"
}
Fields:
- error: Error message
Message:
json:
{
"msg": "Success"
}
Fields:
- msg: Success message
Contributing
Portal uses govendor
to manage dependencies. After clone, run govendor sync
to ensure you have the proper dependencies prior to building.
Todo
- vip testing
- balance vips across cluster
- redis cluster init to get and set certs and vips
Changelog
-
0.1.1 - 17-06-20
- Log and fail if db init fails
- Use govendor for deps
- Pre-validate protocol for services
- Log all 'forwarded-for' ips
-
0.1.0 - 17-01-24
- Fixed start issues related to VIPs
-
Added ability to specify interface when registering a service
-
Users can now add vips to portal
-
Portal now uses the service host for server's hosts that are "127.0.0.1"