Ingress with custom domain
- By: Thomas Jungbauer ( Lastmod: 2021-08-14 ) - 2 min read
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Often the question is how to get traffic into the Service Mesh when using a custom domains. Part 4 our our tutorials series OpenShift 4 and Service Mesh will use a dummy domain "hello-world.com" and explains the required settings which must be done.
Modify Gateway and VirtualService
Issue #3 explains how to get ingress traffic into the Service Mesh, by defining the Gateway and the VirtualService. We are currently using the default ingress route defined in the istio_system project.
But what if a custom domain shall be used?
In such case another route must be defined in the istio-system project and small configuration changes must be applied.
First lets create a slightly modified Gateway.yaml:
apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3 kind: Gateway metadata: name: ingress-gateway-exampleapp spec: selector: istio: ingressgateway # use istio default controller servers: - port: number: 80 name: http protocol: HTTP hosts: - "hello-world.com" (1)
1 add you custom domain here The only difference is at the hosts which was changed from '*' to 'hello-world.com'
As second change, the VirtualService must be modified as well with the custom domain:
VirtualService.yaml:
apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3 kind: VirtualService metadata: name: ingress-gateway-exampleapp spec: hosts: - "hello-world.com" (1) gateways: - ingress-gateway-exampleapp http: - match: - uri: exact: / route: - destination: host: customer port: number: 8080
1 add you custom domain here Replace current objects in OpenShift:
oc replace -f Gateway.yaml -n tutorial oc replace -f VirtualService.yaml -n tutorial
Create a new route under the project istio-system:
apiVersion: route.openshift.io/v1 kind: Route metadata: name: hello-world.com (1) namespace: istio-system (2) spec: host: hello-world.com (3) to: kind: Service name: istio-ingressgateway (4) port: targetPort: 8080
1 add you custom domain here 2 the route must be created at istio-system 3 add you custom domain here 4 this is the service as it was created by the operator
OPTIONAL: Add custom domain to local hosts file
The custom domain hello-world.com must be resolvable somehow, pointing to the ingress router of OpenShift. This can be done, by adding the domain into the local hosts file (with all limitations this brings with it)
# Get IP address of:
oc -n istio-system get route istio-ingressgateway
echo "x.x.x.x hello-world.com" >> /etc/hosts
Create some example traffic
We will reuse the script of Issue #3 to simulate traffic. Since we changed the domain, the connection will go to hello-world.com
sh run-check.sh 1000 hello-world.com
This will send 1000 requests to our application:
# 0: customer => preference => recommendation v1 from 'f11b097f1dd0': 6626
# 1: customer => preference => recommendation v1 from 'f11b097f1dd0': 6627
# 2: customer => preference => recommendation v1 from 'f11b097f1dd0': 6628
# 3: customer => preference => recommendation v1 from 'f11b097f1dd0': 6629
# 4: customer => preference => recommendation v1 from 'f11b097f1dd0': 6630
# 5: customer => preference => recommendation v1 from 'f11b097f1dd0': 6631
...
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