In my last blogpost I’ve shown how to run the 3Scale APICast Gateway in a Docker container. The next step would be to run APICast in OpenShift (both are Red Hat family members) and this was part of a showcase for a client. This blogpost will show you which steps to make.
High Level Overview
So this is how our setup looks like with very bright shiny pretty colours:
The preperation
What we need:
- Endpoint for the API to hit, like apicast.ilionx.tmpldesign.nl
- Endpoint of the 3Scale SaaS environment (like jvzoggel-admin.3scale.net)
- 3Scale SaaS Access Token which is something like 93b21fc40335f58ee3a93d5a5c343…..
- user key which is shown at the bottom of the SaaS API Configuration screen in the curl example or can be found in Application -> your app
First make sure the API Endpoint is set in the 3Scale SaaS environment and copy the the curl example at the bottom for your own convenience.
API endpoint to hit
You probably already have an Access Token, if not you can generate one from Personal Settings -> Tokens -> Access Tokens
Make sure to always note down access tokens since your not able to retrieve it again.
The commands
We make sure OpenShift is running (I use my local OS X machine to run so adjust commands where needed when a remote OpenShift cluster is needed)
jvzoggel$ oc cluster up --docker-machine=openshift
Starting OpenShift using openshift/origin:v3.7.0 ...
OpenShift server started.
The server is accessible via web console at:
https://192.168.99.100:8443
You are logged in as:
User: developer
Password: <any value>
To login as administrator:
oc login -u system:admin
Note the OpenShift URL (in this case 192.168.99.100) presented here, we will need this later.
Next step we will use the OC command to create a new project,
jvzoggel$ oc new-project "3scalegateway" --display-name="gateway" --description="Rubix 3scale gateway on OpenShift demo"
Now using project "3scalegateway" on server "https://192.168.99.100:8443".
You can add applications to this project with the 'new-app' command. For example, try:
oc new-app centos/ruby-22-centos7~https://github.com/openshift/ruby-ex.git
to build a new example application in Ruby.
The next step is to set a configuration variable which the APICast image will use to connect on runtime to the 3Scale SaaS environment to download the configuration. The string needs the 3Scale SaaS Access Token and your MY_ACCOUNT-admin.3scale.net.
jvzoggel$ oc secret new-basicauth apicast-configuration-url-secret --password=https://MY_ACCESS_TOKEN@jvzoggel-admin.3scale.net secret/apicast-configuration-url-secret
We are now going to create a new application in our project which uses a template to retrieve it’s 3Scale image and configuration settings. You can check out the template by checking the URL in your browser.
jvzoggel$ oc new-app -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/3scale/apicast/master/openshift/apicast-template.yml
--> Deploying template "3scalegateway/3scale-gateway" for "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/3scale/apicast/master/openshift/apicast-template.yml" to project 3scalegateway
3scale-gateway
---------
3scale API Gateway
* With parameters:
* CONFIGURATION_URL_SECRET=apicast-configuration-url-secret
* CONFIGURATION_FILE_PATH=
* IMAGE_NAME=quay.io/3scale/apicast:master
* DEPLOYMENT_ENVIRONMENT=production
* APICAST_NAME=apicast
* RESOLVER=
* SERVICES_LIST=
* CONFIGURATION_LOADER=boot
* BACKEND_CACHE_HANDLER=strict
* LOG_LEVEL=
* PATH_ROUTING=false
* RESPONSE_CODES=false
* CONFIGURATION_CACHE=
* REDIS_URL=
* OAUTH_TOKENS_TTL=604800
* MANAGEMENT_API=status
* OPENSSL_VERIFY=false
* REPORTING_THREADS=0
--> Creating resources ...
deploymentconfig "apicast" created
service "apicast" created
--> Success
Application is not exposed. You can expose services to the outside world by executing one or more of the commands below:
'oc expose svc/apicast'
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Your 2 pods should spin uo in OpenShift and make sure to check the Logs if no errors are there.
We need to expose our pods to incoming traphic by adding a route through the OpenShift console or through the oc command. I assume you know how to add a route through the console, so here is the command:
jvzoggel$ oc expose svc/apicast --name=apicast --hostname=apicast.ilionx.tmpldesign.nl route "apicast" exposed
Now we can hit our api endpoint. Since I need to hit the API endpoint with apicast.ilionx.tmpldesign.nl which is not known on my host machine, I could edit the /etc/hosts file. But because I don’t like to fill up my hosts I add a HTTP Host header with my request containing the correct endpoint.
jvzoggel$ curl "http://192.168.99.100/echo?user_key=MY_KEY" -H "Host: apicast.ilionx.tmpldesign.nl"
{
"method": "GET",
"path": "/echo",
"args": "user_key=my_key_was_here",
"body": "",
"headers": {
"HTTP_VERSION": "HTTP/1.1",
"HTTP_HOST": "echo-api.3scale.net",
"HTTP_ACCEPT": "*/*",
"HTTP_USER_AGENT": "curl/7.54.0",
"HTTP_X_3SCALE_PROXY_SECRET_TOKEN": "Shared_secret_sent_from_proxy_to_API_backend",
"HTTP_X_REAL_IP": "172.17.0.1",
"HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR": "192.168.99.1, 89.200.44.122, 10.0.101.13",
"HTTP_X_FORWARDED_HOST": "echo-api.3scale.net",
"HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PORT": "443",
"HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO": "https",
"HTTP_FORWARDED": "for=10.0.101.13;host=echo-api.3scale.net;proto=https"
},
"uuid": "711e9799-1234-1234-b8b6-4287541238"
}jvzoggel:~ jvzoggel$
And to proof the statistics, the 3Scale SaaS dashboards show us the metrics:
So setting up 3ScaleAPICast in OpenShift is relatively easy. Further configuring APICast, setting up OpenShift routes between your consumers and API’s and adding (REDIS) caching adds more complexity, but still hope this helps!
References
- Red Hat – Running Apicast on Red Hat OpenShift
- 3Scale Github – Using 3scale API Gateway on Red Hat OpenShift
