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JSON control-plane for Lyft's Envoy proxy
sovereign
Mission statement
This project implements a JSON control-plane based on the envoy data-plane-api
The purpose of sovereign
is to supply downstream envoy proxies with
configuration in near-realtime by responding to discovery requests.
Mechanism of Operation
tl;dr version:
* Polls HTTP/File/Other for data
* (optional) Applies transforms to the data
* Uses the data to generate Envoy configuration from templates
In a nutshell, Sovereign gathers contextual data ("sources" and "template context"), optionally applies transforms to that data (using "modifiers") and finally uses the data to generate envoy configuration from either python code, or jinja2 templates.
This is performed in a semi-stateless way, where the only state is data cached in memory.
Template context is intended to be statically configured, whereas Sources are meant to be dynamic - for example, fetching from an API, an S3 bucket, or a file that receives updates.
Modifiers can mutate the data retrieved from sources, just in case the data is in a less than favorable structure.
Both modifiers and sources are pluggable, i.e. it's easy to write your own and plug them into Sovereign for your use-case.
Currently, Sovereign supports only providing configuration to Envoy as JSON. That is to say, gRPC is not supported yet. Contributions in this area are highly appreciated!
The JSON configuration can be viewed in real-time with Sovereign's read-only web interface.
Requirements
- Python 3.8+
Installation
pip install sovereign
Documentation
:new: Read-only user interface
Added in v0.5.3
!
This interface allows you to browse the resources currently returned by Sovereign.
Local development
Requirements
- Docker
- Docker-compose
Installing dependencies for dev
I recommend creating a virtualenv before doing any dev work
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
Running locally
Running the test env
make run
Running the test env daemonized
make run-daemon
Pylint
make lint
Unit tests
make unit
Acceptance tests
make run-daemon acceptance
Contributors
Pull requests, issues and comments welcome. For pull requests:
- Add tests for new features and bug fixes
- Follow the existing style
- Separate unrelated changes into multiple pull requests
See the existing issues for things to start contributing.
For bigger changes, make sure you start a discussion first by creating an issue and explaining the intended change.
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License
Copyright (c) 2018 Atlassian and others. Apache 2.0 licensed, see LICENSE.txt file.