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MeshGatewayRoute
MeshGatewayRoute
is a policy used to configure Kuma’s builtin gateway.
It is used in combination with MeshGateway
.
MeshGatewayRoute
is a new Kuma dataplane policy that replaces TrafficRoute for Kuma Gateway.
It configures how a gateway should process network traffic.
At the moment, it targets HTTP routing use cases.
MeshGatewayRoutes
are attached to gateways by matching their selector to the MeshGateway
listener tags.
To define MeshGatewayRoute
that attaches a route to a listener with a tag: vhost=foo.example.com
and routes traffic to the backend service do:
type: MeshGatewayRoute
mesh: default
name: foo.example.com-backend
selectors:
- match:
kuma.io/service: edge-gateway
vhost: foo.example.com
conf:
http:
rules:
- matches:
- path:
match: PREFIX
value: /
backends:
- destination:
kuma.io/service: backend
When Kuma binds a MeshGatewayRoute
to a MeshGateway
, careful specification of tags lets you control whether the MeshGatewayRoute
will bind to one or more of the listeners declared on the MeshGateway
.
Each listener stanza on a MeshGateway
has a set of tags; Kuma creates the listener tags by combining these tags with the tags from the underlying builtin gateway Dataplane
.
A selector that matches only on the kuma.io/service
tag will bind to all listeners on the MeshGateway
, but a selector that includes listener tags will only bind to matching listeners.
One application of this mechanism is to inject standard routes into all virtual hosts, without the need to modify MeshGatewayRoutes
that configure specific applications.
MeshGatewayRoute
allows HTTP requests to be matched by various criteria (e.g. URI path, HTTP headers).
When Kuma generates the final Envoy configuration for a builtin gateway Dataplane
, it combines all the matching MeshGatewayRoutes
into a single set of routing tables, partitioned by the virtual hostname, which is specified either in the MeshGateway
listener or in the MeshGatewayRoute
.
Kuma sorts the rules in each table by specificity, so that routes with more specific match criteria are always ordered first.
For example, a rule that matches on a HTTP header and a path is more specific than one that matches only on path, and the longest match path will be considered more specific.
This ordering allows Kume to combine routing rules from multiple MeshGatewayRoute
resources and still produce predictable results.
The reference doc contains all options on MeshGatewayRoute
.