Path rewrites
Rewrite path prefixes in requests.
For more information, see the Kubernetes Gateway API documentation.
Before you begin
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Follow the Get started guide to install K8sGateway, set up a gateway resource, and deploy the httpbin sample app.
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Get the external address of the gateway and save it in an environment variable.
export INGRESS_GW_ADDRESS=$(kubectl get svc -n gloo-system gloo-proxy-http -o jsonpath="{.status.loadBalancer.ingress[0]['hostname','ip']}") echo $INGRESS_GW_ADDRESS
kubectl port-forward deployment/gloo-proxy-http -n gloo-system 8080:8080
Rewrite prefix path
Path rewrites use the HTTP path modifier to rewrite path prefixes.
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Create a RouteOption resource to define your rewrite rules. In the following example all incoming request paths are rewritten to the
/anything
path.kubectl apply -n httpbin -f- <<EOF apiVersion: gateway.solo.io/v1 kind: RouteOption metadata: name: rewrite namespace: httpbin spec: options: prefixRewrite: '/anything' EOF
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Create an HTTPRoute resource for the httpbin app that references the RouteOption resource that you created. In this example, all incoming requests that match the
/headers
path on therewrite.example
domain are rewritten according to the rules that are defined in the RouteOption resource.kubectl apply -f- <<EOF apiVersion: gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1 kind: HTTPRoute metadata: name: httpbin-rewrite namespace: httpbin spec: parentRefs: - name: http namespace: gloo-system hostnames: - rewrite.example rules: - matches: - path: type: Exact value: /headers filters: - type: ExtensionRef extensionRef: group: gateway.solo.io kind: RouteOption name: rewrite backendRefs: - name: httpbin port: 8000 EOF
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Send a request to the httpbin app along the
/headers
path on therewrite.example
domain. Verify that you get back a 200 HTTP response code and that your request is rewritten to the/anything
path.curl -vik http://$INGRESS_GW_ADDRESS:8080/headers -H "host: rewrite.example:8080"
curl -vik localhost:8080/headers -H "host: rewrite.example"
Example output:
... "origin": "10.0.9.36:50660", "url": "http://rewrite.example:8080/anything", "data": "", "files": null, "form": null, "json": null ...
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Optional: Clean up the resources that you created.
kubectl delete routeoption rewrite -n httpbin kubectl delete httproute httpbin-rewrite -n httpbin
Rewrite full or prefix path with regex
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Create a RouteOption resource to define your rewrite rules. In the following example all incoming request paths are evaluated against the regex pattern. If
headers
is part of the request path, it is replaced withanything
.kubectl apply -n httpbin -f- <<EOF apiVersion: gateway.solo.io/v1 kind: RouteOption metadata: name: rewrite namespace: httpbin spec: options: regexRewrite: pattern: regex: 'headers' substitution: 'anything' EOF
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Create an HTTPRoute resource for the httpbin app that references the RouteOption resource that you created. In this example, all incoming requests along the
/headers
path on therewrite.example
domain are evaluated against the regex pattern that you defined in the RouteOption resource.kubectl apply -f- <<EOF apiVersion: gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1 kind: HTTPRoute metadata: name: httpbin-rewrite namespace: httpbin spec: parentRefs: - name: http namespace: gloo-system hostnames: - rewrite.example rules: - matches: - path: type: Exact value: /headers filters: - type: ExtensionRef extensionRef: group: gateway.solo.io kind: RouteOption name: rewrite backendRefs: - name: httpbin port: 8000 EOF
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Send a request to the httpbin app along the
/headers
path on therewrite.example
domain. Verify that you get back a 200 HTTP response code and that your request is rewritten to the/anything
path.curl -vik http://$INGRESS_GW_ADDRESS:8080/headers -H "host: rewrite.example:8080"
curl -vik localhost:8080/headers -H "host: rewrite.example"
Example output:
... "origin": "10.0.9.36:50660", "url": "http://rewrite.example:8080/anything", "data": "", "files": null, "form": null, "json": null ...
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Optional: Clean up the resources that you created.
kubectl delete routeoption rewrite -n httpbin kubectl delete httproute httpbin-rewrite -n httpbin