WebAssembly Filters for Envoy

A collection of WebAssemby filters for Envoy proxy written in C,C++,C# and Rust for exercising different features provided by envoy-wasm.

See the Image Hub as a related project (a sample application). Also, see Meshery's filter management capabitilies.

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• Topic: WebAssembly Filters Meeting
• Day: Weekly on Mondays
• Time: 7:30pm IST / 3:00pm UK / 9:00am Central
• WASM Filters call: https://meet.layer5.io/wasm
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Get the Rust toolchain

To compile Rust filters to WASM, the nightly toolchain and support for wasm compilation target is needed. Make sure you have Rust and Cargo installed using Rustup. If you're on a *nix system (Unix, Linux, MacOS), in the project root directory, run:

make rust-toolchain

This will also install wasm-pack for you. Also, take a look at installing wasm-pack for OS other than *nix.

Upstream

Upstream is a webserver which is used by few of the filters mentioned above. It provides a route for :

• Mock authentication
• Storing Metrics
• Retrieving Metrics

Build the docker Image for Upstream before proceeding with the examples.

Build Image:

cd upstream
make

HTTP-Auth

Simulates handling authentication of requests at proxy level. Requests with a header token with value hello are accepted as authorized while the rest unauthorized. The actual authentication is handled by the Upstream server. Whenever the proxy recieves a request it extracts the token header and makes a request to the Upstream server which validates the token and returns a response.

Build and deploy:

cd http-auth
make run-filtered

Test:

curl  -H "token":"hello" 0.0.0.0:18000 -v # Authorized
curl  -H "token":"world" 0.0.0.0:18000 -v # Unauthorized

TCP-Metrics

Collects simple metrics for every TCP packet and logs it.

Build and deploy:

cd tcp-metrics
make run-filtered

Test:

curl 0.0.0.0:18000 -v -d "request body"

Check the logs for the metrics.

TCP-Packet-Parse

Parses the contents of every TCP packet the proxy receives and logs it.

Build and deploy:

cd tcp-packet-parse
make run-filtered

Test:

curl 0.0.0.0:18000 -v -d "request body"

Check the logs for the packet contents.

Singleton-HTTP-Call

An example which depicts an singleton HTTP WASM service which does an HTTP call once every 2 seconds.

Build and deploy:

cd singleton-http-call
make run-filtered

Check the logs for the response of the request.

Metrics-Store

This example showcases communication between a WASM filter and a service via shared queue. It combines the Singleton-HTTP-Call and TCP-Metrics examples. The filter collects metrics and enqueues it onto the queue while the service dequeues it and sends it to upstream server where it is stored.

Build and deploy:

cd metrics-store
make run-filtered

Test:

curl 0.0.0.0:18000 -v -d "request body" # make a few of these calls
curl 0.0.0.0:8080/retrieve -v # Retrieves the stored stats
# x | y | z  === x : downstream bytes, y : upstream bytes, z: the latency for application server to respond