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Last modified: Sep 8, 2021

Traefik ingress routes

How to set up an ingress route and route trafic based on rules and middlewares

Before traefik 2.0 the only supported way of routing in kubernetes was through the Kubernetes Ingress prodvider, which limited the functionality traefik could offer.

As a result of introducing the custom resource IngressRoutes in traefik 2.0 we don’t need to write many annotations on the ingress. And it is easier to configure access to a kubernetes cluster.

Resource configuration

apiVersion: traefik.containo.us/v1alpha1
kind: IngressRoute
metadata:
  name: altinn-runtime
spec:
  entryPoints:
    - web
    - websecure
  routes:
    - match: Host(`dev.altinn.studio`)
      # priority: 25
      kind: Rule
      services:
        - name: altinn-runtime
          port: 5005

This is the simplest service to port over to traefik 2.0 within Altinn Studio. Since it is the “default” route if nothing else matches (routes for /repos or /designer).

Pay close attencion to the priority-field. If nothing is specified it will be the length of the string in the match-field. So longer rules are higher prioritized.

Routing Middlewares

In the earlier example we can hook up middlewares. You can define middlewares in this format:

apiVersion: traefik.containo.us/v1alpha1
kind: Middleware
metadata:
  name: fetch-cookie-and-redirect
spec:
  replacePath:
    path: /Redirect/FetchCookieAndRedirectHome/

This example is for when the designer fetches cookies and redirects to “/home”.

The different specs can be found in the traefik docs.

So first create a middleware resource in kubernetes and then you can use it in the ingressRoute like this

name: altinn-designer-root
namespace: default
entrypoints:
  - web
routes:
  - match:
      local: Host(`altinn3.no`) && Path(`/`)
      dev: Host(`dev.altinn.studio`) && Path(`/`)
      staging: Host(`staging.altinn.studio`) && Path(`/`)
      prod: Host(`altinn.studio`) && Path(`/`)
    kind: Rule
    strategy: RoundRobin
middlewares: []
- name: altinn-designer-home
namespace: default
entrypoints:
  - web
routes:
  - match:
      local: Host(`altinn3.no`) && PathPrefix(`/Home`)
      dev: Host(`dev.altinn.studio`) && PathPrefix(`/Home`)
      staging: Host(`staging.altinn.studio`) && PathPrefix(`/Home`)
      prod: Host(`altinn.studio`) && PathPrefix(`/Home`)
    kind: Rule
    strategy: RoundRobin
middlewares: []
- name: altinn-designer-designer
namespace: default
entrypoints:
  - web
routes:
  - match:
      local: Host(`altinn3.no`) && PathPrefix(`/designer`)
      dev: Host(`dev.altinn.studio`) && PathPrefix(`/designer`)
      staging: Host(`staging.altinn.studio`) && PathPrefix(`/designer`)
      prod: Host(`altinn.studio`) && PathPrefix(`/designer`)
    kind: Rule
    strategy: RoundRobin
middlewares: []
- name: altinn-designer-repos
namespace: default
entrypoints:
  - web
routes:
  - match:
      local: Host(`altinn3.no`) && (Path(`/repos/`) || Path(`/repos`))
      dev: Host(`dev.altinn.studio`) && (Path(`/repos/`) || Path(`/repos`))
      staging: Host(`staging.altinn.studio`) && (Path(`/repos/`) || Path(`/repos`))
      prod: Host(`altinn.studio`) && (Path(`/repos/`) || Path(`/repos`))
    kind: Rule
    strategy: RoundRobin
middlewares:
  - name: fetch-cookie-and-redirect

At the last entry in the routes element uses the middleware. It references the middleware by name.