Authenticated Rate Limit For API Owners

This user guide shows how to configure authenticated rate limiting. Authenticated rate limiting allows to specify rate limiting configurations based on the traffic owners, i.e. ID of the user owning the request. Authentication method used will be the API key.

Clone the project

git clone https://github.com/Kuadrant/kuadrant-operator

Setup environment

This step creates a containerized Kubernetes server locally using Kind , then it installs Istio, Kubernetes Gateway API and kuadrant.

make local-setup

Apply Kuadrant CR

kubectl -n kuadrant-system apply -f - <<EOF
---
apiVersion: kuadrant.io/v1beta1
kind: Kuadrant
metadata:
  name: kuadrant-sample
spec: {}
EOF

Deploy toystore example deployment

kubectl apply -f examples/toystore/toystore.yaml

Create HTTPRoute to configure routing to the toystore service

kubectl apply -f - <<EOF
---
apiVersion: gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1alpha2
kind: HTTPRoute
metadata:
  name: toystore
  labels:
    app: toystore
spec:
  parentRefs:
    - name: istio-ingressgateway
      namespace: istio-system
  hostnames: ["*.toystore.com"]
  rules:
    - matches:
        - path:
            type: PathPrefix
            value: "/toy"
          method: GET
      backendRefs:
        - name: toystore
          port: 80
EOF

Check toystore HTTPRoute works

curl -v -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://localhost:9080/toy

It should return 200 OK.

Note: This only works out of the box on linux environments. If not on linux, you may need to forward ports

kubectl port-forward -n istio-system service/istio-ingressgateway 9080:80 &

Create API keys for user Bob and Alice

kubectl apply -f -<<EOF
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  annotations:
    secret.kuadrant.io/user-id: bob
  name: bob-key
  labels:
    authorino.kuadrant.io/managed-by: authorino
    app: toystore
stringData:
  api_key: IAMBOB
type: Opaque
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  annotations:
    secret.kuadrant.io/user-id: alice
  name: alice-key
  labels:
    authorino.kuadrant.io/managed-by: authorino
    app: toystore
stringData:
  api_key: IAMALICE
type: Opaque
EOF

Create Kuadrant’s AuthPolicy to configure API key based authentication

kubectl apply -f - <<EOF
---
apiVersion: kuadrant.io/v1beta1
kind: AuthPolicy
metadata:
  name: toystore
spec:
  targetRef:
    group: gateway.networking.k8s.io
    kind: HTTPRoute
    name: toystore
  rules:
  - paths: ["/toy*"]
  authScheme:
    identity:
    - name: friends
      apiKey:
        allNamespaces: true
        selector:
          matchLabels:
            app: toystore
      credentials:
        in: authorization_header
        keySelector: APIKEY
    response:
    - json:
        properties:
          - name: userID
            value: null
            valueFrom:
              authJSON: auth.identity.metadata.annotations.secret\.kuadrant\.io/user-id
      name: rate-limit-apikey
      wrapper: envoyDynamicMetadata
      wrapperKey: ext_auth_data
EOF

Create RateLimitPolicy to rate limit per API key basis

UserRate Limits
Bob2 reqs / 10 secs (0.2 rps)
Alice5 reqs / 10 secs (0.5 rps)
kubectl apply -f -<<EOF
---
apiVersion: kuadrant.io/v1beta1
kind: RateLimitPolicy
metadata:
  name: toystore
spec:
  targetRef:
    group: gateway.networking.k8s.io
    kind: HTTPRoute
    name: toystore
  rateLimits:
  - configurations:
      - actions:
          - metadata:
              descriptor_key: "userID"
              default_value: "no-user"
              metadata_key:
                key: "envoy.filters.http.ext_authz"
                path:
                  - segment:
                      key: "ext_auth_data"
                  - segment:
                      key: "userID"
    limits:
      - conditions:
          - "userID == bob"
        maxValue: 2
        seconds: 10
        variables: []
      - conditions:
          - "userID == alice"
        maxValue: 5
        seconds: 10
        variables: []
EOF

Validating the rate limit policy

Only 2 requests every 10 allowed for Bob.

curl -v -H 'Authorization: APIKEY IAMBOB' -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://localhost:9080/toy

Only 5 requests every 10 allowed for Alice.

curl -v -H 'Authorization: APIKEY IAMALICE' -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://localhost:9080/toy