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MeshService
MeshService is a new resource that represents what was previously expressed by
the Dataplane tag kuma.io/service. Kubernetes users should think about it as
the analog of a Kubernetes Service.
A basic example follows to illustrate the structure:
The MeshService represents a destination for traffic from elsewhere in the mesh.
It defines which Dataplane objects serve this traffic as well as what ports
are available. It also holds information about which IPs and hostnames can be used
to reach this destination.
Zone types
How users interact with MeshServices will depend on the type of zone.
In both cases, the resource is generated automatically.
Kubernetes
On Kubernetes, Service already provides a number of the features provided by
MeshService. For this reason, Kuma generates MeshServices from Services and:
- reuses VIPs in the form of cluster IPs
- uses Kubernetes DNS names
In the vast majority of cases, Kubernetes users do not create MeshServices.
Universal
In universal zones, MeshServices are generated based on the kuma.io/service
value of the Dataplane inbounds. The name of the generated MeshService
is derived from the value of the kuma.io/service tag and it has one port that
corresponds to the given inbound. If the inbound doesn’t have a name, one is
generated from the port value.
The only restriction in this case is that the port numbers match. For example an inbound:
inbound:
- name: main
port: 80
tags:
kuma.io/service: test-server
would result in a MeshService:
type: MeshService
name: test-server
spec:
ports:
- port: 80
targetPort: 80
name: main
selector:
dataplaneTags:
kuma.io/service: test-server
but you can’t also have on a different Dataplane:
inbound:
- name: main
port: 8080
tags:
kuma.io/service: test-server
since there’s no way to create a coherent MeshService
for test-server from these two inbounds.
Hostnames
Because of various shortcomings, the existing VirtualOutbound does not work
with MeshService and is planned for phasing out. A new HostnameGenerator
resource was introduced to manage hostnames for
MeshServices.
Ports
The ports field lists the ports exposed by the Dataplanes that
the MeshService matches. targetPort can refer to a port directly or by the
name of the Dataplane port.
ports:
- name: redis-non-tls
port: 16739
targetPort: 6739
appProtocol: tcp
Multizone
The main difference at the data plane level between kuma.io/service and
MeshService is that traffic to a MeshService always goes to some particular zone.
It may be the local zone or it may be a remote zone.
With kuma.io/service, this behavior depends on
localityAwareLoadBalancing.
If this is not enabled, traffic is load balanced equally between zones.
If it is enabled, destinations in the local zone are prioritized.
So when moving to MeshService, the choice needs to be made between:
- keeping this behavior, which means moving to
MeshMultiZoneService. - using
MeshServiceinstead, either from the local zone or one synced from a remote zone.
This is noted in the migration outline.
Targeting
Policy targetRef
A MeshService resource can be used as the destination target of a policy by
putting it in a to[].targetRef entry. For example:
spec:
to:
- targetRef:
kind: MeshService
name: test-server
namespace: test-app
sectionName: main
This would target the policy to requests to the given MeshService and port with the name
main.
Only Kubernetes zones can reference using namespace, which always selects
resources in the local zone.
Route .backendRefs
In order to direct traffic to a given MeshService, it must be used as a
backendRefs entry.
In backendRefs, ports are optionally referred to by their number:
spec:
targetRef:
kind: Mesh
to:
- targetRef:
kind: MeshService
name: test-server
namespace: test-app
rules:
- matches:
- path:
type: PathPrefix
value: /v2
default:
backendRefs:
- kind: MeshService
name: test-server-v2
namespace: test-app
port: 80
As opposed to targetRef, in backendRefs port can be omitted.
Labels
In order to select MeshServices from other zones as well as multiple
MeshServices, you must set labels.
Note that with backendRefs only one resource is allowed to be selected.
If this field is set, resources are selected via their labels.
- kind: MeshService
labels:
kuma.io/display-name: test-server-v2
k8s.kuma.io/namespace: test-app
kuma.io/zone: east
In this case, the entry selects any resource with the display name
test-server-v2 from the east zone in the test-app namespace.
Only one resource will be selected.
But if we leave out the namespace, any resource named test-server-v2 in the
east zone is selected, regardless of its namespace.
- kind: MeshService
labels:
kuma.io/display-name: test-server-v2
kuma.io/zone: east
Migration
MeshService is opt-in and involves a migration process. Every Mesh must enable
MeshServices in some form:
spec:
meshServices:
mode: Disabled # or Everywhere, ReachableBackends, Exclusive
The biggest change with MeshService is that traffic is no longer
load-balanced between all zones. Traffic sent to a MeshService is only ever
sent to a single zone.
The goal of migration is to stop using kuma.io/service entirely and instead
use MeshService resources as destinations and as targetRef in policies
and backendRef in routes.
After enabling MeshServices, the control plane generates additional resources.
There are a few ways to manage this.
Options
Everywhere
This enables MeshService resource generation everywhere.
Both kuma.io/service and MeshService are used to generate the Envoy resources
Envoy Clusters and ClusterLoadAssignments. So having both enabled means roughly
twice as many resources which in turn means potentially
hitting the resource limits of the control plane and memory usage in the
data plane, before reachable backends
would otherwise be necessary. Therefore, consider trying ReachableBackends as
described below.
ReachableBackends
This enables automatic generation of the Kuma MeshServices resource but
does not include the corresponding resources for every data plane proxy.
The intention is for users to explicitly and gradually introduce
relevant MeshServices via reachableBackends.
Exclusive
This is the end goal of the migration. Destinations in the mesh are managed
solely with MeshService resources and no longer via kuma.io/service tags and
Dataplane inbounds. In the future this will become the default.
Steps
- Decide whether you want to set
mode: Everywhereor whether you enableMeshServiceconsumer by consumer withmode: ReachableBackends. - For every usage of a
kuma.io/service, decide how it should be consumed:- as
MeshService: only ever from one single zone- these are created automatically
- as
MeshMultiZoneService: combined with all “same” services in other zones- these have to be created manually
- as
- Update your MeshHTTPRoutes/MeshTCPRoutes to refer to
MeshService/MeshMultiZoneServicedirectly.- this is required
- Set
mode: Exclusiveto stop receiving configuration based onkuma.io/service. - Update
targetRef.kind: MeshServicereferences to use the real name of theMeshServiceas opposed to thekuma.io/service.- this is not strictly required
