Subsets

Subset

gloo.solo.io.Subset currently lets you provide a Kubernetes selector to allow request forwarding to a subset of Kubernetes Pods within the upstream associated Kubernetes Service. There are currently two steps required to get subsetting to work for Kubernetes upstreams, which are the only upstream type currently supported.

First, you need to edit the kubernetes.options.gloo.solo.io.UpstreamSpec of the Kubernetes Upstream that you want to define subsets for by adding a options.gloo.solo.io.SubsetSpec . The subsetSpec contains a list of selectors, each of which consist of a set of keys. Each key represents a Kubernetes label key. These selectors determine how the subsets for the upstream are to be calculated. For example, the following subsetSpec:

subsetSpec:
  selectors:
  - keys:
    - color
    - size
  - keys:
    - size

means that the pods for the upstream will be divided into subsets based both on the values of the color and size labels, and on the value of the size label alone. Envoy requires this information to limit the combinations of subsets that it needs to compute. The Envoy documentation contains a great explanation of how on subset load balancing works and we strongly recommend that you read it if you plan to use this feature.

Second, you need to add a gloo.solo.io.Subset within the gloo.solo.io.Destination of the Route Action. This will determine which of the upstream subsets should be selected as destination for this route.

Following is an example of using a label, e.g. color: blue, to subset pods handling requests.

These are the Upstream changes that allow you to use the label color as a subset selector:

apiVersion: gloo.solo.io/v1
  kind: Upstream
    labels:
      discovered_by: kubernetesplugin
      service: petstore
    name: default-petstore-8080
    namespace: gloo-system
  spec:
    kube:
      selector:
        app: petstore
      serviceName: petstore
      serviceNamespace: default
      subsetSpec:
        selectors:
        - keys:
          - color
      servicePort: 8080
      serviceSpec:
        rest:
...

And then you need to configure the subset within the Virtual Service route action, e.g. the following will only forward requests to a subset of the Petstore Service pods that have a label, color: blue.

apiVersion: gateway.solo.io/v1
  kind: VirtualService
  metadata:
    name: default
    namespace: gloo-system
  spec:
    virtualHost:
      domains:
      - '*'
      routes:
      - matchers:
         - prefix: /petstore/findPetById
        routeAction:
          single:
            destinationSpec:
              rest:
                functionName: findPetById
                parameters:
                  headers:
                    :path: /petstore/findPetById/{id}
            subset:
              values:
                color: blue
            upstream:
              name: default-petstore-8080
              namespace: gloo-system