Proto: failover_policy.proto

Package: resilience.policy.gloo.solo.io

Use a failover policy to determine where to reroute traffic in case of failure. If a backing service in a virtual destination is unhealthy, Gloo Mesh re-routes traffic to another healthy backing service by locality, as specified in the FailoverPolicy config. FailoverPolicies are applied at the Destination level.

Note that you can use failover policies in combination with other policies, such as outlier detection or retry policies. In case of a failure, the failover policy tells Gloo Mesh which healthy destinations to reroute traffic to, based on the closest locality. The outlier detection policy tells Gloo Mesh when and for how long to remove unhealthy services. The retry policy tells Gloo Mesh how many times to retry requests before the outlier detection policy considers the request as failing and removes the service from the pool of healthy destinations.

Example: This example selects all virtual destinations in the workspace, and fails over traffic from any destinations served in the us-east region to any matching destinations only in the us-west region.

  apiVersion: resilience.policy.gloo.solo.io/v2
kind: FailoverPolicy
metadata:
  annotations:
    cluster.solo.io/cluster: ""
  name: locality-based-failover
  namespace: bookinfo
spec:
  applyToDestinations:
  - kind: VIRTUAL_DESTINATION
    selector: {}
  config:
    localityMappings:
    - from:
        region: us-east
      to:
      - region: us-west

Types:

FailoverPolicyReport

The report shows the resources that the policy selects after the policy is successfully applied.

FieldDescription
workspaces(repeated FailoverPolicyReport.WorkspacesEntry)

A list of workloads selected by the policy.
selectedDestinationPorts(repeated common.gloo.solo.io.DestinationReference)

A list of destination ports selected by the policy.

FailoverPolicyReport.WorkspacesEntry

FieldDescription
key(string)

value(common.gloo.solo.io.Report)

FailoverPolicySpec

Specifications for the policy.

FieldDescription
applyToDestinations(repeated common.gloo.solo.io.DestinationSelector)

Select the virtual destinations to apply the policy to by using labels. If empty, the policy applies to all vitrual destinations in the workspace.
config(FailoverPolicySpec.Config)

The details of the failover policy to apply to the selected virtual destinations.

FailoverPolicySpec.Config

FieldDescription
localityMappings(repeated FailoverPolicySpec.Config.LocalityMappings)

Map the localities to fail over traffic from one region, zone, or subzone to another in case of failure. The locality is determined by the Kubernetes labels on the node where the destination’s app runs. For more information, see the Istio docs.
You can exclude this setting to enable the locality load balancer settings without mappings.

FailoverPolicySpec.Config.LocalityMappings

FieldDescription
from(FailoverPolicySpec.Config.LocalityMappings.OriginatingLocality)

The locality of the destination where Gloo Mesh originally tried to fulfill the request.
to(repeated FailoverPolicySpec.Config.LocalityMappings.DestinationLocality)

The localities of the destination where Gloo Mesh can reroute requests. You must specify the region, and optionally the zone and subzone. If you have multiple to destinations, you can optionally set a weight.

FailoverPolicySpec.Config.LocalityMappings.DestinationLocality

A geographic location defined by a region, zone, and sub-zone along with the weight for the destination.

FieldDescription
region(string)

The locality’s region.
zone(string)

(Optional) The locality’s zone.
subZone(string)

(Optional) The locality’s sub-zone.
weight(google.protobuf.UInt32Value)

(Optional) Weight for destination locality. All weights must add up to 100. If not provided, weight is determined based on other destination locality weights. For information about the value format, see the Google protocol buffer documentation.

FailoverPolicySpec.Config.LocalityMappings.OriginatingLocality

A geographic location defined by a region, zone, and sub-zone.

FieldDescription
region(string)

The locality’s region.
zone(string)

(Optional) The locality’s zone.
subZone(string)

(Optional) The locality’s sub-zone.

FailoverPolicyStatus

The status of the policy after it is applied to your Gloo environment.

FieldDescription
common(common.gloo.solo.io.Status)

The state and workspace conditions of the applied resource.
numSelectedDestinationPorts(uint32)

The number of destination ports selected by the policy.