Static routes in fabio.properties

[nuriel77]

I am trying to add static routes in the fabio.properties configuration file.

I tried:

registry.static.routes = \
    route add svc 10.70.0.23/ http://google.com:80/

Or

registry.static.routes = \
    route add svc my-test.example.com/ http://google.com:80/

Calling via:

curl -H "Host: my-test.example.com" http://10.70.0.23/

But I get in the logs:

[WARN] No route for 10.70.0.23/

or:

[WARN] No route for my-test.example.com/

When using the hostname.

After restarting fabio I check the logs, and I can see:

May 17 17:28:33 lbtest-1.localdomain fabio[1422]: "Static": {
May 17 17:28:33 lbtest-1.localdomain fabio[1422]: "Routes": "route add svc 10.70.0.23/ http://google.com:80/"
May 17 17:28:33 lbtest-1.localdomain fabio[1422]: },

In any case I cannot see the route in output of:

curl  http://10.70.0.23:9998/api/routes

I wonder if I am doing something wrong?

[nuriel77]

Ok, I see that it is not possible to combine both consul and static routes in the config file, as this is what I initially tried to do.
I will find a solution using the consul kv.

[vjeantet]

Hello, how did you manage to combine routes coming from consul, with additional static routes ?

I did not find any solutions on issues, docs and google, thanks a lot !

[nuriel77]

@vjeantet as noted in my last comment: I did not find a way to do that. If I understand correctly, this is not possible.

[tristanmorgan]

I wonder if Consul-ESM could help with adding the "services" with the right tags?...

[aaronhurt]

@vjeantet @nuriel77 You can add static routes within consul itself. When you are using the consul backend you can add route information via the KV store specified with the registry.consul.kvpath setting in the properties file.

Example KV entry to redirect all HTTP traffic to HTTPS on a particular domain:

route add http-redirect fbdev.ena.net:80 https://fbdev.ena.net$path opts "redirect=301"

You can specify multiple routes within that KV one entry per line.

[nuriel77]

@leprechau @vjeantet Thanks. I completely forgot this is how I solved it (solution is already in production for a while now).
The reason I initially said I thought it was not possible was because I tried to set static route in the fabio.properties file.

I can confirm that I am setting static routes via consul KV along side having fabio read routes from Consul services.

What I have done was edit the systemd control file (/etc/systemd/system/fabio.service) to run a ExecStartPost command to set a static route I had to add:

ExecStartPost=/usr/bin/curl -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" -k http://consul:8500/v1/kv/fabio/config -d "route add svc health.app.some.domain/ https://app.other.domain/"
ExecStart=/opt/fabio/bin/fabio $OPTIONS