How to configure envoy edge proxy for redis service in kubernetes? - redis

I want to expose Redis HA service running in kubernetes to clients running outside the cloud. For this, I'm trying to setup envoy which supports Redis.
I'm using ambassador which is a wrapper around envoy for kubernetes. Followed this doc for the initial setup. I'm new to envoy and kubernetes.
How can I configure ambassador to act as proxy for my Redis service?
I'm guessing there is someplace to specify address of the Redis service in the proxy. Finding it hard to get this info.This page refers to Redis proxy in envoy documentation but I don't follow where to make the changes.
Also, I'm interested only in the edge proxy feature, not the service proxy feature of envoy for my use case.

I'd focus on your first sentence rather than your own conclusions which follow.
You want to expose Redis to the public network.
How you ended up with Envoy is beyond me; you probably only need a Kubernetes service with type set to LoadBalancer.
This is a terrible idea because Redis is unauthenticated by default, and the connection is in clear-text, don't say you haven't been warned ;-)
As for Envoy, sure, it does support Redis, but Ambassador has nothing to do with it, and if I understand your requirement correctly, is an entire overkill which seems to mostly distract you rather than help you get the job done.
https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/stateless-application/expose-external-ip-address/

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Load Balancing with multi broker ActiveMQ artemis instance

I need your help to suggest me how best I can achieve load balancing using the below diagram. here I am trying to create 2 machines with Master and expecting that the consumer/publisher application will use one common URL( a load-balanced one), where I should not expose the individual VM machine info and port ID. just that load balancer should take care of routing..
this is typically what we do with help of F5 load balancer or HTTP load balancer ..just wondering can be achieved over ActiveMQ and its advisable..?
on other side, I also tried configuring this way on weblogic to consume data from ActiveMQ queue
failover://(tcp://localhost:61616,tcp://localhost:61617)?randomize=true but this does not help.. or WebLogic is not understanding this format.
Messaging connections are stateful. They are not stateless like HTTP connections, and therefore cannot be load-balanced in the same way as HTTP connections. It may be possible to configure an F5 to deal with stateful messaging connections, but I can't say for sure. I'm not an expert on F5.
Both the ActiveMQ Artemis broker itself as well as the JMS client shipped with the broker have load-balancing functionality built in. There's too much to cover here so I recommend you review the clustering documentation for the relevant details.
You might also try using the broker balancer feature. It's currently experimental, but it should be ready to use in the 2.21.0 release coming in the March/April time-frame. It can act like an F5 for your messaging connections, but it can do some more intelligent things like always sending certain clients to the same node which can facilitate certain use-cases which are not possible in a traditional cluster.
The URL failover://(tcp://localhost:61616,tcp://localhost:61617)?randomize=true which are you using is for the OpenWire JMS client shipped with ActiveMQ 5.x. If you're using the core JMS client shipped with ActiveMQ Artemis then you should be using a URL like this instead:
(tcp://localhost:61616,tcp://localhost:61617)?ha=true

Envoy proxy with rabbitmq

We have been migrating to .net core console app microservices. currently, each microservice works in a chain and puts messages in rabbitmq, then the next service picks a message from rabbitmq, processes it, then puts in another rabbitmq....we have around 9 services.
We are seeing issues where services fail and have no idea why, but often see problems with rabbitmq connections or network issues hitting the next server (some vm's have all services hosted on the same box, others are distributed between boxes)
I've been looking at envoy proxy as it deals with the circuit breaker etc stuff and claims to have observability
However, I cannot find anywhere online that has anyone using envoy proxy with rabbitmq
Can envoy proxy be used with rabbitmq in this manner?
Or does envoy proxy act as the queue?
We deal with about 4,000 messages a sec currently, and we need to process in near as real-time as possible.
Envoy does not act as the queue, so it can't replace your message-based communication system. It can, however, proxy traffic to/from the RabbitMQ servers to give you some bits of what you're looking for.
What you'd do is use the TCP Proxy capability to setup TCP reverse proxies to RabbitMQ. Then your servers should all connect to the Envoy proxy rather than directly to the message queue. Envoy's built in stats will then output metrics on the TCP connections (all the RabbitMQ protocols seem to be TCP) that it handles. It also does intrinsically support circuit breakers, timeouts, retries, etc, so you'll get all those. But you'll definitely have to tweak those to your particular deployment.
We've done this pattern multiple times at my company, just with Kafka rather than RabbitMQ. However, since they're both TCP based it should work similarly.

Prometheus target management

We are using prometheus in our production envirment recently. Before we only have 30-40 nodes for each service and those servers not change very often, so we just write it in the prometheus.yml, but right now it become too long to hold in one file and change much frequently then before, so my question is should i use file_sd_config to put those server list out of yml file and change those config files sepearately, or using consul for service discovery(same much easy to handle changes).
I have install 3 nodes consul cluster in data center and as i can see if i change to use consul to slove this problem , i also need to install consul client in each server(node) and define its services info. Is that correct? or does anyone have good advise.
Thanks
I totally advocate the use of a service discovery system. It may be a bit hard to deploy at first but surely it will worth it in the future.
That said, Prometheus comes with a lot of service discovery integrations. It's possible that you don't need a Consul cluster. If your servers are in a cloud provider like AWS, GCP, Azure, Openstack, etc, prometheus are able to autodiscover the instances.
If you keep running with Consul, the answer is yes, the agent must be running in every node. You can also register services and nodes via API but it's easier to deploy the agent.

What is the redis URI, when redis is used in kubernetes?

Objective
I want to access the redis database in kubernetes, from a function inside ibm functions using javascript.
Question
How do I get the right URI, when redis is running on a Pod in Kubernetes?
Situation
I used this sample to setup the redis database in kubernetes This is the link to the sample in Kubernetes
I run Kuberentes inside IBM Cloud.
Findings
I was not able to find a answer to my question on the redis documentation
As far as I understand by default no password configured.
Is this assumption right?
redis://[USER]:[PASSWORD]#[CLUSTER-PUBLIC-IP]:[PORT]
Thanks for help ... I know this is maybe a to simple question, but currently I do not see the tree in the woods ;-)
As far as I understand by default no password configured.
Yes, there is no default password in that image with Redis, you are right.
If you following the instruction you mentioned, you will use a kubectl proxy, which will forward port of your Redis in cluster to your local machine by call kubectl port-forward redis-master 6379:6379.
So in that case, Redis will be available on redis://localhost:6379 on your PC.
If you want to make it available directly from ouside of the cluster, you need to create Service with NodePort, Service with LoadBalancer (if you in Cloud) or simply Service with Ingress.
Inside a cluster, you can create Service with Cluster IP (which is actually simply Service, because it always has Cluster IP) for your Redis pod and will be available on:
redis://[USER]:[PASSWORD]#[SERVICE-IP]:[PORT]
Here is a good official documentation about connecting applications with service.

TLS/SSL connection to Redis when using spring-data-redis

What is the recommended way to make a TLS/SSL connection to Redis sentinel using spring-data-redis and Jedis?
I'm using spring-data-redis 1.8.3.RELEASE with Jedis 2.9.0.
I understand that Redis does not provide direct support for TLS/SSL and instead recommends a secure proxy like spiped or stunnel. So lets assume I have setup the appropriate secure tunnels.
I can see that JedisConnectionFactory has a setUseSsl(boolean useSsl) method, but the value only seems to be used in createRedisPool() and not createRedisSentinelPool(), which leads me to think it is currently not possible with Redis sentinel.
Additionally, even when using standalone Redis and setting useSsl to true, there doesn't appear to be a way to set the SSLSocketFactory or parameters, so it will likely end up relying on the JVM's SSL system properties which is problematic if those aren't the SSL properties you wanted to use to connection to the secure tunnel.
Just trying to confirm if my above assumptions are correct, and if not then looking for pointers in the right direction. Thanks.