istio-ratelimit

Usage

Helm must be installed to use the charts. Please refer to Helm’s documentation to get started.

Once Helm has been set up correctly, add the repo as follows:

helm repo add xyctruth https://xyctruth.github.io/istio-ratelimit

If you had already added this repo earlier, run helm repo update to retrieve the latest versions of the packages. You can then run helm search repo xyctruth to see the charts.

To install the chart:

helm install my-istio-ratelimit xyctruth/istio-ratelimit

To uninstall the chart:

helm delete my-istio-ratelimit

Rate limits policies:

The policies should be configured in values.yaml

Key	Type	Description
key	string	Policy Unique Identifier
hosts	array	Matches the istio gateway host， Need to use port to distinguish between http and https ,(api.xyctruth.com:80,api.xyctruth.com:443).
path	array	Each path object has a separate flow limit count
paths.type	string	Matches the type of path One of: (prefix_match,contains_match)
paths.value	string	Matches the value
limit_unit	string	Rate limit unit , One of: (second,minute,hour,day)
limit_requests	int	Rate limit request count
strategy	array	Further set rate limit strategy
strategy.type	string	Further rate limit strategy type， One of: (header,ip) , header: Header Matches the Request Header , ip: Ip Matches the Request Remote IP

Example 1

policies:
  - name: group1
    hosts:
      - test.api.xyctruth.com:80
      - test.api.xyctruth.com:443
    paths:
      - type: prefix_match
        value: /
    limit_unit: second
    limit_requests: 100
    rules:
      - type: ip
        limit_unit: second
        limit_requests: 50
      - type: header
        header: "x-token"
        limit_unit: second
        limit_requests: 10


  - name: group2
    hosts:
      - test.api.xyctruth.com:80
    paths:
      - type: contains_match
        value: /pay/error_mapping
      - type: contains_match
        value: /pay/method
    limit_unit: second
    limit_requests: 100
    rules:
      - type: ip
        limit_unit: second
        limit_requests: 50
      - type: header
        header: "x-token"
        limit_unit: minute
        limit_requests: 5