Add VirtualGateway

Adding App Mesh VirtualGateway

gateway Until now we have verified the communication between services is routed through envoy proxy, lets expose the frontend service frontend-node using AWS App Mesh VirtualGateway.

Create VirtualGateway components uisng the virtual_gateway.yaml as shown below. This will create the kubernetes service as Type Load Balancer and will use the AWS Network Load balancer for routing the external internet traffic.

kubectl apply -f deployment/virtual_gateway.yaml 

   
virtualgateway.appmesh.k8s.aws/ingress-gw created    
gatewayroute.appmesh.k8s.aws/gateway-route-frontend created 
service/ingress-gw created 
deployment.apps/ingress-gw created

Get all the resources that are running in the namespace

You can see VirtualGateway components named as ingress-gw below:

kubectl get all  -n prodcatalog-ns -o wide | grep ingress

       
pod/ingress-gw-5fb995f6fd-45nnm      2/2     Running   0          35s     192.168.24.144    ip-192-168-21-156.us-west-2.compute.internal            <none>           <none>
service/ingress-gw      LoadBalancer   10.100.24.17     ad34ee9dea9944ed78e78d0578060ba6-869c67fd174d0f4d.elb.us-west-2.amazonaws.com   80:31569/TCP   35s   app=ingress-gw
deployment.apps/ingress-gw      1/1     1            1           35s   envoy           840364872350.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/aws-appmesh-envoy:v1.15.1.0-prod        app=ingress-gw
replicaset.apps/ingress-gw-5fb995f6fd      1         1         1       35s     envoy           840364872350.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/aws-appmesh-envoy:v1.15.1.0-prod        app=ingress-gw,pod-template-hash=5fb995f6fd
virtualgateway.appmesh.k8s.aws/ingress-gw   arn:aws:appmesh:us-west-2:405710966773:mesh/prodcatalog-mesh/virtualGateway/ingress-gw_prodcatalog-ns   35s
gatewayroute.appmesh.k8s.aws/gateway-route-frontend   arn:aws:appmesh:us-west-2:405710966773:mesh/prodcatalog-mesh/virtualGateway/ingress-gw_prodcatalog-ns/gatewayRoute/gateway-route-frontend_prodcatalog-ns   35s

Log into console and navigate to AWS App Mesh -> Click on prodcatalog-mesh -> Click on Virtual gateways, you should see below page. vgateway