Defining endpoints
Components of any type can specify the endpoints that the container exposes. These endpoints can be made accessible to the users if the Devfile cluster is running using a Kubernetes ingress or an OpenShift route and to the other components within the workspace. You can create an endpoint for your application or database, if your application or database server is listening on a port and you want to be able to directly interact with it yourself or you want other components to interact with it.
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Specify endpoints properties as shown in the following example:
Example 1. Specify endpoints propertiesschemaVersion: 2.0.0 metadata: name: MyDevfile projects: - name: my-go-project clonePath: go/src/github.com/acme/my-go-project git: remotes: origin: "https://github.com/acme/my-go-project.git" components: - name: go container: image: golang memoryLimit: 512Mi mountSources: true command: ['sleep', 'infinity'] env: - name: GOPATH value: $(PROJECTS_ROOT)/go - name: GOCACHE value: /tmp/go-cache endpoints: - name: web targetPort: 8080 configuration: discoverable: false public: true protocol: tcp scheme: http - name: postgres container: image: postgres memoryLimit: 512Mi env: - name: POSTGRES_USER value: user - name: POSTGRES_PASSWORD value: password - name: POSTGRES_DB value: database endpoints: - name: postgres targetPort: 5432 configuration: discoverable: true public: false
Here, there are two container, each defining a single endpoint. Endpoint is an accessible port that can be made accessible inside the workspace or publicly (example, from the UI). Each endpoint has a name and port, which is the port on which certain server running inside the container is listening. The following are a few attributes that you can set on the endpoint:
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discoverable
: If an endpoint is discoverable, it means that it can be accessed using its name as the host name within the workspace containers (in the Kubernetes parlance, a Service is created for it with the provided name). -
public
: The endpoint will also be accessible outside of the workspace: such endpoint can be accessed from the Devfile user interface and is always exposed on port80
or443
(depending on whethertls
is enabled in Devfile). -
protocol
: For public endpoints the protocol is a hint to the UI on how to construct the URL for the endpoint access. Typical values arehttp
,https
,ws
,wss
. -
secure
: A boolean (defaulting tofalse
) specifying whether the endpoint is put behind a JWT proxy requiring a JWT workspace token to grant access. The JWT proxy is deployed in the same Pod as the server and assumes the server listens solely on the local loopback interface, such as127.0.0.1
.Listening on any other interface than the local loopback poses a security risk because such server is accessible without the JWT authentication within the cluster network on the corresponding IP addresses. -
path
: The URL of the endpoint. -
unsecuredPaths
: A comma-separated list of endpoint paths that are to stay unsecured even if thesecure
attribute is set totrue
. -
cookiesAuthEnabled
: When set totrue
(the default isfalse
), the JWT workspace token is automatically fetched and included in a workspace-specific cookie to allow requests to pass through the JWT proxy.This setting potentially allows a CSRF attack when used in conjunction with a server using POST requests.
When starting a new server within a component, Devfile autodetects this, and the UI offers to automatically expose this port as a public
port. This is useful for debugging a web application, for example. It is impossible to do this for servers that autostart with the container (for example, a database server). For such components, specify the endpoints explicitly.
Example specifying endpoints for kubernetes
/openshift
and plugin
types:
schemaVersion: 2.0.0
metadata:
name: MyDevfile
components:
- name: theia-editor
plugin:
id: eclipse/che-theia/next
endpoints:
- name: 'theia-extra-endpoint'
targetPort: 8880
configuration:
discoverable: true
public: true
- plugin:
id: redhat/php/latest
memoryLimit: 1Gi
endpoints:
- name: 'php-endpoint'
targetPort: 7777
- plugin:
name: theia-editor
id: eclipse/che-theia/next
endpoints:
- name: 'theia-extra-endpoint'
targetPort: 8880
configuration:
discoverable: true
public: true
- openshift:
name: webapp
reference: webapp.yaml
endpoints:
- name: 'web'
targetPort: 8080
configuration:
discoverable: false
public: true
protocol: http
- openshift:
name: mongo
reference: mongo-db.yaml
endpoints:
- name: 'mongo-db'
targetPort: 27017
configuration:
discoverable: true
public: false