Apache httpd Reverse Proxy and Tomcat
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Slides from my ApacheCon EU 2018 Preso on "Apache httpd Reverse Proxy and Tomcat"
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Apache httpd Reverse Proxy and Tomcat
- 1. Jim Jagielski @jimjag Apache httpd v2.4 Reverse Proxy The “Hidden” Gem
- 2. About Me ➡ Apache Software Foundation ➡ Co-founder, Director Emeritus, Member and Developer ➡ Director Emeritus ➡ Outercurve, MARSEC-XL, OSSI, OSI (ex)… ➡ Developer ➡ Mega FOSS projects ➡ O’Reilly Open Source Award: 2013 ➡ European Commission: Luminary Award ➡ Open Source Chef: ConsenSys @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag
- 3. Apache httpd 2.4 ➡ Currently at version 2.4.33 (2.4.1 went GA Feb 21, 2012) ➡ Significant Improvements ➡ high-performance ➡ cloud suitability @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag
- 4. Apache httpd 2.4 - design drivers ➡ Support for async I/O w/o dropping support for older systems ➡ Larger selection of usable MPMs: added event, motorz, etc... ➡ Leverage higher-performant versions of APR ➡ Increase performance ➡ Reduce memory utilization ➡ The Cloud and Reverse Proxy @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag
- 5. Cloud and Dynamics ➡ The Cloud is a game changer for web servers ➡ The cloud is a dynamic place ➡ automated reconfiguration ➡ horizontal, not vertical scaling ➡ self-aware environments @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag OK, maybe not THAT self-aware
- 6. Why Dynamic Proxy Matters ➡ Apache httpd still the most frequently used front-end ➡ Proxy capabilities must be cloud friendly ➡ Front-end must be dynamic friendly @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag
- 7. Reverse Proxy Internet Firewall Firewall Cloud Reverse Proxy Server Transactional Servers Browser ➡ Operates at the server end of the transaction ➡ Completely transparent to the Web Browser – thinks the Reverse Proxy Server is the real server @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag
- 8. Features of Reverse Proxy Server ➡ Security Uniform security policy can be administered The real transactional servers are behind the firewall ➡ Delegation, Specialization, Load Balancing ➡ Caching ➡ Performance, HA @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag
- 9. Proxy Design Drivers ➡ Becoming a robust but generic proxy implementation ➡ Support various protocols ➡ HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP/2, CONNECT, FTP ➡ AJP, FastCGI, SCGI, WSGI, UWSGI, PROXY ➡ Load balancing ➡ Clustering, failover ➡ Performance @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag
- 10. Apache httpd 2.4 proxy ➡ Reverse Proxy Improvements ➡ Supports FastCGI, SCGI, Websockets in balancer ➡ Additional load balancing mechanisms ➡ Runtime changing of clusters w/o restarts ➡ Support for dynamic configuration ➡ mod_proxy_express ➡ mod_fcgid and fcgistarter ➡ Brand New: Support for Unix Domain Sockets ➡ Brand New: HTTP/2 @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag
- 11. Configuring Reverse Proxy ➡ Set ProxyRequests Off ➡ Apply ProxyPass, ProxyPassReverse and possibly RewriteRule directives @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag
- 12. Reverse Proxy Directives: ProxyPass ➡ Allows remote server to be mapped into the space of the local (Reverse Proxy) server ➡ There is also ProxyPassMatch which takes a regex ➡ Example: ➡ ProxyPass /secure/ http://secureserver/ ➡ Presumably “secureserver” is inaccessible directly from the internet ➡ ProxyPassMatch ^/(.*.js)$ http://js-storage.example.com/bar/$1 @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag
- 13. Reverse Proxy Directives: ProxyPassReverse ➡ Used to specify that redirects issued by the remote server are to be translated to use the proxy before being returned to the client. ➡ Syntax is identical to ProxyPass; used in conjunction with it ➡ Example: ➡ProxyPass /secure/ http://secureserver/ ➡ProxyPassReverse /secure/ http://secureserver/ @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag
- 14. Simple Rev Proxy ➡ All requests for /images to a backend server ProxyPass /images http://images.example.com/ ProxyPass <path> <scheme>://<full url> ➡ Useful, but limited ➡ What if: images.example.com dies? traffic for /images increases @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag
- 15. Load Balancing ➡ mod_proxy_balancer.so ➡ mod_proxy can do native load balancing ➡ weight by actual requests ➡ weight by traffic ➡ weight by busyness ➡ lbfactors @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag
- 16. Create a balancer “cluster” ➡ Create a balancer which contains several host nodes ➡ Apache httpd will then direct to each node as specified @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag <Proxy balancer://foo> BalancerMember http://www1.example.com:80/ loadfactor=1 BalancerMember http://www2.example.com:80/ loadfactor=1 BalancerMember http://www3.example.com:80/ loadfactor=4 status=+h ProxySet lbmethod=bytraffic </Proxy>
- 17. Some config params ➡ For BalancerMembers: ➡ loadfactor ➡ normalized load for worker [1] ➡ lbset ➡ worker cluster number [0] ➡ retry ➡ retry timeout, in seconds, for non-ready workers [60] @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag
- 18. Some config params ➡ For BalancerMembers (cont): ➡ connectiontimeout/timout ➡ Connection timeouts on backend [ProxyTimeout] ➡ flushpackets * ➡ Does proxy need to flush data with each chunk of data? ➡ on : Yes | off : No | auto : wait and see ➡ flushwait * ➡ ms to wait for data before flushing @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag
- 19. Some config params ➡ For BalancerMembers (cont): ➡ ping ➡ Ping backend to check for availability; value is time to wait for response ➡ status (+/-) ➡ D : Disabled ➡ S : Stopped ➡ I : Ignore errors ➡ H : Hot standby ➡ E : Error ➡ N: Drain ➡ C: Dynamic Health Check @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag
- 20. Some config params ➡ For Balancers: ➡ lbmethod ➡ load balancing algo to use [byrequests] ➡ stickysession ➡ sticky session name (eg: JSESSIONID) ➡ maxattempts ➡ # failover tries before we bail ➡ growth ➡ Extra BalancerMember slots to allow for ➡ @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag
- 21. Some config params ➡ For Balancers: ➡ nofailover ➡ pretty freakin obvious ➡ For both: ➡ ProxySet ➡ Alternate method to set various params @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag ProxySet balancer://foo timeout=10 ... ProxyPass / balancer://foo timeout=10
- 22. Connection Pooling ➡ Backend connection pooling ➡ Available for named workers: ➡ eg: ProxyPass /foo ajp://bar.example.com ➡ Reusable connection to origin ➡ For threaded MPMs, can adjust size of pool (min, max, smax) ➡ For prefork: singleton ➡ Shared data held in shared memory @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag
- 23. Some config params ➡ For BalancerMembers - connection pool: ➡ min ➡ Initial number of connections [0] ➡ max ➡ Hard maximum number of connections [1|TPC] ➡ smax: ➡ soft max - keep this number available [max] @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag
- 24. Some config params ➡ For BalancerMembers - connection pool: ➡ disablereuser/enablereuse: ➡ bypass/enable the connection pool (firewalls) ➡ ttl ➡ time to live for connections above smax @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag
- 25. Sessions ➡ Sticky session support ➡ aka “session affinity” ➡ Cookie based ➡ stickysession=PHPSESSID ➡ stickysession=JSESSIONID ➡ Natively easy with Tomcat ➡ May require more setup for “simple” HTTP proxying ➡ Use of mod_session helps @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag
- 26. Failover control ➡ Cluster set with failover ➡ Group backend servers as numbered sets ➡ balancer will try lower-valued sets first ➡ If no workers are available, will try next set ➡ Hot standby @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag
- 27. Putting it all together @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag <Proxy balancer://foo> BalancerMember http://php1:8080/ loadfactor=1 BalancerMember http://php2:8080/ loadfactor=4 BalancerMember http://phpbkup:8080/ loadfactor=1 status=+h BalancerMember http://phpexp:8080/ lbset=1 ProxySet lbmethod=bytraffic </Proxy> <Proxy balancer://javaapps> BalancerMember ajp://tc1:8089/ loadfactor=10 BalancerMember ajp://tc2:8089/ loadfactor=40 ProxySet lbmethod=byrequests </Proxy> ProxyPass /apps/ balancer://foo/ ProxyPassReverse /apps/ balancer://foo/ ProxyPass /serv/ balancer://javaapps/ ProxyPass /images/ http://images:8080/ ProxyPass /dyno h2c://pappy:80/ ProxyPass /foo unix:/home/www.socket|ajp://localhost/bar/
- 28. Mass Reverse Proxy ➡ We front-end a LOT of reverse proxies ➡ What a httpd.conf disaster! ➡ Slow and bloated ➡ mod_rewrite doesn’t help @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag <VirtualHost www1.example.com> ProxyPass / http://192.168.002.2:8080 ProxyPassReverse / http://192.168.002.2:8080 </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost www2.example.com> ProxyPass / http://192.168.002.12:8088 ProxyPassReverse / http://192.168.002.12:8088 </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost www3.example.com> ProxyPass / http://192.168.002.10 ProxyPassReverse / http://192.168.002.10 </VirtualHost> ... <VirtualHost www6341.example.com> ProxyPass / http://192.168.211.26 ProxyPassReverse / http://192.168.211.26 </VirtualHost>
- 29. Mass Reverse Proxy ➡ Use the new mod_proxy_express module ➡ ProxyPass mapping obtained via db file ➡ Fast and efficient ➡ Still dynamic, with no config changes required ➡ micro-services? You betcha! @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag ProxyExpress map file ## ##express-map.db: ## www1.example.com http://192.168.002.2:8080 www2.example.com http://192.168.002.12:8088 www3.example.com http://192.168.002.10 ... www6341.example.com http://192.168.211.26 httpd.conf file ProxyExpressEnable On ProxyExpressDBMFile express-map.db
- 30. HeartBeat / HeartMonitor ➡ Experimental LB (load balance) method ➡ Uses multicast between gateway and reverse proxies ➡ Provides heartbeat (are you there?) capability ➡ Also provides basic load info ➡ This info stored in shm, and used for balancing ➡ Multicast can be an issue ➡ Use mod_header with %l, %i, %b (loadavg, idle, busy) ➡ but no LBmethod currently uses this :( ➡ We need a universal “load” measure ➡ Can we leverage nanomsg (MIT licensed!) @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag
- 31. balancer-manager ➡ Embedded proxy admin web interface ➡ Allows for real-time ➡ Monitoring of stats for each worker ➡ Adjustment of worker params ➡ lbset ➡ load factor ➡ route ➡ enabled / disabled ➡ ... @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag
- 32. Embedded Admin ➡ Allows for real-time ➡ Addition of new workers/nodes ➡ Change of LB methods ➡ Can be persistent! ➡ More RESTful ➡ Can be CLI-driven @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag
- 33. Easy setup <Location /balancer-manager> SetHandler balancer-manager Require 192.168.2.22 </Location> @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag
- 34. @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag
- 35. server-status aware @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag
- 36. Performance ➡ From Bryan Call’s 2014 ApacheCon preso (http://www.slideshare.net/bryan_call/choosing-a-proxy-server-apachecon-2014) @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag • Squid&used&the&most& CPU&again& • NGiNX&had&latency& issues& • ATS&most&throughput& 0& 500& 1000& 1500& 2000& 2500& ATS& NGiNX& Squid& Varnish& hBpd& RPS$/$CPU$Usage$ 0& 5000& 10000& 15000& 20000& 25000& 30000& ATS& NGiNX& Squid& Varnish& hBpd& Requests$Per$Second$ 0& 5& 10& 15& 20& 25& 30& 35& 40& ATS& NGiNX& Squid& Varnish& hBpd& Latency$ Median& 95th&
- 37. nginx vs Event (typical) @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag Apache - Event MPM 0 500 1000 1500 2000 nginx 0 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 Open Write Read Close Increasing concurrency Increasing concurrency
- 38. Apache - Prefork MPM 0 500 1000 1500 2000 nginx vs Prefork (typical) @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag nginx 0 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 Open Write Read Close Increasing concurrency Increasing concurrency
- 39. Total req/resp time @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag Comparison - total transaction (close) 0 500 1000 1500 2000 Prefork Worker Event nginx Increasing concurrency
- 40. Resp to Req. Bursts - httperf @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag 100 ---> 20000 0.00 1.75 3.50 5.25 7.00 min avg max dev min avg max dev min avg max dev min avg max dev min avg max dev min avg max dev prefork worker event nginx Increasing concurrency
- 41. Backend Status ➡ Dynamic Health Checks ! ➡ TCP/IP Ping ➡ OPTIONS ➡ HEAD ➡ GET @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag ProxyHCExpr ok234 {%{REQUEST_STATUS} =~ /^[234]/} ProxyHCExpr gdown {%{REQUEST_STATUS} =~ /^[5]/} ProxyHCExpr in_maint {hc('body') !~ /Under maintenance/} <Proxy balancer://foo/> BalancerMember http://www.example.com/ hcmethod=GET hcexpr=in_maint hcuri=/status.php BalancerMember http://www2.example.com/ hcmethod=HEAD hcexpr=ok234 hcinterval=10 BalancerMember http://www3.example.com/ hcmethod=TCP hcinterval=5 hcpasses=2 hcfails=3 BalancerMember http://www4.example.com/ </Proxy> ProxyPass "/" “balancer://foo/" ProxyPassReverse "/" “balancer://foo/"
- 42. What else is new? ➡ Additional protocols ➡ UWSGI, PROXY (HAproxy) ➡ Improved caching ➡ Redis (coming soon!) ➡ Memcache now mod_status aware ➡ Apache Geode ➡ FPM Improved. ➡ Performance, of course! @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag
- 43. What’s on the horizon? ➡ Extend mod_proxy_express ➡ Adding additional protocols ➡ More dynamic configuration ➡ Adding balancers! ➡ Performance, of course! @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag
- 44. In conclusion... ➡ For cloud environs and other, the performance and dynamic control of Apache httpd 2.4 in reverse proxies is just what the Dr. ordered (and flexibility remains a big strength) @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag
- 45. Thanks @jimjag This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. - Jim Jagielski - @jimjag Twitter: @jimjag Emails: jim@jaguNET.com jim@apache.org jimjag@gmail.com http://www.slideshare.net/jimjag/