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Sticky Session

Voyager 3.2.0+ can configure sticky connections in 2 modes. By applying annotation to an Ingress resource, you can configure all backends in that ingress to use sticky session. Or you can apply annotation to a service and configure backends using that service to use sticky session.

ingress.appscode.com/sticky-session annotations is deprecated in voyager 4.0.0+ and removed in 6.0.0+. Use ingress.appscode.com/affinity instead.

Sticky Ingress

Applying annotation ingress.appscode.com/affinity to Ingress will configure all backends to support sticky session.

apiVersion: voyager.appscode.com/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: test-ingress
  namespace: default
  annotation:
    ingress.appscode.com/affinity: 'cookie'
spec:
  rules:
  - host: foo.bar.com
    http:
      paths:
      - backend:
          serviceName: s1
          servicePort: '80'
  - host: bar.foo.com
    http:
      paths:
      - backend:
          serviceName: s2
          servicePort: '80'
  - host: tcp.bar.com
    tcp:
      port: '9898'
      backend:
        serviceName: tcp-service
        servicePort: '50077'

For the above ingress, all three backend connections will be sticky.

Sticky Service

Applying annotation ingress.appscode.com/affinity to a service will configures any backend that uses that service to use sticky connection. As an example, the following Ingress will only configure sticky connections for backends that use s1 Service.

kind: Service
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: s1
  namespace: default
  annotations:
    ingress.appscode.com/affinity: 'cookie'
spec:
  selector:
    app: app
  ports:
  - name: http
    protocol: TCP
    port: 80
    targetPort: 9376
  - name: ops
    protocol: TCP
    port: 5050
    targetPort: 5089
apiVersion: voyager.appscode.com/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: test-ingress
  namespace: default
spec:
  rules:
  - host: foo.bar.com
    http:
      paths:
      - path: /admin
        backend:
          serviceName: s1   # Sticky, since service s1 is annotated
          servicePort: '5050'
      - path: /
        backend:
          serviceName: s1   # Sticky, since service s1 is annotated
          servicePort: '80'
  - host: bar.foo.com
    http:
      paths:
      - backend:
          serviceName: s2   # Not sticky
          servicePort: '80'
  - host: tcp.bar.com
    tcp:
      port: '9898'
      backend:
        serviceName: tcp-service # Not sticky
        servicePort: '50077'

Other Annotations

  • ingress.appscode.com/session-cookie-name: When affinity is set to cookie, the name of the cookie to use.
  • ingress.appscode.com/session-cookie-hash: When affinity is set to cookie, the hash algorithm used: md5, sha, index.