Debugging MQTT over websockets on Envoy 1.28.0

By Maximilian Batz | 2023-11-12

I have migrated our Envoy installation from Envoy 1.11.1 to 1.28.0, and am now also using SNI for selecting the correct certificate. A big part of that migration is upgrading the syntax of the configuration for Envoy from the v2 API to the v3 API. The upgrade went well, except for our websocket-based MQTT service…

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envoy serving a static response

By Maximilian Batz | 2019-05-20

Besides routing and redirecting you can serve static responses with Envoy. In this case I want to serve a forbidden response (403) route_config:   virtual_hosts:   – name: picockpit     domains: [“picockpit.local:443”, “picockpit.local”]     routes:       – match: { prefix: “/demo” }         direct_response:           status: 403           body:             inline_string: “Forbidden.”        – match: {prefix: “/”}         route: {cluster: target_picockpit} It can also serve…

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envoy not connecting to VerneMQ for MQTT over websockets, error code 503

By Maximilian Batz | 2019-05-19

Some quick background information for anyone running into the same issues, and how to debug them. Error code 503 This is the error code I am getting: Error during WebSocket handshake: Unexpected response code: 503. Set envoy logging to debug Here’s my docker-compose.yaml for envoy: version: ‘3.7’ services:   envoy:     build:       context: ./       dockerfile: Dockerfile     container_name:…

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envoy websockets per route configuration, JavaScript test setup

By Maximilian Batz | 2019-05-19

In my article yesterday I discussed the configuration & test of envoy for proxying websockets at length. Today I would like to add some additional information. correct syntax for websocket upgrade per route You can enable websocket upgrade per route. No need to add it globally: – name: envoy.http_connection_manager    config:      #upgrade_configs:      #  – upgrade_type: websocket     …

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envoy, docker and websockets – debugging and configuration

By Maximilian Batz | 2019-05-18

Websockets are an exciting technology, allowing you to upgrade a HTTP connection to a long-running persistent binary connection, which you can use to send bi-directional messages. As an aside, the MQTT protocol can be transported using websockets – which is the only (?) way for a JavaScript client delivered by the website, for instance. In…

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Route & Redirect with envoy

By Maximilian Batz | 2019-01-17

An example envoy.yaml showing how to route & redirect. There are different options, see here https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/api-v2/api/v2/route/route.proto#route-redirectaction This envoy.yaml routes /taxgod and /taxgod/ (the second could probably be omitted because the first one should also match it, I think) to a new port and a different protocol. /picockpit is simply redirected to / and then finally…

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Envoy routing and rewriting snippet

By Maximilian Batz | 2019-01-17

It is possible to rewrite URLs with Envoy for the backend. Please note that the HTML output needs to have the proper routes! (That is why I am not going to investigate further in this direction). REF: https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/api-v2/api/v2/route/route.proto#route-route  Also note that the string is going to be rendered literally for direct_response –> body –> inline_string,…

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