Solution Patterns: Connect, Secure and Protect with Red Hat Connectivity Link

See the Solution in Action

1. Dynamic Plugin

Connectivity Link provides a Dynamic plugin to help you view the relevant resources from a single pane of glass.

  • Enable this plugin as guided in this interactive demo

  • The plugin’s overview shows all the relevant Kubernetes resources from Gateway API (Gateways and HTTPRoutes) and also the Connectivity Link policies

    kuadrant overview

  • Here the (AP) prod-web-deny-all is marked as Accepted (Not Enforced), because this AuthPolicy is accepted, but is overridden by the other policies (AP) echo-api-allow-all and (AP) globex-mobile-gateway

  • Explore the policies from one single place.

  • The Policy Topology view visualizes the relationships and interactions between different resources within your cluster related to Kuadrant, allowing you to explore connections between Gateways, HTTPRoutes and Kuadrant Policies.

    kuadrant policy topology

2. Observability

Connectivity Link provides a variety of starting points for monitoring your Connectivity Link installation in the Kuadrant upstream project (examples from kuadrant.io) folder. These dashboards and alerts are ready-to-use and easily customizable to fit your environment.

The example dashboards uploaded to Grafana.com

Name

ID

App Developer Dashboard

21538

Business User Dashboard

20981

Platform Engineer Dashboard

20982

  • These dashboards can be accessed via Grafana from here

  • Login with admin/admin and when prompted use admin/admin to pick a new passowrd

    grafana changepassword

  • From the left-hand navigation, access Dashboards > Browse menu

    grafana dashboard leftnav

  • Click on the Default folder to view the preloaded dahsboards

    grafana dashboards list

  • Click on App Developer Dashboard to view the detail of this Dashboard. You can view both the echo-api and globex-mobile-gateway

    grafana app dev dashabord

  • You can the other dashboard by accessing the links to Business User and Plarform Engineer dashboards from the Kuadrant Dashboards section on top-left of this page.

  • Explore the various persona-based dashboards available.

  • Here is a sample Platform Engineer based Dashboard

    grafana pe dashabord

  • Here is a sample Business User based Dashboard

    grafana bu dashabord

3. Conclusion

With this setup, Globex is all set to onboard further service enpoints to be accessed securely. This solution can be further extended to span across a multi-cluster setup too.

We will also extend this pattern to include the all important Observability aspects as well.

Read more here