Stream Proxy

TCP is the protocol for many popular applications and services, such as LDAP, MySQL, and RTMP. UDP (User Datagram Protocol) is the protocol for many popular non-transactional applications, such as DNS, syslog, and RADIUS.

APISIX can dynamic load balancing TCP/UDP proxy. In Nginx world, we call TCP/UDP proxy to stream proxy, we followed this statement.

How to enable Stream proxy?

Setting the stream_proxy option in conf/config.yaml, specify a list of addresses that require dynamic proxy. By default, no any stream proxy is enabled.

apisix:
  stream_proxy: # TCP/UDP proxy
    tcp: # TCP proxy address list
      - 9100
      - "127.0.0.1:9101"
    udp: # UDP proxy address list
      - 9200
      - "127.0.0.1:9211"

How to set route?

Here is a mini example:

curl http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/admin/stream_routes/1 -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
    "remote_addr": "127.0.0.1",
    "upstream": {
        "nodes": {
            "127.0.0.1:1995": 1
        },
        "type": "roundrobin"
    }
}'

It means APISIX will proxy the request to 127.0.0.1:1995 which the client remote address is 127.0.0.1.

For more use cases, please take a look at test case.

More Limit Options

And we can add more limit options to match a route, here is an example:

curl http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/admin/stream_routes/1 -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
    "server_addr": "127.0.0.1",
    "server_port": 2000,
    "upstream": {
        "nodes": {
            "127.0.0.1:1995": 1
        },
        "type": "roundrobin"
    }
}'

It means APISIX will proxy the request to 127.0.0.1:1995 which the server remote address is 127.0.0.1 and the server port is equal 2000.