sovereign

sovereign

Mission statement

This project implements a JSON control-plane based on the envoy data-plane-api

The purpose of sovereign is to supply downstream envoy proxies with dynamic configuration.

Mechanism of Operation

Sovereign allows you to define templates that represent each resource type provided by Envoy. For example, clusters, routes, listeners, secrets, extension_configs, etc.

In order to enrich the templates with data, Sovereign has ways of polling data out-of-band which it then includes as variables that can be accessed within the templates.

This allows Sovereign to provide configuration to Envoy that changes over time depending on the data sources, without needing to redeploy the control-plane.

Sovereign provides some built-in ways of polling data (such as over HTTP, or on-disk) but also exposes extension points, allowing you to write your own plugins in Python.

Support

Submit new issues here

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Release

See [RELEASE.md]

Roadmap

• Performance improvements
• Data persistence
• Push API (versus polling)
• Client for Sovereign
• gRPC

Requirements

• Python 3.8+

Installation

pip install sovereign

Documentation

Read the docs here!

Local development

Requirements

• Poetry
• Docker
• Docker-compose

Installing dependencies for dev

Dependencies and creation of virtualenv is handled by poetry

poetry install
poetry shell

Running locally

Running the test env

make run

Running the test env daemonized

make run-daemon

Pylint

make lint

Unit tests

make unit

Acceptance tests

make run-daemon acceptance

Contributors

Pull requests, issues and comments welcome. For pull requests:

• Add tests for new features and bug fixes
• Follow the existing style
• Separate unrelated changes into multiple pull requests

See the existing issues for things to start contributing.

For bigger changes, make sure you start a discussion first by creating an issue and explaining the intended change.

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Prior to accepting your contributions we ask that you please follow the appropriate link below to digitally sign the CLA. The Corporate CLA is for those who are contributing as a member of an organization and the individual CLA is for those contributing as an individual.

• CLA for corporate contributors
• CLA for individuals

License

Copyright (c) 2018 Atlassian and others. Apache 2.0 licensed, see LICENSE.txt file.