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Integration test and documentation for Proxy w/o ZK (#3352)
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Adds an integration test which creates a proxy which connects to the
brokers using broker URLs rather than service discovery.

Adds documentation for configuring the proxy in this way.

Issue: #2405
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49 changes: 43 additions & 6 deletions site2/docs/administration-proxy.md
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sidebar_label: Pulsar proxy
---

The [Pulsar proxy](concepts-architecture-overview.md#pulsar-proxy) is an optional gateway that you can run over the brokers in a Pulsar cluster. We recommend running a Pulsar proxy in cases when direction connections between clients and Pulsar brokers are either infeasible, undesirable, or both, for example when running Pulsar in a cloud environment or on [Kubernetes](https://kubernetes.io) or an analogous platform.
The [Pulsar proxy](concepts-architecture-overview.md#pulsar-proxy) is an optional gateway that you can run in front of the brokers in a Pulsar cluster. We recommend running a Pulsar proxy in cases when direction connections between clients and Pulsar brokers are either infeasible, undesirable, or both, for example when running Pulsar in a cloud environment or on [Kubernetes](https://kubernetes.io) or an analogous platform.

## Running the proxy
## Configuring the proxy

In order to run the Pulsar proxy, you need to have both a local [ZooKeeper](https://zookeeper.apache.org) and configuration store quorum set up for use by your Pulsar cluster. For instructions, see [this document](deploy-bare-metal.md). Once you have ZooKeeper set up and have connection strings for both ZooKeeper quorums, you can use the [`proxy`](reference-cli-tools.md#pulsar-proxy) command of the [`pulsar`](reference-cli-tools.md#pulsar) CLI tool to start up the proxy (preferably on its own machine or in its own VM):
The proxy must have some way to find the addresses of the brokers of the cluster. You can do this by either configuring the proxy to connect directly to service discovery or by specifying a broker URL in the configuration.

### Option 1: Using service discovery

Pulsar uses [ZooKeeper](https://zookeeper.apache.org) for service discovery. To connect the proxy to ZooKeeper, specify the following in `conf/proxy.conf`.
```properties
zookeeperServers=zk-0,zk-1,zk-2
configurationStoreServers=zk-0:2184,zk-remote:2184
```

> If using service discovery, the network ACL must allow the proxy to talk to the ZooKeeper nodes on the zookeeper client port, which is usually 2181, and on the configuration store client port, which is 2184 by default. Opening the network ACLs means that if someone compromises a proxy, they have full access to ZooKeeper. For this reason, it is more secure to use broker URLs to configure the proxy.
### Option 2: Using broker URLs

The more secure method of configuring the proxy is to specify a URL to connect to the brokers.

> [Authorization](security-authorization#enabling-authorization-and-assigning-superusers) at the proxy requires access to ZooKeeper, so if you are using this broker URLs to connect to the brokers, Proxy level authorization should be disabled. Brokers will still authorize requests after the proxy forwards them.
You can configure the broker URLs in `conf/proxy.conf` as follows.

```properties
brokerServiceURL=pulsar://brokers.example.com:6650
brokerWebServiceURL=http://brokers.example.com:8080
functionWorkerWebServiceURL=http://function-workers.example.com:8080
```

Or if using TLS:
```properties
brokerServiceURLTLS=pulsar+ssl://brokers.example.com:6651
brokerWebServiceURLTLS=https://brokers.example.com:8443
functionWorkerWebServiceURL=https://function-workers.example.com:8443
```

The hostname in the URLs provided should be a DNS entry which points to multiple brokers or a Virtual IP which is backed by multiple broker IP addresses so that the proxy does not lose connectivity to the pulsar cluster if a single broker becomes unavailable.

The ports to connect to the brokers (6650 & 8080, or in the case of TLS, 6651 & 8443) should be open in the network ACLs.

Note that if you are not using functions, then `functionWorkerWebServiceURL` does not need to be configured.

## Starting the proxy

To start the proxy:

```bash
$ cd /path/to/pulsar/directory
$ bin/pulsar proxy \
--zookeeper-servers zk-0,zk-1,zk-2 \
--global-zookeeper-servers zk-0,zk-1,zk-2
$ bin/pulsar proxy
```

> You can run as many instances of the Pulsar proxy in a cluster as you would like.
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### Enabling Authorization and Assigning Superusers

Authorization is enabled and superusers are assigned in the broker ([`conf/broker.conf`](reference-configuration.md#broker)) and proxy ([`conf/proxy.conf`](reference-configuration.md#proxy)) configuration files.
Authorization is enabled and superusers are assigned in the broker ([`conf/broker.conf`](reference-configuration.md#broker)) configuration files.

```properties
authorizationEnabled=true
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Typically, superuser roles are used for administrators and clients but also for broker-to-broker authorization. When using [geo-replication](concepts-replication.md), every broker needs to be able to publish to all the other clusters' topics.

Authorization can also be enabled for the proxy the proxy configuration file (`conf/proxy.conf`). If it is enabled on the proxy, the proxy will do an additional authorization check before forwarding the request to a broker. The broker will still check the authorization of the request when it receives the forwarded request.

### Proxy Roles

By default, the broker treats the connection between a proxy and the broker as a normal user connection. The user is authenticated as the role configured in ```proxy.conf``` (see ["Enabling TLS Authentication on Proxies"](security-tls-authentication#on-proxies)). However, this is rarely the behaviour that the user desires when connecting to the cluster through a proxy. The user expects to be able to interact with the cluster as the role for which they have authenticated with the proxy.
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import org.apache.pulsar.client.api.Schema;
import org.apache.pulsar.common.policies.data.TenantInfo;
import org.apache.pulsar.common.policies.data.TopicStats;
import org.apache.pulsar.tests.integration.containers.ProxyContainer;
import org.apache.pulsar.tests.integration.suites.PulsarTestSuite;
import org.apache.pulsar.tests.integration.topologies.PulsarClusterSpec;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

/**
* Test cases for proxy.
*/
public class TestProxy extends PulsarTestSuite {
private final static Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(TestProxy.class);
private ProxyContainer proxyViaURL;

@Test
public void testProxy() throws Exception {
@Override
protected PulsarClusterSpec.PulsarClusterSpecBuilder beforeSetupCluster(
String clusterName,
PulsarClusterSpec.PulsarClusterSpecBuilder specBuilder) {
proxyViaURL = new ProxyContainer(clusterName, "proxy-via-url")
.withEnv("brokerServiceURL", "pulsar://pulsar-broker-0:6650")
.withEnv("brokerWebServiceURL", "http://pulsar-broker-0:8080")
.withEnv("clusterName", clusterName);

final String tenant = "compaction-test-cli-" + randomName(4);
specBuilder.externalService("proxy-via-url", proxyViaURL);
return super.beforeSetupCluster(clusterName, specBuilder);
}

private void testProxy(String serviceUrl, String httpServiceUrl) throws Exception {
final String tenant = "proxy-test-" + randomName(10);
final String namespace = tenant + "/ns1";
final String topic = "persistent://" + namespace + "/topic1";

@Cleanup
PulsarAdmin admin = PulsarAdmin.builder()
.serviceHttpUrl(pulsarCluster.getHttpServiceUrl())
.build();
.serviceHttpUrl(httpServiceUrl)
.build();

admin.tenants().createTenant(tenant,
new TenantInfo(Collections.emptySet(), Collections.singleton(pulsarCluster.getClusterName())));
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@Cleanup
PulsarClient client = PulsarClient.builder()
.serviceUrl(pulsarCluster.getPlainTextServiceUrl())
.build();
.serviceUrl(serviceUrl)
.build();

client.newConsumer()
.topic(topic)
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}
}

@Test
public void testProxyWithServiceDiscovery() throws Exception {
testProxy(pulsarCluster.getPlainTextServiceUrl(), pulsarCluster.getHttpServiceUrl());
}

@Test
public void testProxyWithNoServiceDiscoveryProxyConnectsViaURL() throws Exception {
testProxy(proxyViaURL.getPlainTextServiceUrl(), proxyViaURL.getHttpServiceUrl());
}

}
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import lombok.Builder.Default;
import lombok.Getter;
import lombok.Setter;
import lombok.Singular;
import lombok.experimental.Accessors;

import org.apache.pulsar.tests.integration.containers.PulsarContainer;
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*
* @return the list of external services to start with the cluster.
*/
@Singular
Map<String, GenericContainer<?>> externalServices = Collections.EMPTY_MAP;

/**
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