Summary

Name

The consumer-restriction can restrict access to a Service or a Route by either whitelisting or blacklisting consumers. Support single or multiple consumers.

Attributes

NameRequirementDescription
whitelistoptionalList of consumers to whitelist
blacklistoptionalList of consumers to blacklist

One of whitelist or blacklist must be specified, and they can not work together.

How To Enable

Creates a route or service object, and enable plugin consumer-restriction.

curl http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/admin/consumers/1 -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -i -d '
{
    "username": "jack1",
    "plugins": {
        "basic-auth": {
            "username":"jack2019",
            "password": "123456"
        }
    }
}'

curl http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/admin/consumers/2 -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -i -d '
{
    "username": "jack2",
    "plugins": {
        "basic-auth": {
            "username":"jack2020",
            "password": "123456"
        }
    }
}'

curl http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/admin/routes/1 -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
    "uri": "/index.html",
    "upstream": {
        "type": "roundrobin",
        "nodes": {
            "127.0.0.1:1980": 1
        }
    },
    "plugins": {
        "basic-auth": {},
        "consumer-restriction": {
            "whitelist": [
                "jack1"
            ]
        }
    }
}'

Test Plugin

Requests from jack1:

$ curl -u jack2019:123456 http://127.0.0.1:9080/index.html
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
...

Requests from jack2:

$ curl -u jack2020:123456 http://127.0.0.1:9080/index.html -i
HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
...
{"message":"You are not allowed"}

Disable Plugin

When you want to disable the consumer-restriction plugin, it is very simple, you can delete the corresponding json configuration in the plugin configuration, no need to restart the service, it will take effect immediately:

$ curl http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/admin/routes/1 -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
    "uri": "/index.html",
    "upstream": {
        "type": "roundrobin",
        "nodes": {
            "127.0.0.1:1980": 1
        }
    },
    "plugins": {
        "basic-auth": {}
    }
}'

The consumer-restriction plugin has been disabled now. It works for other plugins.