title: Deployment modes keywords:
APISIX has three different deployment modes for different production use cases. The table below summarises the deployment modes:
| Deployment mode | Roles | Description |
|---|---|---|
| traditional | traditional | Data plane and control plane are deployed together. enable_admin attribute should be disabled manually. |
| decoupled | data_plane / control_plane | Data plane and control plane are deployed independently. |
| standalone | data_plane | Only data_plane is deployed and the configurations are loaded from a local YAML file. |
Each of these deployment modes are explained in detail below.
In the traditional deployment mode, one instance of APISIX will be both the data_plane and the control_plane.
An example configuration of the traditional deployment mode is shown below:
apisix: node_listen: - port: 9080 deployment: role: traditional role_traditional: config_provider: etcd admin: admin_listen: port: 9180 etcd: host: - http://${etcd_IP}:${etcd_Port} prefix: /apisix timeout: 30 #END
The instance of APISIX deployed as the traditional role will:
9080 to handle user requests, controlled by node_listen.9180 to handle Admin API requests, controlled by admin_listen.In the decoupled deployment mode the data_plane and control_plane instances of APISIX are deployed separately, i.e., one instance of APISIX is configured to be a data plane and the other to be a control plane.
The instance of APISIX deployed as the data plane will:
Once the service is started, it will handle the user requests.
The example below shows the configuration of an APISIX instance as data plane in the decoupled mode:
deployment: role: data_plane role_data_plane: config_provider: etcd #END
The instance of APISIX deployed as the control plane will:
9180 and handle Admin API requests.The example below shows the configuration of an APISIX instance as control plane in the decoupled mode:
deployment: role: control_plane role_control_plane: config_provider: etcd etcd: host: - https://${etcd_IP}:${etcd_Port} prefix: /apisix timeout: 30 #END
Turning on the APISIX node in Standalone mode will no longer use the default etcd as the configuration center.
This method is more suitable for two types of users:
The routing rules in the conf/apisix.yaml file are loaded into memory immediately after the APISIX node service starts. And every time interval (default 1 second), will try to detect whether the file content is updated, if there is an update, reload the rule.
Note: Reloading and updating routing rules are all hot memory updates. There is no replacement of working processes, since it's a hot update.
Since the current Admin API is based on the etcd configuration center solution, enable Admin API is not allowed when the Standalone mode is enabled.
Standalone mode can only be enabled when we set the role of APISIX as data plane. We set deployment.role to data_plane and deployment.role_data_plane.config_provider to yaml.
Refer to the example below:
deployment: role: data_plane role_data_plane: config_provider: yaml #END
All of the rules are stored in one file which named conf/apisix.yaml, APISIX checks if this file has any change every second. If the file is changed & it ends with #END, APISIX loads the rules from this file and updates its memory.
Here is a mini example:
routes: - uri: /hello upstream: nodes: "127.0.0.1:1980": 1 type: roundrobin #END
WARNING: APISIX will not load the rules into memory from file conf/apisix.yaml if there is no #END at the end.
Environment variables can also be used like so:
routes: - uri: /hello upstream: nodes: "${{UPSTREAM_ADDR}}": 1 type: roundrobin #END
WARNING: When using docker to deploy APISIX in standalone mode. New environment variables added to apisix.yaml while APISIX has been initialized will only take effect after a reload.
More information about using environment variables can be found here.
Single Route：
routes: - uri: /hello upstream: nodes: "127.0.0.1:1980": 1 type: roundrobin #END
Multiple Routes：
routes: - uri: /hello upstream: nodes: "127.0.0.1:1980": 1 type: roundrobin - uri: /hello2 upstream: nodes: "127.0.0.1:1981": 1 type: roundrobin #END
routes: - uri: /hello service_id: 1 services: - id: 1 upstream: nodes: "127.0.0.1:1980": 1 type: roundrobin #END
routes: - uri: /hello upstream_id: 1 upstreams: - id: 1 nodes: "127.0.0.1:1980": 1 type: roundrobin #END
routes: - uri: /hello service_id: 1 services: - id: 1 upstream_id: 2 upstreams: - id: 2 nodes: "127.0.0.1:1980": 1 type: roundrobin #END
# plugins listed here will be hot reloaded and override the boot configuration plugins: - name: ip-restriction - name: jwt-auth - name: mqtt-proxy stream: true # set 'stream' to true for stream plugins #END
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global_rules: - id: 1 plugins: response-rewrite: body: "hello\n" #END
consumers: - username: jwt plugins: jwt-auth: key: user-key secret: my-secret-key #END
upstreams: - id: 1 nodes: "127.0.0.1:1980": 1 type: roundrobin routes: - uri: /hello upstream_id: 1 plugins: http-logger: batch_max_size: 1 uri: http://127.0.0.1:1980/log plugin_metadata: - id: http-logger # note the id is the plugin name log_format: host: "$host", remote_addr: "$remote_addr" #END
stream_routes: - server_addr: 127.0.0.1 server_port: 1985 id: 1 upstream_id: 1 plugins: mqtt-proxy: protocol_name: "MQTT" protocol_level: 4 upstreams: - nodes: "127.0.0.1:1995": 1 type: roundrobin id: 1 #END
protos: - id: helloworld desc: hello world content: > syntax = "proto3"; package helloworld; service Greeter { rpc SayHello (HelloRequest) returns (HelloReply) {} } message HelloRequest { string name = 1; } message HelloReply { string message = 1; } #END