Lunar.dev’s mission is to enable optimization and control of third-party API consumption in production environments. Lunar is a lightweight tool that empowers DevOps and engineering teams to centralize consumption, gain insight and visibility into usage patterns and costs, and utilize out-of-the-box policies.

⚡️ Quick Start

Welcome to the lunar.dev quickstart guide! This tutorial is designed to cover the basic steps of installing the two key components - Lunar Proxy and Lunar Interceptor - that allow lunar.dev to do its magic. Then we'll create a basic policy that shows how easy it is to control and optimize your API consumption.

Below, you'll find a helpful video introduction followed by detailed setup instructions for Docker or Kubernetes, and programming language-specific installations. Let's dive in.

Lunar Proxy Installation

Option 1: Docker

Step 1: Run Lunar's Proxy Container

docker run -d --rm -p 8000:8000 -p 8081:8081 -p 8040:8040 -e TENANT_NAME="ORGANIZATION" -v $(pwd):/etc/lunar-proxy --name lunar-proxy lunarapi/lunar-proxy:latest

:::caution Note that the TENANT_NAME environment variable is required. This variable should be set to the name of your organization. :::

Step 2: Run Post-Installation Health-Check

curl http://localhost:8040/healthcheck

A correct result should be proxy is up.

Step 3: Pass an API Request

curl http://localhost:8000/fact -H "x-lunar-host: catfact.ninja" -H "x-lunar-scheme: https"

Then, use the Discover command to validate that the requests were passed through Lunar Proxy.

docker exec lunar-proxy discover

Option 2: Kubernetes

Step 1: Add and Update Lunar Repository

helm repo add lunar https://thelunarcompany.github.io/proxy-helm-chart/
helm repo update

Step 2: Install Lunar Proxy Helm Chart

helm install lunar-proxy lunar/lunar-proxy --set tenantName=<name>

Before installing Lunar's Proxy, ensure that the tenantName is set to the name of your organization, for example: Acme or Google.

Step 3: Run Post-Installation Health-Check

helm test lunar-proxy

Step 4: Pass an API Request

curl http://localhost:8000/fact -H "x-lunar-host: catfact.ninja" -H "x-lunar-scheme: https"

Then, use the discover command to validate that the requests were passed through Lunar Proxy.

kubectl exec <lunar-proxy-pod-name> -- discover

Lunar Interceptor Installation

Lunar Interceptor needs to be imported to your app. In case you don't have a relevant app in place, refer to our Example Apps

Step 1: Install Lunar Interceptor

Python

pip3 install --upgrade lunar-interceptor

Node.JS

npm install lunar-interceptor

Java

wget -O lunarInterceptor.jar https://s01.oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/releases/dev/lunar/interceptor/lunar-interceptor/0.1.1/lunar-interceptor-0.1.1.jar

Step 2: Link Lunar Interceptor to Lunar Proxy

export LUNAR_PROXY_HOST="lunar-proxy:8000"

Step 3: Import Lunar Interceptor to Your App

Python

import lunar_interceptor
# imports ...

# your code
def main():

Node.JS

require("lunar-interceptor")
# imports ...

# your code

Java

Enable the instrumentation agent by using the -javaagent flag with the JVM.

export JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS="-javaagent:PATH/TO/lunarInterceptor.jar"

Step 4: Run Your App and Validate Proxy/Interceptor Linkage

Run your app and consume API traffic. Then, use the Discover command to validate that the requests were passed through Lunar Proxy, and that your installed interceptor is correctly listed.

Option 1: Docker

docker exec lunar-proxy discover

Option 2: Kubernetes

kubectl exec <lunar-proxy-pod-name> -- discover

Configuration

Configure the policies.yaml file

After validaing the succussful installation of both Lunar Interceptor and Lunar Proxy, configure a remedy policy for optimizaing your current API consumption.

Edit your policies.yaml file with the following strategy-based-throttling plugin configuration.

global:
  remedies:
    - name: Strategy Based Throttling Quick Start
      enabled: true
      config:
        strategy_based_throttling:
          allowed_request_count: 100
          window_size_in_seconds: 60
          response_status_code: 429

In the above example, the plugin will enforce a limit of 100 requests per minute for all requests. If the limit is exceeded, the plugin will return a 429 HTTP status code.

Apply Policy

After making changes to your local policies.yaml file, use the apply_policies command to apply the new policies.

docker exec lunar-proxy apply_policies

Demo

Check out our demo video for a quick start here.

Lunar Sandbox

To try out Lunar without installing anything, check out our sandbox.

Getting Help

For any questions, feel free to reach out to us at info@lunar.dev.

Testing / Linting

Proxy

To run tests:

cd proxy/integration-tests
pipenv install --dev
pipenv run behave

Linting is described here.

Interceptor

To run tests:

cd interceptors/integration-tests
pipenv install --dev

export CLIENT_LANGUAGE=python CLIENT_VERSION=3.10  # For Python tests
# OR
export CLIENT_LANGUAGE=java                        # For Java tests

pipenv run behave