express-sticky-cluster

Sticky session balancer based on a cluster and node-http-proxy modules, with express and socket.io support.

Designed for using like express-cluster.

No memory leaks since version 1.0.0!

How it works

Launches multiple worker processes through cluster, using bunch of ports. One worker process becomes also 'http-proxy', serving as sticky session balancer.

Establishes sticky round-robin balancer for any kind of http(s) frameworks. Not only, but including socket.io and express. Client will always connect to same worker process sticked with customizable hash function. For example, socket.io multi-stage authorization will work as expected.

Unused sessions stickers will be deleted after some time, so module does not have memory leaks.

Installation

npm install express-sticky-cluster [--save]

Usage example

Express 4 example with socket.io and passport.js usage.

./bin/www:

var app = require('../worker'),
    debug = require('debug')('example-app:server'),
    https = require('https'),
    fs = require('fs'),
    ipfilter = require('express-ipfilter').IpFilter;
var express_sticky_cluster = require('express-sticky-cluster');
 
var optionsHTTPs = {
        key: fs.readFileSync('./cert/def-secured.key'),
        cert: fs.readFileSync('./cert/def-secured.crt')
    };
    
var server = https.createServer(optionsHTTPs, app);
require('../socket.io')(require('socket.io')(server));
 
express_sticky_cluster(
    {
        workers: 0,
        respawn: true,
        socket: true,
        proxy_port: 443,
        worker_port: 8000,
        delay: 1000,        	    
        debug: true,
        ssl: {
            secure: true,
            certs: optionsHTTPs
        },	  
        ipfilter: ipfilter(['127.0.0.1', ['192.168.0.1', '192.168.0.200']], {mode: allow, log: false}),
        session: {
            hash: 'connect.sid',
            ttl: 360000
        },
        logger: undefined,
        workerListener: function (message) {}
    }, function (worker, port) {
        console.info('Worker ID#' + worker.id + ' process started PID#' + worker.process.pid);
        app.set('port', port);
        return server.listen(port);
    }
);
 
server.on('error', onError);
server.on('listening', onListening);
 
function onError(error) {
    if (error.syscall !== 'listen')
        throw error;
    var bind = typeof port === 'string'
        ? 'Pipe ' + port
        : 'Port ' + port;
    switch (error.code) {
        case 'EACCES':
            console.error(bind + ' requires elevated privileges');
            process.exit(1);
            break;
        case 'EADDRINUSE':
            console.error(bind + ' is already in use');
            process.exit(1);
            break;
        default:
            throw error;
    }
}
function onListening() {
    var addr = server.address();
    var bind = typeof addr === 'string'
        ? 'pipe ' + addr
        : 'port ' + addr.port;
    console.info('Listening on ' + bind + ' PID#' + process.pid);
}

./worker.js:

var express = require('express'),
    session = require('express-session'),
    passport = require('passport'),
    uuid = require('node-uuid');
    
var app = express();
 
var sessionFileStore = require('session-file-store')(session);
global.sessionStore = new sessionFileStore({
    path : path.join(__dirname, '/sessions')
});    
...
require('./passport')(passport);
app.use(passport.initialize());
app.use(passport.session());
...
app.use(session({
    secret: 'keyboard-cat',
    name: 'connect.sid',
    resave: true,
    rolling: true,
    saveUninitialized: true,
    cookie: {
        path: '/',
        httpOnly: false,
        secure: true,
        maxAge: 360000
    },
    store: global.sessionStore,
    genid: function (req) {
        return uuid.v4();
    }
}));
...
module.exports = app;

./socket.io.js:

var passportIo = require('passport.socketio'),
    cookieParser = require('cookie-parser');
 
module.exports = function (io) {
    io.use(passportIo.authorize({
        cookieParser: cookieParser,
        key: 'connect.sid',
        secret: 'keyboard-cat',
        store: global.sessionStore,
        success: function (data, accept) {
            accept();
        },
        fail: function (data, message, err, accept) {
            if(err)
                accept(new Error(message));
        }
    }));
    io.on('connection', function (socket) {
        socket.on('join', function (data) {
            console.log('join', data);
        });
        socket.on('disconnect', function () {
            socket.leave();
        });
    });
};

./passport.js:

var LocalStrategy = require('passport-local').Strategy;
 
module.exports = function (passport, licensing) {
    passport.serializeUser(function (user, done) {
        done(null, user);
    });
    passport.deserializeUser(function (user, done) {
        done(null, user);
    });
    passport.use(
        'local-signin',
        new LocalStrategy({
                usernameField: 'username',
                passwordField: 'password',
                passReqToCallback: true
            },
            function (req, username, password, done) {
                var objUser = {};
                return done(null, objUser, {message: 'Successfull login'});
            }
        )
    );
};

Options

• workers - Number of workers to spawn (default: CPU core count)
• respawn - Respawn process on exit (default: true)
• socket - Allow WebSocket proxy (default: true)
• proxy_port - Proxy listener port (default: if secure then 443 else 80)
• worker_port - Workers first port, increased for each worker (for 4 workers it will be use [worker_port, worker_port+1, worker_port+2, worker_port+3]) (default: 8000)
• delay - Proxy instance creating delay (default: 1000ms)
• debug - Log Proxy debug info to logger (default: false)
• ssl:
  1. secure - Create HTTP or HTTPS proxy (default: false means HTTP)
  2. certs - TLS certificates data object (default: undefined, if secure=true must contain you TLS certificates data)
• ipfilter - IP-filter function, for details see express-ipfilter (default: undefined)
• session:
  1. hash - Function (req, res) or Session cookie name. If function - can use cookie-based session ids and etc. (default: if undefined uses cookie-based session id from cookie 'connect.sid')
  2. ttl - Sessions TTL, uses for store configuration (default: 3600000ms)
• logger - Logger instance, for example new winston.Logger(...) instance (default: undefined)
• workerListener - Attach the given function to each spawned worker. The function will be bound to the worker that sent the message so you can setup a two way message bus if you want (default: undefined)

Callback function

• worker - current worker instance
• port - current worker assigned port

LICENSE

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2016 Valeriy V. Pushkar and contributors

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