Cloudflare Containers provides a platform to run containerized applications. The platform is well-suited for short-lived bursts of queries. This repository contains a simple example of deploying a Rust-based BGP Data Search API using Cloudflare Containers.
The BGP data search API allows searching for BGP updates data archived on RouteViews or RIPE RIS
and is built with BGPKIT in Rust.
Using the axum web framework, it provides a simple interface to query BGP data.
The API provides the /search endpoint with the following required parameters:
collector: The BGP collector to query, e.g.,ris,routeviews, etc.prefix: The BGP prefix to search for, e.g.,1.1.1.0/24.ts_start: The start time of the query, RFC3339 format, e.g.,2023-01-01T00:00:00Zor Unix timestamp in seconds.ts_end: The end time of the query, RFC3339 format, e.g.,2023-01-02T00:00:00Zor Unix timestamp in seconds.
In the backend, it searches relevant BGP data files with bgpkit_broker and parses the found BGP updates data using bgpkit_parser.
It returns the parsed BGP updates data in JSON format.
We also need to run a wrapper API to handle the HTTP requests and route them to the containerized BGP Data Search API.
This works as a wrapper around the BGP Data Search API, allowing it to be accessed via a Cloudflare Workers endpoint (e.g. https://XXXXX.workers.dev).
We use hono as the web framework for this wrapper.
The project uses the Cloudflare Containers tooling to build and deploy the application. To build and deploy the application, simply run the following command:
npx wrangler deploy