Apply throttling settings to Files API
What does this MR do?
Contributes to #335075
Roadmap
- Database migration MR: !68559 (merged)
- Throttling configuration form in Admin Area MR: !68560 (merged)
- Rack attack configuration MR <== This MR
- Documentation update: !68645 (merged)
Why
We want to have an option to rate limit Files API requests.
Current MR
- Configures Rack Attack to use application settings for Files API throttling
Screenshots or Screencasts (strongly suggested)
How to setup and validate locally (strongly suggested)
- Enable feature flag:
Feature.enable(:files_api_throttling)
- Go to Admin Area -> Network: http://<gdk_url>/admin/application_settings/network
- Enable a restrictive rate-limit for Files API and save changes. For example, 2 authorized requests per 15 seconds
- Restart GDK to apply the rate-limit (
gdk restart rails-web
) - Make consecutive requests to Files API (for example,
http://<gdk_url>/api/v4/projects/4/repository/files/README?ref=master
) - Verify that API returns 429 page when rate-limit reached
Does this MR meet the acceptance criteria?
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Edited by Vasilii Iakliushin