From 71abf1caa2aa1d6381bf27ce7d0050fe09bdb374 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brandon Thomas <echelon@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2023 15:31:52 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix the pushback filter for the global GKE load balancer

---
 .../http_server/middleware/pushback_filter_middleware.rs  | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/crates/service/web/storyteller_web/src/http_server/middleware/pushback_filter_middleware.rs b/crates/service/web/storyteller_web/src/http_server/middleware/pushback_filter_middleware.rs
index 1eb0708276..2e97c56ed9 100644
--- a/crates/service/web/storyteller_web/src/http_server/middleware/pushback_filter_middleware.rs
+++ b/crates/service/web/storyteller_web/src/http_server/middleware/pushback_filter_middleware.rs
@@ -100,7 +100,13 @@ impl<S> Service<ServiceRequest> for PushbackFilterMiddleware<S>
 
     if !can_bypass_filter {
       // Don't kill the load balancer!
-      can_bypass_filter = req.path().starts_with("/_status");
+      //
+      // - `/` is used by the K8s load balancer:
+      //       gcloud compute health-checks describe k8s1-30d9a0ff-storyteller-storyteller-service-8080-0a8fb2fe
+      //
+      // - `/_status` is used by the K8s pod scheduler.
+      //
+      can_bypass_filter = req.path().starts_with("/_status") || req.path().eq("/");
     }
 
     if !can_bypass_filter {