Due to timing, a transparent proxy could have two upstreams to dial
directly with the same address.
For example:
- The orders service can dial upstreams shipping and payment directly.
- An instance of shipping at address 10.0.0.1 is deregistered.
- Payments is scaled up and scheduled to have address 10.0.0.1.
- The orders service receives the event for the new payments instance
before seeing the deregistration for the shipping instance. At this
point two upstreams have the same passthrough address and Envoy will
reject the listener configuration.
To disambiguate this commit considers the Raft index when storing
passthrough addresses. In the example above, 10.0.0.1 would only be
associated with the newer payments service instance.
set -euo pipefail
unset CDPATH
cd "$(dirname "$0")"
for f in $(git grep '\brequire := require\.New(' | cut -d':' -f1 | sort -u); do
echo "=== require: $f ==="
sed -i '/require := require.New(t)/d' $f
# require.XXX(blah) but not require.XXX(tblah) or require.XXX(rblah)
sed -i 's/\brequire\.\([a-zA-Z0-9_]*\)(\([^tr]\)/require.\1(t,\2/g' $f
# require.XXX(tblah) but not require.XXX(t, blah)
sed -i 's/\brequire\.\([a-zA-Z0-9_]*\)(\(t[^,]\)/require.\1(t,\2/g' $f
# require.XXX(rblah) but not require.XXX(r, blah)
sed -i 's/\brequire\.\([a-zA-Z0-9_]*\)(\(r[^,]\)/require.\1(t,\2/g' $f
gofmt -s -w $f
done
for f in $(git grep '\bassert := assert\.New(' | cut -d':' -f1 | sort -u); do
echo "=== assert: $f ==="
sed -i '/assert := assert.New(t)/d' $f
# assert.XXX(blah) but not assert.XXX(tblah) or assert.XXX(rblah)
sed -i 's/\bassert\.\([a-zA-Z0-9_]*\)(\([^tr]\)/assert.\1(t,\2/g' $f
# assert.XXX(tblah) but not assert.XXX(t, blah)
sed -i 's/\bassert\.\([a-zA-Z0-9_]*\)(\(t[^,]\)/assert.\1(t,\2/g' $f
# assert.XXX(rblah) but not assert.XXX(r, blah)
sed -i 's/\bassert\.\([a-zA-Z0-9_]*\)(\(r[^,]\)/assert.\1(t,\2/g' $f
gofmt -s -w $f
done
The gist here is that now we use a value-type struct proxycfg.UpstreamID
as the map key in ConfigSnapshot maps where we used to use "upstream
id-ish" strings. These are internal only and used just for bidirectional
trips through the agent cache keyspace (like the discovery chain target
struct).
For the few places where the upstream id needs to be projected into xDS,
that's what (proxycfg.UpstreamID).EnvoyID() is for. This lets us ALWAYS
inject the partition and namespace into these things without making
stuff like the golden testdata diverge.
This safeguard should be safe to apply in general. We are already
applying it to non-blocking queries that call blockingQuery, so it
should be fine to apply it to others.
* xds: refactor ingress listener SDS configuration
* xds: update resolveListenerSDS call args in listeners_test
* ingress: add TLS min, max and cipher suites to GatewayTLSConfig
* xds: implement envoyTLSVersions and envoyTLSCipherSuites
* xds: merge TLS config
* xds: configure TLS parameters with ingress TLS context from leaf
* xds: nil check in resolveListenerTLSConfig validation
* xds: nil check in makeTLSParameters* functions
* changelog: add entry for TLS params on ingress config entries
* xds: remove indirection for TLS params in TLSConfig structs
* xds: return tlsContext, nil instead of ambiguous err
Co-authored-by: Chris S. Kim <ckim@hashicorp.com>
* xds: switch zero checks to types.TLSVersionUnspecified
* ingress: add validation for ingress config entry TLS params
* ingress: validate listener TLS config
* xds: add basic ingress with TLS params tests
* xds: add ingress listeners mixed TLS min version defaults precedence test
* xds: add more explicit tests for ingress listeners inheriting gateway defaults
* xds: add test for single TLS listener on gateway without TLS defaults
* xds: regen golden files for TLSVersionInvalid zero value, add TLSVersionAuto listener test
* types/tls: change TLSVersion to string
* types/tls: update TLSCipherSuite to string type
* types/tls: implement validation functions for TLSVersion and TLSCipherSuites, make some maps private
* api: add TLS params to GatewayTLSConfig, add tests
* api: add TLSMinVersion to ingress gateway config entry test JSON
* xds: switch to Envoy TLS cipher suite encoding from types package
* xds: fixup validation for TLSv1_3 min version with cipher suites
* add some kitchen sink tests and add a missing struct tag
* xds: check if mergedCfg.TLSVersion is in TLSVersionsWithConfigurableCipherSuites
* xds: update connectTLSEnabled comment
* xds: remove unsued resolveGatewayServiceTLSConfig function
* xds: add makeCommonTLSContextFromLeafWithoutParams
* types/tls: add LessThan comparator function for concrete values
* types/tls: change tlsVersions validation map from string to TLSVersion keys
* types/tls: remove unused envoyTLSCipherSuites
* types/tls: enable chacha20 cipher suites for Consul agent
* types/tls: remove insecure cipher suites from allowed config
TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256 and TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256 are both explicitly listed as insecure and disabled in the Go source.
Refs https://cs.opensource.google/go/go/+/refs/tags/go1.17.3:src/crypto/tls/cipher_suites.go;l=329-330
* types/tls: add ValidateConsulAgentCipherSuites function, make direct lookup map private
* types/tls: return all unmatched cipher suites in validation errors
* xds: check that Envoy API value matching TLS version is found when building TlsParameters
* types/tls: check that value is found in map before appending to slice in MarshalEnvoyTLSCipherSuiteStrings
* types/tls: cast to string rather than fmt.Printf in TLSCihperSuite.String()
* xds: add TLSVersionUnspecified to list of configurable cipher suites
* structs: update note about config entry warning
* xds: remove TLS min version cipher suite unconfigurable test placeholder
* types/tls: update tests to remove assumption about private map values
Co-authored-by: R.B. Boyer <rb@hashicorp.com>
Use the new verifyLearfCert to show the cert verifies with intermediates
from both sources. This required using the RPC interface so that the
leaf pem was constructed correctly.
Add IndexedCARoots.Active since that is a common operation we see in a
few places.
Failing over to a partition is more siimilar to failing over to another
datacenter than it is to failing over to a namespace. In a future
release we should update how localities for failover are specified. We
should be able to accept a list of localities which can include both
partition and datacenter.
* Add partition fields to targets like service route destinations
* Update validation to prevent cross-DC + cross-partition references
* Handle partitions when reading config entries for disco chain
* Encode partition in compiled targets
This table purposefully does not index by partition/namespace. It's a
global view into all service names.
This table is intended to replace the current serviceListTxn watch in
intentionTopologyTxn. For cross-partition transparent proxying we need
to be able to calculate upstreams from intentions in any partition. This
means that the existing serviceListTxn function is insufficient since
it's scoped to a partition.
Moving away from that function is also beneficial because it watches the
main "services" table, so watchers will wake up when any instance is
registered or deregistered.
Cross port of ent #1383 "Reject non-default datacenter when making partitioned ACLs"
On the OSS side this is a minor refactor to add some more checks that are only applicable to enterprise code.
Signed-off-by: Mark Anderson <manderson@hashicorp.com>
As a method on the struct type this would not be safe to call without first checking
c.isIntermediateUsedToSignLeaf.
So for now, move this logic to the CAMananger, so that it is always correct.
We were not adding the local signing cert to the CARoot. This commit
fixes that bug, and also adds support for fixing existing CARoot on
upgrade.
Also update the tests for both primary and secondary to be more strict.
Check the SigningKeyID is correct after initialization and rotation.
Validation was added on the config entry kind since that is called when
validating config entries to bootstrap via agent configuration and when
applying entries via the config RPC endpoint.
* state: port KV and Tombstone tables to new pattern
* go fmt'ed
* handle wildcards for tombstones
* Fix graveyard ent vs oss
* fix oss compilation error
* add partition to tombstones and kv state store indexes
* refactor to use `indexWithEnterpriseIndexable`
* Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Chris S. Kim <ckim@hashicorp.com>
Co-authored-by: R.B. Boyer <4903+rboyer@users.noreply.github.com>
* add `singleValueID` implementation assertions
* partition `tableSessions` table
* fix sessions to use UUID and fix prefix index
* fix oss build
* clean up unused functions
* fix oss compilation
* add a partition indexer for sessions
* Fix oss to not have partition index
* fix oss tests
* remove unused operations_ent.go and operations_oss.go func
* remove unused const
* convert `IndexID` of `session_checks` table
* convert `indexSession` of `session_checks` table
* convert `indexNodeCheck` of `session_checks` table
* partition `indexID` and `indexSession` of `tableSessionChecks`
* fix oss linter
* fix review comments
* remove partition for Checks as it's always use the session partition
Co-authored-by: Daniel Nephin <dnephin@hashicorp.com>
Co-authored-by: Chris S. Kim <ckim@hashicorp.com>
Co-authored-by: R.B. Boyer <4903+rboyer@users.noreply.github.com>
* Support vault auth methods for the Vault connect CA provider
* Rotate the token (re-authenticate to vault using auth method) when the token can no longer be renewed
Fixes an issue described in #10132, where if two DCs are WAN federated
over mesh gateways, and the gateway in the non-primary DC is terminated
and receives a new IP address (as is commonly the case when running them
on ephemeral compute instances) the primary DC is unable to re-establish
its connection until the agent running on its own gateway is restarted.
This was happening because we always preferred gateways discovered by
the `Internal.ServiceDump` RPC (which would fail because there's no way
to dial the remote DC) over those discovered in the federation state,
which is replicated as long as the primary DC's gateway is reachable.
* state: port KV and Tombstone tables to new pattern
* go fmt'ed
* handle wildcards for tombstones
* Fix graveyard ent vs oss
* fix oss compilation error
* add partition to tombstones and kv state store indexes
* refactor to use `indexWithEnterpriseIndexable`
* Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Chris S. Kim <ckim@hashicorp.com>
Co-authored-by: R.B. Boyer <4903+rboyer@users.noreply.github.com>
* add `singleValueID` implementation assertions
* partition `tableSessions` table
* fix sessions to use UUID and fix prefix index
* fix oss build
* clean up unused functions
* fix oss compilation
* add a partition indexer for sessions
* Fix oss to not have partition index
* fix oss tests
* remove unused func `prefixIndexFromServiceNameAsString`
* fix test error check
* remove unused operations_ent.go and operations_oss.go func
* remove unused const
Co-authored-by: Daniel Nephin <dnephin@hashicorp.com>
Co-authored-by: Chris S. Kim <ckim@hashicorp.com>
Co-authored-by: R.B. Boyer <4903+rboyer@users.noreply.github.com>
* state: port KV and Tombstone tables to new pattern
* go fmt'ed
* handle wildcards for tombstones
* Fix graveyard ent vs oss
* fix oss compilation error
* add partition to tombstones and kv state store indexes
* refactor to use `indexWithEnterpriseIndexable`
* partition kvs indexID table
* add `partitionedIndexEntryName` in oss for test purpose
* Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Chris S. Kim <ckim@hashicorp.com>
Co-authored-by: R.B. Boyer <4903+rboyer@users.noreply.github.com>
* add `singleValueID` implementation assertions
* remove entmeta reference from oss
Co-authored-by: R.B. Boyer <4903+rboyer@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Daniel Nephin <dnephin@hashicorp.com>
Co-authored-by: Chris S. Kim <ckim@hashicorp.com>
Co-authored-by: R.B. Boyer <4903+rboyer@users.noreply.github.com>
These two fields do not appear to be used anywhere. We use the structs.ACLPolicy ID in the
ACLResolver cache, but the acl.Policy ID and revision are not used.
* Support Vault Namespaces explicitly in CA config
If there is a Namespace entry included in the Vault CA configuration,
set it as the Vault Namespace on the Vault client
Currently the only way to support Vault namespaces in the Consul CA
config is by doing one of the following:
1) Set the VAULT_NAMESPACE environment variable which will be picked up
by the Vault API client
2) Prefix all Vault paths with the namespace
Neither of these are super pleasant. The first requires direct access
and modification to the Consul runtime environment. It's possible and
expected, not super pleasant.
The second requires more indepth knowledge of Vault and how it uses
Namespaces and could be confusing for anyone without that context. It
also infers that it is not supported
* Add changelog
* Remove fmt.Fprint calls
* Make comment clearer
* Add next consul version to website docs
* Add new test for default configuration
* go mod tidy
* Add skip if vault not present
* Tweak changelog text
* Remove some usage of md5 from the system
OSS side of https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-enterprise/pull/1253
This is a potential security issue because an attacker could conceivably manipulate inputs to cause persistence files to collide, effectively deleting the persistence file for one of the colliding elements.
Signed-off-by: Mark Anderson <manderson@hashicorp.com>
* add root_cert_ttl option for consul connect, vault ca providers
Signed-off-by: FFMMM <FFMMM@users.noreply.github.com>
* Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Chris S. Kim <ckim@hashicorp.com>
* add changelog, pr feedback
Signed-off-by: FFMMM <FFMMM@users.noreply.github.com>
* Update .changelog/11428.txt, more docs
Co-authored-by: Daniel Nephin <dnephin@hashicorp.com>
* Update website/content/docs/agent/options.mdx
Co-authored-by: Kyle Havlovitz <kylehav@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Chris S. Kim <ckim@hashicorp.com>
Co-authored-by: Daniel Nephin <dnephin@hashicorp.com>
Co-authored-by: Kyle Havlovitz <kylehav@gmail.com>
The api module has decoding functions that rely on 'kind' being present
of payloads. This is so that we can decode into the appropriate api type
for the config entry.
This commit ensures that a static kind is marshalled in responses from
Consul's api endpoints so that the api module can decode them.
Existing config entries prefixed by service- are specific to individual
services. Since this config entry applies to partitions it is being
renamed.
Additionally, the Partition label was changed to Name because using
Partition at the top-level and in the enterprise meta was leading to the
enterprise meta partition being dropped by msgpack.
We no long need to read the acl serf tag, because servers are always either ACL enabled or
ACL disabled.
We continue to write the tag so that during an upgarde older servers will see the tag.
Replace it with an implementation that returns an error, and rename some symbols
to use a Deprecated suffix to make it clear.
Also remove the ACLRequest struct, which is no longer referenced.
These methods only called a single function. Wrappers like this end up making code harder to read
because it adds extra ways of doing things.
We already have many helper functions for constructing these types, we don't need additional methods.
structs.ACLForceSet was deprecated 4 years ago, it should be safe to remove now.
ACLBootstrapNow was removed in a recent commit. While it is technically possible that a cluster with mixed version
could still attempt a legacy boostrap, we documented that the legacy system was deprecated in 1.4, so no
clusters that are being upgraded should be attempting a legacy boostrap.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Sokołowski <jakub@status.im>
* agent: add failures_before_warning setting
The new setting allows users to specify the number of check failures
that have to happen before a service status us updated to be `warning`.
This allows for more visibility for detected issues without creating
alerts and pinging administrators. Unlike the previous behavior, which
caused the service status to not update until it reached the configured
`failures_before_critical` setting, now Consul updates the Web UI view
with the `warning` state and the output of the service check when
`failures_before_warning` is breached.
The default value of `FailuresBeforeWarning` is the same as the value of
`FailuresBeforeCritical`, which allows for retaining the previous default
behavior of not triggering a warning.
When `FailuresBeforeWarning` is set to a value higher than that of
`FailuresBeforeCritical it has no effect as `FailuresBeforeCritical`
takes precedence.
Resolves: https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10680
Signed-off-by: Jakub Sokołowski <jakub@status.im>
Co-authored-by: Jakub Sokołowski <jakub@status.im>
Some users are defining routing configurations that do not have associated services. This commit surfaces these configs in the topology visualization. Also fixes a minor internal bug with non-transparent proxy upstream/downstream references.
- The TestNodeService helper created services with the fixed name "web",
and now that name is overridable.
- The discovery chain snapshot didn't have prepared query endpoints so
the endpoints tests were missing data for prepared queries
Follow up to https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/10737#discussion_r682147950
Renames all variables for acl.Authorizer to use `authz`. Previously some
places used `rule` which I believe was an old name carried over from the
legacy ACL system.
A couple places also used authorizer.
This commit also removes another couple of authorizer nil checks that
are no longer necessary.
Follow up to https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/10737#discussion_r680134445
Move the check for the Intention.DestinationName into the Authorizer to remove the
need to check what kind of Authorizer is being used.
It sounds like this check is only for legacy ACLs, so is probably just a safeguard
.
CatalogDestinationsOnly is a passthrough that would enable dialing
addresses outside of Consul's catalog. However, when this flag is set to
true only _connect_ endpoints for services can be dialed.
This flag is being renamed to signal that non-Connect endpoints can't be
dialed by transparent proxies when the value is set to true.
Previously we would return an error if duplicate paths were specified.
This could lead to problems in cases where a user has the same path,
say /healthz, on two different ports.
This validation was added to signal a potential misconfiguration.
Instead we will only check for duplicate listener ports, since that is
what would lead to ambiguity issues when generating xDS config.
In the future we could look into using a single listener and creating
distinct filter chains for each path/port.
The prior solution to call reply.Reset() aged poorly since newer fields
were added to the reply, but not added to Reset() leading serial
blocking query loops on the server to blend replies.
This could manifest as a service-defaults protocol change from
default=>http not reverting back to default after the config entry
reponsible was deleted.
* Save exposed HTTP or GRPC ports to the agent's store
* Add those the health checks API so we can retrieve them from the API
* Change redirect-traffic command to also exclude those ports from inbound traffic redirection when expose.checks is set to true.
Also fixes a bug with listing kind=mesh config entries. ValidateConfigEntryKind was only being used by
the List endpoint, and was yet another place where we have to enumerate all the kinds.
This commit removes ValidateConfigEntryKind and uses MakeConfigEntry instead. This change removes
the need to maintain two separate functions at the cost of creating an instance of the config entry which will be thrown away immediately.
Co-authored-by: R.B. Boyer <4903+rboyer@users.noreply.github.com>
Previously we would associate the address of a discovery chain target
with the discovery chain's filter chain. This was broken for a few reasons:
- If the upstream is a virtual service, the client proxy has no way of
dialing it because virtual services are not targets of their discovery
chains. The targets are distinct services. This is addressed by watching
the endpoints of all upstream services, not just their discovery chain
targets.
- If multiple discovery chains resolve to the same target, that would
lead to multiple filter chains attempting to match on the target's
virtual IP. This is addressed by only matching on the upstream's virtual
IP.
NOTE: this implementation requires an intention to the redirecting
virtual service and not just to the final destination. This is how
we can know that the virtual service is an upstream to watch.
A later PR will look into traversing discovery chains when computing
upstreams so that intentions are only required to the discovery chain
targets.
No config entry needs a Kind field. It is only used to determine the Go type to
target. As we introduce new config entries (like this one) we can remove the kind field
and have the GetKind method return the single supported value.
In this case (similar to proxy-defaults) the Name field is also unnecessary. We always
use the same value. So we can omit the name field entirely.
This config entry is being renamed primarily because in k8s the name
cluster could be confusing given that the config entry applies across
federated datacenters.
Additionally, this config entry will only apply to Consul as a service
mesh, so the more generic "cluster" name is not needed.
This way we avoid serializing these when empty. Otherwise users of the
latest version of the api submodule cannot interact with older versions
of Consul, because a new api client would send keys that the older Consul
doesn't recognize yet.
The zero value of these flags was already being excluded in the xDS
generation of circuit breaker/outlier detection config.
See: makeThresholdsIfNeeded and ToOutlierDetection.
This PR replaces the original boolean used to configure transparent
proxy mode. It was replaced with a string mode that can be set to:
- "": Empty string is the default for when the setting should be
defaulted from other configuration like config entries.
- "direct": Direct mode is how applications originally opted into the
mesh. Proxy listeners need to be dialed directly.
- "transparent": Transparent mode enables configuring Envoy as a
transparent proxy. Traffic must be captured and redirected to the
inbound and outbound listeners.
This PR also adds a struct for transparent proxy specific configuration.
Initially this is not stored as a pointer. Will revisit that decision
before GA.
* add http2 ping checks
* fix test issue
* add h2ping check to config resources
* add new test and docs for h2ping
* fix grammatical inconsistency in H2PING documentation
* resolve rebase conflicts, add test for h2ping tls verification failure
* api documentation for h2ping
* update test config data with H2PING
* add H2PING to protocol buffers and update changelog
* fix typo in changelog entry
This is needed in case the client proxy is in TransparentProxy mode.
Typically they won't have explicit configuration for every upstream, so
this ensures the settings can be applied to all of them when generating
xDS config.
Some TLS servers require SNI, but the Golang HTTP client doesn't
include it in the ClientHello when connecting to an IP address. This
change adds a new TLSServerName field to health check definitions to
optionally set it. This fixes#9473.
ResolveServiceConfig is called by service manager before the proxy
registration is in the catalog. Therefore we should pass proxy
registration flags in the request rather than trying to fetch
them from the state store (where they may not exist yet).
This is done because after removing ID and NodeName from
ServiceConfigRequest we will no longer know whether a request coming in
is for a Consul client earlier than v1.10.
Previously this type was defined in structs, but unlike the other types in structs this type
is not used by RPC requests. By moving it to state we can better indicate that this is not
an API type, but part of the state implementation.
I added this recently without realizing that the method already existed and was named
NamespaceOrEmpty. Replace all calls to GetNamespace with NamespaceOrEmpty or NamespaceOrDefault
as appropriate.
Previous to this commit, the API response would include Gateway
Addresses in the form `domain.name.:8080`, which due to the addition of
the port is probably not the expected response.
This commit rightTrims any `.` characters from the end of the domain
before formatting the address to include the port resulting in
`domain.name:8080`
* A GET of the /acl/auth-method/:name endpoint returns the fields
MaxTokenTTL and TokenLocality, while a LIST (/acl/auth-methods) does
not.
The list command returns a filtered subset of the full set. This is
somewhat deliberate, so that secrets aren't shown, but the TTL and
Locality fields aren't (IMO) security critical, and it is useful for
the front end to be able to show them.
For consistency these changes mirror the 'omit empty' and string
representation choices made for the GET call.
This includes changes to the gRPC and API code in the client.
The new output looks similar to this
curl 'http://localhost:8500/v1/acl/auth-methods' | jq '.'
{
"MaxTokenTTL": "8m20s",
"Name": "minikube-ttl-local2",
"Type": "kubernetes",
"Description": "minikube auth method",
"TokenLocality": "local",
"CreateIndex": 530,
"ModifyIndex": 530,
"Namespace": "default"
}
]
Signed-off-by: Mark Anderson <manderson@hashicorp.com>
* Add changelog
Signed-off-by: Mark Anderson <manderson@hashicorp.com>
The field was not being included in the cache info key. This would result in a DNS request for
web.service.consul returning the same result as web.ingress.consul, when those results should
not be the same.
include all fields when fuzzing in tests
split tests by struct type
Ensure the new value for the field is different
fuzzer.Fuzz could produce the same value again in some cases.
Use a custom fuzz function for QueryOptions. That type is an embedded struct in the request types
but only one of the fields is important to include in the cache key.
Move enterpriseMetaField to an oss file so that we can change it in enterprise.
These types are used as values (not pointers) in other structs. Using a pointer receiver causes
problems when the value is printed. fmt will not call the String method if it is passed a value
and the String method has a pointer receiver. By using a value receiver the correct string is printed.
Also remove some unused methods.
This can happen when one other node in the cluster such as a client is unable to communicate with the leader server and sees it as failed. When that happens its failing status eventually gets propagated to the other servers in the cluster and eventually this can result in RPCs returning “No cluster leader” error.
That error is misleading and unhelpful for determing the root cause of the issue as its not raft stability but rather and client -> server networking issue. Therefore this commit will add a new error that will be returned in that case to differentiate between the two cases.
Previously the tokens would fail to insert into the secondary's state
store because the AuthMethod field of the ACLToken did not point to a
known auth method from the primary.
The Intention.Apply RPC is quite large, so this PR attempts to break it down into smaller functions and dissolves the pre-config-entry approach to the breakdown as it only confused things.
Makes Payload a type with FilterByKey so that Payloads can implement
filtering by key. With this approach we don't need to expose a Namespace
field on Event, and we don't need to invest micro formats or require a
bunch of code to be aware of exactly how the key field is encoded.
Previously config entries sharing a kind & name but in different
namespaces could occasionally cause "stuck states" in replication
because the namespace fields were ignored during the differential
comparison phase.
Example:
Two config entries written to the primary:
kind=A,name=web,namespace=bar
kind=A,name=web,namespace=foo
Under the covers these both get saved to memdb, so they are sorted by
all 3 components (kind,name,namespace) during natural iteration. This
means that before the replication code does it's own incomplete sort,
the underlying data IS sorted by namespace ascending (bar comes before
foo).
After one pass of replication the primary and secondary datacenters have
the same set of config entries present. If
"kind=A,name=web,namespace=bar" were to be deleted, then things get
weird. Before replication the two sides look like:
primary: [
kind=A,name=web,namespace=foo
]
secondary: [
kind=A,name=web,namespace=bar
kind=A,name=web,namespace=foo
]
The differential comparison phase walks these two lists in sorted order
and first compares "kind=A,name=web,namespace=foo" vs
"kind=A,name=web,namespace=bar" and falsely determines they are the SAME
and are thus cause an update of "kind=A,name=web,namespace=foo". Then it
compares "<nothing>" with "kind=A,name=web,namespace=foo" and falsely
determines that the latter should be DELETED.
During reconciliation the deletes are processed before updates, and so
for a brief moment in the secondary "kind=A,name=web,namespace=foo" is
erroneously deleted and then immediately restored.
Unfortunately after this replication phase the final state is identical
to the initial state, so when it loops around again (rate limited) it
repeats the same set of operations indefinitely.
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