This PR is almost a complete rewrite of the ACL system within Consul. It brings the features more in line with other HashiCorp products. Obviously there is quite a bit left to do here but most of it is related docs, testing and finishing the last few commands in the CLI. I will update the PR description and check off the todos as I finish them over the next few days/week.
Description
At a high level this PR is mainly to split ACL tokens from Policies and to split the concepts of Authorization from Identities. A lot of this PR is mostly just to support CRUD operations on ACLTokens and ACLPolicies. These in and of themselves are not particularly interesting. The bigger conceptual changes are in how tokens get resolved, how backwards compatibility is handled and the separation of policy from identity which could lead the way to allowing for alternative identity providers.
On the surface and with a new cluster the ACL system will look very similar to that of Nomads. Both have tokens and policies. Both have local tokens. The ACL management APIs for both are very similar. I even ripped off Nomad's ACL bootstrap resetting procedure. There are a few key differences though.
Nomad requires token and policy replication where Consul only requires policy replication with token replication being opt-in. In Consul local tokens only work with token replication being enabled though.
All policies in Nomad are globally applicable. In Consul all policies are stored and replicated globally but can be scoped to a subset of the datacenters. This allows for more granular access management.
Unlike Nomad, Consul has legacy baggage in the form of the original ACL system. The ramifications of this are:
A server running the new system must still support other clients using the legacy system.
A client running the new system must be able to use the legacy RPCs when the servers in its datacenter are running the legacy system.
The primary ACL DC's servers running in legacy mode needs to be a gate that keeps everything else in the entire multi-DC cluster running in legacy mode.
So not only does this PR implement the new ACL system but has a legacy mode built in for when the cluster isn't ready for new ACLs. Also detecting that new ACLs can be used is automatic and requires no configuration on the part of administrators. This process is detailed more in the "Transitioning from Legacy to New ACL Mode" section below.
* Adds client-side retry for no leader errors.
This paves over the case where the client was connected to the leader
when it loses leadership.
* Adds a configurable server RPC drain time and a fail-fast path for RPCs.
When a server leaves it gets removed from the Raft configuration, so it will
never know who the new leader server ends up being. Without this we'd be
doomed to wait out the RPC hold timeout and then fail. This makes things fail
a little quicker while a sever is draining, and since we added a client retry
AND since the server doing this has already shut down and left the Serf LAN,
clients should retry against some other server.
* Makes the RPC hold timeout configurable.
* Reorders struct members.
* Sets the RPC hold timeout default for test servers.
* Bumps the leave drain time up to 5 seconds.
* Robustifies retries with a simpler client-side RPC hold.
* Reverts untended delete.
* Changes default Raft protocol to 3.
* Changes numPeers() to report only voters.
This should have been there before, but it's more obvious that this
is incorrect now that we default the Raft protocol to 3, which puts
new servers in a read-only state while Autopilot waits for them to
become healthy.
* Fixes TestLeader_RollRaftServer.
* Fixes TestOperator_RaftRemovePeerByAddress.
* Fixes TestServer_*.
Relaxed the check for a given number of voter peers and instead do
a thorough check that all servers see each other in their Raft
configurations.
* Fixes TestACL_*.
These now just check for Raft replication to be set up, and don't
care about the number of voter peers.
* Fixes TestOperator_Raft_ListPeers.
* Fixes TestAutopilot_CleanupDeadServerPeriodic.
* Fixes TestCatalog_ListNodes_ConsistentRead_Fail.
* Fixes TestLeader_ChangeServerID and adjusts the conn pool to throw away
sockets when it sees io.EOF.
* Changes version to 1.0.0 in the options doc.
* Makes metrics test more deterministic with autopilot metrics possible.
* new config parser for agent
This patch implements a new config parser for the consul agent which
makes the following changes to the previous implementation:
* add HCL support
* all configuration fragments in tests and for default config are
expressed as HCL fragments
* HCL fragments can be provided on the command line so that they
can eventually replace the command line flags.
* HCL/JSON fragments are parsed into a temporary Config structure
which can be merged using reflection (all values are pointers).
The existing merge logic of overwrite for values and append
for slices has been preserved.
* A single builder process generates a typed runtime configuration
for the agent.
The new implementation is more strict and fails in the builder process
if no valid runtime configuration can be generated. Therefore,
additional validations in other parts of the code should be removed.
The builder also pre-computes all required network addresses so that no
address/port magic should be required where the configuration is used
and should therefore be removed.
* Upgrade github.com/hashicorp/hcl to support int64
* improve error messages
* fix directory permission test
* Fix rtt test
* Fix ForceLeave test
* Skip performance test for now until we know what to do
* Update github.com/hashicorp/memberlist to update log prefix
* Make memberlist use the default logger
* improve config error handling
* do not fail on non-existing data-dir
* experiment with non-uniform timeouts to get a handle on stalled leader elections
* Run tests for packages separately to eliminate the spurious port conflicts
* refactor private address detection and unify approach for ipv4 and ipv6.
Fixes#2825
* do not allow unix sockets for DNS
* improve bind and advertise addr error handling
* go through builder using test coverage
* minimal update to the docs
* more coverage tests fixed
* more tests
* fix makefile
* cleanup
* fix port conflicts with external port server 'porter'
* stop test server on error
* do not run api test that change global ENV concurrently with the other tests
* Run remaining api tests concurrently
* no need for retry with the port number service
* monkey patch race condition in go-sockaddr until we understand why that fails
* monkey patch hcl decoder race condidtion until we understand why that fails
* monkey patch spurious errors in strings.EqualFold from here
* add test for hcl decoder race condition. Run with go test -parallel 128
* Increase timeout again
* cleanup
* don't log port allocations by default
* use base command arg parsing to format help output properly
* handle -dc deprecation case in Build
* switch autopilot.max_trailing_logs to int
* remove duplicate test case
* remove unused methods
* remove comments about flag/config value inconsistencies
* switch got and want around since the error message was misleading.
* Removes a stray debug log.
* Removes a stray newline in imports.
* Fixes TestACL_Version8.
* Runs go fmt.
* Adds a default case for unknown address types.
* Reoders and reformats some imports.
* Adds some comments and fixes typos.
* Reorders imports.
* add unix socket support for dns later
* drop all deprecated flags and arguments
* fix wrong field name
* remove stray node-id file
* drop unnecessary patch section in test
* drop duplicate test
* add test for LeaveOnTerm and SkipLeaveOnInt in client mode
* drop "bla" and add clarifying comment for the test
* split up tests to support enterprise/non-enterprise tests
* drop raft multiplier and derive values during build phase
* sanitize runtime config reflectively and add test
* detect invalid config fields
* fix tests with invalid config fields
* use different values for wan sanitiziation test
* drop recursor in favor of recursors
* allow dns_config.udp_answer_limit to be zero
* make sure tests run on machines with multiple ips
* Fix failing tests in a few more places by providing a bind address in the test
* Gets rid of skipped TestAgent_CheckPerformanceSettings and adds case for builder.
* Add porter to server_test.go to make tests there less flaky
* go fmt
* Added rate limiting for agent RPC calls.
* Initializes the rate limiter based on the config.
* Adds the rate limiter into the snapshot RPC path.
* Adds unit tests for the RPC rate limiter.
* Groups the RPC limit parameters under "limits" in the config.
* Adds some documentation about the RPC limiter.
* Sends a 429 response when the rate limiter kicks in.
* Adds docs for new telemetry.
* Makes snapshot telemetry look like RPC telemetry and cleans up comments.
When the metadata server is scanning the agents for potential servers
it is parsing the version number which the agent provided when it
joined. This version number has to conform to a certain format, i.e.
'n.n.n'. Without this version number properly set some tests fail with
error messages that disguise the root cause.
The default version number is currently set to 'unknown' in
version/version.go which does not parse and triggers the tests to fail.
The work around is to use a build tag 'consul' which will use the
version number set in version_base.go instead which has the correct
format and is set to the current release version.
In addition, some parts of the code also require the version number to
be of a certain value. Setting it to '0.0.0' for example makes some
tests pass and others fail since they don't pass the semantic check.
When using go build/install/test one has to remember to use '-tags
consul' or tests will fail with non-obvious error messages.
Using build tags makes the build process more complex and error prone
since it prevents the use of the plain go toolchain and - at least in
its current form - introduces subtle build and test issues. We should
try to eliminate build tags for anything else but platform specific
code.
This patch removes all references to specific version numbers in the
code and tests and sets the default version to '9.9.9' which is
syntactically correct and passes the semantic check. This solves the
issue of running go build/install/test without tags for the OSS build.
Matt Keeler