Using the newly provided state store methods, we periodically emit usage
metrics from the servers.
We decided to emit these metrics from all servers, not just the leader,
because that means we do not have to care about leader election flapping
causing metrics turbulence, and it seems reasonable for each server to
emit its own view of the state, even if they should always converge
rapidly.
NotifyShutdown was only used for testing. Now that t.Cleanup exists, we
can use that instead of attaching cleanup to the Server shutdown.
The Autopilot test which used NotifyShutdown doesn't need this
notification because Shutdown is synchronous. Waiting for the function
to return is equivalent.
Ensure that enabling AutoConfig sets the tls configurator properly
This also refactors the TLS configurator a bit so the naming doesn’t imply only AutoEncrypt as the source of the automatically setup TLS cert info.
Most of the groundwork was laid in previous PRs between adding the cert-monitor package to extracting the logic of signing certificates out of the connect_ca_endpoint.go code and into a method on the server.
This also refactors the auto-config package a bit to split things out into multiple files.
This is instead of having the AutoConfigBackend interface provide functions for retrieving them.
NOTE: the config is not reloadable. For now this is fine as we don’t look at any reloadable fields. If that changes then we should provide a way to make it reloadable.
In all cases (oss/ent, client/server) this method was returning a value from config. Since the
value is consistent, it doesn't need to be part of the delegate interface.
We needed to pass a cancellable context into the limiter.Wait instead of context.Background. So I made the func take a context instead of a chan as most places were just passing through a Done chan from a context anyways.
Fix go routine leak in the gateway locator
Right now this is only hooked into the insecure RPC server and requires JWT authorization. If no JWT authorizer is setup in the configuration then we inject a disabled “authorizer” to always report that JWT authorization is disabled.
In the past TLS usage was enforced with these variables, but these days
this decision is made by TLSConfigurator and there is no reason to keep
using the variables.
The main fix here is to always union the `primary-gateways` list with
the list of mesh gateways in the primary returned from the replicated
federation states list. This will allow any replicated (incorrect) state
to be supplemented with user-configured (correct) state in the config
file. Eventually the game of random selection whack-a-mole will pick a
winning entry and re-replicate the latest federation states from the
primary. If the user-configured state is actually the incorrect one,
then the same eventual correct selection process will work in that case,
too.
The secondary fix is actually to finish making wanfed-via-mgws actually
work as originally designed. Once a secondary datacenter has replicated
federation states for the primary AND managed to stand up its own local
mesh gateways then all of the RPCs from a secondary to the primary
SHOULD go through two sets of mesh gateways to arrive in the consul
servers in the primary (one hop for the secondary datacenter's mesh
gateway, and one hop through the primary datacenter's mesh gateway).
This was neglected in the initial implementation. While everything
works, ideally we should treat communications that go around the mesh
gateways as just provided for bootstrapping purposes.
Now we heuristically use the success/failure history of the federation
state replicator goroutine loop to determine if our current mesh gateway
route is working as intended. If it is, we try using the local gateways,
and if those don't work we fall back on trying the primary via the union
of the replicated state and the go-discover configuration flags.
This can be improved slightly in the future by possibly initializing the
gateway choice to local on startup if we already have replicated state.
This PR does not address that improvement.
Fixes#7339
This is like a Möbius strip of code due to the fact that low-level components (serf/memberlist) are connected to high-level components (the catalog and mesh-gateways) in a twisty maze of references which make it hard to dive into. With that in mind here's a high level summary of what you'll find in the patch:
There are several distinct chunks of code that are affected:
* new flags and config options for the server
* retry join WAN is slightly different
* retry join code is shared to discover primary mesh gateways from secondary datacenters
* because retry join logic runs in the *agent* and the results of that
operation for primary mesh gateways are needed in the *server* there are
some methods like `RefreshPrimaryGatewayFallbackAddresses` that must occur
at multiple layers of abstraction just to pass the data down to the right
layer.
* new cache type `FederationStateListMeshGatewaysName` for use in `proxycfg/xds` layers
* the function signature for RPC dialing picked up a new required field (the
node name of the destination)
* several new RPCs for manipulating a FederationState object:
`FederationState:{Apply,Get,List,ListMeshGateways}`
* 3 read-only internal APIs for debugging use to invoke those RPCs from curl
* raft and fsm changes to persist these FederationStates
* replication for FederationStates as they are canonically stored in the
Primary and replicated to the Secondaries.
* a special derivative of anti-entropy that runs in secondaries to snapshot
their local mesh gateway `CheckServiceNodes` and sync them into their upstream
FederationState in the primary (this works in conjunction with the
replication to distribute addresses for all mesh gateways in all DCs to all
other DCs)
* a "gateway locator" convenience object to make use of this data to choose
the addresses of gateways to use for any given RPC or gossip operation to a
remote DC. This gets data from the "retry join" logic in the agent and also
directly calls into the FSM.
* RPC (`:8300`) on the server sniffs the first byte of a new connection to
determine if it's actually doing native TLS. If so it checks the ALPN header
for protocol determination (just like how the existing system uses the
type-byte marker).
* 2 new kinds of protocols are exclusively decoded via this native TLS
mechanism: one for ferrying "packet" operations (udp-like) from the gossip
layer and one for "stream" operations (tcp-like). The packet operations
re-use sockets (using length-prefixing) to cut down on TLS re-negotiation
overhead.
* the server instances specially wrap the `memberlist.NetTransport` when running
with gateway federation enabled (in a `wanfed.Transport`). The general gist is
that if it tries to dial a node in the SAME datacenter (deduced by looking
at the suffix of the node name) there is no change. If dialing a DIFFERENT
datacenter it is wrapped up in a TLS+ALPN blob and sent through some mesh
gateways to eventually end up in a server's :8300 port.
* a new flag when launching a mesh gateway via `consul connect envoy` to
indicate that the servers are to be exposed. This sets a special service
meta when registering the gateway into the catalog.
* `proxycfg/xds` notice this metadata blob to activate additional watches for
the FederationState objects as well as the location of all of the consul
servers in that datacenter.
* `xds:` if the extra metadata is in place additional clusters are defined in a
DC to bulk sink all traffic to another DC's gateways. For the current
datacenter we listen on a wildcard name (`server.<dc>.consul`) that load
balances all servers as well as one mini-cluster per node
(`<node>.server.<dc>.consul`)
* the `consul tls cert create` command got a new flag (`-node`) to help create
an additional SAN in certs that can be used with this flavor of federation.
* agent: measure blocking queries
* agent.rpc: update docs to mention we only record blocking queries
* agent.rpc: make go fmt happy
* agent.rpc: fix non-atomic read and decrement with bitwise xor of uint64 0
* agent.rpc: clarify review question
* agent.rpc: today I learned that one must declare all variables before interacting with goto labels
* Update agent/consul/server.go
agent.rpc: more precise comment on `Server.queriesBlocking`
Co-Authored-By: Paul Banks <banks@banksco.de>
* Update website/source/docs/agent/telemetry.html.md
agent.rpc: improve queries_blocking description
Co-Authored-By: Paul Banks <banks@banksco.de>
* agent.rpc: fix some bugs found in review
* add a note about the updated counter behavior to telemetry.md
* docs: add upgrade-specific note on consul.rpc.quer{y,ies_blocking} behavior
Co-authored-by: Paul Banks <banks@banksco.de>
* Increase raft notify buffer.
Fixes https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/6852.
Increasing the buffer helps recovering from leader flapping. It lowers
the chances of the flapping leader to get into a deadlock situation like
described in #6852.
Currently when using the built-in CA provider for Connect, root certificates are valid for 10 years, however secondary DCs get intermediates that are valid for only 1 year. There is no mechanism currently short of rotating the root in the primary that will cause the secondary DCs to renew their intermediates.
This PR adds a check that renews the cert if it is half way through its validity period.
In order to be able to test these changes, a new configuration option was added: IntermediateCertTTL which is set extremely low in the tests.
* Renamed structs.IntentionWildcard to structs.WildcardSpecifier
* Refactor ACL Config
Get rid of remnants of enterprise only renaming.
Add a WildcardName field for specifying what string should be used to indicate a wildcard.
* Add wildcard support in the ACL package
For read operations they can call anyAllowed to determine if any read access to the given resource would be granted.
For write operations they can call allAllowed to ensure that write access is granted to everything.
* Make v1/agent/connect/authorize namespace aware
* Update intention ACL enforcement
This also changes how intention:read is granted. Before the Intention.List RPC would allow viewing an intention if the token had intention:read on the destination. However Intention.Match allowed viewing if access was allowed for either the source or dest side. Now Intention.List and Intention.Get fall in line with Intention.Matches previous behavior.
Due to this being done a few different places ACL enforcement for a singular intention is now done with the CanRead and CanWrite methods on the intention itself.
* Refactor Intention.Apply to make things easier to follow.
• Renamed EnterpriseACLConfig to just Config
• Removed chained_authorizer_oss.go as it was empty
• Renamed acl.go to errors.go to more closely describe its contents
Ensure we close the Sentinel Evaluator so as not to leak go routines
Fix a bunch of test logging so that various warnings when starting a test agent go to the ltest logger and not straight to stdout.
Various canned ent meta types always return a valid pointer (no more nils). This allows us to blindly deref + assign in various places.
Update ACL index tracking to ensure oss -> ent upgrades will work as expected.
Update ent meta parsing to include function to disallow wildcarding.
Main Changes:
• method signature updates everywhere to account for passing around enterprise meta.
• populate the EnterpriseAuthorizerContext for all ACL related authorizations.
• ACL resource listings now operate like the catalog or kv listings in that the returned entries are filtered down to what the token is allowed to see. With Namespaces its no longer all or nothing.
• Modified the acl.Policy parsing to abstract away basic decoding so that enterprise can do it slightly differently. Also updated method signatures so that when parsing a policy it can take extra ent metadata to use during rules validation and policy creation.
Secondary Changes:
• Moved protobuf encoding functions out of the agentpb package to eliminate circular dependencies.
• Added custom JSON unmarshalers for a few ACL resource types (to support snake case and to get rid of mapstructure)
• AuthMethod validator cache is now an interface as these will be cached per-namespace for Consul Enterprise.
• Added checks for policy/role link existence at the RPC API so we don’t push the request through raft to have it fail internally.
• Forward ACL token delete request to the primary datacenter when the secondary DC doesn’t have the token.
• Added a bunch of ACL test helpers for inserting ACL resource test data.
* ACL Authorizer overhaul
To account for upcoming features every Authorization function can now take an extra *acl.EnterpriseAuthorizerContext. These are unused in OSS and will always be nil.
Additionally the acl package has received some thorough refactoring to enable all of the extra Consul Enterprise specific authorizations including moving sentinel enforcement into the stubbed structs. The Authorizer funcs now return an acl.EnforcementDecision instead of a boolean. This improves the overall interface as it makes multiple Authorizers easily chainable as they now indicate whether they had an authoritative decision or should use some other defaults. A ChainedAuthorizer was added to handle this Authorizer enforcement chain and will never itself return a non-authoritative decision.
* Include stub for extra enterprise rules in the global management policy
* Allow for an upgrade of the global-management policy
* Implement leader routine manager
Switch over the following to use it for go routine management:
• Config entry Replication
• ACL replication - tokens, policies, roles and legacy tokens
• ACL legacy token upgrade
• ACL token reaping
• Intention Replication
• Secondary CA Roots Watching
• CA Root Pruning
Also added the StopAll call into the Server Shutdown method to ensure all leader routines get killed off when shutting down.
This should be mostly unnecessary as `revokeLeadership` should manually stop each one but just in case we really want these to go away (eventually).
This should cut down on test flakiness.
Problems handled:
- If you had enough parallel test cases running, the former circular
approach to handling the port block could hand out the same port to
multiple cases before they each had a chance to bind them, leading to
one of the two tests to fail.
- The freeport library would allocate out of the ephemeral port range.
This has been corrected for Linux (which should cover CI).
- The library now waits until a formerly-in-use port is verified to be
free before putting it back into circulation.
Daniel Nephin