Prior to #13244, connect proxies and gateways could only be configured by an
xDS session served by the local client agent.
In an upcoming release, it will be possible to deploy a Consul service mesh
without client agents. In this model, xDS sessions will be handled by the
servers themselves, which necessitates load-balancing to prevent a single
server from receiving a disproportionate amount of load and becoming
overwhelmed.
This introduces a simple form of load-balancing where Consul will attempt to
achieve an even spread of load (xDS sessions) between all healthy servers.
It does so by implementing a concurrent session limiter (limiter.SessionLimiter)
and adjusting the limit according to autopilot state and proxy service
registrations in the catalog.
If a server is already over capacity (i.e. the session limit is lowered),
Consul will begin draining sessions to rebalance the load. This will result
in the client receiving a `RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED` status code. It is the client's
responsibility to observe this response and reconnect to a different server.
Users of the gRPC client connection brokered by the
consul-server-connection-manager library will get this for free.
The rate at which Consul will drain sessions to rebalance load is scaled
dynamically based on the number of proxies in the catalog.
* Fix bug in usage metrics that caused a negative count to occur
There were a couple of instances were usage metrics would do the wrong
thing and result in incorrect counts, causing the count to attempt to
decrement below zero and return an error. The usage metrics did not
account for various places where a single transaction could
delete/update/add multiple service instances at once.
We also remove the error when attempting to decrement below zero, and
instead just make sure we do not accidentally underflow the unsigned
integer. This is a more graceful failure than returning an error and not
allowing a transaction to commit.
* Add changelog
This commit refactors the state store usage code to track unique service
name changes on transaction commit. This means we only need to lookup
usage entries when reading the information, as opposed to iterating over
a large number of service indices.
- Take into account a service instance's name being changed
- Do not iterate through entire list of service instances, we only care
about whether there is 0, 1, or more than 1.
We add a WriteTxn interface for use in updating the usage memdb table,
with the forward-looking prospect of incrementally converting other
functions to accept interfaces.
As well, we use the ReadTxn in new usage code, and as a side effect
convert a couple of existing functions to use that interface as well.
Dan Upton