Required also converting some of the transaction functions to WriteTxn
because TxnRO() called the same helper as TxnRW.
This change allows us to return a memdb.Txn for read-only txn instead of
wrapping them with state.txn.
EventPublisher was receiving TopicHandlers, which had a couple of
problems:
- ChangeProcessors were being grouped by Topic, but they completely
ignored the topic and were performed on every change
- ChangeProcessors required EventPublisher to be aware of database
changes
By moving ChangeProcesors out of EventPublisher, and having Publish
accept events instead of changes, EventPublisher no longer needs to
be aware of these things.
Handlers is now only SnapshotHandlers, which are still mapped by Topic.
Also allows us to remove the small 'db' package that had only two types.
They can now be unexported types in state.
The EventPublisher is the central hub of the PubSub system. It is toughly coupled with much of
stream. Some stream internals were exported exclusively for EventPublisher.
The two Subscribe cases (with or without index) were also awkwardly split between two packages. By
moving EventPublisher into stream they are now both in the same package (although still in different files).
Make topicRegistry use functions instead of unbound methods
Use a regular memDB in EventPublisher to remove a reference cycle
Removes the need for EventPublisher to use a store
The previous value was too conservative and users with many instances
were having problems because of it. This change increases the limit to
8192 which reportedly fixed most of the issues with that.
Related: #4984, #4986, #5050.
maxIndexWatchTxn was only watching the IndexEntry of the max index of all the entries. It needed to watch all of them regardless of which was the max.
Also plumbed the query source through in the proxy config to help better track requests.
Roles are named and can express the same bundle of permissions that can
currently be assigned to a Token (lists of Policies and Service
Identities). The difference with a Role is that it not itself a bearer
token, but just another entity that can be tied to a Token.
This lets an operator potentially curate a set of smaller reusable
Policies and compose them together into reusable Roles, rather than
always exploding that same list of Policies on any Token that needs
similar permissions.
This also refactors the acl replication code to be semi-generic to avoid
3x copypasta.
Fixes: #4222
# Data Filtering
This PR will implement filtering for the following endpoints:
## Supported HTTP Endpoints
- `/agent/checks`
- `/agent/services`
- `/catalog/nodes`
- `/catalog/service/:service`
- `/catalog/connect/:service`
- `/catalog/node/:node`
- `/health/node/:node`
- `/health/checks/:service`
- `/health/service/:service`
- `/health/connect/:service`
- `/health/state/:state`
- `/internal/ui/nodes`
- `/internal/ui/services`
More can be added going forward and any endpoint which is used to list some data is a good candidate.
## Usage
When using the HTTP API a `filter` query parameter can be used to pass a filter expression to Consul. Filter Expressions take the general form of:
```
<selector> == <value>
<selector> != <value>
<value> in <selector>
<value> not in <selector>
<selector> contains <value>
<selector> not contains <value>
<selector> is empty
<selector> is not empty
not <other expression>
<expression 1> and <expression 2>
<expression 1> or <expression 2>
```
Normal boolean logic and precedence is supported. All of the actual filtering and evaluation logic is coming from the [go-bexpr](https://github.com/hashicorp/go-bexpr) library
## Other changes
Adding the `Internal.ServiceDump` RPC endpoint. This will allow the UI to filter services better.
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.
Daniel Nephin