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.
This is the OSS portion of enterprise PR 2339.
It improves our handling of "irrecoverable" errors in proxycfg data sources.
The canonical example of this is what happens when the ACL token presented by
Envoy is deleted/revoked. Previously, the stream would get "stuck" until the
xDS server re-checked the token (after 5 minutes) and terminated the stream.
Materializers would also sit burning resources retrying something that could
never succeed.
Now, it is possible for data sources to mark errors as "terminal" which causes
the xDS stream to be closed immediately. Similarly, the submatview.Store will
evict materializers when it observes they have encountered such an error.
Previously, public referred to gRPC services that are both exposed on
the dedicated gRPC port and have their definitions in the proto-public
directory (so were considered usable by 3rd parties). Whereas private
referred to services on the multiplexed server port that are only usable
by agents and other servers.
Now, we're splitting these definitions, such that external/internal
refers to the port and public/private refers to whether they can be used
by 3rd parties.
This is necessary because the peering replication API needs to be
exposed on the dedicated port, but is not (yet) suitable for use by 3rd
parties.
This is the OSS portion of enterprise PR 1994
Rather than directly interrogating the agent-local state for HTTP
checks using the `HTTPCheckFetcher` interface, we now rely on the
config snapshot containing the checks.
This reduces the number of changes required to support server xDS
sessions.
It's not clear why the fetching approach was introduced in
931d167ebb2300839b218d08871f22323c60175d.
OSS port of enterprise PR 1822
Includes the necessary changes to the `proxycfg` and `xds` packages to enable
Consul servers to configure arbitrary proxies using catalog data.
Broadly, `proxycfg.Manager` now has public methods for registering,
deregistering, and listing registered proxies — the existing local agent
state-sync behavior has been moved into a separate component that makes use of
these methods.
When an xDS session is started for a proxy service in the catalog, a goroutine
will be spawned to watch the service in the server's state store and
re-register it with the `proxycfg.Manager` whenever it is updated (and clean
it up when the client goes away).
Adds a new gRPC streaming endpoint (WatchRoots) that dataplane clients will
use to fetch the current list of active Connect CA roots and receive new
lists whenever the roots are rotated.
Introduces the capability to configure TLS differently for Consul's
listeners/ports (i.e. HTTPS, gRPC, and the internal multiplexed RPC
port) which is useful in scenarios where you may want the HTTPS or
gRPC interfaces to present a certificate signed by a well-known/public
CA, rather than the certificate used for internal communication which
must have a SAN in the form `server.<dc>.consul`.
* First pass for helper for bulk changes
Signed-off-by: Mark Anderson <manderson@hashicorp.com>
* Convert ACLRead and ACLWrite to new form
Signed-off-by: Mark Anderson <manderson@hashicorp.com>
* AgentRead and AgentWRite
Signed-off-by: Mark Anderson <manderson@hashicorp.com>
* Fix EventWrite
Signed-off-by: Mark Anderson <manderson@hashicorp.com>
* KeyRead, KeyWrite, KeyList
Signed-off-by: Mark Anderson <manderson@hashicorp.com>
* KeyRing
Signed-off-by: Mark Anderson <manderson@hashicorp.com>
* NodeRead NodeWrite
Signed-off-by: Mark Anderson <manderson@hashicorp.com>
* OperatorRead and OperatorWrite
Signed-off-by: Mark Anderson <manderson@hashicorp.com>
* PreparedQuery
Signed-off-by: Mark Anderson <manderson@hashicorp.com>
* Intention partial
Signed-off-by: Mark Anderson <manderson@hashicorp.com>
* Fix ServiceRead, Write ,etc
Signed-off-by: Mark Anderson <manderson@hashicorp.com>
* Error check ServiceRead?
Signed-off-by: Mark Anderson <manderson@hashicorp.com>
* Fix Sessionread/Write
Signed-off-by: Mark Anderson <manderson@hashicorp.com>
* Fixup snapshot ACL
Signed-off-by: Mark Anderson <manderson@hashicorp.com>
* Error fixups for txn
Signed-off-by: Mark Anderson <manderson@hashicorp.com>
* Add changelog
Signed-off-by: Mark Anderson <manderson@hashicorp.com>
* Fixup review comments
Signed-off-by: Mark Anderson <manderson@hashicorp.com>
The DebugConfig in the self endpoint can change at any time. It's not a stable API.
This commit adds the XDSPort to a stable part of the XDS api, and changes the envoy command to read
this new field.
It includes support for the old API as well, in case a newer CLI is used with an older API, and
adds a test for both cases.
Fixes#10563
The `resourceVersion` map was doing two jobs prior to this PR. The first job was
to track what version of every resource we know envoy currently has. The
second was to track subscriptions to those resources (by way of the empty
string for a version). This mostly works out fine, but occasionally leads to
consul removing a resource and accidentally (effectively) unsubscribing at the
same time.
The fix separates these two jobs. When all of the resources for a subscription
are removed we continue to track the subscription until envoy explicitly
unsubscribes
1) xds and grpc servers:
1.1) to use recovery middleware with callback that prints stack trace to log
1.2) callback turn the panic into a core.Internal error
2) added unit test for grpc server
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.
This adds support for the Incremental xDS protocol when using xDS v3. This is best reviewed commit-by-commit and will not be squashed when merged.
Union of all commit messages follows to give an overarching summary:
xds: exclusively support incremental xDS when using xDS v3
Attempts to use SoTW via v3 will fail, much like attempts to use incremental via v2 will fail.
Work around a strange older envoy behavior involving empty CDS responses over incremental xDS.
xds: various cleanups and refactors that don't strictly concern the addition of incremental xDS support
Dissolve the connectionInfo struct in favor of per-connection ResourceGenerators instead.
Do a better job of ensuring the xds code uses a well configured logger that accurately describes the connected client.
xds: pull out checkStreamACLs method in advance of a later commit
xds: rewrite SoTW xDS protocol tests to use protobufs rather than hand-rolled json strings
In the test we very lightly reuse some of the more boring protobuf construction helper code that is also technically under test. The important thing of the protocol tests is testing the protocol. The actual inputs and outputs are largely already handled by the xds golden output tests now so these protocol tests don't have to do double-duty.
This also updates the SoTW protocol test to exclusively use xDS v2 which is the only variant of SoTW that will be supported in Consul 1.10.
xds: default xds.Server.AuthCheckFrequency at use-time instead of construction-time
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.
Note that this does NOT upgrade to xDS v3. That will come in a future PR.
Additionally:
- Ignored staticcheck warnings about how github.com/golang/protobuf is deprecated.
- Shuffled some agent/xds imports in advance of a later xDS v3 upgrade.
- Remove support for envoy 1.13.x but don't add in 1.17.x yet. We have to wait until the xDS v3 support is added in a follow-up PR.
Fixes#8425
Related changes:
- hard-fail the xDS connection attempt if the envoy version is known to be too old to be supported
- remove the RouterMatchSafeRegex proxy feature since all supported envoy versions have it
- stop using --max-obj-name-len (due to: envoyproxy/envoy#11740)
This is useful when updating an config entry with no services, and the
expected behavior is that envoy closes all listeners and clusters.
We also allow empty routes because ingress gateways name route
configurations based on the port of the listener, so it is important we
remove any stale routes. Then, if a new listener with an old port is
added, we will not have to deal with stale routes hanging around routing
to the wrong place.
Endpoints are associated with clusters, and thus by deleting the
clusters we don't have to care about sending empty endpoint responses.
* Implements a simple, tcp ingress gateway workflow
This adds a new type of gateway for allowing Ingress traffic into Connect from external services.
Co-authored-by: Chris Piraino <cpiraino@hashicorp.com>
Dan Upton