This commit adds several command-line and config options that facilitate
host discovery through Google Compute Engine (GCE), much like the
recently added EC2 host discovery options. This should assist with
bootstrapping and joining servers within GCE when non-static addresses
are used, such as when using managed instance groups.
Documentation has also been added. It should be noted that if running
from within a GCE instance, the only option that should be necessary is
-retry-join-gce-tag-value.
I was reviewing some docs and found a few issues.
1. Fixed some spelling mistakes.
2. Re-formatted some paragraphs.
3. Changed some potentially loaded language.
4. Fixed some grammar issues.
5. Tried to consistently use syntax-highlighting.
6. Fixed post-period spacing.
7. Fixed some formatting issues and inconsistency.
8. All "notes" are either proper notes or re-written.
Default MaxStale to 10 years and add a counter at `consul.dns.stale_queries` that tracks when an agent serves a query that's stale by at least 5 seconds. Previously, MaxStale defaulted to 5 seconds and DNS would become unavailable after a short period of time with no leader. This new default allows DNS requests to still be served in the event of a long outage.
Fixes#2460.
* * adding cli config and config file support for specifying the serf wan and lan bind addresses
* updating documentation for serf wan and lan options
Fixes#2007
* Cleans up some small things from #2380.
* Uses the bind default for the agent test for Serf WAN and LAN.
This has been working really well on Nomad and hashicorp.com, so I am
ready to port it out to Consul as a beta. This moves the local
development to a Docker container, which is the same container that we
use to publish the website in production. The result is much faster and
more consistent deploys.
* Updates Raft library to get new snapshot/restore API.
* Basic backup and restore working, but need some cleanup.
* Breaks out a snapshot module and adds a SHA256 integrity check.
* Adds snapshot ACL and fills in some missing comments.
* Require a consistent read for snapshots.
* Make sure snapshot works if ACLs aren't enabled.
* Adds a bit of package documentation.
* Returns an empty response from restore to avoid EOF errors.
* Adds API client support for snapshots.
* Makes internal file names match on-disk file snapshots.
* Adds DC and token coverage for snapshot API test.
* Adds missing documentation.
* Adds a unit test for the snapshot client endpoint.
* Moves the connection pool out of the client for easier testing.
* Fixes an incidental issue in the prepared query unit test.
I realized I had two servers in bootstrap mode so this wasn't a good setup.
* Adds a half close to the TCP stream and fixes panic on error.
* Adds client and endpoint tests for snapshots.
* Moves the pool back into the snapshot RPC client.
* Adds a TLS test and fixes half-closes for TLS connections.
* Tweaks some comments.
* Adds a low-level snapshot test.
This is independent of Consul so we can pull this out into a library
later if we want to.
* Cleans up snapshot and archive and completes archive tests.
* Sends a clear error for snapshot operations in dev mode.
Snapshots require the Raft snapshots to be readable, which isn't supported
in dev mode. Send a clear error instead of a deep-down Raft one.
* Adds docs for the snapshot endpoint.
* Adds a stale mode and index feedback for snapshot saves.
This gives folks a way to extract data even if the cluster has no
leader.
* Changes the internal format of a snapshot from zip to tgz.
* Pulls in Raft fix to cancel inflight before a restore.
* Pulls in new Raft restore interface.
* Adds metadata to snapshot saves and a verify function.
* Adds basic save and restore snapshot CLI commands.
* Gets rid of tarball extensions and adds restore message.
* Fixes an incidental bad link in the KV docs.
* Adds documentation for the snapshot CLI commands.
* Scuttle any request body when a snapshot is saved.
* Fixes archive unit test error message check.
* Allows for nil output writers in snapshot RPC handlers.
* Renames hash list Decode to DecodeAndVerify.
* Closes the client connection for snapshot ops.
* Lowers timeout for restore ops.
* Updates Raft vendor to get new Restore signature and integrates with Consul.
* Bounces the leader's internal state when we do a restore.
Updated the slightly confusing documentation on how to join the clusters over WAN. Also the inputs from #1656 is taken in account in this documentation update.
