open-consul/agent/consul/wanfed/wanfed.go
R.B. Boyer a7fb26f50f
wan federation via mesh gateways (#6884)
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.
2020-03-09 15:59:02 -05:00

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package wanfed
import (
"encoding/binary"
"errors"
"fmt"
"net"
"strings"
"time"
"github.com/hashicorp/consul/agent/pool"
"github.com/hashicorp/consul/agent/structs"
"github.com/hashicorp/consul/tlsutil"
"github.com/hashicorp/memberlist"
)
const (
// GossipPacketMaxIdleTime controls how long we keep an idle connection
// open to a server.
//
// Conceptually similar to: agent/consul/server.go:serverRPCCache
GossipPacketMaxIdleTime = 2 * time.Minute
// GossipPacketMaxByteSize is the maximum allowed size of a packet
// forwarded via wanfed. This is 4MB which should be way bigger than serf
// or memberlist allow practically so it should never be hit in practice.
GossipPacketMaxByteSize = 4 * 1024 * 1024
)
type MeshGatewayResolver func(datacenter string) string
func NewTransport(
tlsConfigurator *tlsutil.Configurator,
transport memberlist.NodeAwareTransport,
datacenter string,
gwResolver MeshGatewayResolver,
) (*Transport, error) {
if tlsConfigurator == nil {
return nil, errors.New("wanfed: tlsConfigurator is nil")
}
if gwResolver == nil {
return nil, errors.New("wanfed: gwResolver is nil")
}
cp, err := newConnPool(GossipPacketMaxIdleTime)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
t := &Transport{
NodeAwareTransport: transport,
tlsConfigurator: tlsConfigurator,
datacenter: datacenter,
gwResolver: gwResolver,
pool: cp,
}
return t, nil
}
type Transport struct {
memberlist.NodeAwareTransport
tlsConfigurator *tlsutil.Configurator
datacenter string
gwResolver MeshGatewayResolver
pool *connPool
}
var _ memberlist.NodeAwareTransport = (*Transport)(nil)
// Shutdown implements memberlist.Transport.
func (t *Transport) Shutdown() error {
err1 := t.pool.Close()
err2 := t.NodeAwareTransport.Shutdown()
if err2 != nil {
// the more important error is err2
return err2
}
if err1 != nil {
return err1
}
return nil
}
// WriteToAddress implements memberlist.NodeAwareTransport.
func (t *Transport) WriteToAddress(b []byte, addr memberlist.Address) (time.Time, error) {
node, dc, err := SplitNodeName(addr.Name)
if err != nil {
return time.Time{}, err
}
if dc != t.datacenter {
gwAddr := t.gwResolver(dc)
if gwAddr == "" {
return time.Time{}, structs.ErrDCNotAvailable
}
dialFunc := func() (net.Conn, error) {
return t.dial(dc, node, pool.ALPN_WANGossipPacket, gwAddr)
}
conn, err := t.pool.AcquireOrDial(addr.Name, dialFunc)
if err != nil {
return time.Time{}, err
}
defer conn.ReturnOrClose()
// Send the length first.
if err := binary.Write(conn, binary.BigEndian, uint32(len(b))); err != nil {
conn.MarkFailed()
return time.Time{}, err
}
if _, err = conn.Write(b); err != nil {
conn.MarkFailed()
return time.Time{}, err
}
return time.Now(), nil
}
return t.NodeAwareTransport.WriteToAddress(b, addr)
}
// DialAddressTimeout implements memberlist.NodeAwareTransport.
func (t *Transport) DialAddressTimeout(addr memberlist.Address, timeout time.Duration) (net.Conn, error) {
node, dc, err := SplitNodeName(addr.Name)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
if dc != t.datacenter {
gwAddr := t.gwResolver(dc)
if gwAddr == "" {
return nil, structs.ErrDCNotAvailable
}
return t.dial(dc, node, pool.ALPN_WANGossipStream, gwAddr)
}
return t.NodeAwareTransport.DialAddressTimeout(addr, timeout)
}
// NOTE: There is a close mirror of this method in agent/pool/pool.go:DialTimeoutWithRPCType
func (t *Transport) dial(dc, nodeName, nextProto, addr string) (net.Conn, error) {
wrapper := t.tlsConfigurator.OutgoingALPNRPCWrapper()
if wrapper == nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("wanfed: cannot dial via a mesh gateway when outgoing TLS is disabled")
}
dialer := &net.Dialer{Timeout: 10 * time.Second}
rawConn, err := dialer.Dial("tcp", addr)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
if tcp, ok := rawConn.(*net.TCPConn); ok {
_ = tcp.SetKeepAlive(true)
_ = tcp.SetNoDelay(true)
}
tlsConn, err := wrapper(dc, nodeName, nextProto, rawConn)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
return tlsConn, nil
}
// SplitNodeName splits a node name as it would be represented in
// serf/memberlist in the WAN pool of the form "<short-node-name>.<datacenter>"
// like "nyc-web42.dc5" => "nyc-web42" & "dc5"
func SplitNodeName(nodeName string) (shortName, dc string, err error) {
parts := strings.Split(nodeName, ".")
if len(parts) != 2 {
return "", "", fmt.Errorf("node name does not encode a datacenter: %s", nodeName)
}
return parts[0], parts[1], nil
}