When a nomad client restarts/upgraded, nomad restores state from running
task and starts the sync loop. If sync loop runs early, it may
deregister services from Consul prematurely even when Consul has the
running service as healthy.
This is not ideal, as re-registering the service means potentially
waiting a whole service health check interval before declaring the
service healthy.
We attempt to mitigate this by introducing an initialization probation
period. During this time, we only deregister services and checks that
were explicitly deregistered, and leave unrecognized ones alone. This
serves as a grace period for restoring to complete, or for operators to
restore should they recognize they restored with the wrong nomad data
directory.
Currently, nomad "plugin" processes (e.g. executor, logmon, docker_logger) are started as CLI
commands to be handled by command CLI framework. Plugin launchers use
`discover.NomadBinary()` to identify the binary and start it.
This has few downsides: The trivial one is that when running tests, one
must re-compile the nomad binary as the tests need to invoke the nomad
executable to start plugin. This is frequently overlooked, resulting in
puzzlement.
The more significant issue with `executor` in particular is in relation
to external driver:
* Plugin must identify the path of invoking nomad binary, which is not
trivial; `discvoer.NomadBinary()` now returns the path to the plugin
rather than to nomad, preventing external drivers from launching
executors.
* The external driver may get a different version of executor than it
expects (specially if we make a binary incompatible change in future).
This commit addresses both downside by having the plugin invocation
handling through an `init()` call, similar to how libcontainer init
handler is done in [1] and recommened by libcontainer [2]. `init()`
will be invoked and handled properly in tests and external drivers.
For external drivers, this change will cause external drivers to launch
the executor that's compiled against.
There a are a couple of downsides to this approach:
* These specific packages (i.e executor, logmon, and dockerlog) need to
be careful in use of `init()`, package initializers. Must avoid having
command execution rely on any other init in the package. I prefixed
files with `z_` (golang processes files in lexical order), but ensured
we don't depend on order.
* The command handling is spread in multiple packages making it a bit
less obvious how plugin starts are handled.
[1] drivers/shared/executor/libcontainer_nsenter_linux.go
[2] eb4aeed24f/libcontainer (using-libcontainer)
- updated region in job metadata that gets persisted to nomad datastore
- fixed many unrelated unit tests that used an invalid region value
(they previously passed because hcl wasn't getting picked up and
the job would default to global region)
It is possible to provide multiple identically named services with
different port assignments in a Nomad configuration.
We introduced a regression when migrating to stable service identifiers where
multiple services with the same name would conflict, and the last definition
would take precedence.
This commit includes the port label in the stable service identifier to
allow the previous behaviour where this was supported, for example
providing:
```hcl
service {
name = "redis-cache"
tags = ["global", "cache"]
port = "db"
check {
name = "alive"
type = "tcp"
interval = "10s"
timeout = "2s"
}
}
service {
name = "redis-cache"
tags = ["global", "foo"]
port = "foo"
check {
name = "alive"
type = "tcp"
port = "db"
interval = "10s"
timeout = "2s"
}
}
service {
name = "redis-cache"
tags = ["global", "bar"]
port = "bar"
check {
name = "alive"
type = "tcp"
port = "db"
interval = "10s"
timeout = "2s"
}
}
```
in a nomad task definition is now completely valid. Each service
definition with the same name must still have a unique port label however.
Currently when you submit a manual request to the alloc lifecycle API
with a version of Curl that will submit empty bodies, the alloc restart
api will fail with an EOF error.
This behaviour is undesired, as it is reasonable to not submit a body at
all when restarting an entire allocation rather than an individual task.
This fixes it by ignoring EOF (not unexpected EOF) errors and treating
them as entire task restarts.
Enterprise only.
Disable preemption for service and batch jobs by default.
Maintain backward compatibility in a x.y.Z release. Consider switching
the default for new clusters in the future.
This exposes a client flag to disable nomad remote exec support in
environments where access to tasks ought to be restricted.
I used `disable_remote_exec` client flag that defaults to allowing
remote exec. Opted for a client config that can be used to disable
remote exec globally, or to a subset of the cluster if necessary.
