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Seth Hoenig 4d71f22a11 consul/connect: add support for running connect native tasks
This PR adds the capability of running Connect Native Tasks on Nomad,
particularly when TLS and ACLs are enabled on Consul.

The `connect` stanza now includes a `native` parameter, which can be
set to the name of task that backs the Connect Native Consul service.

There is a new Client configuration parameter for the `consul` stanza
called `share_ssl`. Like `allow_unauthenticated` the default value is
true, but recommended to be disabled in production environments. When
enabled, the Nomad Client's Consul TLS information is shared with
Connect Native tasks through the normal Consul environment variables.
This does NOT include auth or token information.

If Consul ACLs are enabled, Service Identity Tokens are automatically
and injected into the Connect Native task through the CONSUL_HTTP_TOKEN
environment variable.

Any of the automatically set environment variables can be overridden by
the Connect Native task using the `env` stanza.

Fixes #6083
2020-06-22 14:07:44 -05:00
Seth Hoenig f136afc04f api: canonicalize connect components
Add `Canonicalize` methods to the connect components of a service
definition in the `api` package. Without these, we have been relying
on good input for the connect stanza.

Fixes #7993
2020-05-19 11:47:22 -06:00
Seth Hoenig 0e44094d1a client: enable configuring enable_tag_override for services
Consul provides a feature of Service Definitions where the tags
associated with a service can be modified through the Catalog API,
overriding the value(s) configured in the agent's service configuration.

To enable this feature, the flag enable_tag_override must be configured
in the service definition.

Previously, Nomad did not allow configuring this flag, and thus the default
value of false was used. Now, it is configurable.

Because Nomad itself acts as a state machine around the the service definitions
of the tasks it manages, it's worth describing what happens when this feature
is enabled and why.

Consider the basic case where there is no Nomad, and your service is provided
to consul as a boring JSON file. The ultimate source of truth for the definition
of that service is the file, and is stored in the agent. Later, Consul performs
"anti-entropy" which synchronizes the Catalog (stored only the leaders). Then
with enable_tag_override=true, the tags field is available for "external"
modification through the Catalog API (rather than directly configuring the
service definition file, or using the Agent API). The important observation
is that if the service definition ever changes (i.e. the file is changed &
config reloaded OR the Agent API is used to modify the service), those
"external" tag values are thrown away, and the new service definition is
once again the source of truth.

In the Nomad case, Nomad itself is the source of truth over the Agent in
the same way the JSON file was the source of truth in the example above.
That means any time Nomad sets a new service definition, any externally
configured tags are going to be replaced. When does this happen? Only on
major lifecycle events, for example when a task is modified because of an
updated job spec from the 'nomad job run <existing>' command. Otherwise,
Nomad's periodic re-sync's with Consul will now no longer try to restore
the externally modified tag values (as long as enable_tag_override=true).

Fixes #2057
2020-02-10 08:00:55 -06:00
Tim Gross cd9c23617f
client/connect: ConsulProxy LocalServicePort/Address (#6358)
Without a `LocalServicePort`, Connect services will try to use the
mapped port even when delivering traffic locally. A user can override
this behavior by pinning the port value in the `service` stanza but
this prevents us from using the Consul service name to reach the
service.

This commits configures the Consul proxy with its `LocalServicePort`
and `LocalServiceAddress` fields.
2019-09-23 14:30:48 -04:00
Tim Gross a0e923f46c add optional task field to group service checks 2019-08-20 09:35:31 -04:00