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
Test set Agent.client=nil which prevented the client from being
shutdown. This leaked goroutines and could cause panics due to the
leaked client goroutines logging after their parent test had finished.
Removed ACLs from the server test because I couldn't get it to work with
the test agent, and it tested very little.
The default RPC addr was a global which is fine for normal runtime use
when it only has a single user.
However many tests modify it and cause races. Follow our convention of
returning defaults from funcs instead of using globals.
Pretty sure Consul / Nomad clients are often not ready yet after
the ConsulACLs test disables ACLs, by the time the next test starts
running.
Running locally things tend to work, but in TeamCity this seems to
be a recurring problem. However, when running locally sometimes I do
see that the "show status" step after disabling ACLs, some nodes are
still initializing, suggesting we're right on the border of not waiting
long enough
nomad node status
ID DC Name Class Drain Eligibility Status
0e4dfce2 dc1 EC2AMAZ-JB3NF9P <none> false eligible ready
6b90aa06 dc2 ip-172-31-16-225 <none> false eligible ready
7068558a dc2 ip-172-31-20-143 <none> false eligible ready
e0ae3c5c dc1 ip-172-31-25-165 <none> false eligible ready
15b59ed6 dc1 ip-172-31-23-199 <none> false eligible initializing
Going to try waiting a full 2 minutes after disabling ACLs, hopefully that
will help things Just Work. In the future, we should probably be parsing the
output of the status checks and actually confirming all nodes are ready.
Even better, maybe that's something shipyard will have built-in.
Go implicitly treats files ending with `_linux.go` as build tagged for
Linux only. This broke the e2e provisioning framework on macOS once we
tried importing it into the `e2e/consulacls` module.
This changeset improves the ergonomics of running the Nomad e2e test
provisioning process by defaulting to a blank `nomad_sha` in the
Terraform configuration. By default, a user will now need to pass in
one of the Nomad version flags. But they won't have to manually edit
the `provisioning.json` file for the common case of deploying a
released version of Nomad, and won't need to put dummy values for
`nomad_sha`.
Includes general documentation improvements.
MultiplexV2 is a new connection multiplex header that supports multiplex both
RPC and streaming requests over the same Yamux connection.
MultiplexV2 was added in 0.8.0 as part of
https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/pull/3892 . So Nomad 0.11 can expect it to
be supported. Though, some more rigorous testing is required before merging
this.
I want to call out some implementation details:
First, the current connection pool reuses the Yamux stream for multiple RPC calls,
and doesn't close them until an error is encountered. This commit doesn't
change it, and sets the `RpcNomad` byte only at stream creation.
Second, the StreamingRPC session gets closed by callers and cannot be reused.
Every StreamingRPC opens a new Yamux session.
Drew Bailey