If a Nomad job is started with a large number of instances (e.g. 4 billion),
then the Nomad servers that attempt to schedule it will run out of memory and
crash. While it's unlikely that anyone would intentionally schedule a job with 4
billion instances, we have occasionally run into issues with bugs in external
automation. For example, an automated deployment system running on a test
environment had an off-by-one error, and deployed a job with count = uint32(-1),
causing the Nomad servers for that environment to run out of memory and crash.
To prevent this, this PR introduces a job_max_count Nomad server configuration
parameter. job_max_count limits the number of allocs that may be created from a
job. The default value is 50000 - this is low enough that a job with the maximum
possible number of allocs will not require much memory on the server, but is
still much higher than the number of allocs in the largest Nomad job we have
ever run.
The new configuration block exposes some key options which allow
cluster administrators to control certain client introduction
behaviours.
This change introduces the new block and plumbing, so that it is
exposed in the Nomad server for consumption via internal processes.
When a node is garbage collected, any dynamic host volumes on the node are
orphaned in the state store. We generally don't want to automatically collect
these volumes and risk data loss, and have provided a CLI flag to `-force`
remove them in #25902. But for clusters running on ephemeral cloud
instances (ex. AWS EC2 in an autoscaling group), deleting host volumes may add
excessive friction. Add a configuration knob to the client configuration to
remove host volumes from the state store on node GC.
Ref: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/pull/25902
Ref: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/25762
Ref: https://hashicorp.atlassian.net/browse/NMD-705
* Set MaxAllocations in client config
Add NodeAllocationTracker struct to Node struct
Evaluate MaxAllocations in AllocsFit function
Set up cli config parsing
Integrate maxAllocs into AllocatedResources view
Co-authored-by: Tim Gross <tgross@hashicorp.com>
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Co-authored-by: Tim Gross <tgross@hashicorp.com>
Nomad Enterprise users operating in air-gapped or otherwise secured environments
don't want to send license reporting metrics directly from their
servers. Implement manual/offline reporting by periodically recording usage
metrics snapshots in the state store, and providing an API and CLI by which
cluster administrators can download the snapshot for review and out-of-band
transmission to HashiCorp.
This is the CE portion of the work required for implemention in the Enterprise
product. Nomad CE does not perform utilization reporting.
Ref: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad-enterprise/pull/2673
Ref: https://hashicorp.atlassian.net/browse/NMD-68
Ref: https://go.hashi.co/rfc/nmd-210
The server startup could "hang" to the view of an operator if it
had a key that could not be decrypted or replicated loaded from
the FSM at startup.
In order to prevent this happening, the server startup function
will now use a timeout to wait for the encrypter to be ready. If
the timeout is reached, the error is sent back to the caller which
fails the CLI command. This bubbling of error message will also
flush to logs which will provide addition operator feedback.
The server only cares about keys loaded from the FSM snapshot and
trailing logs before the encrypter should be classed as ready. So
that the encrypter ready function does not get blocked by keys
added outside of the initial Raft load, we take a snapshot of the
decryption tasks as we enter the blocking call, and class these as
our barrier.
The legacy workflow for Vault whereby servers were configured
using a token to provide authentication to the Vault API has now
been removed. This change also removes the workflow where servers
were responsible for deriving Vault tokens for Nomad clients.
The deprecated Vault config options used byi the Nomad agent have
all been removed except for "token" which is still in use by the
Vault Transit keyring implementation.
Job specification authors can no longer use the "vault.policies"
parameter and should instead use "vault.role" when not using the
default workload identity.
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Co-authored-by: Tim Gross <tgross@hashicorp.com>
Co-authored-by: Aimee Ukasick <aimee.ukasick@hashicorp.com>
The Nomad client can now optionally emit telemetry data from the
prerun and prestart hooks. This allows operators to monitor and
alert on failures and time taken to complete.
The new datapoints are:
- nomad.client.alloc_hook.prerun.success (counter)
- nomad.client.alloc_hook.prerun.failed (counter)
- nomad.client.alloc_hook.prerun.elapsed (sample)
- nomad.client.task_hook.prestart.success (counter)
- nomad.client.task_hook.prestart.failed (counter)
- nomad.client.task_hook.prestart.elapsed (sample)
The hook execution time is useful to Nomad engineering and will
help optimize code where possible and understand job specification
impacts on hook performance.
Currently only the PreRun and PreStart hooks have telemetry
enabled, so we limit the number of new metrics being produced.
The TLS configuration object includes a deprecated `prefer_server_cipher_suites`
field. In version of Go prior to 1.17, this property controlled whether a TLS
connection would use the cipher suites preferred by the server or by the
client. This field is ignored as of 1.17 and, according to the `crypto/tls`
docs: "Servers now select the best mutually supported cipher suite based on
logic that takes into account inferred client hardware, server hardware, and
security."
This property has been long-deprecated and leaving it in place may lead to false
assumptions about how cipher suites are negotiated in connection to a server. So
we want to remove it in Nomad 1.9.0.
Fixes: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad-enterprise/issues/999
Ref: https://hashicorp.atlassian.net/browse/NET-10531
In Nomad 1.4.0, we shipped support for encrypted Variables and signed Workload
Identities, but the key material is protected only by a AEAD encrypting the
KEK. Add support for Vault transit encryption and external KMS from major cloud
providers. The servers call out to the external service to decrypt each key in
the on-disk keystore.
Ref: https://hashicorp.atlassian.net/browse/NET-10334
Fixes: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/14852
This change adds configuration options for setting the in-memory
telemetry sink collection and retention durations. This sink backs
the metrics JSON API and previously had hard-coded default values.
The new options are particularly useful when running development or
debug environments, where metrics collection is desired at a fast
and granular rate.
* exec2: add client support for unveil filesystem isolation mode
This PR adds support for a new filesystem isolation mode, "Unveil". The
mode introduces a "alloc_mounts" directory where tasks have user-owned
directory structure which are bind mounts into the real alloc directory
structure. This enables a task driver to use landlock (and maybe the
real unveil on openbsd one day) to isolate a task to the task owned
directory structure, providing sandboxing.
* actually create alloc-mounts-dir directory
* fix doc strings about alloc mount dir paths
This simplifies the default setup of Nomad workloads WI-based
authentication for Consul by using a single auth method with 2 binding rules.
Users can still specify separate auth methods for services and tasks.
This changeset makes two changes:
* Removes the `consul.use_identity` field from the agent configuration. This behavior is properly covered by the presence of `consul.service_identity` / `consul.task_identity` blocks.
* Adds a `consul.task_auth_method` and `consul.service_auth_method` fields to the agent configuration. This allows the cluster administrator to choose specific Consul Auth Method names for their environment, with a reasonable default.
* config: apply defaults to extra Consul and Vault
Apply the expected default values when loading additional Consul and
Vault cluster configuration. Without these defaults some fields would be
left empty.
* config: retain pointer of multi Consul and Vault
When calling `Copy()` the pointer reference from the `"default"` key of
the `Consuls` and `Vaults` maps to the `Consul` and `Vault` field of
`Config` was being lost.
* test: ensure TestAgent has the right reference to the default Consul config
The initial intention behind the `vault.use_identity` configuration was
to indicate to Nomad servers that they would need to sign a workload
identities for allocs with a `vault` block.
But in order to support identity renewal, #18262 and #18431 moved the
token signing logic to the alloc runner since a new token needs to be
signed prior to the TTL expiring.
So #18343 implemented `use_identity` as a flag to indicate that the
workload identity JWT flow should be used when deriving Vault tokens for
tasks.
But this configuration value is set on servers so it is not available to
clients at the time of token derivation, making its meaning not clear: a
job may end up using the identity-based flow even when `use_identity` is
`false`.
The only reliable signal available to clients at token derivation time
is the presence of an `identity` block for Vault, and this is already
configured with the `vault.default_identity` configuration block, making
`vault.use_identity` redundant.
This commit removes the `vault.use_identity` configuration and
simplifies the logic on when an implicit Vault identity is injected into
tasks.
* vault: update identity name to start with `vault_`
In the original proposal, workload identities used to derive Vault
tokens were expected to be called just `vault`. But in order to support
multiple Vault clusters it is necessary to associate identities with
specific Vault cluster configuration.
This commit implements a new proposal to have Vault identities named as
`vault_<cluster>`.
* config: fix multi consul and vault config parse
Capture the loop variable when parsing multiple Consul and Vault
configuration blocks so the duration parse function uses the correct
field when it's called later on.
* client: build Vault client with right config
When setting up the multiple Vault clients, the code was always loading
the default configuration, resulting in all clients to be configured the
same way.
* config: fix WorkloadIdentityConfig.Copy() method
Ensure `WorkloadIdentityConfig.Copy()` does not return the original
pointer for the `TTL` field.
The original thinking for Workload Identity integration with Consul and Vault
was that we'd allow `template` blocks to specify their own identity. But because
the login to Consul/Vault to get tokens happens at the task level, this would
involve making the `template` block a new WID watcher on its own rather than
using the Consul and Vault hooks we're building at the group/task level.
So it doesn't make sense to have separate identities for individual `template`
blocks rather than at the level of tasks. Update the agent configuration to
rename the `template_identity` to the more accurate `task_identity`, which will
be used for any non-service hooks (just `template` today).
Update the implicit identities job mutation hook to create the identity we'll
need as well.
Add support for identity token TTL in agent configuration fields such as
Consul `service_identity` and `template_identity`.
Co-authored-by: Michael Schurter <mschurter@hashicorp.com>
Rename the agent configuraion for workload identity to
`WorkloadIdentityConfig` to make its use more explicit and remove the
`ServiceName` field since it is never expected to be defined in a
configuration file.
Also update the job mutation to inject a service identity following
these rules:
1. Don't inject identity if `consul.use_identity` is false.
2. Don't inject identity if `consul.service_identity` is not specified.
3. Don't inject identity if service provider is not `consul`.
4. Set name and service name if the service specifies an identity.
5. Inject `consul.service_identity` if service does not specify an
identity.
Add the plumbing we need to accept multiple Consul clusters in Nomad agent
configuration, to support upcoming Nomad Enterprise features. The `consul` blocks
are differentiated by a new `name` field, and if the `name` is omitted it
becomes the "default" Consul configuration. All blocks with the same name are
merged together, as with the existing behavior.
As with the `vault` block, we're still using HCL1 for parsing configuration and
the `Decode` method doesn't parse multiple blocks differentiated only by a field
name without a label. So we've had to add an extra parsing pass, similar to what
we've done for HCL1 jobspecs. This also revealed a subtle bug in the `vault`
block handling of extra keys when there are multiple `vault` blocks, which I've
fixed here.
For now, all existing consumers will use the "default" Consul configuration, so
there's no user-facing behavior change in this changeset other than the contents
of the agent self API.
Ref: https://github.com/hashicorp/team-nomad/issues/404
Add the plumbing we need to accept multiple Vault clusters in Nomad agent
configuration, to support upcoming Nomad Enterprise features. The `vault` blocks
are differentiated by a new `name` field, and if the `name` is omitted it
becomes the "default" Vault configuration. All blocks with the same name are
merged together, as with the existing behavior.
Unfortunately we're still using HCL1 for parsing configuration and the `Decode`
method doesn't parse multiple blocks differentiated only by a field name without
a label. So we've had to add an extra parsing pass, similar to what we've done
for HCL1 jobspecs.
For now, all existing consumers will use the "default" Vault configuration, so
there's no user-facing behavior change in this changeset other than the contents
of the agent self API.
Ref: https://github.com/hashicorp/team-nomad/issues/404
The client ACL cache was not accounting for tokens which included
ACL role links. This change modifies the behaviour to resolve role
links to policies. It will also now store ACL roles within the
cache for quick lookup. The cache TTL is configurable in the same
manner as policies or tokens.
Another small fix is included that takes into account the ACL
token expiry time. This was not included, which meant tokens with
expiry could be used past the expiry time, until they were GC'd.
Plan rejections occur when the scheduler work and the leader plan
applier disagree on the feasibility of a plan. This may happen for valid
reasons: since Nomad does parallel scheduling, it is expected that
different workers will have a different state when computing placements.
As the final plan reaches the leader plan applier, it may no longer be
valid due to a concurrent scheduling taking up intended resources. In
these situations the plan applier will notify the worker that the plan
was rejected and that they should refresh their state before trying
again.
In some rare and unexpected circumstances it has been observed that
workers will repeatedly submit the same plan, even if they are always
rejected.
While the root cause is still unknown this mitigation has been put in
place. The plan applier will now track the history of plan rejections
per client and include in the plan result a list of node IDs that should
be set as ineligible if the number of rejections in a given time window
crosses a certain threshold. The window size and threshold value can be
adjusted in the server configuration.
To avoid marking several nodes as ineligible at one, the operation is rate
limited to 5 nodes every 30min, with an initial burst of 10 operations.
This commit adds configuration parameters to control ACL token
expirations. This includes both limits on the min and max TTL
expiration values, as well as a GC threshold for expired tokens.
