When we renew Vault tokens, we use the lease duration to determine how often to
renew. But we also set an `increment` value which is never updated from the
initial 30s. For periodic tokens this is not a problem because the `increment`
field is ignored on renewal. But for non-periodic tokens this prevents the token
TTL from being properly incremented. This behavior has been in place since the
initial Vault client implementation in #1606 but before the switch to workload
identity most (all?) tokens being created were periodic tokens so this was never
detected.
Fix this bug by updating the request's `increment` field to the lease duration
on each renewal.
Also switch out a `time.After` call in backoff of the derive token caller with a
safe timer so that we don't have to spawn a new goroutine per loop, and have
tighter control over when that's GC'd.
Ref: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/pull/1606
Ref: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/25812
* sec:add sprig template functions in denylists
* remove explicit set which is no longer needed
* go mod tidy
* add changelog
* better changelog and filtered denylist
* go mod tidy with 1.24.4
* edit changelog and remove htpasswd and derive
* fix tests
* Update client/allocrunner/taskrunner/template/template_test.go
Co-authored-by: Tim Gross <tgross@hashicorp.com>
* edit changelog
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Co-authored-by: Tim Gross <tgross@hashicorp.com>
Collecting metrics from processes is expensive, especially on platforms like
Windows. The executor code has a 5s cache of stats to ensure that we don't
thrash syscalls on nodes running many allocations. But the timestamp used to
calculate TTL of this cache was never being set, so we were always treating it
as expired. This causes excess CPU utilization on client nodes.
Ensure that when we fill the cache, we set the timestamp. In testing on Windows,
this reduces exector CPU overhead by roughly 75%.
This changeset includes two other related items:
* The `telemetry.publish_allocation_metrics` field correctly prevents a node
from publishing metrics, but the stats hook on the taskrunner still collects
the metrics, which can be expensive. Thread the configuration value into the
stats hook so that we don't collect if `telemetry.publish_allocation_metrics =
false`.
* The `linuxProcStats` type in the executor's `procstats` package is misnamed as
a result of a couple rounds of refactoring. It's used by all task executors,
not just Linux. Rename this and move a comment about how Windows processes are
listed so that the comment is closer to where the logic is implemented.
Fixes: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/23323
Fixes: https://hashicorp.atlassian.net/browse/NMD-455
Some of our allocrunner hooks require a task environment for interpolating values based on the node or allocation. But several of the hooks accept an already-built environment or builder and then keep that in memory. Both of these retain a copy of all the node attributes and allocation metadata, which balloons memory usage until the allocation is GC'd.
While we'd like to look into ways to avoid keeping the allocrunner around entirely (see #25372), for now we can significantly reduce memory usage by creating the task environment on-demand when calling allocrunner methods, rather than persisting it in the allocrunner hooks.
In doing so, we uncover two other bugs:
* The WID manager, the group service hook, and the checks hook have to interpolate services for specific tasks. They mutated a taskenv builder to do so, but each time they mutate the builder, they write to the same environment map. When a group has multiple tasks, it's possible for one task to set an environment variable that would then be interpolated in the service definition for another task if that task did not have that environment variable. Only the service definition interpolation is impacted. This does not leak env vars across running tasks, as each taskrunner has its own builder.
To fix this, we move the `UpdateTask` method off the builder and onto the taskenv as the `WithTask` method. This makes a shallow copy of the taskenv with a deep clone of the environment map used for interpolation, and then overwrites the environment from the task.
* The checks hook interpolates Nomad native service checks only on `Prerun` and not on `Update`. This could cause unexpected deregistration and registration of checks during in-place updates. To fix this, we make sure we interpolate in the `Update` method.
I also bumped into an incorrectly implemented interface in the CSI hook. I've pulled that and some better guardrails out to https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/pull/25472.
Fixes: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/25269
Fixes: https://hashicorp.atlassian.net/browse/NET-12310
Ref: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/25372
When a CSI plugin is launched, we probe it until the csi_plugin.health_timeout
expires (by default 30s). But if the plugin never becomes healthy, we're not
restarting the task as documented.
Update the plugin supervisor to trigger a restart instead. We still exit the
supervisor loop at that point to avoid having the supervisor send probes to a
task that isn't running yet. This requires reworking the poststart hook to allow
the supervisor loop to be restarted when the task restarts.
In doing so, I identified that we weren't respecting the task kill context from
the post start hook, which would leave the supervisor running in the window
between when a task is killed because it failed and its stop hooks were
triggered. Combine the two contexts to make sure we stop the supervisor
whichever context gets closed first.
Fixes: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/25293
Ref: https://hashicorp.atlassian.net/browse/NET-12264
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>
In #20165 we fixed a bug where a partially configured `client.template` retry
block would set any unset fields to nil instead of their default values. But
this patch introduced a regression in the default values, so we were now
defaulting to unlimited retries if the retry block was unset. Restore the
correct behavior and add better test coverage at both the config parsing and
template configuration code.
Ref: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/pull/20165
Ref: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/23305#issuecomment-2643731565
* Upgrade to using hashicorp/go-metrics@v0.5.4
This also requires bumping the dependencies for:
* memberlist
* serf
* raft
* raft-boltdb
* (and indirectly hashicorp/mdns due to the memberlist or serf update)
Unlike some other HashiCorp products, Nomads root module is currently expected to be consumed by others. This means that it needs to be treated more like our libraries and upgrade to hashicorp/go-metrics by utilizing its compat packages. This allows those importing the root module to control the metrics module used via build tags.
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.
When a task restarts, the Nomad client may need to rewrite the Consul token, but
it's created with permissions that prevent a non-root agent from writing to
it. While Nomad clients should be run as root (currently), it's harmless to
allow whatever user the Nomad agent is running as to be able to write to it, and
that's one less barrier to rootless Nomad.
Ref: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/23859#issuecomment-2465757392
When multiple templates with api functions are included in a task, it's
possible for consul-template to re-render templates as it creates
watchers, overwriting render event data. This change uses event fields
that do not get overwritten, and only executes the change mode for
templates that were actually written to disk.
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Co-authored-by: Tim Gross <tgross@hashicorp.com>
* jobspec: add a chown option to artifact block
This PR adds a boolean 'chown' field to the artifact block.
It indicates whether the Nomad client should chown the downloaded files
and directories to be owned by the task.user. This is useful for drivers
like raw_exec and exec2 which are subject to the host filesystem user
permissions structure. Before, these drivers might not be able to use or
manage the downloaded artifacts since they would be owned by the root
user on a typical Nomad client configuration.
* api: no need for pointer of chown field
When we introduced change_mode=script to templates, we passed the driver handle
down into the template manager so we could call its `Exec` method directly. But
the lifecycle of the driver handle is managed by the taskrunner and isn't
available when the template manager is first created. This has led to a series
of patches trying to fixup the behavior (#15915, #15192, #23663, #23917). Part
of the challenge in getting this right is using an interface to avoid the
circular import of the driver handle.
But the taskrunner already has a way to deal with this problem using a "lazy
handle". The other template change modes already use this indirectly through the
`Lifecycle` interface. Change the driver handle `Exec` call in the template
manager to a new `Lifecycle.Exec` call that reuses the existing behavior. This
eliminates the need for the template manager to know anything at all about the
handle state.
Fixes: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24051
In #23663 we fixed the template hook so that `change_mode="script"` didn't lose
track of the task handle during restores. But this revealed a second bug which
is that access to the handle is not locked while in use, which can allow it to
be removed concurrently.
Fixes: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/23875
On supported platforms, the secrets directory is a 1MiB tmpfs. But some tasks
need larger space for downloading large secrets. This is especially the case for
tasks using `templates`, which need extra room to write a temporary file to the
secrets directory that gets renamed to the old file atomically.
This changeset allows increasing the size of the tmpfs in the `resources`
block. Because this is a memory resource, we need to include it in the memory we
allocate for scheduling purposes. The task is already prevented from using more
memory in the tmpfs than the `resources.memory` field allows, but can bypass
that limit by writing to the tmpfs via `template` or `artifact` blocks.
Therefore, we need to account for the size of the tmpfs in the allocation
resources. Simply adding it to the memory needed when we create the allocation
allows it to be accounted for in all downstream consumers, and then we'll
subtract that amount from the memory resources just before configuring the task
driver.
For backwards compatibility, the default value of 1MiB is "free" and ignored by
the scheduler. Otherwise we'd be increasing the allocated resources for every
existing alloc, which could cause problems across upgrades. If a user explicitly
sets `resources.secrets = 1` it will no longer be free.
Fixes: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/2481
Ref: https://hashicorp.atlassian.net/browse/NET-10070
For templates with `change_mode = "script"`, we set a driver handle in the
poststart method, so the template runner can execute the script inside the
task. But when the client is restarted and the template contents change during
that window, we trigger a change_mode in the prestart method. In that case, the
hook will not have the handle and so returns an errror trying to run the change
mode.
We restore the driver handle before we call any prestart hooks, so we can pass
that handle in the constructor whenever it's available. In the normal task start
case the handle will be empty but also won't be called.
The error messages are also misleading, as there's no capabilities check
happening here. Update the error messages to match.
Fixes: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/15851
Ref: https://hashicorp.atlassian.net/browse/NET-9338
Nomad creates Consul ACL tokens and service registrations to support Consul
service mesh workloads, before bootstrapping the Envoy proxy. Nomad always talks
to the local Consul agent and never directly to the Consul servers. But the
local Consul agent talks to the Consul servers in stale consistency mode to
reduce load on the servers. This can result in the Nomad client making the Envoy
bootstrap request with a tokens or services that have not yet replicated to the
follower that the local client is connected to. This request gets a 404 on the
ACL token and that negative entry gets cached, preventing any retries from
succeeding.
To workaround this, we'll use a method described by our friends over on
`consul-k8s` where after creating the objects in Consul we try to read them from
the local agent in stale consistency mode (which prevents a failed read from
being cached). This cannot completely eliminate this source of error because
it's possible that Consul cluster replication is unhealthy at the time we need
it, but this should make Envoy bootstrap significantly more robust.
This changset adds preflight checks for the objects we create in Consul:
* We add a preflight check for ACL tokens after we login via via Workload
Identity and in the function we use to derive tokens in the legacy
workflow. We do this check early because we also want to use this token for
registering group services in the allocrunner hooks.
* We add a preflight check for services right before we bootstrap Envoy in the
taskrunner hook, so that we have time for our service client to batch updates
to the local Consul agent in addition to the local agent sync.
We've added the timeouts to be configurable via node metadata rather than the
usual static configuration because for most cases, users should not need to
touch or even know these values are configurable; the configuration is mostly
available for testing.
Fixes: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/9307
Fixes: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/10451
Fixes: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/20516
Ref: https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/pull/887
Ref: https://hashicorp.atlassian.net/browse/NET-10051
Ref: https://hashicorp.atlassian.net/browse/NET-9273
Follow-up: https://hashicorp.atlassian.net/browse/NET-10138
this is the CE side of an Enterprise-only feature.
a job trying to use this in CE will fail to validate.
to enable daily-scheduled execution entirely client-side,
a job may now contain:
task "name" {
schedule {
cron {
start = "0 12 * * * *" # may not include "," or "/"
end = "0 16" # partial cron, with only {minute} {hour}
timezone = "EST" # anything in your tzdb
}
}
...
and everything about the allocation will be placed as usual,
but if outside the specified schedule, the taskrunner will block
on the client, waiting on the schedule start, before proceeding
with the task driver execution, etc.
this includes a taksrunner hook, which watches for the end of
the schedule, at which point it will kill the task.
then, restarts-allowing, a new task will start and again block
waiting for start, and so on.
this also includes all the plumbing required to pipe API calls
through from command->api->agent->server->client, so that
tasks can be force-run, force-paused, or resume the schedule
on demand.
This change exposes CNI configuration details of a network
namespace as environment variables. This allows a task to use
these value to configure itself; a potential use case is to run
a Raft application binding to IP and Port details configured using
the bridge network mode.
* drivers/raw_exec: enable setting cgroup override values
This PR enables configuration of cgroup override values on the `raw_exec`
task driver. WARNING: setting cgroup override values eliminates any
gauruntee Nomad can make about resource availability for *any* task on
the client node.
For cgroup v2 systems, set a single unified cgroup path using `cgroup_v2_override`.
The path may be either absolute or relative to the cgroup root.
config {
cgroup_v2_override = "custom.slice/app.scope"
}
or
config {
cgroup_v2_override = "/sys/fs/cgroup/custom.slice/app.scope"
}
For cgroup v1 systems, set a per-controller path for each controller using
`cgroup_v1_override`. The path(s) may be either absolute or relative to
the controller root.
config {
cgroup_v1_override = {
"pids": "custom/app",
"cpuset": "custom/app",
}
}
or
config {
cgroup_v1_override = {
"pids": "/sys/fs/cgroup/pids/custom/app",
"cpuset": "/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/custom/app",
}
}
* drivers/rawexec: ensure only one of v1/v2 cgroup override is set
* drivers/raw_exec: executor should error if setting cgroup does not work
* drivers/raw_exec: create cgroups in raw_exec tests
* drivers/raw_exec: ensure we fail to start if custom cgroup set and non-root
* move custom cgroup func into shared file
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Co-authored-by: Michael Schurter <mschurter@hashicorp.com>
When available, we provide an environment variable `CONSUL_TOKEN` to tasks, but
this isn't the environment variable expected by the Consul CLI. Job
specifications like deploying an API Gateway become noticeably nicer if we can
instead provide the expected env var.
The `consul_hook` in the allocrunner gets a separate Consul token for each task,
even if the tasks' identities have the same name, but used the identity name as
the key to the alloc hook resources map. This means the last task in the group
overwrites the Consul tokens of all other tasks.
Fix this by adding the task name to the key in the allocrunner's
`consul_hook`. And update the taskrunner's `consul_hook` to expect the task
name in the key.
Fixes: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/20374
Fixes: https://hashicorp.atlassian.net/browse/NOMAD-614
Services can have some of their string fields interpolated. The new Workload
Identity flow doesn't interpolate the services before requesting signed
identities or using those identities to get Consul tokens.
Add support for interpolation to the WID manager and the Consul tokens hook by
providing both with a taskenv builder. Add an "interpolate workload" field to
the WI handle to allow passing the original workload name to the server so the
server can find the correct service to sign.
This changeset also makes two related test improvements:
* Remove the mock WID manager, which was only used in the Consul hook tests and
isn't necessary so long as we provide the real WID manager with the mock
signer and never call `Run` on it. It wasn't feasible to exercise the correct
behavior without this refactor, as the mocks were bypassing the new code.
* Fixed swapped expect-vs-actual assertions on the `consul_hook` tests.
Fixes: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/20025
In #20007 we fixed a bug where the DNS configuration set by CNI plugins was not
threaded through to the task configuration. This resulted in a regression where
a DNS override set by `dockerd` was not respected for `bridge` mode
networking. Our existing handling of CNI DNS incorrectly assumed that the DNS
field would be empty, when in fact it contains a single empty DNS struct.
Handle this case correctly by checking whether the DNS struct we get back from
CNI has any nameservers, and ignore it if it doesn't. Expand test coverage of
this case.
Fixes: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/20174
While investigating a report around possible consul-template shutdown issues,
which didn't bear fruit, I found that some of the logic around template runner
shutdown is unintuitive.
* Add some doc strings to the places where someone might think we should be
obviously stopping the runner or returning early.
* Mark context argument for `Poststart`, `Stop`, and `Update` hooks as unused.
No functional code changes.
* 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
* exec2: implement dynamic workload users taskrunner hook
This PR impelements a TR hook for allocating dynamic workload users from
a pool managed by the Nomad client. This adds a new task driver Capability,
DynamicWorkloadUsers - which a task driver must indicate in order to make
use of this feature.
The client config plumbing is coming in a followup PR - in the RFC we
realized having a client.users block would be nice to have, with some
additional unrelated options being moved from the deprecated client.options
config.
* learn to spell
CNI plugins may set DNS configuration, but this isn't threaded through to the
task configuration so that we can write it to the `/etc/resolv.conf` file as
needed. Add the `AllocNetworkStatus` to the alloc hook resources so they're
accessible from the taskrunner. Any DNS entries provided by the user will
override these values.
Fixes: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/11102
The Nomad client renders templates in the same privileged process used for most
other client operations. During internal testing, we discovered that a malicious
task can create a symlink that can cause template rendering to read and write to
arbitrary files outside the allocation sandbox. Because the Nomad agent can be
restarted without restarting tasks, we can't simply check that the path is safe
at the time we write without encountering a time-of-check/time-of-use race.
To protect Nomad client hosts from this attack, we'll now read and write
templates in a subprocess:
* On Linux/Unix, this subprocess is sandboxed via chroot to the allocation
directory. This requires that Nomad is running as a privileged process. A
non-root Nomad agent will warn that it cannot sandbox the template renderer.
* On Windows, this process is sandboxed via a Windows AppContainer which has
been granted access to only to the allocation directory. This does not require
special privileges on Windows. (Creating symlinks in the first place can be
prevented by running workloads as non-Administrator or
non-ContainerAdministrator users.)
Both sandboxes cause encountered symlinks to be evaluated in the context of the
sandbox, which will result in a "file not found" or "access denied" error,
depending on the platform. This change will also require an update to
Consul-Template to allow callers to inject a custom `ReaderFunc` and
`RenderFunc`.
This design is intended as a workaround to allow us to fix this bug without
creating backwards compatibility issues for running tasks. A future version of
Nomad may introduce a read-only mount specifically for templates and artifacts
so that tasks cannot write into the same location that the Nomad agent is.
Fixes: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/19888
Fixes: CVE-2024-1329
Add new configuration option on task's volume_mounts, to give a fine grained control over SELinux "z" label
* Update website/content/docs/job-specification/volume_mount.mdx
Co-authored-by: Luiz Aoqui <luiz@hashicorp.com>
* fix: typo
* func: make volume mount verification happen even on mounts with no volume
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Co-authored-by: Luiz Aoqui <luiz@hashicorp.com>
Co-authored-by: Tim Gross <tgross@hashicorp.com>
We don't run the whole suite of unit tests on all platforms to keep CI times
reasonable, so the only things we've been running on Windows are
platform-specific.
I'm working on some platform-specific `template` related work and having these
tests run on Windows will reduce the risk of regressions. Our Windows CI box
doesn't have Consul or Vault, so I've skipped those tests for the time being,
and can follow up with that later. There's also a test with assertions looking
for specific paths, and the results are different on Windows. I've skipped those
for the moment as well and will follow up under a separate PR.
Also swap `testify` for `shoenig/test`
Fixes#19781
Do not mark the envoy bootstrap hook as done after successfully running once.
Since the bootstrap file is written to /secrets, which is a tmpfs on supported
platforms, it is not persisted across reboots. This causes the task and
allocation to fail on reboot (see #19781).
This fixes it by *always* rewriting the envoy bootstrap file every time the
Nomad agent starts. This does mean we may write a new bootstrap file to an
already running Envoy task, but in my testing that doesn't have any impact.
This commit doesn't necessarily fix every use of Done by hooks, but hopefully
improves the situation. The comment on Done has been expanded to hopefully
avoid misuse in the future.
Done assertions were removed from tests as they add more noise than value.
*Alternative 1: Use a regular file*
An alternative approach would be to write the bootstrap file somewhere
other than the tmpfs, but this is *unsafe* as when Consul ACLs are
enabled the file will contain a secret token:
https://developer.hashicorp.com/consul/commands/connect/envoy#bootstrap
*Alternative 2: Detect if file is already written*
An alternative approach would be to detect if the bootstrap file exists,
and only write it if it doesn't.
This is just a more complicated form of the current fix. I think in
general in the absence of other factors task hooks should be idempotent
and therefore able to rerun on any agent startup. This simplifies the
code and our ability to reason about task restarts vs agent restarts vs
node reboots by making them all take the same code path.
Some users with batch workloads or short-lived prestart tasks want to derive a
Vaul token, use it, and then allow it to expire without requiring a constant
refresh. Add the `vault.allow_token_expiration` field, which works only with the
Workload Identity workflow and not the legacy workflow.
When set to true, this disables the client's renewal loop in the
`vault_hook`. When Vault revokes the token lease, the token will no longer be
valid. The client will also now automatically detect if the Vault auth
configuration does not allow renewals and will disable the renewal loop
automatically.
Note this should only be used when a secret is requested from Vault once at the
start of a task or in a short-lived prestart task. Long-running tasks should
never set `allow_token_expiration=true` if they obtain Vault secrets via
`template` blocks, as the Vault token will expire and the template runner will
continue to make failing requests to Vault until the `vault_retry` attempts are
exhausted.
Fixes: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/8690
