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
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.
* Update ioutil deprecated library references to os and io respectively
* Deal with the errors produced.
Add error handling to filEntry info
Add error handling to info
* largely a doc-ification of this commit message:
d47678074b
this doesn't spell out all the possible failure modes,
but should be a good starting point for folks.
* connect: add doc link to envoy bootstrap error
* add Unwrap() to RecoverableError
mainly for easier testing
* [no ci] first pass at plumbing grpc_ca_file
* consul: add support for grpc_ca_file for tls grpc connections in consul 1.14+
This PR adds client config to Nomad for specifying consul.grpc_ca_file
These changes combined with https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/15913 should
finally enable Nomad users to upgrade to Consul 1.14+ and use tls grpc connections.
* consul: add cl entgry for grpc_ca_file
* docs: mention grpc_tls changes due to Consul 1.14
This commit performs refactoring to pull out common service
registration objects into a new `client/serviceregistration`
package. This new package will form the base point for all
client specific service registration functionality.
The Consul specific implementation is not moved as it also
includes non-service registration implementations; this reduces
the blast radius of the changes as well.
This PR modifies the Consul CLI arguments used to bootstrap envoy for
Connect sidecars to make use of '-proxy-id' instead of '-sidecar-for'.
Nomad registers the sidecar service, so we know what ID it has. The
'-sidecar-for' was intended for use when you only know the name of the
service for which the sidecar is being created.
The improvement here is that using '-proxy-id' does not require an underlying
request for listing Consul services. This will make make the interaction
between Nomad and Consul more efficient.
Closes#10452
When Consul Connect just works, it's wonderful. When it doesn't work it
can be exceeding difficult to debug: operators have to check task
events, Nomad logs, Consul logs, Consul APIs, and even then critical
information is missing.
Using Consul to generate a bootstrap config for Envoy is notoriously
difficult. Nomad doesn't even log stderr, so operators are left trying
to piece together what went wrong.
This patch attempts to provide *maximal* context which unfortunately
includes secrets. **Secrets are always restricted to the secrets/
directory.** This makes debugging a little harder, but allows operators
to know exactly what operation Nomad was trying to perform.
What's added:
- stderr is sent to alloc/logs/envoy_bootstrap.stderr.0
- the CLI is written to secrets/.envoy_bootstrap.cmd
- the environment is written to secrets/.envoy_bootstrap.env as JSON
Accessing this information is unfortunately awkward:
```
nomad alloc exec -task connect-proxy-count-countdash b36a cat secrets/.envoy_bootstrap.env
nomad alloc exec -task connect-proxy-count-countdash b36a cat secrets/.envoy_bootstrap.cmd
nomad alloc fs b36a alloc/logs/envoy_bootstrap.stderr.0
```
The above assumes an alloc id that starts with `b36a` and a Connect
sidecar proxy for a service named `count-countdash`.
If the alloc is unable to start successfully, the debugging files are
only accessible from the host filesystem.
Previously we copied this library by hand to avoid vendor-ing a bunch of
files related to minimock. Now that we no longer vendor, just import the
library normally.
Also we might use more of the library for handling `time.After` uses,
for which this library provides a Context-based solution.
This PR fixes a bug where the underlying Envoy process of a Connect gateway
would consume a full core of CPU if there is more than one sidecar or gateway
in a group. The utilization was being caused by Consul injecting an envoy_ready_listener
on 127.0.0.1:8443, of which only one of the Envoys would be able to bind to.
The others would spin in a hot loop trying to bind the listener.
As a workaround, we now specify -address during the Envoy bootstrap config
step, which is how Consul maps this ready listener. Because there is already
the envoy_admin_listener, and we need to continue supporting running gateways
in host networking mode, and in those case we want to use the same port
value coming from the service.port field, we now bind the admin listener to
the 127.0.0.2 loop-back interface, and the ready listener takes 127.0.0.1.
This shouldn't make a difference in the 99.999% use case where envoy is
being run in its official docker container. Advanced users can reference
${NOMAD_ENVOY_ADMIN_ADDR_<service>} (as they 'ought to) if needed,
as well as the new variable ${NOMAD_ENVOY_READY_ADDR_<service>} for the
envoy_ready_listener.
This PR implements first-class support for Nomad running Consul
Connect Mesh Gateways. Mesh gateways enable services in the Connect
mesh to make cross-DC connections via gateways, where each datacenter
may not have full node interconnectivity.
Consul docs with more information:
https://www.consul.io/docs/connect/gateways/mesh-gateway
The following group level service block can be used to establish
a Connect mesh gateway.
service {
connect {
gateway {
mesh {
// no configuration
}
}
}
}
Services can make use of a mesh gateway by configuring so in their
upstream blocks, e.g.
service {
connect {
sidecar_service {
proxy {
upstreams {
destination_name = "<service>"
local_bind_port = <port>
datacenter = "<datacenter>"
mesh_gateway {
mode = "<mode>"
}
}
}
}
}
}
Typical use of a mesh gateway is to create a bridge between datacenters.
A mesh gateway should then be configured with a service port that is
mapped from a host_network configured on a WAN interface in Nomad agent
config, e.g.
client {
host_network "public" {
interface = "eth1"
}
}
Create a port mapping in the group.network block for use by the mesh
gateway service from the public host_network, e.g.
network {
mode = "bridge"
port "mesh_wan" {
host_network = "public"
}
}
Use this port label for the service.port of the mesh gateway, e.g.
service {
name = "mesh-gateway"
port = "mesh_wan"
connect {
gateway {
mesh {}
}
}
}
Currently Envoy is the only supported gateway implementation in Consul.
By default Nomad client will run the latest official Envoy docker image
supported by the local Consul agent. The Envoy task can be customized
by setting `meta.connect.gateway_image` in agent config or by setting
the `connect.sidecar_task` block.
Gateways require Consul 1.8.0+, enforced by the Nomad scheduler.
Closes#9446
This PR wraps the use of the consul envoy bootstrap command in
an expoenential backoff closure, configured to timeout after 60
seconds. This is an increase over the current behavior of making
3 attempts over 6 seconds.
Should help with #10451
This PR adds the common OSS changes for adding support for Consul Namespaces,
which is going to be a Nomad Enterprise feature. There is no new functionality
provided by this changeset and hopefully no new bugs.
This PR implements Nomad built-in support for running Consul Connect
terminating gateways. Such a gateway can be used by services running
inside the service mesh to access "legacy" services running outside
the service mesh while still making use of Consul's service identity
based networking and ACL policies.
https://www.consul.io/docs/connect/gateways/terminating-gateway
These gateways are declared as part of a task group level service
definition within the connect stanza.
service {
connect {
gateway {
proxy {
// envoy proxy configuration
}
terminating {
// terminating-gateway configuration entry
}
}
}
}
Currently Envoy is the only supported gateway implementation in
Consul. The gateay task can be customized by configuring the
connect.sidecar_task block.
When the gateway.terminating field is set, Nomad will write/update
the Configuration Entry into Consul on job submission. Because CEs
are global in scope and there may be more than one Nomad cluster
communicating with Consul, there is an assumption that any terminating
gateway defined in Nomad for a particular service will be the same
among Nomad clusters.
Gateways require Consul 1.8.0+, checked by a node constraint.
Closes#9445
Connect ingress gateway services were being registered into Consul without
an explicit deterministic service ID. Consul would generate one automatically,
but then Nomad would have no way to register a second gateway on the same agent
as it would not supply 'proxy-id' during envoy bootstrap.
Set the ServiceID for gateways, and supply 'proxy-id' when doing envoy bootstrap.
Fixes#9834
As newer versions of Consul are released, the minimum version of Envoy
it supports as a sidecar proxy also gets bumped. Starting with the upcoming
Consul v1.9.X series, Envoy v1.11.X will no longer be supported. Current
versions of Nomad hardcode a version of Envoy v1.11.2 to be used as the
default implementation of Connect sidecar proxy.
This PR introduces a change such that each Nomad Client will query its
local Consul for a list of Envoy proxies that it supports (https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8545)
and then launch the Connect sidecar proxy task using the latest supported version
of Envoy. If the `SupportedProxies` API component is not available from
Consul, Nomad will fallback to the old version of Envoy supported by old
versions of Consul.
Setting the meta configuration option `meta.connect.sidecar_image` or
setting the `connect.sidecar_task` stanza will take precedence as is
the current behavior for sidecar proxies.
Setting the meta configuration option `meta.connect.gateway_image`
will take precedence as is the current behavior for connect gateways.
`meta.connect.sidecar_image` and `meta.connect.gateway_image` may make
use of the special `${NOMAD_envoy_version}` variable interpolation, which
resolves to the newest version of Envoy supported by the Consul agent.
Addresses #8585#7665
