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
