Templates in nomad jobs make use of the vault token defined in
the vault stanza when issuing credentials like client certificates.
When using change_mode "noop" in the vault stanza, consul-template
is not informed in case a vault token is re-issued (which can
happen from time to time for various reasons, as described
in https://www.nomadproject.io/docs/job-specification/vault).
As a result, consul-template will keep using the old vault token
to renew credentials and - once the token expired - stop renewing
credentials. The symptom of this problem is a vault_token
file that is newer than the issued credential (e.g., TLS certificate)
in a job's /secrets directory.
This change corrects this, so that h.updater.updatedVaultToken(token)
is called, which will inform stakeholders about the new
token and make sure, the new token is used by consul-template.
Example job template fragment:
vault {
policies = ["nomad-job-policy"]
change_mode = "noop"
}
template {
data = <<-EOH
{{ with secret "pki_int/issue/nomad-job"
"common_name=myjob.service.consul" "ttl=90m"
"alt_names=localhost" "ip_sans=127.0.0.1"}}
{{ .Data.certificate }}
{{ .Data.private_key }}
{{ .Data.issuing_ca }}
{{ end }}
EOH
destination = "${NOMAD_SECRETS_DIR}/myjob.crt"
change_mode = "noop"
}
This fix does not alter the meaning of the three change modes of vault
- "noop" - Take no action
- "restart" - Restart the job
- "signal" - send a signal to the task
as the switch statement following line 232 contains the necessary
logic.
It is assumed that "take no action" was never meant to mean "don't tell
consul-template about the new vault token".
Successfully tested in a staging cluster consisting of multiple
nomad client nodes.
This PR exposes the following existing`consul-template` configuration options to Nomad jobspec authors in the `{job.group.task.template}` stanza.
- `wait`
It also exposes the following`consul-template` configuration to Nomad operators in the `{client.template}` stanza.
- `max_stale`
- `block_query_wait`
- `consul_retry`
- `vault_retry`
- `wait`
Finally, it adds the following new Nomad-specific configuration to the `{client.template}` stanza that allows Operators to set bounds on what `jobspec` authors configure.
- `wait_bounds`
Co-authored-by: Tim Gross <tgross@hashicorp.com>
Co-authored-by: Michael Schurter <mschurter@hashicorp.com>
The task runner prestart hooks take a `joincontext` so they have the
option to exit early if either of two contexts are canceled: from
killing the task or client shutdown. Some tasks exit without being
shutdown from the server, so neither of the joined contexts ever gets
canceled and we leak the `joincontext` (48 bytes) and its internal
goroutine. This primarily impacts batch jobs and any task that fails
or completes early such as non-sidecar prestart lifecycle tasks.
Cancel the `joincontext` after the prestart call exits to fix the
leak.
Some operators use very long group/task `shutdown_delay` settings to
safely drain network connections to their workloads after service
deregistration. But during incident response, they may want to cause
that drain to be skipped so they can quickly shed load.
Provide a `-no-shutdown-delay` flag on the `nomad alloc stop` and
`nomad job stop` commands that bypasses the delay. This sets a new
desired transition state on the affected allocations that the
allocation/task runner will identify during pre-kill on the client.
Note (as documented here) that using this flag will almost always
result in failed inbound network connections for workloads as the
tasks will exit before clients receive updated service discovery
information and won't be gracefully drained.
The `consul.client_auto_join` configuration block tells the Nomad
client whether to use Consul service discovery to find Nomad
servers. By default it is set to `true`, but contrary to the
documentation it was only respected during the initial client
registration. If a client missed a heartbeat, failed a
`Node.UpdateStatus` RPC, or if there was no Nomad leader, the client
would fallback to Consul even if `client_auto_join` was set to
`false`. This changeset returns early from the client's trigger for
Consul discovery if the `client_auto_join` field is set to `false`.
* debug: refactor Consul API collection
* debug: refactor Vault API collection
* debug: cleanup test timing
* debug: extend test to multiregion
* debug: save cmdline flags in bundle
* debug: add cli version to output
* Add changelog entry
Enhance the CLI in order to return the host network in two flavors
(default, verbose) of the `node status` command.
Fixes: #11223.
Signed-off-by: Alessandro De Blasis <alex@deblasis.net>
Fixes#2522
Skip embedding client.alloc_dir when building chroot. If a user
configures a Nomad client agent so that the chroot_env will embed the
client.alloc_dir, Nomad will happily infinitely recurse while building
the chroot until something horrible happens. The best case scenario is
the filesystem's path length limit is hit. The worst case scenario is
disk space is exhausted.
A bad agent configuration will look something like this:
```hcl
data_dir = "/tmp/nomad-badagent"
client {
enabled = true
chroot_env {
# Note that the source matches the data_dir
"/tmp/nomad-badagent" = "/ohno"
# ...
}
}
```
Note that `/ohno/client` (the state_dir) will still be created but not
`/ohno/alloc` (the alloc_dir).
While I cannot think of a good reason why someone would want to embed
Nomad's client (and possibly server) directories in chroots, there
should be no cause for harm. chroots are only built when Nomad runs as
root, and Nomad disables running exec jobs as root by default. Therefore
even if client state is copied into chroots, it will be inaccessible to
tasks.
Skipping the `data_dir` and `{client,server}.state_dir` is possible, but
this PR attempts to implement the minimum viable solution to reduce risk
of unintended side effects or bugs.
When running tests as root in a vm without the fix, the following error
occurs:
```
=== RUN TestAllocDir_SkipAllocDir
alloc_dir_test.go:520:
Error Trace: alloc_dir_test.go:520
Error: Received unexpected error:
Couldn't create destination file /tmp/TestAllocDir_SkipAllocDir1457747331/001/nomad/test/testtask/nomad/test/testtask/.../nomad/test/testtask/secrets/.nomad-mount: open /tmp/TestAllocDir_SkipAllocDir1457747331/001/nomad/test/.../testtask/secrets/.nomad-mount: file name too long
Test: TestAllocDir_SkipAllocDir
--- FAIL: TestAllocDir_SkipAllocDir (22.76s)
```
Also removed unused Copy methods on AllocDir and TaskDir structs.
Thanks to @eveld for not letting me forget about this!
We see this error all the time
```
no handler registered for event
event.Message=, event.Annotations=, event.Timestamp=0001-01-01T00:00:00Z, event.TaskName=, event.AllocID=, event.TaskID=,
```
So we're handling an even with all default fields. I noted that this can
happen if only err is set as in
```
func (d *driverPluginClient) handleTaskEvents(reqCtx context.Context, ch chan *TaskEvent, stream proto.Driver_TaskEventsClient) {
defer close(ch)
for {
ev, err := stream.Recv()
if err != nil {
if err != io.EOF {
ch <- &TaskEvent{
Err: grpcutils.HandleReqCtxGrpcErr(err, reqCtx, d.doneCtx),
}
}
```
In this case Err fails to be serialized by the logger, see this test
```
ev := &drivers.TaskEvent{
Err: fmt.Errorf("errz"),
}
i.logger.Warn("ben test", "event", ev)
i.logger.Warn("ben test2", "event err str", ev.Err.Error())
i.logger.Warn("ben test3", "event err", ev.Err)
ev.Err = nil
i.logger.Warn("ben test4", "nil error", ev.Err)
2021-10-06T22:37:56.736Z INFO nomad.stdout {"@level":"warn","@message":"ben test","@module":"client.driver_mgr","@timestamp":"2021-10-06T22:37:56.643900Z","driver":"mock_driver","event":{"TaskID":"","TaskName":"","AllocID":"","Timestamp":"0001-01-01T00:00:00Z","Message":"","Annotations":null,"Err":{}}}
2021-10-06T22:37:56.736Z INFO nomad.stdout {"@level":"warn","@message":"ben test2","@module":"client.driver_mgr","@timestamp":"2021-10-06T22:37:56.644226Z","driver":"mock_driver","event err str":"errz"}
2021-10-06T22:37:56.736Z INFO nomad.stdout {"@level":"warn","@message":"ben test3","@module":"client.driver_mgr","@timestamp":"2021-10-06T22:37:56.644240Z","driver":"mock_driver","event err":"errz"}
2021-10-06T22:37:56.736Z INFO nomad.stdout {"@level":"warn","@message":"ben test4","@module":"client.driver_mgr","@timestamp":"2021-10-06T22:37:56.644252Z","driver":"mock_driver","nil error":null}
```
Note in the first example err is set to an empty object and the error is
lost.
What we want is the last two examples which call out the err field
explicitly so we can see what it is in this case
Fix a logmon leak causing high goroutine and memory usage when a task
restarts.
Logmon `FileRotator` buffers the task stdout/stderr streams and
periodically flushing them to log files. Logmon creates a new
FileRotator for each stream for each task run. However, the
`flushPeriodically` goroutine is leaked when a task restarts,
holding a reference to a no-longer-needed `FileRotator` instance
along with its 64kb buffer.
The cause is that the code assumed `time.Ticker.Stop()` closes the
ticker channel, thereby terminating the goroutine, but the documentation
says otherwise:
> Stop turns off a ticker. After Stop, no more ticks will be sent. Stop does not close the channel, to prevent a concurrent goroutine reading from the channel from seeing an erroneous "tick".
https://pkg.go.dev/time#Ticker.Stop
By default we should not expose the NOMAD_LICENSE environment variable
to tasks.
Also refactor where the DefaultEnvDenyList lives so we don't have to
maintain 2 copies of it. Since client/config is the most obvious
location, keep a reference there to its unfortunate home buried deep
in command/agent/host. Since the agent uses this list as well for the
/agent/host endpoint the list must be accessible from both command/agent
and client.
Add a new hostname string parameter to the network block which
allows operators to specify the hostname of the network namespace.
Changing this causes a destructive update to the allocation and it
is omitted if empty from API responses. This parameter also supports
interpolation.
In order to have a hostname passed as a configuration param when
creating an allocation network, the CreateNetwork func of the
DriverNetworkManager interface needs to be updated. In order to
minimize the disruption of future changes, rather than add another
string func arg, the function now accepts a request struct along with
the allocID param. The struct has the hostname as a field.
The in-tree implementations of DriverNetworkManager.CreateNetwork
have been modified to account for the function signature change.
In updating for the change, the enhancement of adding hostnames to
network namespaces has also been added to the Docker driver, whilst
the default Linux manager does not current implement it.
Speed up client startup, by retrying more until the servers are known.
Currently, if client fingerprinting is fast and finishes before the
client connect to a server, node registration may be delayed by 15
seconds or so!
Ideally, we'd wait until the client discovers the servers and then retry
immediately, but that requires significant code changes.
Here, we simply retry the node registration request every second. That's
basically the equivalent of check if the client discovered servers every
second. Should be a cheap operation.
When testing this change on my local computer and where both servers and
clients are co-located, the time from startup till node registration
dropped from 34 seconds to 8 seconds!
When creating a TCP proxy bridge for Connect tasks, we are at the
mercy of either end for managing the connection state. For long
lived gRPC connections the proxy could reasonably expect to stay
open until the context was cancelled. For the HTTP connections used
by connect native tasks, we experience connection disconnects.
The proxy gets recreated as needed on follow up requests, however
we also emit a WARN log when the connection is broken. This PR
lowers the WARN to a TRACE, because these disconnects are to be
expected.
Ideally we would be able to proxy at the HTTP layer, however Consul
or the connect native task could be configured to expect mTLS, preventing
Nomad from MiTM the requests.
We also can't mange the proxy lifecycle more intelligently, because
we have no control over the HTTP client or server and how they wish
to manage connection state.
What we have now works, it's just noisy.
Fixes#10933
This PR implements a new "System Batch" scheduler type. Jobs can
make use of this new scheduler by setting their type to 'sysbatch'.
Like the name implies, sysbatch can be thought of as a hybrid between
system and batch jobs - it is for running short lived jobs intended to
run on every compatible node in the cluster.
As with batch jobs, sysbatch jobs can also be periodic and/or parameterized
dispatch jobs. A sysbatch job is considered complete when it has been run
on all compatible nodes until reaching a terminal state (success or failed
on retries).
Feasibility and preemption are governed the same as with system jobs. In
this PR, the update stanza is not yet supported. The update stanza is sill
limited in functionality for the underlying system scheduler, and is
not useful yet for sysbatch jobs. Further work in #4740 will improve
support for the update stanza and deployments.
Closes#2527
When the client launches, use a consistent read to fetch its own allocs,
but allow stale read afterwards as long as reads don't revert into older
state.
This change addresses an edge case affecting restarting client. When a
client restarts, it may fetch a stale data concerning its allocs: allocs
that have completed prior to the client shutdown may still have "run/running"
desired/client status, and have the client attempt to re-run again.
An alternative approach is to track the indices such that the client
set MinQueryIndex on the maximum index the client ever saw, or compare
received allocs against locally restored client state. Garbage
collection complicates this approach (local knowledge is not complete),
and the approach still risks starting "dead" allocations (e.g. the
allocation may have been placed when client just restarted and have
already been reschuled by the time the client started. This approach
here is effective against all kinds of stalness problems with small
overhead.
