v2: prevent use of the v2 experiments in secondary datacenters for now (#20299)

Ultimately we will have to rectify wan federation with v2 catalog adjacent
experiments, but for now blanket prevent usage of the resource-apis,
v2dns, and v2tenancy experiments in secondary datacenters.

.changelog/20299.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+```release-note:feature
+v2: prevent use of the v2 experiments in secondary datacenters for now
+```

agent/config/builder.go

@@ -316,8 +316,10 @@ func formatFromFileExtension(name string) string {
 
 type byName []os.FileInfo
 
-func (a byName) Len() int           { return len(a) }
+func (a byName) Len() int { return len(a) }
-func (a byName) Swap(i, j int)      { a[i], a[j] = a[j], a[i] }
+
+func (a byName) Swap(i, j int) { a[i], a[j] = a[j], a[i] }
+
 func (a byName) Less(i, j int) bool { return a[i].Name() < a[j].Name() }
 
 // build constructs the runtime configuration from the config sources
@@ -1145,6 +1147,15 @@ func (b *builder) build() (rt RuntimeConfig, err error) {
 		}
 	}
 
+	// For now, disallow usage of several v2 experiments in secondary datacenters.
+	if rt.ServerMode && rt.PrimaryDatacenter != rt.Datacenter {
+		for _, name := range rt.Experiments {
+			if !consul.IsExperimentAllowedOnSecondaries(name) {
+				return RuntimeConfig{}, fmt.Errorf("`experiments` cannot include `%s` for servers in secondary datacenters", name)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
 	if rt.UIConfig.MetricsProvider == "prometheus" {
 		// Handle defaulting for the built-in version of prometheus.
 		if len(rt.UIConfig.MetricsProxy.PathAllowlist) == 0 {

agent/config/builder_test.go

@@ -576,6 +576,77 @@ func TestBuidler_hostMetricsWithCloud(t *testing.T) {
 	require.True(t, cfg.Telemetry.EnableHostMetrics)
 }
 
+func TestBuilder_CheckExperimentsInSecondaryDatacenters(t *testing.T) {
+
+	type testcase struct {
+		hcl       string
+		expectErr bool
+	}
+
+	run := func(t *testing.T, tc testcase) {
+		// using dev mode skips the need for a data dir
+		devMode := true
+		builderOpts := LoadOpts{
+			DevMode: &devMode,
+			Overrides: []Source{
+				FileSource{
+					Name:   "overrides",
+					Format: "hcl",
+					Data:   tc.hcl,
+				},
+			},
+		}
+		_, err := Load(builderOpts)
+		if tc.expectErr {
+			require.Error(t, err)
+			require.Contains(t, err.Error(), "`experiments` cannot include")
+		} else {
+			require.NoError(t, err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	const (
+		primary   = `server = true primary_datacenter = "dc1" datacenter = "dc1" `
+		secondary = `server = true primary_datacenter = "dc1" datacenter = "dc2" `
+	)
+
+	cases := map[string]testcase{
+		"primary server no experiments": {
+			hcl: primary + `experiments = []`,
+		},
+		"primary server v2catalog": {
+			hcl: primary + `experiments = ["resource-apis"]`,
+		},
+		"primary server v2dns": {
+			hcl: primary + `experiments = ["v2dns"]`,
+		},
+		"primary server v2tenancy": {
+			hcl: primary + `experiments = ["v2tenancy"]`,
+		},
+		"secondary server no experiments": {
+			hcl: secondary + `experiments = []`,
+		},
+		"secondary server v2catalog": {
+			hcl:       secondary + `experiments = ["resource-apis"]`,
+			expectErr: true,
+		},
+		"secondary server v2dns": {
+			hcl:       secondary + `experiments = ["v2dns"]`,
+			expectErr: true,
+		},
+		"secondary server v2tenancy": {
+			hcl:       secondary + `experiments = ["v2tenancy"]`,
+			expectErr: true,
+		},
+	}
+
+	for name, tc := range cases {
+		t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			run(t, tc)
+		})
+	}
+}
+
 func TestBuilder_WarnCloudConfigWithResourceApis(t *testing.T) {
 	tests := []struct {
 		name      string

agent/consul/server.go

@@ -21,11 +21,6 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/armon/go-metrics"
 	"github.com/fullstorydev/grpchan/inprocgrpc"
-	"go.etcd.io/bbolt"
-	"golang.org/x/time/rate"
-	"google.golang.org/grpc"
-
-	"github.com/hashicorp/consul-net-rpc/net/rpc"
 	"github.com/hashicorp/go-connlimit"
 	"github.com/hashicorp/go-hclog"
 	"github.com/hashicorp/go-memdb"
@@ -36,7 +31,11 @@ import (
 	walmetrics "github.com/hashicorp/raft-wal/metrics"
 	"github.com/hashicorp/raft-wal/verifier"
 	"github.com/hashicorp/serf/serf"
+	"go.etcd.io/bbolt"
+	"golang.org/x/time/rate"
+	"google.golang.org/grpc"
 
+	"github.com/hashicorp/consul-net-rpc/net/rpc"
 	"github.com/hashicorp/consul/acl"
 	"github.com/hashicorp/consul/agent/blockingquery"
 	"github.com/hashicorp/consul/agent/connect"
@@ -136,6 +135,19 @@ const (
 	HCPAllowV2ResourceAPIs        = "hcp-v2-resource-apis"
 )
 
+// IsExperimentAllowedOnSecondaries returns true if an experiment is currently
+// disallowed for wan federated secondary datacenters.
+//
+// Likely these will all be short lived exclusions.
+func IsExperimentAllowedOnSecondaries(name string) bool {
+	switch name {
+	case CatalogResourceExperimentName, V2DNSExperimentName, V2TenancyExperimentName:
+		return false
+	default:
+		return true
+	}
+}
+
 const (
 	aclPolicyReplicationRoutineName       = "ACL policy replication"
 	aclRoleReplicationRoutineName         = "ACL role replication"