This field was added back into the helm chart, but it was not added
back to the documentation. This adds it, then additionally fixes a
few typos in the same file.
* A few API mods and unit tests.
* Update the unit tests to verify query/write metadata and to fix the rules endpoint tests.
* Make sure the full information for the replication status is in the api packge
* Implement CLI token cloning & special ID handling
* Update a couple CLI commands to take some alternative options.
* Document the CLI.
* Update the policy list and set-agent-token synopsis
Based on info from consul-helm issue 16, the formatting of the helm
chart value for joining an external cluster needs to be specified
as a yaml array. This updates the documentation to reflect this.
This PR is almost a complete rewrite of the ACL system within Consul. It brings the features more in line with other HashiCorp products. Obviously there is quite a bit left to do here but most of it is related docs, testing and finishing the last few commands in the CLI. I will update the PR description and check off the todos as I finish them over the next few days/week.
Description
At a high level this PR is mainly to split ACL tokens from Policies and to split the concepts of Authorization from Identities. A lot of this PR is mostly just to support CRUD operations on ACLTokens and ACLPolicies. These in and of themselves are not particularly interesting. The bigger conceptual changes are in how tokens get resolved, how backwards compatibility is handled and the separation of policy from identity which could lead the way to allowing for alternative identity providers.
On the surface and with a new cluster the ACL system will look very similar to that of Nomads. Both have tokens and policies. Both have local tokens. The ACL management APIs for both are very similar. I even ripped off Nomad's ACL bootstrap resetting procedure. There are a few key differences though.
Nomad requires token and policy replication where Consul only requires policy replication with token replication being opt-in. In Consul local tokens only work with token replication being enabled though.
All policies in Nomad are globally applicable. In Consul all policies are stored and replicated globally but can be scoped to a subset of the datacenters. This allows for more granular access management.
Unlike Nomad, Consul has legacy baggage in the form of the original ACL system. The ramifications of this are:
A server running the new system must still support other clients using the legacy system.
A client running the new system must be able to use the legacy RPCs when the servers in its datacenter are running the legacy system.
The primary ACL DC's servers running in legacy mode needs to be a gate that keeps everything else in the entire multi-DC cluster running in legacy mode.
So not only does this PR implement the new ACL system but has a legacy mode built in for when the cluster isn't ready for new ACLs. Also detecting that new ACLs can be used is automatic and requires no configuration on the part of administrators. This process is detailed more in the "Transitioning from Legacy to New ACL Mode" section below.
* Update docs to include multiple tag support
* Sort tags before using them in metrics
This addresses the potential proliferation of metrics if a query of
"?tag=foo&tag=bar" is treated differently than "?tag=bar&tag=foo".
Now, tags are always sorted before being recorded, making these two
emit the same metric.
* Add caveat about multiple tags returned by the metrics endpoint
* agent/debug: add package for debugging, host info
* api: add v1/agent/host endpoint
* agent: add v1/agent/host endpoint
* command/debug: implementation of static capture
* command/debug: tests and only configured targets
* agent/debug: add basic test for host metrics
* command/debug: add methods for dynamic data capture
* api: add debug/pprof endpoints
* command/debug: add pprof
* command/debug: timing, wg, logs to disk
* vendor: add gopsutil/disk
* command/debug: add a usage section
* website: add docs for consul debug
* agent/host: require operator:read
* api/host: improve docs and no retry timing
* command/debug: fail on extra arguments
* command/debug: fixup file permissions to 0644
* command/debug: remove server flags
* command/debug: improve clarity of usage section
* api/debug: add Trace for profiling, fix profile
* command/debug: capture profile and trace at the same time
* command/debug: add index document
* command/debug: use "clusters" in place of members
* command/debug: remove address in output
* command/debug: improve comment on metrics sleep
* command/debug: clarify usage
* agent: always register pprof handlers and protect
This will allow us to avoid a restart of a target agent
for profiling by always registering the pprof handlers.
Given this is a potentially sensitive path, it is protected
with an operator:read ACL and enable debug being
set to true on the target agent. enable_debug still requires
a restart.
If ACLs are disabled, enable_debug is sufficient.
* command/debug: use trace.out instead of .prof
More in line with golang docs.
* agent: fix comment wording
* agent: wrap table driven tests in t.run()
Essentially this was missing a call to `super`. The error unfortuantely
didn't arise in the tests as it only errors when the node list has 4
items are more (the 4 columns), and the acceptence tests by change were
only filling the page with 3 nodes for test purposes.
I've bumped the amount of nodes up to 4 in the tests, which then causes
the tests to fail, made the fix by adding the `super` call, and the
tests now pass.
I also tested the UI/text searching on a 10,000 node system, and
everything now works as expected.
The default http.Client uses infinite timeouts, so if TestHTTPAPI_MethodNotAllowed_OSS experienced anything going wrong about setup it could hang forever.
Switching to hard coding various http.Client timeouts to non-infinite values at least bounds the failure time.
Rebecca Zanzig