Fixes: #4578
Prior to this fix if there was an error binding to ports for the DNS servers the error would be swallowed by the gated log writer and never output. This fix propagates the DNS server errors back to the shell with a multierror.
* Implementation of Weights Data structures
Adding this datastructure will allow us to resolve the
issues #1088 and #4198
This new structure defaults to values:
```
{ Passing: 1, Warning: 0 }
```
Which means, use weight of 0 for a Service in Warning State
while use Weight 1 for a Healthy Service.
Thus it remains compatible with previous Consul versions.
* Implemented weights for DNS SRV Records
* DNS properly support agents with weight support while server does not (backwards compatibility)
* Use Warning value of Weights of 1 by default
When using DNS interface with only_passing = false, all nodes
with non-Critical healthcheck used to have a weight value of 1.
While having weight.Warning = 0 as default value, this is probably
a bad idea as it breaks ascending compatibility.
Thus, we put a default value of 1 to be consistent with existing behaviour.
* Added documentation for new weight field in service description
* Better documentation about weights as suggested by @banks
* Return weight = 1 for unknown Check states as suggested by @banks
* Fixed typo (of -> or) in error message as requested by @mkeeler
* Fixed unstable unit test TestRetryJoin
* Fixed unstable tests
* Fixed wrong Fatalf format in `testrpc/wait.go`
* Added notes regarding DNS SRV lookup limitations regarding number of instances
* Documentation fixes and clarification regarding SRV records with weights as requested by @banks
* Rephrase docs
* Adds XL machine spec and notes on large deployments
* Clarifies machine sizes
* Fixes internal links within the document
* Moves datacenter size guidelines to "Single Datacenter" section
* Added log-file flag to capture Consul logs in a user specified file
* Refactored code.
* Refactored code. Added flags to rotate logs based on bytes and duration
* Added the flags for log file and log rotation on the webpage
* Fixed TestSantize from failing due to the addition of 3 flags
* Introduced changes : mutex, data-dir log writes, rotation logic
* Added test for logfile and updated the default log destination for docs
* Log name now uses UnixNano
* TestLogFile is now uses t.Parallel()
* Removed unnecessary int64Val function
* Updated docs to reflect default log name for log-file
* No longer writes to data-dir and adds .log if the filename has no extension
By default, the Consul agent listens on the local interface
at port 8500 for API requests. This change makes the API examples
using `curl` copy-pasteable for this default configuration.
* updates docs for agent options
trying to add a little more clarity to suggestion that folks should use
port 8302 for both LAN and WAN comms
* website: clarify language for serf wan port behavior
* New Providers added and updated vendoring for go-discover
* Vendor.json formatted using make vendorfmt
* Docs/Agent/auto-join: Added documentation for the new providers introduced in this PR
* Updated the golang.org/x/sys/unix in the vendor directory
* Agent: TestGoDiscoverRegistration updated to reflect the addition of new providers
* Deleted terraform.tfstate from vendor.
* Deleted terraform.tfstate.backup
Deleted terraform state file artifacts from unknown runs.
* Updated x/sys/windows vendor for Windows binary compilation
* Added explainations on how having a working configuration for Prometheus
Since Prometheus escapes by default query parameters, this paragraph explains
how having `format=prometheus` to be taken into account by prometheus.
* Rephrase Prometheus notes in documentation as requested by @pearkes
The floating paragraph seems to need additional indentation to work correctly on the markdown parser middle man uses - GitHub got it right before in the preview but the website broke dumping the new config option inline.
Previous version of the documentation didn't mention this, which can
lead to confusion when experimenting with Connect. Many other features
of Consul work fine without `-dev` mode, but Connect needs certs in
order to proxy, which must be done with this flag or by generating certs
directly and passing them to Consul in configs.
Matt Keeler