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Frank Schroeder ea5b0f2c7c agent: fix 'consul leave' shutdown race (#2880)
When the agent is triggered to shutdown via an external 'consul leave'
command delivered via the HTTP API then the client expects to receive a
response when the agent is down. This creates a race on when to shutdown
the agent itself like the RPC server, the checks and the state and the
external endpoints like DNS and HTTP.

This patch splits the shutdown process into two parts:

 * shutdown the agent
 * shutdown the endpoints (http and dns)

They can be executed multiple times, concurrently and in any order but
should be executed first agent, then endpoints to provide consistent
behavior across all use cases. Both calls have to be executed for a
proper shutdown.

This could be partially hidden in a single function but would introduce
some magic that happens behind the scenes which one has to know of but
isn't obvious.

Fixes #2880
2017-06-21 05:52:51 +02:00
acl Adds support to the ACL package for agent policies. 2016-12-14 07:07:41 -08:00
agent agent: fix 'consul leave' shutdown race (#2880) 2017-06-21 05:52:51 +02:00
api agent: support custom header and method for http checks (#3106) 2017-06-07 01:11:56 +02:00
bench Gets benchmarks running again and does a rough pass for 0.7.1. 2016-11-29 13:02:26 -08:00
command agent: fix 'consul leave' shutdown race (#2880) 2017-06-21 05:52:51 +02:00
configutil Moves flag slice helper into configutil. 2017-06-20 12:52:35 -07:00
contrib Merge pull request #1863 from mssola/bash-completion 2016-07-05 12:52:58 -07:00
demo/vagrant-cluster Install latest version by default 2017-03-01 13:19:59 -05:00
ipaddr agent: move isAddrANY to separate package 2017-05-15 22:44:43 +02:00
lib golint: Fix existing comments 2017-04-25 09:26:13 -07:00
logger golint: Untangle if blocks with return in else 2017-04-25 09:26:13 -07:00
scripts Removes obsolete Windows build scripts. 2017-06-09 01:13:28 -07:00
snapshot test: add helper for ioutil.TempDir/TempFile 2017-05-12 22:12:47 +02:00
terraform Update install.sh for Consul 0.8.3 2017-05-12 12:52:59 -04:00
test test: log exit code in cluster.bash 2017-06-08 14:06:10 +02:00
testrpc pkg refactor 2017-06-10 18:52:45 +02:00
testutil test: shutdown server properly 2017-05-31 00:29:22 +02:00
tlsutil Add a path for transitioning to TLS on an existing cluster (#3001) 2017-05-10 14:25:48 -07:00
types Removes remoteConsuls in favor of the new router. 2017-03-16 16:42:19 -07:00
ui Updates static assets to latest. 2017-06-07 21:16:59 -07:00
vendor Add an option to disable keyring file (#3145) 2017-06-15 15:24:04 -07:00
version Puts the tree into 0.9.0 dev mode. 2017-06-09 08:27:15 -07:00
watch Merge pull request #2621 from alicebob/devwatch 2017-06-02 09:06:02 -07:00
website Merge pull request #3154 from hashicorp/issue_2644_redux 2017-06-20 19:47:12 -05:00
.gitignore build: cleanup .gitignore 2017-04-27 10:34:30 -07:00
.travis.yml Bumps Go version to 1.8.3. 2017-05-24 19:35:01 -07:00
CHANGELOG.md Update CHANGELOG.md 2017-06-20 17:59:16 -07:00
GNUmakefile Fixed static asset build target and checked in new executable for assetfs 2017-06-12 12:57:02 -05:00
ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md Revise issue template to include a hint to use a gist 2016-04-28 22:27:25 -07:00
LICENSE Initial commit 2013-11-04 14:15:27 -08:00
README.md Removes obsolete Windows batch file and instructions. 2017-06-09 01:11:38 -07:00
main.go simplify main.go 2017-06-10 18:52:45 +02:00
main_test.go Adding basic CLI infrastructure 2013-12-19 11:22:08 -08:00

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Consul is a tool for service discovery and configuration. Consul is distributed, highly available, and extremely scalable.

Consul provides several key features:

  • Service Discovery - Consul makes it simple for services to register themselves and to discover other services via a DNS or HTTP interface. External services such as SaaS providers can be registered as well.

  • Health Checking - Health Checking enables Consul to quickly alert operators about any issues in a cluster. The integration with service discovery prevents routing traffic to unhealthy hosts and enables service level circuit breakers.

  • Key/Value Storage - A flexible key/value store enables storing dynamic configuration, feature flagging, coordination, leader election and more. The simple HTTP API makes it easy to use anywhere.

  • Multi-Datacenter - Consul is built to be datacenter aware, and can support any number of regions without complex configuration.

Consul runs on Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris, and Windows.

Quick Start

An extensive quick start is viewable on the Consul website:

https://www.consul.io/intro/getting-started/install.html

Documentation

Full, comprehensive documentation is viewable on the Consul website:

https://www.consul.io/docs

Developing Consul

If you wish to work on Consul itself, you'll first need Go installed (version 1.8+ is required). Make sure you have Go properly installed, including setting up your GOPATH.

Next, clone this repository into $GOPATH/src/github.com/hashicorp/consul and then just type make. In a few moments, you'll have a working consul executable:

$ make
...
$ bin/consul
...

Note: make will build all os/architecture combinations. Set the environment variable CONSUL_DEV=1 to build it just for your local machine's os/architecture, or use make dev.

Note: make will also place a copy of the binary in the first part of your $GOPATH.

You can run tests by typing make test.

If you make any changes to the code, run make format in order to automatically format the code according to Go standards.

Vendoring

Consul currently uses govendor for vendoring.