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mesh-controller/internal/link/serve.go
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package link
import (
"context"
"encoding/json"
"errors"
"fmt"
"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/envfile"
"log"
"os"
"time"
amqp "github.com/rabbitmq/amqp091-go"
)
// AMQPVar is the control plane's own connection to the broker.
const AMQPVar = "MESH_BROKER_AMQP"
// Enroller is what the control plane does with an enrolment request.
//
// An interface so the serving loop can be tested against a real broker without a database, and
// so the two concerns — moving messages, and deciding — stay apart.
type Enroller interface {
// Enrol spends the token, records the key, and reports the node's name. The error is
// returned to the node as a refusal; it must be the same for every reason a token can fail.
Enrol(ctx context.Context, request EnrolRequest) (EnrolReply, error)
}
// Server consumes what nodes say.
// Listener is what the control plane does with a report. Separate from Enroller so the two can
// be given independently, and so a server that only sends declarations needs neither.
type Listener interface {
Heard(ctx context.Context, report Report) error
}
// Recorder keeps what builders say.
//
// Separate from Listener because they are different things arriving: a report is a node saying
// what it did with a declaration, and a build result is a machine saying what came of some work.
// One interface carrying both would mean an implementation of one having to say something about
// the other.
type Recorder interface {
Built(ctx context.Context, result BuildResult) error
}
type Server struct {
conn *amqp.Connection
channel *amqp.Channel
enroller Enroller
listener Listener
recorder Recorder
log *log.Logger
upgrader Upgrader
replayer Replayer
}
// Records tells the server where to keep build results.
//
// Set after Connect rather than passed to it, because a control plane that only publishes — the
// `build` command, which waits for its own answer — needs a connection and no recorder, and
// making it supply one would have it construct something it never uses.
func (s *Server) Records(r Recorder) { s.recorder = r }
// Upgrader is what the control plane does when the catalogue says a module moved.
//
// An interface for the same reason Enroller is one: deciding what an upgrade means for the
// machines running it is a different concern from noticing that one was announced, and only the
// first needs a database.
type Upgrader interface {
// Upgraded is told which module moved and between which commits. An error is logged and the
// message is not requeued: an upgrade the control plane could not act on is not one it will
// act on by being handed the same message again, and a poison message on a durable queue
// would stop every upgrade behind it.
Upgraded(ctx context.Context, u Upgraded) error
}
// Follows says what to do about upgrades, and binds the queue they arrive on.
//
// **Not bound unless something is listening.** A durable queue bound to every upgrade with no
// consumer fills up quietly, and the first symptom is a broker out of disk rather than anything
// about modules.
func (s *Server) Follows(u Upgrader) error {
if _, err := s.channel.QueueDeclare(UpgradeQueue, true, false, false, false, nil); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("cannot declare the %s queue: %w", UpgradeQueue, err)
}
if err := s.channel.QueueBind(UpgradeQueue, KeyModuleUpgraded, EventsExchange, false, nil); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("cannot bind %s to %s/%s: %w", UpgradeQueue, EventsExchange, KeyModuleUpgraded, err)
}
s.upgrader = u
return nil
}
// Answers binds the queue a catalogue's catch-up request arrives on.
//
// **Not bound unless something is listening**, for the same reason upgrades are not: a durable
// queue with no consumer fills quietly and the first symptom is a broker out of disk.
func (s *Server) Answers(r Replayer) error {
if _, err := s.channel.QueueDeclare(CatchUpQueue, true, false, false, false, nil); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("cannot declare the %s queue: %w", CatchUpQueue, err)
}
if err := s.channel.QueueBind(CatchUpQueue, KeyCatchingUp, EventsExchange, false, nil); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("cannot bind %s to %s/%s: %w", CatchUpQueue, EventsExchange, KeyCatchingUp, err)
}
s.replayer = r
return nil
}
// Connect opens the control plane's own connection to the broker.
func Connect(enroller Enroller, listener Listener) (*Server, error) {
url, err := envfile.Value(AMQPVar)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
if url == "" {
return nil, fmt.Errorf(
"this control plane has no %s, so it cannot reach its broker. Nodes talk to it over "+
"the broker and nowhere else, so without this it can hold records and answer "+
"nothing", AMQPVar)
}
conn, err := amqp.Dial(url)
if err != nil {
// Not quoted back: the URL carries the control plane's own broker password.
return nil, fmt.Errorf("cannot reach the broker named in %s: %w", AMQPVar, err)
}
channel, err := conn.Channel()
if err != nil {
conn.Close()
return nil, err
}
// Declared here rather than assumed. The control plane is the only thing that may create
// them — a node's account can write to this exchange and read its own queue, and configure
// nothing else, so a node arriving before the control plane has ever run finds nothing and
// says so, rather than quietly creating a topology nobody designed.
if err := channel.ExchangeDeclare(Exchange, "direct", true, false, false, false, nil); err != nil {
conn.Close()
return nil, fmt.Errorf("cannot declare the %s exchange: %w", Exchange, err)
}
// The events exchange too. The control plane is not the only publisher on it — modules
// announce onto it with their own accounts — but it is the only thing permitted to create it,
// for the same reason it is the only thing permitted to create the direct one.
if err := channel.ExchangeDeclare(EventsExchange, "topic", true, false, false, false, nil); err != nil {
conn.Close()
return nil, fmt.Errorf("cannot declare the %s exchange: %w", EventsExchange, err)
}
if _, err := channel.QueueDeclare(ControlQueue, true, false, false, false, nil); err != nil {
conn.Close()
return nil, fmt.Errorf("cannot declare the %s queue: %w", ControlQueue, err)
}
// Every key a node may publish. Binding one and forgetting another is a message the broker
// accepts, finds no queue for, and drops — the publisher sees success and the consumer sees
// nothing. That is exactly what happened to reports: `report` was left unbound while `enrol`
// worked, so nodes announced what they had applied into a void for an afternoon.
for _, key := range []string{KeyEnrol, KeyReport, KeyAlive, KeyBuilt} {
if err := channel.QueueBind(ControlQueue, key, Exchange, false, nil); err != nil {
conn.Close()
return nil, fmt.Errorf("cannot bind %s to %s/%s: %w", ControlQueue, Exchange, key, err)
}
}
return &Server{conn: conn, channel: channel, enroller: enroller, listener: listener,
log: log.New(os.Stdout, "", log.LstdFlags)}, nil
}
// Channel is the control plane's channel, for sending declarations.
func (s *Server) Channel() *amqp.Channel { return s.channel }
func (s *Server) Close() {
if s.channel != nil {
_ = s.channel.Close()
}
if s.conn != nil {
_ = s.conn.Close()
}
}
// Serve consumes until the context ends.
//
// One consumer, deliberately: with two, the broker would round-robin between them and each would
// receive half of what it expects — a fault this project has already had, between a module's
// daemon and its capability server.
func (s *Server) Serve(ctx context.Context) error {
// Prefetch of one. The control plane writes to a database per message, and a burst of
// enrolments delivered all at once would be held in memory rather than left on the broker,
// which is the one place they survive a restart.
if err := s.channel.Qos(1, 0, false); err != nil {
return err
}
deliveries, err := s.channel.ConsumeWithContext(ctx, ControlQueue, "control-plane",
false, false, false, false, nil)
if err != nil {
return err
}
// The upgrade queue, when something is listening for them. A second queue rather than a
// second consumer on the first: two consumers on one queue split its messages between them,
// which is the fault the comment above exists about. Two queues share nothing.
var upgrades <-chan amqp.Delivery
if s.upgrader != nil {
upgrades, err = s.channel.ConsumeWithContext(ctx, UpgradeQueue, "control-plane-upgrades",
false, false, false, false, nil)
if err != nil {
return err
}
}
// Its own queue and its own consumer, for the reason above: two consumers on one queue split
// its messages, and a catch-up request going to whichever half was not listening is a gap that
// looks like a working mesh.
var catchups <-chan amqp.Delivery
if s.replayer != nil {
catchups, err = s.channel.ConsumeWithContext(ctx, CatchUpQueue, "control-plane-catchup",
false, false, false, false, nil)
if err != nil {
return err
}
}
closed := s.conn.NotifyClose(make(chan *amqp.Error, 1))
s.log.Printf("consuming %s, bound to %s/{%s,%s,%s,%s}",
ControlQueue, Exchange, KeyEnrol, KeyReport, KeyAlive, KeyBuilt)
if s.upgrader != nil {
s.log.Printf("consuming %s, bound to %s/%s", UpgradeQueue, EventsExchange, KeyModuleUpgraded)
}
for {
select {
case <-ctx.Done():
return nil
case delivery, ok := <-catchups:
if !ok {
if catchups != nil {
return errors.New("the broker stopped delivering catch-up requests")
}
continue
}
s.catchingUp(ctx, delivery)
case delivery, ok := <-upgrades:
// A nil channel blocks for ever, so this case simply never fires when nothing is
// listening for upgrades. Closed is different, and means the broker stopped.
if !ok {
if upgrades != nil {
return errors.New("the broker stopped delivering upgrades")
}
continue
}
s.upgraded(ctx, delivery)
case reason := <-closed:
// Said rather than returned quietly. A control plane whose broker connection dropped
// is a mesh where nothing can be told anything, and the reason is the first thing
// anybody will want.
return fmt.Errorf("the broker connection closed: %v", reason)
case delivery, ok := <-deliveries:
if !ok {
return errors.New("the broker stopped delivering")
}
s.handle(ctx, delivery)
}
}
}
func (s *Server) handle(ctx context.Context, delivery amqp.Delivery) {
switch delivery.RoutingKey {
case KeyEnrol:
s.handleEnrol(ctx, delivery)
case KeyReport:
s.handleReport(delivery)
case KeyAlive:
s.handleAlive(delivery)
case KeyBuilt:
s.handleBuilt(ctx, delivery)
default:
// Rejected without requeue: a message nothing understands will not be understood on the
// next attempt either, and requeuing it would spin.
s.log.Printf("refusing a message with routing key %q", delivery.RoutingKey)
_ = delivery.Reject(false)
}
}
// handleAlive records that a node was heard from, and nothing else.
//
// Deliberately silent: a node saying it is there every minute would fill the log with the
// ordinary case, and a log where the ordinary case is loud is a log nobody reads.
func (s *Server) handleAlive(delivery amqp.Delivery) {
var alive Alive
if err := json.Unmarshal(delivery.Body, &alive); err != nil || alive.Node == "" {
_ = delivery.Reject(false)
return
}
if s.listener != nil {
if err := s.listener.Heard(context.Background(), Report{Node: alive.Node}); err != nil {
s.log.Printf("could not record that %s is here: %v", alive.Node, err)
}
}
_ = delivery.Ack(false)
}
// handleReport records what a node says it did.
//
// A node states; nothing here writes anything the node claimed about itself beyond that it was
// heard from. What it applied is its own account of its own machine, and the mesh keeps the last
// one as a copy for recovery rather than as a source (novox/hq 09-the-node-lifecycle).
func (s *Server) handleReport(delivery amqp.Delivery) {
var report Report
if err := json.Unmarshal(delivery.Body, &report); err != nil {
s.log.Printf("a report could not be read: %v", err)
_ = delivery.Reject(false)
return
}
if s.listener != nil {
if err := s.listener.Heard(context.Background(), report); err != nil {
// Said rather than swallowed. A report the mesh heard and failed to write down is a
// node whose recovery copy is silently older than it looks.
s.log.Printf("could not record %s's report: %v", report.Node, err)
}
}
switch {
case report.Refused != "":
s.log.Printf("%s refused a declaration: %s", report.Node, report.Refused)
case len(report.Failed) > 0:
s.log.Printf("%s applied %d and failed: %v", report.Node, len(report.Applied), report.Failed)
default:
s.log.Printf("%s applied %d resource(s)", report.Node, len(report.Applied))
}
_ = delivery.Ack(false)
}
func (s *Server) handleEnrol(ctx context.Context, delivery amqp.Delivery) {
reply := EnrolReply{Refusal: "that token cannot be used"}
var request EnrolRequest
if err := json.Unmarshal(delivery.Body, &request); err != nil {
s.log.Printf("an enrolment request could not be read: %v", err)
} else {
accepted, err := s.enroller.Enrol(ctx, request)
if err != nil {
// Logged in full here, where an operator can see it; sent back as one refusal, so
// that somebody guessing learns nothing from which reason came back.
s.log.Printf("refusing enrolment for %q: %v", request.Node, err)
} else {
reply = accepted
s.log.Printf("enrolled %s", accepted.Node)
}
}
s.reply(ctx, delivery, reply)
// Acknowledged after the reply is sent, so a control plane that dies mid-answer leaves the
// request on the broker rather than having consumed it silently. Enrolment is idempotent
// only in the sense that the token is spent — a redelivery gets the refusal, which is
// correct and visible, where a lost request is neither.
_ = delivery.Ack(false)
}
func (s *Server) reply(ctx context.Context, delivery amqp.Delivery, reply EnrolReply) {
if delivery.ReplyTo == "" {
s.log.Print("an enrolment request named no reply queue, so nothing can be told the answer")
return
}
body, err := json.Marshal(reply)
if err != nil {
s.log.Printf("cannot encode a reply: %v", err)
return
}
timeout, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, 10*time.Second)
defer cancel()
if err := s.channel.PublishWithContext(timeout, "", delivery.ReplyTo, false, false,
amqp.Publishing{
ContentType: "application/json",
CorrelationId: delivery.CorrelationId,
Body: body,
}); err != nil {
s.log.Printf("cannot reply to %s: %v", delivery.ReplyTo, err)
}
}
// handleBuilt keeps what a builder said, whichever way it went.
//
// This is for results nobody was waiting for. A build asked for with `build` is answered directly
// to the asker; one triggered any other way is published here, and without this it would be
// reported into the void — which is the same as not reporting it.
func (s *Server) handleBuilt(ctx context.Context, delivery amqp.Delivery) {
var result BuildResult
if err := json.Unmarshal(delivery.Body, &result); err != nil {
s.log.Printf("a build result could not be read: %v", err)
_ = delivery.Reject(false)
return
}
if s.recorder == nil {
// Nothing to keep it in. Rejected rather than dropped silently, so the broker's own
// counters show something arriving that nothing handles.
s.log.Printf("a build result arrived and this control plane keeps none")
_ = delivery.Reject(false)
return
}
if err := s.recorder.Built(ctx, result); err != nil {
s.log.Printf("cannot keep a build result from %s: %v", result.On, err)
_ = delivery.Reject(false)
return
}
switch {
case result.Failed != "":
s.log.Printf("%s could not build %s", result.On, result.Repository)
default:
s.log.Printf("%s built %s from %s", result.On, result.Repository, result.Commit)
}
_ = delivery.Ack(false)
}
// upgraded hands one announcement to whatever is following them.
//
// **Acknowledged whatever happens.** A failure here is the control plane being unable to act on an
// upgrade — a machine that cannot be resolved, a broker that will not take a declaration — and
// none of those get better by being handed the same message again. Requeuing would put a poison
// message at the head of a durable queue and stop every upgrade behind it, which turns one module
// nobody can push into a mesh that stops following its own catalogue.
// catchingUp answers a catalogue that has just started and may have missed builds.
//
// Acknowledged before the work, deliberately: a replay that fails is not one that succeeds by
// being handed the same request again, and the catalogue asks every time it starts. Requeueing a
// poison request would stop every later catch-up behind it.
func (s *Server) catchingUp(ctx context.Context, delivery amqp.Delivery) {
defer func() { _ = delivery.Ack(false) }()
if s.replayer == nil {
s.log.Printf("a catalogue asked to catch up and this control plane has nothing to replay")
return
}
announcements, err := s.replayer.Announceable(ctx)
if err != nil {
s.log.Printf("a catalogue asked to catch up and the mesh could not read its builds: %v", err)
return
}
sent := 0
for _, a := range announcements {
a.Replay = true
if err := EmitEvent(ctx, s.channel, KeyModuleBuilt, "control-plane", "", a); err != nil {
// Said and abandoned rather than retried: the catalogue asks again every time it
// starts, and half a graph delivered twice is no better than half delivered once.
s.log.Printf("replaying %s at %s failed, and the rest is abandoned: %v",
a.Module, short(a.Commit), err)
return
}
sent++
}
s.log.Printf("a catalogue asked to catch up; re-announced %d build(s)", sent)
}
func (s *Server) upgraded(ctx context.Context, delivery amqp.Delivery) {
defer func() { _ = delivery.Ack(false) }()
var u Upgraded
if err := json.Unmarshal(delivery.Body, &u); err != nil {
s.log.Printf("an upgrade announcement could not be read: %v", err)
return
}
if u.Module == "" {
s.log.Printf("an upgrade announcement named no module; ignored")
return
}
if err := s.upgrader.Upgraded(ctx, u); err != nil {
s.log.Printf("%s moved to %s and the mesh could not act on it: %v",
u.Module, short(u.Commit), err)
}
}
// short is a commit as people read it.
func short(commit string) string {
if len(commit) > 8 {
return commit[:8]
}
return commit
}