Give a container the names, rather than a resolver to ask
The commit before this said "told where to resolve names" and passed --dns, which is not what it ended up doing. This is that correction: a container is given the names themselves, written into its own hosts file by the runtime. The reason for the change is the decision the mesh already made about names — a file rather than a resolver, because it works on every runtime, needs no package and has no failure mode of its own. Passing a resolver address would have required a resolver to exist, which at that point none did. A resolver is coming, for the case a file genuinely cannot express: a service named under a machine, postgres.novox.internal, where the wildcard cannot be enumerated in advance. When it arrives it will need this field back under its own name. It is not being kept in the meantime — a field nothing fills is a field nobody can trust, and the vocabulary is asserted by a count for exactly that reason.
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@@ -812,12 +812,12 @@ func applyContainer(ctx context.Context, r *declaration.Container, run Runner) (
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for _, v := range r.Volumes {
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args = append(args, "--volume", v)
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}
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for _, n := range r.Nameservers {
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// Per container rather than by changing the machine's resolver configuration. That file
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// belongs to something else on most machines, and a host that edited it would be fighting
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// whatever owns it on every boot — the fault this host exists to avoid, in the one place
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// it would be hardest to see.
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args = append(args, "--dns", n)
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for _, h := range r.Hosts {
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// Written into the container's own hosts file by the runtime. Per container rather than
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// by editing the machine's resolver configuration: that file belongs to something else on
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// most machines, and a host that edited it would be fighting whatever owns it on every
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// boot — the fault this host exists to avoid, in the place it would be hardest to see.
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args = append(args, "--add-host", h)
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}
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args = append(args, r.Image)
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args = append(args, r.Args...)
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@@ -1231,7 +1231,7 @@ func TestAFailedActionStopsWhatFollows(t *testing.T) {
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// `resolv.conf` — so every internal name the mesh wrote for the machine is invisible to what the
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// machine is running. That was hit for real: a database client on one node could not resolve
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// another node, on a mesh where both names were correct and present on both machines.
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func TestAContainerIsToldWhichResolverToUse(t *testing.T) {
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func TestAContainerIsGivenTheMeshsNames(t *testing.T) {
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var ran []string
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run := func(_ context.Context, name string, args ...string) (string, error) {
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if name != "docker" {
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@@ -1250,25 +1250,23 @@ func TestAContainerIsToldWhichResolverToUse(t *testing.T) {
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}
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d := parseTrusted(t, `{"declaration":1,"resources":[
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{"id":"app","type":"container","name":"app","image":"`+pinned+`",
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"nameservers":["10.42.0.1"]}
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"hosts":["anchor.internal:10.42.0.1"]}
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]}`)
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_, _, _ = Apply(context.Background(), archHost(t), d, store.State{}, store.OriginCarried, run, nil, nil)
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var told bool
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for i, a := range ran {
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if a == "--dns" && i+1 < len(ran) && ran[i+1] == "10.42.0.1" {
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if a == "--add-host" && i+1 < len(ran) && ran[i+1] == "anchor.internal:10.42.0.1" {
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told = true
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}
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}
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if !told {
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t.Fatalf("the container was not told where to resolve names: %v", ran)
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t.Fatalf("the container cannot reach another machine by name: %v", ran)
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}
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}
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// And a container that was told nothing is run exactly as before: most containers resolve
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// whatever the machine resolves, and passing an empty flag would be a change of behaviour
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// dressed as a default.
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func TestAContainerToldNothingIsRunAsBefore(t *testing.T) {
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// And a container given no names is run exactly as before.
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func TestAContainerGivenNoNamesIsRunAsBefore(t *testing.T) {
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var ran []string
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run := func(_ context.Context, name string, args ...string) (string, error) {
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if name != "docker" {
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@@ -1291,8 +1289,8 @@ func TestAContainerToldNothingIsRunAsBefore(t *testing.T) {
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_, _, _ = Apply(context.Background(), archHost(t), d, store.State{}, store.OriginCarried, run, nil, nil)
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for _, a := range ran {
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if a == "--dns" {
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t.Fatalf("a container that was told nothing was given a resolver anyway: %v", ran)
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if a == "--add-host" {
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t.Fatalf("a container given no names was given some anyway: %v", ran)
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}
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}
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}
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@@ -328,18 +328,22 @@ type Container struct {
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Ports []string `json:"ports,omitempty"`
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Volumes []string `json:"volumes,omitempty"`
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Args []string `json:"args,omitempty"`
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// Nameservers this container resolves through.
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// Names this container can reach, as `name:address`.
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//
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// **Because a container does not inherit the machine's names.** It gets its own `/etc/hosts`
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// holding its own hostname, and a runtime rewrites `resolv.conf` — so every internal name the
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// mesh wrote for this machine is invisible to the thing the machine is running. That was hit
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// for real: a database client on one node could not resolve another node, on a mesh where
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// both names were correct and present.
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// holding only its own hostname, so every internal name the mesh wrote for this machine is
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// invisible to the thing the machine is running. That was hit for real: a database client on
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// one node could not resolve another node, on a mesh where both names were correct and
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// present on both machines.
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//
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// Set by the mesh rather than by a module: which resolver a machine has is a fact about the
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// machine, and a module that named one would be a module that only runs where somebody put
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// that resolver.
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Nameservers []string `json:"nameservers,omitempty"`
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// **A file rather than a resolver, which is the decision the mesh already made about names**
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// and this extends rather than overturns: it works on every runtime, needs no package, and
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// has no failure mode of its own. A resolver becomes necessary when names are wanted that are
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// not one-per-node — service names, wildcards — and that is still not true.
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//
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// Set by the mesh, not by a module: which machines exist is a fact about the mesh, and a
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// module that listed them would be a module that goes stale when one joins.
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Hosts []string `json:"hosts,omitempty"`
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// Network is the container's network, passed to the runtime unchanged.
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//
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