Prior to this, the encryption settings for LDAP auth were hard coded to
start_tls on port 389 with TLSv1. These are still the defaults, as
insecure as they are, so as to not break existing users. This change
facilitates replacing the defaults so that simple_tls over port 636 via
TLS1.2 can be used.
This change adds a capability to vmpooler to provision instances on
demand. Without this change vmpooler only supports retrieving machines
from pre-provisioned pools.
Additionally, this change refactors redis interactions to reduce round
trips to redis. Specifically, multi and pipelined redis commands are
added where possible to reduce the number of times we are calling redis.
To support the redis refactor the redis interaction has changed to
leveraging a connection pool. In addition to offering multiple
connections for pool manager to use, the redis interactions in pool
manager are now thread safe.
Ready TTL is now a global parameter that can be set as a default for all
pools. A default of 0 has been removed, because this is an unreasonable
default behavior, which would leave a provisioned instance in the pool
indefinitely.
Pool empty messages have been removed when the pool size is set to 0.
Without this change, when a pool was set to a size of 0 the API and pool
manager would both show that a pool is empty.
Prior to this commit the hostname_shorten regex wouldn't match the
updated human readable hostnames because they contain dashes.
This commit updates the regex to capture dashes in the hostname, and
adds a few specs to verify that behavior.
Before this change looping over many pools would query the redis backend
for each pool, leading in slow response from the backend for configurations
with many pools (60+)
Changed the requests to use redis pipelines https://redis.io/topics/pipelining
This is supported since the beginning, so will not force any redis update for
users. The pipeline method runs the queries in batches and we need to loop
over the result and reduces the number of requests to redis by N=number of
pools in the configuration.
This commit updates vmpooler to support setting an array of search bases
in addition to a single base provided as a string. Without this change
it is not possible to specify multiple search bases to use with the LDAP
authentication provider. Additionally, test coverage is added to
the authentication helper method.
This commit adds a configuration endpoint to the vmpooler API. Pool
size, and pool template, can be adjusted for pools that are configured
at vmpooler application start time. Pool template changes trigger a pool
refresh, and the new template has delta disks created automatically by
vmpooler.
Additionally, the capability to create template delta disks is added to
the vsphere provider, and this is implemented to ensure that templates
have delta disks created at application start time.
The mechanism used to find template VM objects is simplified to make the flow of logic easier to understand. As an additional benefit, performance of this lookup is improved by using FindByInventoryPath.
A table of contents is added to API.md to ease navigation. Without this change API.md has no table of contents and is difficult to navigate.
Add mutex object for managing pool configuration updates
This commit adds a mutex object for ensuring that pool configuration changes are synchronized across multiple running threads, removing the possibility of two threads attempting to update something at once, without relying on redis data. Without this change this is managed crudely by specifying in redis that a configuration update is taking place. This redis data is left so the REPOPULATE section of _check_pool can still identify when a configuration change is in progress, and prevent a pool from repopulating at that time.
Add wake up event for pool template changes
This commit adds a wake up event to detect pool template changes.
Additionally, GET /config has a template_ready section added to the
output for each pool, which makes clear when a pool is ready to populate
itself.
Previously all of the spec tests for VM Pooler were all together in the specs
directory. However some tests require a working local Redis server to operate
and other instead mock all external dependencies. This commit splits the test
files between unit and integration, where integration tests require a working
Redis instance, and unit tests do not. This commit also removes the root
`vmpooler` directory as it is not required. The tests rake test still operates
correctly.
This commit also adds the mock_redis library for testing for the pool_manager.
