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Supports gRPC as a protocol (without TLS) #987

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@dprotaso dprotaso commented May 30, 2018

Fixes #707, #813

Proposed Changes

  • Supports gRPC as a protocol (without TLS)

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  • e2e test
  • activator support
  • switching to using an h2(c) server (non TLS) in ela-queue & activator

Outstanding Questions

  • what metrics is the autoscaler interested in when the protocol is grpc & the exchange is bidirectional
  • istio + grpc + mtls

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I took a cursory look, my main thoughts are in docs/spec/spec.md.


1. [Install Elafros](https://github.com/elafros/install/blob/master/README.md)
1. Install [docker](https://www.docker.com/)
1. Install [ko](https://github.com/google/go-containerregistry/tree/master/cmd/ko)
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tl;dr remove either Docker or ko

My biases in sample/ lately:

  • Document it with Dockerfile in README.md (which is probably most familiar to users)
  • Make it work with Bazel / ko for contributors

Does that make sense?

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# scaling to/from 0.
servingState: Active | Reserve | Retired

# The protocol used for this Revision. This will define the Istio ingress spec
# and service spec required for this Revision.
protocol: grpc | http
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tl;dr It feels to me like this belongs on Route not Revision.

cc @vaikas-google @evankanderson @cooperneil

I have a hard time imagining a use-case where a Route splits traffic over multiple Revisions with different protocols, which is reflected in some of the getProtocolFromTrafficTargets logic and TODOs that need to cope with the potential heterogeneity here. Let's just not allow it.

I believe the main reason this is needed on Revision in its current form is because you make use of it in ela-queue to proxy arbitrary TCP traffic. Two questions:

  1. Can we switch completely to tcpproxy thereby eliminating the need for the config @ Revision level?
  2. How does this codepath expose auto-scaling metrics (the core purpose of ela-queue today)?

I suspect we also need to change the activator in a similar manner. cc @josephburnett

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@dprotaso and I struggled with where the protocol belongs ourselves and decided to specify the protocol on the Revision and open it up for discussion.

Both the route controller and revision controller need to be aware of the protocol due to the following:

  • The route controller needs to create the appropriate Istio ingress and route service with the protocol specified
  • The revision controller also needs to create the revision service with the servicePort name specified as the protocol

Istio docs that explains it here

We are currently in the process of removing the need for the protocol in the ela-queue container by utilizing a h2cserver that can proxy both h2c and http traffic based on the request protocol. The reason why we couldn't use a tcp proxy was because we wouldn't be able to collect request statistics for autoscaling.

We're also in the process of changing the activator to utilize a h2c server as well.

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FYI the Envoy in the istio sidecar collects request statistics similar to the ones ela-queue collects. Using them hasn't been a high priority yet, but if the queue-proxy is a blocker that could change. It's unclear whether they can fully replace the queue proxy stats collection.

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FWIW, the Istio docs on the port naming restrictions for ingress seem to have been removed between 0.7 and 0.8. I'm not sure why earlier versions of Istio had this restriction (digging, it appears to have been copied from the pod injection docs).

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@bsnchan bsnchan force-pushed the grpc branch 2 times, most recently from 8fb9a4a to 4c039c0 Compare June 5, 2018 14:46
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pkg/controller/route/route_test.go 77.9% 78.1% 0.2%
pkg/webhook/configuration.go 95.2% 92.1% -3.0%

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/test pull-knative-serving-integration-tests

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/test pull-knative-serving-unit-tests

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pkg/controller/route/route_test.go 77.9% 78.1% 0.2%
pkg/webhook/configuration.go 95.2% 92.1% -3.0%

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bsnchan and others added 15 commits June 18, 2018 13:52
* We needed to create an activator service per protocol
  Since services cannot share a port with different protocols

Co-authored-by: Dave Protasowski <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Dave Protasowski <[email protected]>
* When the Ingress is updated for gRPC, the service takes some time to
mark the upstream as healthy
* it was only being used in the sample grpc app so we now pull in the
depency via the sample app's dockerfile

* also removed unused variables from cmd/queue/main.go
ignore the folders

* google.golang.org/grpc is not vendored in since it is only used in the sample
apps so don't attempt to build or test the sample grpc apps
* This is allows go build ./sample/... to run successfully since the grpc
dependencies are not vendored in
* removes golang/protobuf from Gopkg.toml
* alias h2c package as h2cutil
* adds a comment for NewTransport
* removes refactoring changes (will submit them as a separate pr)
* updates sample app's readme to use buildtag when running client code
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pkg/controller/route/route_test.go 78.7% 79.0% 0.3
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bsnchan commented Jun 18, 2018

Hey @evankanderson - is anything blocking this from getting merged? Having to rebase constantly is a bit of a pain. It would be nice to mark this as hold if we're waiting for another PR to go in first.

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Good point -- I have two concerns with this CL (one of which you're clearly having to wrestle with):

  1. It's pretty big, and will have a lot of conflicts.
  2. It's introducing a "fork" into the data plane which may be difficult to take out later, and which shouldn't be needed after Replace Ingress and RouteRule with Gateway and VirtualService respectively #1047 is fixed (presumably by Migrate to Istio v1alpha3 Gateway / VirtualService #1228)

Maybe we can break this into 2-4 items?

  • queue and activator changes seem non-controversial for item 2, and will be a long-term benefit in making our request path HTTP/2 clean.
  • API and route and configuration controller changes are where my concerns are -- introducing forking data paths increases the changes that each data path will end up with different capabilities. Then we end up making a chart explaining which paths support which things, and it's always out of date with the code. As much as possible, I'd like to keep a single data path which is signaled on L7 traffic which is compatible with HTTP framing (websocket, http2, grpc all meet this goal).
  • The grpc sample app, which seems like a great way to test that the e2e is working.

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bsnchan commented Jun 18, 2018

@evankanderson That make sense. I agree with waiting for #1228 to be completed as it would probably simplify a lot of the API/controller changes.

To clarify - I can submit separate PRs for:

  1. queue to support h2c
  2. activator to support h2c
  3. any controller changes required after Migrate to Istio v1alpha3 Gateway / VirtualService #1228 is completed
  4. grpc sample app

Would you accept the first two changes as PR's today? Or would you prefer for the Istio upgrade PR to land first?

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I'd be happy to review the first two PRs today.

Ideally, the third PR would not involve any API surface changes.

I'm comfortable committing the 4th item as a simple app even before it's working, as long as we document in the README that it is aspirational on #1047.

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bsnchan commented Jun 18, 2018

Closing this PR - followed up with #1257, #1260 and #1261.

Update: I can't close this PR since @dprotaso created it :(

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closing

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