Today when creating a follower index via the put follow API, or via an
auto-follow pattern, it is not possible to specify settings overrides
for the follower index. Instead, we copy all of the leader index
settings to the follower. Yet, there are cases where a user would want
some different settings on the follower index such as the number of
replicas, or allocation settings. This commit addresses this by allowing
the user to specify settings overrides when creating follower index via
manual put follower calls, or via auto-follow patterns. Note that not
all settings can be overrode (e.g., index.number_of_shards) so we also
have detection that prevents attempting to override settings that must
be equal between the leader and follow index. Note that we do not even
allow specifying such settings in the overrides, even if they are
specified to be equal between the leader and the follower
index. Instead, the must be implicitly copied from the leader index, not
explicitly set by the user.
CCR follower stats can return information for persistent tasks that are in the process of being cleaned up. This is problematic for tests where CCR follower indices have been deleted, but their persistent follower task is only cleaned up asynchronously afterwards. If one of the following tests then accesses the follower stats, it might still get the stats for that follower task.
In addition, some tests were not cleaning up their auto-follow patterns, leaving orphaned patterns behind. Other tests cleaned up their auto-follow patterns. As always the same name was used, it just depended on the test execution order whether this led to a failure or not. This commit fixes the offensive tests, and will also automatically remove auto-follow-patterns at the end of tests, like we do for many other features.
Closes #48700
This commit adds two APIs that allow to pause and resume
CCR auto-follower patterns:
// pause auto-follower
POST /_ccr/auto_follow/my_pattern/pause
// resume auto-follower
POST /_ccr/auto_follow/my_pattern/resume
The ability to pause and resume auto-follow patterns can be
useful in some situations, including the rolling upgrades of
cluster using a bi-directional cross-cluster replication scheme
(see #46665).
This commit adds a new active flag to the AutoFollowPattern
and adapts the AutoCoordinator and AutoFollower classes so
that it stops to fetch remote's cluster state when all auto-follow
patterns associate to the remote cluster are paused.
When an auto-follower is paused, remote indices that match the
pattern are just ignored: they are not added to the pattern's
followed indices uids list that is maintained in the local cluster
state. This way, when the auto-follow pattern is resumed the
indices created in the remote cluster in the meantime will be
picked up again and added as new following indices. Indices
created and then deleted in the remote cluster will be ignored
as they won't be seen at all by the auto-follower pattern at
resume time.
Backport of #47510 for 7.x
The current response format is:
```
{
"pattern1": {
...
},
"pattern2": {
...
}
}
```
The new format is:
```
{
"patterns": [
{
"name": "pattern1",
"pattern": {
...
}
},
{
"name": "pattern2",
"pattern": {
...
}
}
]
}
```
This format is more structured and more friendly for parsing and generating specs.
This is a breaking change, but it is better to do this now while ccr
is still a beta feature than later.
Follow up from #36049
* Changed the auto follow stats to also include follow stats.
* Renamed the auto follow stats api to stats api and changed its url path
from `/_ccr/auto_follow/stats` `/_ccr/stats`.
* Removed `/_ccr/stats` url path for the follow stats api, which makes
the index parameter a required parameter.
* Fixed docs.
This commit is our first introduction to cross-cluster replication
docs. In this commit, we introduce the cross-cluster replication API
docs. We also add skelton docs for additional content that will be added
in a series of follow-up commits.
Jason Tedor
Yannick Welsch
Tanguy Leroux
Lisa Cawley
James Rodewig
Martijn van Groningen