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
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.
Tanguy Leroux
Lisa Cawley
James Rodewig
Jason Tedor
Martijn van Groningen