The current shard follow mechanism is complex and does not give us easy ways the have visibility into the system (e.g. why we are falling behind).
The main reason why it is complex is because the current design is highly asynchronous. Also in the current model it is hard to apply backpressure
other than reducing the concurrent reads from the leader shard.
This PR has the following changes:
* Rewrote the shard follow task to coordinate the shard follow mechanism between a leader and follow shard in a single threaded manner.
This allows for better unit testing and makes it easier to add stats.
* All write operations read from the shard changes api should be added to a buffer instead of directly sending it to the bulk shard operations api.
This allows to apply backpressure. In this PR there is a limit that controls how many write ops are allowed in the buffer after which no new reads
will be performed until the number of ops is below that limit.
* The shard changes api includes the current global checkpoint on the leader shard copy. This allows reading to be a more self sufficient process;
instead of relying on a background thread to fetch the leader shard's global checkpoint.
* Reading write operations from the leader shard (via shard changes api) is a separate step then writing the write operations (via bulk shards operations api).
Whereas before a read would immediately result into a write.
* The bulk shard operations api returns the local checkpoint on the follow primary shard, to keep the shard follow task up to date with what has been written.
* Moved the shard follow logic that was previously in ShardFollowTasksExecutor to ShardFollowNodeTask.
* Moved over the changes from #31242 to make shard follow mechanism resilient from node and shard failures.
Relates to #30086
Today if a user omits the `_source` entirely or modifies the source
on indexing we have no chance to re-create the document after it has
been added. This is an issue for CCR and recovery based on soft deletes
which we are going to make the default. This change adds an additional
recovery source if the source is disabled or modified that is only kept
around until the document leaves the retention policy window.
This change adds a merge policy that efficiently removes this extra source
on merge for all document that are live and not in the retention policy window
anymore.
The old perform request methods on the REST client have been deprecated
in favor using request-flavored methods. This commit addresses the use
of these deprecated methods in the CCR test suite.
The TODOs in the rest actions was incorrect. The problem was that
these rest actions used `follow_index` as first named variable in the path
under which the rest actions were registered. Other candidate rest actions that
also have a named variable as first element in the path (but with a different
name) get resolved as rest parameters too and passed down to the rest
action that actually ends up getting executed.
In the case of the follow index api, a `index` parameter got passed down
to `RestFollowExistingAction`, but that param was never used. This caused the
follow index api call to fail, because of unused http parameters.
This change doesn't fixes that problem, but works around it by using
`index` as named variable for the follow index (instead of `follow_index`).
Relates to #30102
If security is enabled today with ccr then the follow index api will
fail with the fact that system user does not have privileges to use
the shard changes api. The reason that system user is used is because
the persistent tasks that keep the shards in sync runs in the background
and the user that invokes the follow index api only start those background
processes.
I think it is better that the system user isn't used by the persistent
tasks that keep shards in sync, but rather runs as the same user that
invoked the follow index api and use the permissions that that user has.
This is what this PR does, and this is done by keeping track of
security headers inside the persistent task (similar to how rollup does this).
This PR also adds a cluster ccr priviledge that allows a user to follow
or unfollow an index. Finally if a user that wants to follow an index,
it needs to have read and monitor privileges on the leader index and
monitor and write privileges on the follow index.
This commit adds an API to read translog snapshot from Lucene,
then cut-over from the existing translog to the new API in CCR.
Relates #30086
Relates #29530
The follow index api completely reuses CCS infrastructure that was exposed via:
https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/29495
This means that the leader index parameter support the same ccs index
to indicate that an index resides in a different cluster.
I also added a qa module that smoke tests the cross cluster nature of ccr.
The idea is that this test just verifies that ccr can read data from a
remote leader index and that is it, no crazy randomization or indirectly
testing other features.
Nhat Nguyen
Martijn van Groningen
Simon Willnauer
Jason Tedor