We want to be able to put useful scripts in $vardir type places, but if
the perms at the higher levels block this, then that can't work. The
top-level should always be more permissive, and then it grows more
restricted as we descend.
With the recent merging of embedded package imports and the entry CLI
package, it is now possible for users to build in mcl code into a single
binary. This additional permission makes it explicitly clear that this
is permitted to make it easier for those users. The condition is phrased
so that the terms can be "patched" by the original author if it's
necessary for the project. For example, if the name of the language
(mcl) changes, has a differently named new version, someone finds a
phrasing improvement or a legal loophole, or for some other
reasonable circumstance. Now go write some beautiful embedded tools!
This moves over the cli `arg` struct tags which are used to generate and
parse things on the command line. Furthermore, we then embed this data
directly in our more general parser struct so that we avoid duplication.
Finally, since the data shares a common struct type, we don't need to do
the manual field-by-field copying to pull things in!
The new version of the urfave/cli library is moving to generics, and
it's completely unclear to me why this is an improvement. Their new API
is very complicated to understand, which for me, defeats the purpose of
golang.
In parallel, I needed to do some upcoming cli API refactoring, so this
was a good time to look into new libraries. After a review of the
landscape, I found the alexflint/go-arg library which has a delightfully
elegant API. It does have a few rough edges, but it's otherwise very
usable, and I think it would be straightforward to add features and fix
issues.
Thanks Alex!
I'm currently refactoring the CLI code. Unfortunately this means a
pretty big churn in the various GAPI frontends. Since nobody is actively
using the puppet frontend code, I'm removing it for now. If someone is
actively using it, and wants to either port it to the new API, or
sponsor the porting of it to the new API, I'm happy to allow it back in.
Sorry Felix, it was a fun idea, and I loved seeing it work, but I can't
personally afford the maintenance cost of having this in right now.
This should help us determine what steps need improving. As it turns
out, autoedges are approximately the slowest. (Highly dependent on the
specific mcl code being used.)
The trend is clear though; note the units:
main: new graph took: 913.653µs
main: auto edges took: 9.273807153s
main: auto grouping took: 28.690819ms
main: send/recv building took: 566ns
main: new graph took: 779.255µs
main: auto edges took: 4.03670168s
main: auto grouping took: 37.682101ms
main: send/recv building took: 121.017µs
main: new graph took: 1.157479ms
main: auto edges took: 3.794132165s
main: auto grouping took: 49.732836ms
main: send/recv building took: 95.921µs
main: new graph took: 900.937µs
main: auto edges took: 7.206085s
main: auto grouping took: 25.508671ms
main: send/recv building took: 489ns
main: new graph took: 794.224µs
main: auto edges took: 4.313729756s
main: auto grouping took: 47.970533ms
main: send/recv building took: 207.62µs
main: new graph took: 884.49µs
main: auto edges took: 7.585529786s
main: auto grouping took: 24.327938ms
main: send/recv building took: 72.741µs
main: new graph took: 774.157µs
main: auto edges took: 2.827380129s
main: auto grouping took: 28.303023ms
main: send/recv building took: 85.246µs
main: new graph took: 746.841µs
main: auto edges took: 2.775868117s
main: auto grouping took: 33.11291ms
main: send/recv building took: 104.875µs
main: new graph took: 796.445µs
main: auto edges took: 2.71556122s
main: auto grouping took: 24.03827ms
main: send/recv building took: 106.414µs
main: new graph took: 1.217452ms
main: auto edges took: 2.908416104s
main: auto grouping took: 61.175916ms
main: send/recv building took: 92.328µs
main: new graph took: 807.894µs
main: auto edges took: 3.222089261s
main: auto grouping took: 40.032629ms
main: send/recv building took: 106.49µs
main: new graph took: 986.963µs
main: auto edges took: 3.538425263s
main: auto grouping took: 30.660849ms
main: send/recv building took: 99.74µs
This pulls in the Send/Recv values from the previous graph so that our
Cmp functions are more likely to not remake resources that should
otherwise not have changed. Unnecessary remakes can destroy the private
state of a resource which can make certain operations impossible.
This expands the Local API with the first (and in theory, only ever) API
for reading and writing simple values. This is a coordination point for
resources and functions to share things directly.
This is a new API that is similar in spirit and plumbing to the World
API, but it intended for all local machine operations and will likely
only ever have one implementation.
There were a bunch of packages that weren't well documented. With the
recent split up of the lang package, I figured it would be more helpful
for new contributors who want to learn the structure of the project.
The old system with vendor/ and git submodules worked great,
unfortunately FUD around git submodules seemed to scare people away and
golang moved to a go.mod system that adds a new lock file format instead
of using the built-in git version. It's now almost impossible to use
modern golang without this, so we've switched.
So much for the golang compatibility promise-- turns out it doesn't
apply to the useful parts that I actually care about like this.
Thanks to frebib for his incredibly valuable contributions to this
patch. This snide commit message is mine alone.
This patch also mixes in some changes due to legacy golang as we've also
bumped the minimum version to 1.16 in the docs and tests.
Lastly, we had to disable some tests and fix up a few other misc things
to get this passing. We've definitely hot bugs in the go.mod system, and
our Makefile tries to workaround those.
This moves to the newest etcd release, and also updates the imports to
the new go.etcd.io path. I think this is a bit of a pain, but might as
well get it done.
This adds the first reversible resource (file) and the necessary engine
API hooks to make it all work. This allows a special "reversed" resource
to be added to the subsequent graph in the stream when an earlier
version "disappears". This disappearance can happen if it was previously
in an if statement that then becomes false.
It might be wise to combine the use of this meta parameter with the use
of the `realize` meta parameter to ensure that your reversed resource
actually runs at least once, if there's a chance that it might be gone
for a while.
This patch also adds a new test harness for testing resources. It
doesn't test the "live" aspect of resources, as it doesn't run Watch,
but it was designed to ensure CheckApply works as intended, and it runs
very quickly with a simplified timeline of happenings.
If running mgmt from a systemd unit, this enables the
STATE_DIRECTORY environment variable to be used for creating the
cache directory defined by StateDirectory= in the unit file. It
also enables the XDG_CACHE_HOME environment variable to be used.
If the user isn't root and the environment variable isn't set,
it will use the default XDG_CACHE_HOME directory.
This is a giant cleanup of the etcd code. The earlier version was
written when I was less experienced with golang.
This is still not perfect, and does contain some races, but at least
it's a decent base to start from. The automatic elastic clustering
should be considered an experimental feature. If you need a more
battle-tested cluster, then you should manage etcd manually and point
mgmt at your existing cluster.
The engine core had some unfortunate bugs that were the result of some
early design errors when I wasn't as familiar with channels. I've
finally rewritten most of the bad parts, and I think it's much more
logical and stable now.
This also simplifies the resource API, since more of the work is done
completely in the engine, and hidden from view.
Lastly, this adds a few new metaparameters and associated code.
There are still some open problems left to solve, but hopefully this
brings us one step closer.
This enables imports in mcl code, and is one of last remaining blockers
to using mgmt. Now we can start writing standalone modules, and adding
standard library functions as needed. There's still lots to do, but this
was a big missing piece. It was much harder to get right than I had
expected, but I think it's solid!
This unfortunately large commit is the result of some wild hacking I've
been doing for the past little while. It's the result of a rebase that
broke many "wip" commits that tracked my private progress, into
something that's not gratuitously messy for our git logs. Since this was
a learning and discovery process for me, I've "erased" the confusing git
history that wouldn't have helped. I'm happy to discuss the dead-ends,
and a small portion of that code was even left in for possible future
use.
This patch includes:
* A change to the cli interface:
You now specify the front-end explicitly, instead of leaving it up to
the front-end to decide when to "activate". For example, instead of:
mgmt run --lang code.mcl
we now do:
mgmt run lang --lang code.mcl
We might rename the --lang flag in the future to avoid the awkward word
repetition. Suggestions welcome, but I'm considering "input". One
side-effect of this change, is that flags which are "engine" specific
now must be specified with "run" before the front-end name. Eg:
mgmt run --tmp-prefix lang --lang code.mcl
instead of putting --tmp-prefix at the end. We also changed the GAPI
slightly, but I've patched all code that used it. This also makes things
consistent with the "deploy" command.
* The deploys are more robust and let you deploy after a run
This has been vastly improved and let's mgmt really run as a smart
engine that can handle different workloads. If you don't want to deploy
when you've started with `run` or if one comes in, you can use the
--no-watch-deploy option to block new deploys.
* The import statement exists and works!
We now have a working `import` statement. Read the docs, and try it out.
I think it's quite elegant how it fits in with `SetScope`. Have a look.
As a result, we now have some built-in functions available in modules.
This also adds the metadata.yaml entry-point for all modules. Have a
look at the examples or the tests. The bulk of the patch is to support
this.
* Improved lang input parsing code:
I re-wrote the parsing that determined what ran when we passed different
things to --lang. Deciding between running an mcl file or raw code is
now handled in a more intelligent, and re-usable way. See the inputs.go
file if you want to have a look. One casualty is that you can't stream
code from stdin *directly* to the front-end, it's encapsulated into a
deploy first. You can still use stdin though! I doubt anyone will notice
this change.
* The scope was extended to include functions and classes:
Go forth and import lovely code. All these exist in scopes now, and can
be re-used!
* Function calls actually use the scope now. Glad I got this sorted out.
* There is import cycle detection for modules!
Yes, this is another dag. I think that's #4. I guess they're useful.
* A ton of tests and new test infra was added!
This should make it much easier to add new tests that run mcl code. Have
a look at TestAstFunc1 to see how to add more of these.
As usual, I'll try to keep these commits smaller in the future!
This giant patch makes some much needed improvements to the code base.
* The engine has been rewritten and lives within engine/graph/
* All of the common interfaces and code now live in engine/
* All of the resources are in one package called engine/resources/
* The Res API can use different "traits" from engine/traits/
* The Res API has been simplified to hide many of the old internals
* The Watch & Process loops were previously inverted, but is now fixed
* The likelihood of package cycles has been reduced drastically
* And much, much more...
Unfortunately, some code had to be temporarily removed. The remote code
had to be taken out, as did the prometheus code. We hope to have these
back in new forms as soon as possible.
This adds an initial implementation of an integration test framework for
writing more complicated tests. In particular this also makes some small
additions to the mgmt core so that testing is easier.
I have an improved design for remote execution as a resource. Since I
need to get rid of some technical debt to clean up the resource API, and
this main loop, a good first step is to remote it's invocation. It will
be coming back as a resource as soon as possible!
This is an initial implementation of the mgmt language. It is a
declarative (immutable) functional, reactive, domain specific
programming language. It is intended to be a language that is:
* safe
* powerful
* easy to reason about
With these properties, we hope this language, and the mgmt engine will
allow you to model the real-time systems that you'd like to automate.
This also includes a number of other associated changes. Sorry for the
large size of this patch.
