Class HealthDiscoveryServiceGrpc.HealthDiscoveryServiceStub

  • Enclosing class:
    HealthDiscoveryServiceGrpc

    public static final class HealthDiscoveryServiceGrpc.HealthDiscoveryServiceStub
    extends io.grpc.stub.AbstractAsyncStub<HealthDiscoveryServiceGrpc.HealthDiscoveryServiceStub>
     HDS is Health Discovery Service. It compliments Envoy’s health checking
     service by designating this Envoy to be a healthchecker for a subset of hosts
     in the cluster. The status of these health checks will be reported to the
     management server, where it can be aggregated etc and redistributed back to
     Envoy through EDS.
     
    • Method Detail

      • streamHealthCheck

        public io.grpc.stub.StreamObserver<HealthCheckRequestOrEndpointHealthResponse> streamHealthCheck​(io.grpc.stub.StreamObserver<HealthCheckSpecifier> responseObserver)
         1. Envoy starts up and if its can_healthcheck option in the static
            bootstrap config is enabled, sends HealthCheckRequest to the management
            server. It supplies its capabilities (which protocol it can health check
            with, what zone it resides in, etc.).
         2. In response to (1), the management server designates this Envoy as a
            healthchecker to health check a subset of all upstream hosts for a given
            cluster (for example upstream Host 1 and Host 2). It streams
            HealthCheckSpecifier messages with cluster related configuration for all
            clusters this Envoy is designated to health check. Subsequent
            HealthCheckSpecifier message will be sent on changes to:
            a. Endpoints to health checks
            b. Per cluster configuration change
         3. Envoy creates a health probe based on the HealthCheck config and sends
            it to endpoint(ip:port) of Host 1 and 2. Based on the HealthCheck
            configuration Envoy waits upon the arrival of the probe response and
            looks at the content of the response to decide whether the endpoint is
            healthy or not. If a response hasn't been received within the timeout
            interval, the endpoint health status is considered TIMEOUT.
         4. Envoy reports results back in an EndpointHealthResponse message.
            Envoy streams responses as often as the interval configured by the
            management server in HealthCheckSpecifier.
         5. The management Server collects health statuses for all endpoints in the
            cluster (for all clusters) and uses this information to construct
            EndpointDiscoveryResponse messages.
         6. Once Envoy has a list of upstream endpoints to send traffic to, it load
            balances traffic to them without additional health checking. It may
            use inline healthcheck (i.e. consider endpoint UNHEALTHY if connection
            failed to a particular endpoint to account for health status propagation
            delay between HDS and EDS).
         By default, can_healthcheck is true. If can_healthcheck is false, Cluster
         configuration may not contain HealthCheck message.
         TODO(htuch): How is can_healthcheck communicated to CDS to ensure the above
         invariant?
         TODO(htuch): Add @amb67's diagram.
         
      • fetchHealthCheck

        public void fetchHealthCheck​(HealthCheckRequestOrEndpointHealthResponse request,
                                     io.grpc.stub.StreamObserver<HealthCheckSpecifier> responseObserver)
         TODO(htuch): Unlike the gRPC version, there is no stream-based binding of
         request/response. Should we add an identifier to the HealthCheckSpecifier
         to bind with the response?