This file was never truly necessary and has never actually been used in
the history of Tailscale's open source releases.
A Brief History of AUTHORS files
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The AUTHORS file was a pattern developed at Google, originally for
Chromium, then adopted by Go and a bunch of other projects. The problem
was that Chromium originally had a copyright line only recognizing
Google as the copyright holder. Because Google (and most open source
projects) do not require copyright assignemnt for contributions, each
contributor maintains their copyright. Some large corporate contributors
then tried to add their own name to the copyright line in the LICENSE
file or in file headers. This quickly becomes unwieldy, and puts a
tremendous burden on anyone building on top of Chromium, since the
license requires that they keep all copyright lines intact.
The compromise was to create an AUTHORS file that would list all of the
copyright holders. The LICENSE file and source file headers would then
include that list by reference, listing the copyright holder as "The
Chromium Authors".
This also become cumbersome to simply keep the file up to date with a
high rate of new contributors. Plus it's not always obvious who the
copyright holder is. Sometimes it is the individual making the
contribution, but many times it may be their employer. There is no way
for the proejct maintainer to know.
Eventually, Google changed their policy to no longer recommend trying to
keep the AUTHORS file up to date proactively, and instead to only add to
it when requested: https://opensource.google/docs/releasing/authors.
They are also clear that:
> Adding contributors to the AUTHORS file is entirely within the
> project's discretion and has no implications for copyright ownership.
It was primarily added to appease a small number of large contributors
that insisted that they be recognized as copyright holders (which was
entirely their right to do). But it's not truly necessary, and not even
the most accurate way of identifying contributors and/or copyright
holders.
In practice, we've never added anyone to our AUTHORS file. It only lists
Tailscale, so it's not really serving any purpose. It also causes
confusion because Tailscalars put the "Tailscale Inc & AUTHORS" header
in other open source repos which don't actually have an AUTHORS file, so
it's ambiguous what that means.
Instead, we just acknowledge that the contributors to Tailscale (whoever
they are) are copyright holders for their individual contributions. We
also have the benefit of using the DCO (developercertificate.org) which
provides some additional certification of their right to make the
contribution.
The source file changes were purely mechanical with:
git ls-files | xargs sed -i -e 's/\(Tailscale Inc &\) AUTHORS/\1 contributors/g'
Updates #cleanup
Change-Id: Ia101a4a3005adb9118051b3416f5a64a4a45987d
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
* Modifies the k8s-proxy to expose health check and metrics
endpoints on the Pod's IP.
* Moves cmd/containerboot/healthz.go and cmd/containerboot/metrics.go to
/kube to be shared with /k8s-proxy.
Updates #13358
Signed-off-by: David Bond <davidsbond93@gmail.com>
Ensure no services are advertised as part of shutting down tailscaled.
Prefs are only edited if services are currently advertised, and they're
edited we wait for control's ~15s (+ buffer) delay to failover.
Note that editing prefs will trigger a synchronous write to the state
Secret, so it may fail to persist state if the ProxyGroup is getting
scaled down and therefore has its RBAC deleted at the same time, but that
failure doesn't stop prefs being updated within the local backend,
doesn't affect connectivity to control, and the state Secret is
about to get deleted anyway, so the only negative side effect is a harmless
error log during shutdown. Control still learns that the node is no
longer advertising the service and triggers the failover.
Note that the first version of this used a PreStop lifecycle hook, but
that only supports GET methods and we need the shutdown to trigger side
effects (updating prefs) so it didn't seem appropriate to expose that
functionality on a GET endpoint that's accessible on the k8s network.
Updates tailscale/corp#24795
Change-Id: I0a9a4fe7a5395ca76135ceead05cbc3ee32b3d3c
Signed-off-by: Tom Proctor <tomhjp@users.noreply.github.com>
It was moved in f57fa3cbc3.
Updates tailscale/corp#22748
Change-Id: I19f965e6bded1d4c919310aa5b864f2de0cd6220
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
* cmd/containerboot: serve health on local endpoint
We introduced stable (user) metrics in #14035, and `TS_LOCAL_ADDR_PORT`
with it. Rather than requiring users to specify a new addr/port
combination for each new local endpoint they want the container to
serve, this combines the health check endpoint onto the local addr/port
used by metrics if `TS_ENABLE_HEALTH_CHECK` is used instead of
`TS_HEALTHCHECK_ADDR_PORT`.
`TS_LOCAL_ADDR_PORT` now defaults to binding to all interfaces on 9002
so that it works more seamlessly and with less configuration in
environments other than Kubernetes, where the operator always overrides
the default anyway. In particular, listening on localhost would not be
accessible from outside the container, and many scripted container
environments do not know the IP address of the container before it's
started. Listening on all interfaces allows users to just set one env
var (`TS_ENABLE_METRICS` or `TS_ENABLE_HEALTH_CHECK`) to get a fully
functioning local endpoint they can query from outside the container.
Updates #14035, #12898
Signed-off-by: Tom Proctor <tomhjp@users.noreply.github.com>
containerboot:
Adds 3 new environment variables for containerboot, `TS_LOCAL_ADDR_PORT` (default
`"${POD_IP}:9002"`), `TS_METRICS_ENABLED` (default `false`), and `TS_DEBUG_ADDR_PORT`
(default `""`), to configure metrics and debug endpoints. In a follow-up PR, the
health check endpoint will be updated to use the `TS_LOCAL_ADDR_PORT` if
`TS_HEALTHCHECK_ADDR_PORT` hasn't been set.
Users previously only had access to internal debug metrics (which are unstable
and not recommended) via passing the `--debug` flag to tailscaled, but can now
set `TS_METRICS_ENABLED=true` to expose the stable metrics documented at
https://tailscale.com/kb/1482/client-metrics at `/metrics` on the addr/port
specified by `TS_LOCAL_ADDR_PORT`.
Users can also now configure a debug endpoint more directly via the
`TS_DEBUG_ADDR_PORT` environment variable. This is not recommended for production
use, but exposes an internal set of debug metrics and pprof endpoints.
operator:
The `ProxyClass` CRD's `.spec.metrics.enable` field now enables serving the
stable user metrics documented at https://tailscale.com/kb/1482/client-metrics
at `/metrics` on the same "metrics" container port that debug metrics were
previously served on. To smooth the transition for anyone relying on the way the
operator previously consumed this field, we also _temporarily_ serve tailscaled's
internal debug metrics on the same `/debug/metrics` path as before, until 1.82.0
when debug metrics will be turned off by default even if `.spec.metrics.enable`
is set. At that point, anyone who wishes to continue using the internal debug
metrics (not recommended) will need to set the new `ProxyClass` field
`.spec.statefulSet.pod.tailscaleContainer.debug.enable`.
Users who wish to opt out of the transitional behaviour, where enabling
`.spec.metrics.enable` also enables debug metrics, can set
`.spec.statefulSet.pod.tailscaleContainer.debug.enable` to false (recommended).
Separately but related, the operator will no longer specify a host port for the
"metrics" container port definition. This caused scheduling conflicts when k8s
needs to schedule more than one proxy per node, and was not necessary for allowing
the pod's port to be exposed to prometheus scrapers.
Updates #11292
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Co-authored-by: Kristoffer Dalby <kristoffer@tailscale.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Proctor <tomhjp@users.noreply.github.com>
Will Norris
David Bond
Tom Proctor
Brad Fitzpatrick
Irbe Krumina