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Implement graceful termination #39

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Implement support for graceful termination. Currently when upgrading or restarting ContainerSSH all connections are killed instantly kicking out all users. This patch adds an option to delay the termination until all users are disconnected.

This is very useful in kubernetes, with this the pod will stay in 'Terminating' state until all users are disconnected but at the same time will be taken out of the service so no new connections will be routed to it.

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@tsipinakis tsipinakis force-pushed the gracefultermination branch from 7b41515 to ba31cb1 Compare January 4, 2022 20:49
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Hey @tsipinakis this actually seems to be a bug and should already be working. We'll have to investigate why it doesn't but this does not seem to be the right approach. The shutdown handlers should take care of closing client connections gracefully.

// GracefulTerminationDeadline is the amount of time ContainerSSH will
// wait after receiving a SIGTERM for all the clients to disconnect.
// After this duraction all connections are forcefully terminated.
GracefulTerminationDeadline time.Duration `json:"gracefulTerminationDeadline" yaml:"gracefulTerminationDeadline" default:"0"`
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ContainerSSH will not always run on SSH only, we plan a web client too. This deadline should not be tied to SSH.

go s.shutdownHandlers.Shutdown(lifecycle.ShutdownContext())
go s.disconnectClients(lifecycle, allClientsExited)
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If this does not work, this is actually a bug. The shutdown handlers should get a chance to run before the clients are disconnected forcefully.

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This seems to work the way it's intended currently: disconnectClients() waits until the context timeout (hardcoded 30 seconds currently in main) and then force-disconnects all clients. All this PR does is make this delay configurable.

I delay the shutdown handler until all clients are disconnected because running them means shutting down things like the metrics server which may be needed if the delay is too long, we want to know what happened during that time.

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In the future it may be beneficial to add a message when a shutdown is triggered prompting all users to re-connect.

@@ -204,12 +204,15 @@ func startPool(pool Service, lifecycle service.Lifecycle) error {
rotateSignals := make(chan os.Signal, 1)
signal.Notify(exitSignals, exitSignalList...)
signal.Notify(rotateSignals, rotateSignalList...)

deadline := cfg.SSH.GracefulTerminationDeadline + 5 * time.Second
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5 seconds plus is a very arbitrary number, we should come up with something better.

@ghost ghost force-pushed the gracefultermination branch from ba31cb1 to 7c11f35 Compare March 13, 2022 18:11
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