cloudnative-pg / cloudnative-pg/plugin-barman-cloud

Changes to ObjectStore spec do not get applied until after the cluster is healthy

Open
#918 2 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub
bug
Dominant language
Go
Stars
191
Forks
72
Avg merge
2d 21h
Merged PRs (30d)
21

Description

We had an issue yesterday where we updated QNAP QuObjects, causing some change to the way S3 is handled. The resultant error from barman cloud was:

```
ERROR: Barman cloud WAL archiver exception: An error occurred (InvalidDigest)
when calling the PutObject operation: The Content-MD5 or checksum value that
you specified is not valid.
```

The fix is already mentioned in the documentation, where we add the following to the object store:

```yaml
---
apiVersion: barmancloud.cnpg.io/v1
kind: ObjectStore
spec:
configuration:
...
instanceSidecarConfiguration:
env:
- name: AWS_REQUEST_CHECKSUM_CALCULATION
value: when_required
- name: AWS_RESPONSE_CHECKSUM_VALIDATION
value: when_required
```

and I can confirm this works perfectly. However. Because one of the pods is stuck (1/2 Ready, blocked on the error above) the update never gets applied. What I had to do was apply the fix and then manually delete that one stuck pod (3-node cluster, this pod was a replica).

I think this is a bug, just because this configuration change was specifically required to resolve the issue I was having (S3 semantics changed). It's a little more complicated, here, because it seems like I had a primary switchover (perhaps due to similar S3-related errors) which left a bunch of WALs waiting to get uploaded. Would be good to see if there's a way this could be improved such that the barman-cloud-plugin operator is able to detect the S3-related failure and apply outstanding configuration.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Assessment

This issue has not been assessed yet.

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.