letsencrypt / letsencrypt/boulder
Observer: RVA prober
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- Go
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Description
A new prober type that can be configured to test RVAs by sending and validating challenges. This could be useful to ensuring that new RVA regions are functioning properly before we point traffic to them.
Credit to @mcpherrinm for the idea.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the Observer prober implementations and the existing RVA challenge and validation flow in the repository. Define the configuration and execution path for a prober that sends challenges to an RVA region, and verify that the configured region responds correctly before traffic is directed there.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- observability-sre
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100