letsencrypt / letsencrypt/boulder

Admin tool command to zap a rate limit bucket

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Description

One thing that has occasionally come up is that we'd like to be able to reset an individual rate limit bucket with the admin tool.

This is just deleting a key in the redis bucket.

While we could do this "manually", it's somewhat challenging to figure out exactly the right thing to do, so a tool is useful here.

I don't think anything like this currently exists in Boulder, so I'm not sure what the right way we'd want to wire it up is.

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Research direction

No files, tests, or existing admin entry points are named. Start by locating Boulder’s admin tool and the Redis-backed rate-limit bucket implementation, then determine how commands are wired; done when one specified bucket can be reset through the tool.

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Assessment

Tech stack
go, redis
Domain
backend, cli, databases
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
52/100

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