pingcap / pingcap/tidb-operator

TidbInitializer support specifying tidb endpoint

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Description

Feature Request

For a cluster enabling SEM (Security Enhanced Mode), the tidb-server have limited permission, if we want to do some initialization that beyond SEM tidb-servers permissions, we have two choices:

  • Disable SEM first and then run initialization SQL statement and then restart tidb to enable SEM
  • Run TidbInitializer via a SEM disabled tidb-server, after that shut down SEM disabled tidb-server

The first one need to rolling restart all tidb-servers which might take a long time. While with the second one, TidbInitializer currently only support finding tidb-server endpoint via TidbCluster, so it's impossible to do the initialization via TidbInitializer.

So I'd like to allow user specifying a tidb endpoint for TidbInitializer.

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Research direction

Start by locating TidbInitializer and its current TidbCluster-based endpoint discovery in the tidb-operator repository. Trace how initialization SQL connects to TiDB, then define done as allowing a user-specified endpoint while retaining the existing discovery behavior when none is provided; add or update tests for both paths if the relevant test location is found.

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Assessment

Tech stack
go, kubernetes
Domain
databases, infrastructure
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
38/100

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