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(maint) Add puppetserver alias puppet.internal
- Remove the domain introspection / setting of AZURE_DOMAIN env var as this does not work as originally thought. Instead, hardcode the DNS suffix `.internal` to each service in the compose stack, and make sure that `dns_search` for `.internal` will use the Docker DNS resolver when dealing with these hosts. Note that these compose file settings only affect the configuration of the DNS resolver, *not* resolv.conf. This is different from the docker run behavior, which *does* modify resolv.conf. Also note, config file locations vary depending on whether or not systemd is running in the container. It's not "safe" to refer to services in the cluster by only their short service names like `puppet`, `puppetdb` or `postgres` as they can conflict with hosts on the external network with these names. When docker compose creates the user defined network, it copies the DNS settings from the host to the `resolv.conf` in each of the containers. When network resolutions happen, any default search suffix will be applied to short names when the dns option for ndots is not set to 0. So for instance, given a `resolv.conf` that contains: search delivery.puppetlabs.net A DNS request for `puppet` becomes `puppet.delivery.puppetlabs.net` which will fail to resolve in the Docker DNS resolver, then be sent to the next DNS server in the `nameserver` list. While it is possible to try and service requests for an external domain like `delivery.puppetlabs.net`, it's better to instead choose a domain suffix to use inside the cluster. There are some good details on how various network types configure: docker/for-linux#488 (comment) - Note that the .internal domain is typically not recommended for production given the only IANA reserved domains are .example, .test, .invalid or .localhost. However, given the DNS resolver is set to own the resolution of .internal, this is a compromise. In production its recommended to use a subdomain of a domain that you own, but that's not yet configurable in this compose file. - Another workaround for this problem would be to set the ndots option in resolv.conf to 0 per the documentation at http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/resolv.conf.5.html However that can't be done for two reasons: - docker-compose schema doesn't actually support setting DNS options docker/cli#1557 - k8s sets ndots to 5 by default, so we don't want to be at odds - A further, but implausible workaround would be to modify the host DNS settings to remove any search suffixes. - The original FQDN change being reverted in this commit was introduced in 2549f19 " Lastly, the Windows specific docker-compose.windows.yml sets up a custom alias in the "default" network so that an extra DNS name for puppetserver can be set based on the FQDN that Facter determines. Without this additional DNS reservation, the `puppetserver ca` command will be unable to connect to the REST endpoint. A better long-term solution is making sure puppetserver is setup to point to `puppet` as the host instead of an FQDN. " With the PUPPETSERVER_HOSTNAME value set on the puppetserver container, both certname and server are set to puppet.internal, preventing a need to synchronize a domain name. - Note that at this time there is also a discrepancy in how Facter 3 behaves vs Facter 2. The Facter 2 gem is being used by the `puppetserver ca` gem based application, and may return a different value for Facter.value('domain') than calling `facter domain` at the command line. Such is the case inside the puppet network, where Facter 2 returns `ops.puppetlabs.net` while Facter 3 returns the value `delivery.puppetlabs.net` This discrepancy makes it so that the `puppetserver ca` application cannot find the client side cert on disk and fails outright. Facter 2 should not be included in the puppetserver packages, so work is ongoing to extricate it. For now, setting the `puppet.conf` values explicitly to the desired DNS name works around this problem as well.
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