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feat(coordinator): serve coordination sessions from embedded NATS - #762
Builds SNEP-324's coordinator on a NATS server with JetStream embedded in the coordinator process, replacing the custom gRPC protocol and in-memory store of #700 and #702. Agents use a small Go session client, and NATS sits behind it.
It all lives in a module of its own, github.com/ai-dynamo/snapshot/coordinator, which no host owns: whether the coordinator runs in the agent, in a container of the agent's Pod, or elsewhere is still open, and the code does not move when that is decided. Nothing imports the module yet, so the agent and operator code is untouched: the operator image only copies the module, because go.work lists it, and the first PR that imports it updates their go.mod files. Releases tag it coordinator/vX.Y.Z like the other modules, and make build compiles it so CodeQL analyzes it.
coordinator/session: the contract. Everything the client and the coordinator share, and nothing that imports NATS: the versioned bucket names and key layout, the default limits, the user name a member connects under and the exact subjects its connection is permitted, Meta, and the errors either side reports.
coordinator: the session client, at the module's root, as nats.go's is. Connect joins one member's part in one attempt and reads its session.Meta (members and ranks, deadline, epoch, value limits). A Session offers Barrier, Leave and Fail; each namespace's Store (snapshot, cuinterpose, library) offers Insert, Get and Delete, with the semantics of the SNEP's "Session semantics". No NATS type appears in the API, and NATS errors map onto package session's errors by JetStream code. The client reconnects on its own, resends what was not answered, presents the epoch it read whenever it connects, and verifies its session, by reading meta again, whenever the session may be gone: after a reconnect, when a watch stops on its own, and when an operation finds its bucket missing. A missing bucket or another epoch ends the session with ErrCoordinatorLost, so a member learns that the coordinator restarted, or removed its session before it received the end, rather than waiting for its deadline; a wait never returns a value read from a recreated session. Every operation honors the caller's context or is bounded by a 3 s round trip. Its keepalive gives up on a dead connection after 9 s and it connects again within 5 s (ClientConnectTimeout), together within the coordinator's 20 s grace period. session.EndedError is the one decoder of the ended key on both sides: a value that is no condition reason becomes InvalidReason. The last member's Leave succeeds even when its own departure closes the session before the reply arrives.
coordinator/server: the coordinator. It imports session and never the client. The embedded server keeps buckets in memory only, single replica, no cluster or monitoring port, logs routed to the coordinator's logger with key-value subjects redacted. Ensure creates an attempt's two buckets and meta with a random epoch, arms the deadline, and closes the session once every member has left; Remove, Fail and Shutdown complete the lifecycle. Remove records the end when the memory cap allows, then deletes the buckets without waiting for members; a member that has not received the end learns from finding its session gone. The grace period follows members' connections through the system account's connect and disconnect events. DefaultGrace (20 s) and the server's keepalive live here. Every client goes through the server's custom authentication: refused until MarkReady (once the host has ensured the session of every unfinished attempt), then the Authorizer, then the session's membership, then session.MemberPermissions, all within AuthorizeTimeout (3 s). A member reconnecting with the epoch of a session the coordinator no longer holds fails the recreated session before it is admitted.
coordinator/sessiontest: the client against the coordinator. A test-only package, the only one that imports both: the real client against the real coordinator through its public API, each member through a TCP proxy a test cuts to break its connection and points at a new coordinator to restart it, and the test tying the client's connection settings to the coordinator's: detection plus reconnection within DefaultGrace, and AuthorizeTimeout within ClientConnectTimeout.
Dependencies: github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2 v2.15.2 and github.com/nats-io/nats.go v1.55.0, the latest stable releases, both Apache-2.0. nats-server is in the coordinator module only, and only package server imports it.
Which issue(s) this PR fixes:
Part of #610. Tracking issue: #324. Design: #325 (The coordination session, Session semantics, Security). Supersedes #700 and #702.
How was this tested?
Client against coordinator (sessiontest): every bullet of "Session semantics" end to end, Leave closing the session, Fail reaching every member, a grace period running out, reconnection mid-wait through a cut proxy, CoordinatorLost after a coordinator restart (session recreated, or gone), a session removed under waiting members and with no room left to record its end, a Barrier whose context is cancelled or already done, the last member's Leave, an ended value that is no reason, and error mapping (too large, bucket full, forbidden). goleak on every test.
Coordinator, over plain NATS connections that present what session defines, never through the client: authentication (admitted, refused, the Authorizer's retry codes, the readiness gate, the epoch fence, a member reconnecting to no session), permissions both ways with the exact subjects pinned, a consumer's deliveries that cannot change another attempt's keys, an ended value that is no reason, Ensure, what Remove guarantees, the deadline on a fake clock that runs callbacks as the real one does, closing, the grace period (reconnect within it, expiry, after Leave), Shutdown, a restart under a live session, the limits, TLS rotation, and logs free of keys, values, barrier names and tokens. goleak and -race; the coordinator module's make test runs with -race.
The coordinator and sessiontest with -race -count=20, -count=20 without -race, and -race -cpu 1, before the move to the coordinator module; after it, make -C coordinator test and lint, -race -count=5 on coordinator/server and coordinator/sessiontest, and the root make test and make lint across all four modules in a Linux container (the agent's 44 container failures match its base exactly, all outside this change), and make build, make check and the operator image build in a linux/amd64 container, again after merging main. The move is renames only, and git records every file as one.
Special notes for your reviewer:
A member that never receives a session's end, because Remove deleted the buckets first or the memory cap left no room to record it, learns from finding its session gone. When it is waiting, that takes about 10 s: nats.go closes a watch whose bucket was deleted after two missed 5 s heartbeats.
A member can add messages to another attempt's buckets under its own subjects, through a push consumer whose deliveries its publish permissions do not bound (nats-server#8274). They count against that attempt's limits but never change its keys, which TestDeliveriesCannotChangeAnotherAttemptsKeys guards. This is the same harm as the shared memory cap, accepted for alpha; isolating sessions (accounts, memory) is for beta.
Buckets are bounded by key count and value size, which reserve no memory: the Snapshot bucket holds values of up to 32 MiB, the library bucket 4,096 keys of up to 4 KiB (values under 16 MiB, about 22 MiB with keys and headers). Config.MaxBytes (1 GiB by default) is the one byte limit: sessions share it and none reserves any, so a session that fills it makes other sessions' writes fail with ErrTooMany until it is removed. MaxValue is to revisit once the largest cuInterpose record is measured.
Added coordinator-managed shared sessions with member authentication, reconnect handling, session lifecycle controls, and namespaced storage with configurable limits.
Added session barriers, member departure tracking, and session failure reporting.
Release tags now include the coordinator module.
Documentation
Updated development and release guidance to cover the coordinator and all Go modules.
Chores
Expanded build, test, lint, formatting, and security-check targets to include the coordinator.
Agents reach SNEP-324's coordination sessions through a small Go interface,
with NATS behind it, and the coordinator builds on the same contract.
Package session is that contract, and everything the client and the
coordinator share: the bucket names and key layout, versioned; the default
limits, which bound each bucket's values and the library bucket's number of
keys, so no bucket reserves memory; the user name a member connects under and
the exact subjects its connection is permitted; the Meta a member reads; and
the errors either side reports, so a caller matches one set. It imports no
NATS package.
Package coordinator is the client. Connect joins one member's part in one
attempt and reads the session's meta; a Session offers Barrier, Leave, and
Fail, and each namespace's Store offers Insert, Get, and Delete, all safe to
repeat. No NATS type appears in the API, and NATS errors map onto package
session's by JetStream error code, never by error text.
The client reconnects on its own and sends again whatever was not answered,
at once after a disconnect. It presents the epoch it read whenever it
connects, and checks the epoch after every reconnect, so a session the
coordinator lost ends with ErrCoordinatorLost rather than at its deadline. Its
keepalive gives up on a dead connection after 9 s, within half of the
coordinator's grace period.
The tests here are pure unit tests; the client's tests that need a server run
in the operator module, so the agent module depends on nats.go alone.
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The coordinator embeds a NATS server with JetStream and keeps each attempt's
session in two in-memory key-value buckets, laid out as package session
defines, which is all it shares with the session client. It owns the server,
the sessions, and authentication, and nothing else.
Ensure creates both buckets, each bounded by its largest value and the library
bucket also by its number of keys, and meta with a random epoch; it arms the
deadline, and follows the members' departures, so the session closes once
every member has left. A session that fails to open leaves no bucket behind.
Neither bound reserves memory, so any number of sessions can be ensured, and
Config.MaxBytes is the one byte limit: sessions share it, so a session that
fills it makes other sessions' writes fail until it is removed. Remove fails a
session still open with Cancelled and deletes its buckets, even when the
memory cap leaves no room to record that; Fail fails one on the coordinator's
own authority; Shutdown fails every session with CoordinatorLost before the
server goes. The grace period follows members' connections through the system
account's connect and disconnect events, and fails a session whose member
stays away for DefaultGrace, including one that has left. Timers are armed
and stopped under the server's lock, and one that fires after it was stopped
or replaced does nothing.
Every client goes through the server's custom authentication, which refuses
everyone until the host calls MarkReady after its reconciler's first pass,
asks the Authorizer, checks the session and its membership, and grants only
the subjects session.MemberPermissions lists. A member that reconnects with
the epoch of a session this coordinator no longer holds fails the recreated
session before it is admitted. The coordinator's own two connections are
in-process, with a token that never leaves memory, and the server's log is
routed into the coordinator's with key-value subjects redacted.
The tests drive the server over plain NATS connections that present what
package session defines, never through the session client, with a fake clock
that runs callbacks on goroutines of their own, as the real clock does. They
pin the permissions both ways, and run with goleak and the race detector,
which the operator's test target now enables.
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…dinator
Package sessiontest runs the real session client against the real
coordinator, through the coordinator's public API, and is the only package
that imports both. It covers SNEP-324's "Session semantics" end to end:
barriers, Insert, Get, and Delete in every namespace, Leave closing the
session, Fail reaching every member, a member's grace period running out,
reconnection mid-wait, and the errors the coordinator's limits map onto.
Each member reaches the coordinator through a TCP proxy of its own, which a
test cuts to break the member's connection as a network would. A restart
starts a new coordinator, which recreates the sessions with new epochs, and
points the proxies at it before the old one shuts down, so members reconnect
with the epoch they read: one whose session was recreated, or lost, ends
with ErrCoordinatorLost, and a recreated session fails for every member.
The package also ties the client's keepalive to the coordinator's grace
period: a client gives up on a dead connection within half of DefaultGrace.
It holds only tests, which run with goleak and the race detector.
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Walkthrough
This change adds a Go coordinator module with an embedded NATS/JetStream server and a TLS client for shared sessions. It defines session contracts, access permissions, storage limits, and lifecycle handling. Repository build, test, lint, vulnerability-check, and release workflows now include the coordinator.
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Coordinator session flow
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Shared session contract coordinator/session/*
Defines session errors and end reasons, versioned bucket keys, namespaces, member metadata, permissions, and value and name limits. Adds tests for error handling, name validation, and permissions.
Embedded server and session lifecycle coordinator/server/*
Adds the embedded NATS/JetStream server, member authentication and permissions, attempt creation and removal, deadlines, connection grace periods, shutdown, and observer events. Adds server lifecycle, authentication, permission, and limit tests.
Adds coordinator module tooling and includes the module in repository-wide build, test, lint, vulnerability-check, workspace, and release-tag configuration.
sequenceDiagram
participant Client
participant CoordinatorServer
participant Authorizer
participant JetStream
Client->>CoordinatorServer: Connect over TLS with member identity and token
CoordinatorServer->>Authorizer: Authorize attempt, member, and token
Authorizer-->>CoordinatorServer: Return authorization result
CoordinatorServer-->>Client: Admit member with session permissions
Client->>JetStream: Bind session buckets and read metadata
JetStream-->>Client: Return session metadata
LoadingMerge Risk: Low · up to 798a0
The coordinator is broadly mergeable, with a bounded test-coverage gap remaining in the store wait-path test.
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @agent/pkg/coordinator/session.go:
- Around line 196-199: Update Barrier’s arrival recording through s.do so
retries honor caller cancellation, while a caller whose context is already done
still gets one bounded attempt to record the arrival. Cap any uncancellable
portion with a fixed timeout, and return the caller’s context error when
cancellation or its deadline ends the wait.
Review comments at @agent/pkg/session/layout.go:
- Around line 137-138: Update MemberPermissions and the coordinator watch flow
so members cannot create consumers with a caller-chosen deliver_subject: have
the coordinator create watch consumers and grant members only the required
message-next or bind permissions. Add a regression test in permissions_test.go
that attempts delivery to another attempt’s ended key and verifies the key
remains absent.
Review comments at @operator/internal/coordinator/auth.go:
- Around line 57-59: Set the agent client’s nats.Timeout above the coordinator’s
authorizeTimeout of five seconds, with enough margin for the CONNECT
authorization response; keep the server-side authorization bound unchanged.
Review comments at @operator/internal/coordinator/manager.go:
- Around line 457-463: Validate the non-empty member-written value in the `end`
path with `session.ValidateReason` before passing it to `Observer.SessionFailed`
or logging it; use a bounded fallback reason when invalid and log only safe
metadata such as its byte length. Ensure any path that surfaces the value in
Kubernetes conditions uses the same normalization, while preserving raw values
only where needed for internal matching.
Review comments at @operator/internal/coordinator/sessiontest/helpers_test.go:
- Around line 149-156: Update harness.session, testSession.connect, connectAll,
and awaitOutcome to accept and use the calling test’s *testing.T instead of
reading harness.t; pass that t through helper calls and register cleanups on it
so failures and cleanup belong to the correct test.
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Barrier sent the arrival with context.WithoutCancel, so a member cut off
from a coordinator that never came back retried it forever, whatever the
caller's deadline. The arrival now goes out with the caller's context, like
every other operation: an arrival that was recorded stays recorded, since
cancelling stops only the wait, and a call whose context is already done
records nothing, which the client now checks itself before it sends.
Every other operation already honors the caller's context, or is bounded by
attemptTimeout.
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The client used nats.go's default connect timeout of 2 s, shorter than the 5
s the coordinator gave the Authorizer. A slow TokenReview therefore made the
client give up on the connection and connect again, and each attempt asked
the Authorizer again.
The client now sets ClientConnectTimeout, 5 s, which bounds its first
connection and every reconnect. The coordinator bounds authenticating a
member's connection, the Authorizer and the epoch fence together, by
AuthorizeTimeout, 3 s, exported so the client's settings can be tested
against it; expire, which borrowed the Authorizer's bound to write the ended
key, gets a constant of its own.
The keepalive test becomes the connection budget: a client notices a dead
connection and connects again within the grace period, 9 s plus 5 s within
20 s, and the coordinator answers a connection before the client gives up.
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Any member's connection may write the ended key, so a buggy or compromised
agent can store up to the bucket's largest value of arbitrary bytes there.
The coordinator passed those bytes to the Observer, whose reasons are metric
labels, and to its log, and the reconciler would later copy them into
condition reasons, which the API server refuses when they are invalid.
session.EndedError is now the one decoder of the key, on both sides: no
bytes close the session, a valid condition reason stays as it is, and
anything else becomes the new ReasonInvalid. The client's end of a session,
its waits, and its Fail, and the coordinator's end, endWith, and epoch fence
all read the key through it. The coordinator logs an invalid value only by
its size.
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harness.session, testSession.connect, connectAll, and awaitOutcome read the
harness's t while subtests called them, so a failure in a subtest called
FailNow on its parent, and the members' sessions and proxies were closed
only once the parent ended. Each helper now takes the calling test's t, and
registers its cleanups on it. newHarness and restart keep the harness's t,
since only the test that owns the harness calls them.
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…eries
JetStream does not bound a push consumer's deliveries by its creator's
publish permissions (nats-server#8274), so a member may deliver its own
writes to another attempt's subjects. A delivery keeps its original subject,
under the member's own bucket, so it adds messages to the other attempt's
bucket that count against its limits but never changes its keys. That is
the same harm as the memory cap every session shares, which SNEP-324
accepts, and the package doc now says so.
TestDeliveriesCannotChangeAnotherAttemptsKeys delivers a member's key to
another attempt's ended and meta keys and checks both, read through that
attempt's bucket, stay as they were, so it fails if NATS ever delivers
under the delivery subject. A test of a member that reconnects to an attempt
with no session, which the coordinator admits and which finds no bucket,
joins the authentication tests.
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The last member's departure closes the session, and the client's watch of
the ended key may see that, and close the connection, before the reply to
the member's write arrives. Leave then reported session.ErrClosed although
its departure was recorded. A session closes only once every member has
left, this one included, so Leave now returns nil when the session closed,
as Fail does when the session failed with its own reason; any other ending
is still reported.
TestLeaveThatClosesTheSession leaves 50 sessions, each a chance for the
race, which it caught in every run without the race detector and in none
with it, since the detector slows the watch. TestLeave also leaves again
once the session has closed, which catches the old behavior every time.
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before inserts "old" before Get starts. The watch delivers that existing value first, so Get returns "old" before during runs. The case therefore does not exercise a waiting Get.
Move the first insert into during. Get will return "old" on that first present event. The later delete and reinsertion cannot change the result because Get has already completed. Rename the case so it does not claim that all three operations occur while Get is waiting.
♻️ Suggested fix
- {name: "a key deleted, then inserted again, during the wait", ns: session.NamespaceCuInterpose, wait: time.Minute,- before: insert(session.NamespaceCuInterpose, "old"),+ {name: "the first insert wins over deletion and reinsertion", ns: session.NamespaceCuInterpose, wait: time.Minute,
during: func(t *testing.T, sessions []client.Session) {
+ insert(session.NamespaceCuInterpose, "old")(t, sessions)
require.NoError(t, sessions[1].Namespace(session.NamespaceCuInterpose).Delete(within(t), "k"))
insert(session.NamespaceCuInterpose, "new")(t, sessions)
}, want: "old"},
A Get cannot remain waiting through the delete and reinsertion: its contract returns as soon as it observes the first present value.
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Review comment at @operator/internal/coordinator/sessiontest/store_test.go
around lines 177 - 182:
Update the “a key deleted, then inserted again, during the wait” test case so
the key is absent when Get starts: move the initial “old” insert from before
into during, before the delete and “new” insert. Rename the case to reflect that
Get returns the first present value, “old,” without claiming all operations
happen while Get is waiting.
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Review comments at @operator/internal/coordinator/sessiontest/store_test.go:
- Around line 177-182: Update the “a key deleted, then inserted again, during
the wait” test case so the key is absent when Get starts: move the initial “old”
insert from before into during, before the delete and “new” insert. Rename the
case to reflect that Get returns the first present value, “old,” without
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A member learns that its session ended through the ended key, and otherwise
by finding the session gone: its bucket missing, or its epoch changed. The
client checked for the second only after a reconnect. When the coordinator
removed a session, and deleted its buckets, before a member had received
the end, or when the memory cap left no room to record the end, the member
never learned: its watches stopped and Done never closed, a wait reported
net.ErrClosed over an open connection, and an operation retried until its
context expired.
The client now verifies its session, by reading Meta again, whenever it may
be gone: after a reconnect, when a watch stops on its own, and when an
operation finds its bucket missing. One goroutine verifies, one request at
a time, with requests coalesced; a bucket gone or another epoch ends the
session with ErrCoordinatorLost, and otherwise the caller carries on. A
watch that stopped watches again, and an operation is sent again. Before the
member has joined, nothing verifies yet, so an operation that finds its
bucket missing reports ErrNotFound.
A verification reaches a target: the requests plus nats.go's reconnect
count, which nats.go raises before the new connection delivers anything, so
the reconnect handler only wakes the verifier. settle waits for the target
due when it was called, and confirm for the one its request set, so later
requests never postpone them. followEnd is now await on the ended key, and
watches again after any other failure, so a session never runs without its
end being watched.
nats.go closes a watch whose bucket was deleted after two missed heartbeats,
about 10 s, which is how long a member that never received the end takes to
learn. TestRemoved removes a session under its members, once while they
wait, and once with no room left to record the end, which failed every run
before.
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Remove records a session's end when the memory cap allows, then deletes its
buckets; a member that has not received the end by then learns from finding
its session gone, which the session client now does. Its doc says so.
TestRemove and TestEpochFence waited for a hand-written member to receive
the end from a bucket being deleted, which raced the deletion and failed in
CI. TestRemove now checks the outcome the Observer reports and that the
buckets are gone, and TestEpochFence takes the old epoch from the
coordinator before removing the session.
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…eeds
The coordinator tests' member helper wrote its departure and returned the
write's error. The last departure closes the session, and the member's own
watch of the ended key may see that, and close the connection, before the
write's reply arrives, so TestClosing failed about one run in seventy without
the race detector. leave now succeeds if the session closed, as the session
client's Leave and the helper's fail already do.
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…nto a module of their own
The coordinator was split across two modules by where it would run: the
contract and the client in the agent's, the server and the tests that run
both in the operator's, under internal/, which kept the agent from
importing the server at all. Where the coordinator runs is now open, so
it moves into github.com/ai-dynamo/snapshot/coordinator, which no host
owns:
coordinator/ package coordinator, the session client
coordinator/session/ package session, the contract
coordinator/server/ package server, the coordinator
coordinator/sessiontest/ the client against the server, tests only
The client is the module's root, as nats.go's is, so agent code keeps
calling coordinator.Connect. In package server, nats-server's own
package is imported as natsserver, and NewServer is now New. Nothing else
changes: no behavior, test, or semantics. Four lines are wrapped for lll,
which the server and the tests escaped under internal/.
The agent and operator code goes back to what main has, since nothing
imports the coordinator yet. The operator image copies the new module
only because go.work lists it, and a workspace with a module missing
does not load. The root Makefile, go.work, Dependabot, and the release's
sub-path tags cover the new module, whose tests run with -race.
Signed-off-by: Julien Mancuso <jmancuso@nvidia.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The coordinator's comments assumed the operator hosts it: a reconciler
that ensures sessions, a Lease it can lose, a binary that brings metrics.
Where it runs is open, so they now speak of the host, whatever process
embeds the server, ensures and removes sessions, and provides the
Authorizer. Package session's doc names the new layout.
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…es it
CodeQL builds with make build and analyzes only what it compiles, which
was the agent and operator binaries. Nothing imports the coordinator
yet, so its packages were never compiled for analysis. The module gets a
build target, go build ./..., which the root build target calls.
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changed the title
feat(operator): serve coordinator sessions from embedded NATS
feat(coordinator): serve coordination sessions from embedded NATS
Nov 2, 2026
The job runs make build but not make check. A scheduled CodeQL run can therefore pass without running golangci-lint or govulncheck. (github.com) Run make check after CodeQL analysis to preserve the cold build cache.
As per path instructions: “Flag any job that skips the full 'make check' gate or bypasses golangci-lint/govulncheck.”
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Review comment at @.github/workflows/codeql.yml at line 59:
Update the CodeQL job so it runs make check after CodeQL analysis, ensuring the
full gate runs while preserving the cold build cache.
root=/home/jailuser/go/pkg/mod/github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2@v2.15.2/server
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Block member-selected JetStream API deliveries.
Members can create a consumer on their own stream and choose any deliver_subject. nats-server automatically imports $JS.API.> into JetStream-enabled accounts. Consumer delivery then enters normal account routing, receives Nats-Request-Info, and reaches the JetStream API dispatcher. A delivery such as $JS.API.STREAM.PURGE.KV_<other> can therefore modify another attempt without a direct publish from the member connection.
Add a regression test next to TestDeliveriesCannotChangeAnotherAttemptsKeys for DELETE, PURGE, and UPDATE delivery subjects. Assert that the other attempt’s buckets still exist and keep their configuration.
Change the permission model. Use a separate account per attempt, or create watch consumers on behalf of members so that members cannot select deliver_subject.
Also bound or remove member-created consumers. Durable consumers accept InactiveThreshold == 0, and disconnect or grace expiry does not remove them. They can remain until stream removal or explicit deletion.
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Review comment at @coordinator/session/layout.go at line 137:
Update the JetStream permissions for `"$JS.API.CONSUMER.CREATE."+stream+".>"` so
members cannot create consumers with a member-selected `deliver_subject` that
routes deliveries into JetStream API dispatch; establish whether per-attempt
accounts or coordinator-created watch consumers fit the existing architecture
before implementing the restriction. Add the requested regression coverage next
to `TestDeliveriesCannotChangeAnotherAttemptsKeys` for DELETE, PURGE, and UPDATE
delivery subjects, verifying the other attempt’s buckets and configurations
remain unchanged. Also ensure member-created consumers are bounded or removed,
including when `InactiveThreshold` is zero and a member disconnects or its grace
period expires.
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…lose
nats.go attaches the handler that closes a KV watch's Updates channel
only after the watch's subscription exists. When the watch's context is
cancelled in between, or the connection closes, the subscription closes
before the handler is set, and the channel never closes. The client
waited for that channel, unbounded: inline when a watch's attempt ended
as it was created, and in Close through stop. Close cancels in-flight
attempts, so closing a member while a watch was being created could hang
Close forever, and an attempt that timed out in that window hung its Get
or Barrier past its context. sessiontest hit it once.
A drain now also ends once the connection has closed, which nats.go's
ClosedHandler reports for Close and for a session that ended alike.
nats.go delivers nothing after that, so emptying the channel frees the
one delivery that may be blocked on it. A watch whose attempt ended as it
was created goes to stop, which drains it in the background, so no
operation waits on a watch's teardown. stop's comment no longer claims
that Close waits for the consumer's deletion, which the channel's close
never covered.
TestCloseWhileWatching closes 50 members while their watches are being
created. Under load, the old client failed it in 2 of 8 runs of 100,
with Close stuck in drain; the fixed client passed all 8.
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drain's comment now names nats-io/nats.go#2223, the upstream report of a
KV watch whose Updates channel never closes when its context is
cancelled during WatchFiltered, so the bound can be revisited once that
is fixed.
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Signed-off-by: Julien Mancuso <jmancuso@nvidia.com>
set -eu
printf'%s\n''--- client lifecycle and Barrier ---'
sed -n '80,245p' coordinator/session.go
printf'%s\n''--- sessiontest harness and session setup ---'
sed -n '40,215p' coordinator/sessiontest/helpers_test.go
printf'%s\n''--- remaining helper setup and cleanup ---'
sed -n '215,340p' coordinator/sessiontest/helpers_test.go
printf'%s\n''--- base versus head test and client lifecycle ---'
git show e3bb4e3bf3305a69118af61dc67a6909628fe9af:coordinator/sessiontest/session_test.go 2>/dev/null | sed -n '340,410p'||true
git diff --unified=30 e3bb4e3bf3305a69118af61dc67a6909628fe9af f4d5c8cf300a2cb2254fc9609126ea38c44abfbe -- coordinator/session.go coordinator/sessiontest/session_test.go | sed -n '1,260p'
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rg -n -F --glob '*.go' -e 'func Connect' -e 'func (s *client) connect' -e 'followEnd' -e 'connected' coordinator/session.go
sed -n '1,95p' coordinator/session.go
sed -n '470,760p' coordinator/session.go
Make the watch-creation race observable before calling Close.
barrier only starts Barrier in a goroutine. It does not show that Barrier reached WatchFiltered. Close can therefore win first, causing Barrier to return net.ErrClosed without creating its watch. The 50 iterations can pass without exercising the watch-creation drain path. Add synchronization or a test hook that holds watch creation at the cancellation window before Close runs.
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Review comment at @coordinator/sessiontest/session_test.go around lines 381 -
383:
Update the race test using `barrier` so it synchronizes on `Barrier` reaching
`WatchFiltered` before calling `s.Close()`. Use an existing synchronization
mechanism or a narrowly scoped test hook to hold watch creation at the
cancellation window, ensuring the test exercises the watch-creation drain path
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What type of PR is this?
What this PR does / why we need it:
Builds SNEP-324's coordinator on a NATS server with JetStream embedded in the coordinator process, replacing the custom gRPC protocol and in-memory store of #700 and #702. Agents use a small Go session client, and NATS sits behind it.
It all lives in a module of its own,
github.com/ai-dynamo/snapshot/coordinator, which no host owns: whether the coordinator runs in the agent, in a container of the agent's Pod, or elsewhere is still open, and the code does not move when that is decided. Nothing imports the module yet, so the agent and operator code is untouched: the operator image only copies the module, becausego.worklists it, and the first PR that imports it updates theirgo.modfiles. Releases tag itcoordinator/vX.Y.Zlike the other modules, andmake buildcompiles it so CodeQL analyzes it.coordinator/session: the contract. Everything the client and the coordinator share, and nothing that imports NATS: the versioned bucket names and key layout, the default limits, the user name a member connects under and the exact subjects its connection is permitted,Meta, and the errors either side reports.coordinator: the session client, at the module's root, as nats.go's is.Connectjoins one member's part in one attempt and reads itssession.Meta(members and ranks, deadline, epoch, value limits). ASessionoffersBarrier,LeaveandFail; each namespace'sStore(snapshot, cuinterpose, library) offersInsert,GetandDelete, with the semantics of the SNEP's "Session semantics". No NATS type appears in the API, and NATS errors map onto package session's errors by JetStream code. The client reconnects on its own, resends what was not answered, presents the epoch it read whenever it connects, and verifies its session, by readingmetaagain, whenever the session may be gone: after a reconnect, when a watch stops on its own, and when an operation finds its bucket missing. A missing bucket or another epoch ends the session withErrCoordinatorLost, so a member learns that the coordinator restarted, or removed its session before it received the end, rather than waiting for its deadline; a wait never returns a value read from a recreated session. Every operation honors the caller's context or is bounded by a 3 s round trip. Its keepalive gives up on a dead connection after 9 s and it connects again within 5 s (ClientConnectTimeout), together within the coordinator's 20 s grace period.session.EndedErroris the one decoder of theendedkey on both sides: a value that is no condition reason becomesInvalidReason. The last member'sLeavesucceeds even when its own departure closes the session before the reply arrives.coordinator/server: the coordinator. It importssessionand never the client. The embedded server keeps buckets in memory only, single replica, no cluster or monitoring port, logs routed to the coordinator's logger with key-value subjects redacted.Ensurecreates an attempt's two buckets andmetawith a random epoch, arms the deadline, and closes the session once every member has left;Remove,FailandShutdowncomplete the lifecycle.Removerecords the end when the memory cap allows, then deletes the buckets without waiting for members; a member that has not received the end learns from finding its session gone. The grace period follows members' connections through the system account's connect and disconnect events.DefaultGrace(20 s) and the server's keepalive live here. Every client goes through the server's custom authentication: refused untilMarkReady(once the host has ensured the session of every unfinished attempt), then theAuthorizer, then the session's membership, thensession.MemberPermissions, all withinAuthorizeTimeout(3 s). A member reconnecting with the epoch of a session the coordinator no longer holds fails the recreated session before it is admitted.coordinator/sessiontest: the client against the coordinator. A test-only package, the only one that imports both: the real client against the real coordinator through its public API, each member through a TCP proxy a test cuts to break its connection and points at a new coordinator to restart it, and the test tying the client's connection settings to the coordinator's: detection plus reconnection withinDefaultGrace, andAuthorizeTimeoutwithinClientConnectTimeout.Dependencies:
github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2v2.15.2 andgithub.com/nats-io/nats.gov1.55.0, the latest stable releases, both Apache-2.0. nats-server is in the coordinator module only, and only packageserverimports it.Which issue(s) this PR fixes:
Part of #610. Tracking issue: #324. Design: #325 (The coordination session, Session semantics, Security). Supersedes #700 and #702.
How was this tested?
sessiontest): every bullet of "Session semantics" end to end,Leaveclosing the session,Failreaching every member, a grace period running out, reconnection mid-wait through a cut proxy,CoordinatorLostafter a coordinator restart (session recreated, or gone), a session removed under waiting members and with no room left to record its end, aBarrierwhose context is cancelled or already done, the last member'sLeave, anendedvalue that is no reason, and error mapping (too large, bucket full, forbidden). goleak on every test.sessiondefines, never through the client: authentication (admitted, refused, the Authorizer's retry codes, the readiness gate, the epoch fence, a member reconnecting to no session), permissions both ways with the exact subjects pinned, a consumer's deliveries that cannot change another attempt's keys, anendedvalue that is no reason,Ensure, whatRemoveguarantees, the deadline on a fake clock that runs callbacks as the real one does, closing, the grace period (reconnect within it, expiry, afterLeave),Shutdown, a restart under a live session, the limits, TLS rotation, and logs free of keys, values, barrier names and tokens. goleak and-race; the coordinator module'smake testruns with-race.sessiontestwith-race -count=20,-count=20without-race, and-race -cpu 1, before the move to the coordinator module; after it,make -C coordinator testandlint,-race -count=5oncoordinator/serverandcoordinator/sessiontest, and the rootmake testandmake lintacross all four modules in a Linux container (the agent's 44 container failures match its base exactly, all outside this change), andmake build,make checkand the operator image build in a linux/amd64 container, again after mergingmain. The move is renames only, and git records every file as one.Special notes for your reviewer:
A member that never receives a session's end, because
Removedeleted the buckets first or the memory cap left no room to record it, learns from finding its session gone. When it is waiting, that takes about 10 s: nats.go closes a watch whose bucket was deleted after two missed 5 s heartbeats.A member can add messages to another attempt's buckets under its own subjects, through a push consumer whose deliveries its publish permissions do not bound (nats-server#8274). They count against that attempt's limits but never change its keys, which
TestDeliveriesCannotChangeAnotherAttemptsKeysguards. This is the same harm as the shared memory cap, accepted for alpha; isolating sessions (accounts, memory) is for beta.Buckets are bounded by key count and value size, which reserve no memory: the Snapshot bucket holds values of up to 32 MiB, the library bucket 4,096 keys of up to 4 KiB (values under 16 MiB, about 22 MiB with keys and headers).
Config.MaxBytes(1 GiB by default) is the one byte limit: sessions share it and none reserves any, so a session that fills it makes other sessions' writes fail withErrTooManyuntil it is removed.MaxValueis to revisit once the largest cuInterpose record is measured.Where the coordinator runs is open. Its host, with the TokenReview
Authorizer, the chart, RBAC,GOMEMLIMITand the reconciler (Implement the set checkpoint and restore controllers #613), comes later, as do agent integration (Integrate coordinated checkpoint and restore into the node agent #614), the NCCL endpoint (Serve NCCL Checkpoint's rendezvous through the agent #692) and the post-release window.Does this PR introduce an API change?
Additional documentation, e.g. enhancement proposals, usage docs:
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