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@bufferapp/ekg

v0.1.2

Published

Health and liveness checks

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EKG

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EKG is a library for implementing Kubernetes liveness and readiness probe handlers in a sidecar or in your application.

NOTE: This project was heavily influenced from Heptio Healthcheck. However EKG takes it a step further by providing a configurable sidecar. This means that for the most common healthcheck scenarios you don't need to instrument you application with code -- you can write the healthcheck configurations in YAML.

Quickstart - Kubernetes

The fastest way to get up an running with EKG is to add a it as a sidecar in the Kubernetes deployment file.

apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: my-application
spec:
  replicas: 1
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: my-application
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: my-application
        image: my-org/my-application
        ports:
        - containerPort: 3000
      # add the sidecar
      - name: healthcheck
        image: bufferapp/ekg:0.1.1
        env:
        - name: EKG_CONFIG
          value: >
            {
              "port": 8086,
              "livenessChecks": [
                {
                  "name": "httpget-check-service",
                  "type": "httpGetCheck",
                  "url": "http://localhost:3000"
                }
              ],
              "readinessChecks": [
                {
                  "name": "dns-check-upstream",
                  "type": "dnsResolveCheck",
                  "host": "upstream.example.com"
                },
                {
                  "name": "mongodb-check-buffer",
                  "type": "mongoDBCheck",
                  "host": "mongo",
                  "port": 27017
                }
              ]
            }
         # define a liveness probe that checks every 5 seconds, starting after 5 seconds
        livenessProbe:
          httpGet:
            path: /live
            port: 8086
          initialDelaySeconds: 5
          periodSeconds: 5
        # define a readiness probe that checks every 5 seconds
        readinessProbe:
          httpGet:
            path: /ready
            port: 8086
          periodSeconds: 5

Sidecar Config API

EKG sidecar is passed it's configuration as JSON through the EKG_CONFIG environment variable. It has the following configuration options:

{
  "port": 8086,
  "livenessChecks": [
    {
      "name": "httpget-check-service",
      "type": "httpGetCheck",
      "url": "http://localhost:3000",
      "timeout": 5000
    },
    {
      "name": "dns-check-upstream",
      "type": "dnsResolveCheck",
      "host": "upstream.example.com",
      "timeout": 5000
    },
    {
      "name": "tcp-check-buffer",
      "type": "tcpDialCheck",
      "host": "buffer.com",
      "port": 80,
      "timeout": 5000
    },
    {
      "name": "mongodb-check-buffer",
      "type": "mongoDBCheck",
      "host": "mongo",
      "port": 27017,
      "timeout": 5000
    }
  ],
  "readinessChecks": [
    {
      "name": "httpget-check-service",
      "type": "httpGetCheck",
      "url": "http://localhost:3000",
      "timeout": 5000
    },
    {
      "name": "dns-check-upstream",
      "type": "dnsResolveCheck",
      "host": "upstream.example.com",
      "timeout": 5000
    },
    {
      "name": "tcp-check-buffer",
      "type": "tcpDialCheck",
      "host": "buffer.com",
      "port": 80,
      "timeout": 5000
    },
    {
      "name": "mongodb-check-buffer",
      "type": "mongoDBCheck",
      "host": "mongo",
      "port": 27017,
      "timeout": 5000
    }
  ]
}

port

An integer specifying the port to serve the liveness and readiness probes.

livenessChecks

A list of checks to perform when the /live endpoint is requested.

readinessChecks

A list of checks to perform when the /ready endpoint is requested.

There are several types of checks that can be configured:

Check Types

There are several different types of checks that can be configured. Each check is performed serially and in order. Both livenessChecks and readinessChecks can handle all configurable checks:

httpGetCheck

perform an HTTP get request against a url

{
  "name": "httpget-check-service", //
  "type": "httpGetCheck",
  "url": "http://localhost:3000",
  "timeout": 5000
}

dnsResolveCheck

Do a DNS lookup on a host

{
  "name": "dns-check-upstream",
  "type": "dnsResolveCheck",
  "host": "upstream.example.com",
  "timeout": 5000
}

tcpDialCheck

Attempt to establish a TCP socket connection

{
  "name": "tcp-check-buffer",
  "type": "tcpDialCheck",
  "host": "buffer.com",
  "port": 80,
  "timeout": 5000
}

mongoDBCheck

Ping a mongodb database

{
  "name": "mongodb-check-buffer",
  "type": "mongoDBCheck",
  "host": "mongo",
  "port": 27017,
  "timeout": 5000
}

Secrets

You might want configure a healthcheck on a public repository with a URL that could be considered sensitive. EKG can plug environment variables into the EKG_CONFIG environment for this type of information:

apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: my-application
spec:
  replicas: 1
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: my-application
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: my-application
        image: my-org/my-application
        ports:
        - containerPort: 3000
      # add the sidecar
      - name: healthcheck
        image: bufferapp/ekg:0.1.1
        env:
        # my super secret MongoDB host
        - name: MONGO_HOST
          valueFrom:
            secretKeyRef:
              key: mongo-host
              name: my-application-secrets
        # my super secret MongoDB port
        - name: MONGO_PORT
          valueFrom:
            secretKeyRef:
              key: mongo-port
              name: my-application-secrets
        - name: EKG_CONFIG
          value: >
            {
              "port": 8086,
              "livenessChecks": [
                {
                  "name": "httpget-check-service",
                  "type": "httpGetCheck",
                  "url": "http://localhost:3000"
                }
              ],
              "readinessChecks": [
                {
                  "name": "dns-check-upstream",
                  "type": "dnsResolveCheck",
                  "host": "upstream.example.com"
                },
                {
                  "name": "mongodb-check-buffer",
                  "type": "mongoDBCheck",
                  # Plug in mongo secrets
                  "host": "${MONGO_HOST}",
                  "port": ${MONGO_PORT}
                }
              ]
            }
         # define a liveness probe that checks every 5 seconds, starting after 5 seconds
        livenessProbe:
          httpGet:
            path: /live
            port: 8086
          initialDelaySeconds: 5
          periodSeconds: 5
        # define a readiness probe that checks every 5 seconds
        readinessProbe:
          httpGet:
            path: /ready
            port: 8086
          periodSeconds: 5

Quickstart - Manual

If you don't want to use a sidecar or have some custom liveness checks you'd like to perform, this is the better option. The easiest way to get going is to add some checks and listen on a port the main application is not using.

EKG is an NPM package for Node applications. Add it as a dependency to your package.json:

npm i -S @bufferapp/ekg

Instrument EKG into your app.

const micro = require('micro')
const EKG = require('@bufferapp/ekg')

const mainServer = micro(() => 'OK')
mainServer.listen(3000, () => console.log('main - listening on port 3000'))

const ekg = new EKG()
// Liveness
ekg.addLivenessCheck({
  name: 'passing-live-check',
  check: async () => 'OK',
})

// Readiness
ekg.addReadinessCheck({
  name: 'passing-ready-check',
  check: async () => 'OK',
})

const ekgServer = micro(ekg.handler)
ekgServer.listen(3002, () => console.log('listening on port 3002'))
// go to http://localhost:3002/live or http://localhost:3002/ready

API

const EKG = require('@bufferapp/ekg')
// or with all the checks
const {
  default: EKG,
  httpGetCheck,
  dnsResolveCheck,
  tcpDialCheck,
  mongoDBCheck,
  timeoutCheck,
} = require('@bufferapp/ekg')
// or ES6
import EKG, {
  httpGetCheck,
  dnsResolveCheck,
  tcpDialCheck,
  mongoDBCheck,
  timeoutCheck,
} from '@bufferapp/ekg'

EKG

Construct an EKG instance

const ekg = new EKG()

The ekg instance exposes a few methods:

addLivenessCheck

Add a check to perform when the /live endpoint is called

// with a custom check
ekg.addLivenessCheck({
  name: 'my-new-check',
  check: async () => 'OK',
})
// or with a pre-configured check
ekg.addLivenessCheck({
  name: 'my-new-check',
  check: httpGetCheck({
    url: 'http://localhost:3000',
    timeout: 5000,
  }),
})

addReadinessCheck

Add a check to perform when the /ready endpoint is called

// with a custom check
ekg.addLivenessCheck({
  name: 'my-new-check',
  check: async () => 'OK',
})
// or with a pre-configured check
ekg.addLivenessCheck({
  name: 'my-new-check',
  check: httpGetCheck({
    url: 'http://localhost:3000',
    timeout: 5000,
  }),
})

handler

A function that handles requests and performs readiness and liveness checks

// with micro
micro(ekg.handler)
// or express
app.get('*', async (req, res, next) => {
  try {
    await ekg.handler(req, res)
  } catch (err) {
    next(err)
  }
})

httpGetCheck

Returns a function that does an HTTP get request on a URL

const doCheck = httpGetCheck({
  url: 'http://localhost:3000',
  timeout: 5000,
})

doCheck()

dnsResolveCheck

Returns a function does a DNS lookup on a host

const doCheck = dnsResolveCheck({
  host: 'buffer.com',
  timeout: 5000,
})

doCheck()

tcpDialCheck

Returns a function that creates and connects to a TCP socket

const doCheck = tcpDialCheck({
  host: 'buffer.com',
  port: 80,
  timeout: 5000,
})

doCheck()

mongoDBCheck

Returns a function that pings a mongodb database

const doCheck = mongoDBCheck({
  host: 'mongo',
  port: 27017,
  timeout: 5000,
})

doCheck()

timeoutCheck

Returns a function that runs a function and throws an exception if the function times out

const doCheck = timeoutCheck({
  check: () =>
    new Promise(resolve => {
      // should always fail due to timeout
      setTimeout(resolve, 6000)
    }),
  timeout: 5000,
})

doCheck()