Pim van Pelt
3bd30b69f4
maglevc - Rewrite '?' handler (birdc-style): show full command paths from current position to every leaf, right-aligned help column, dynamic slot values displayed as an indented block when cursor is at a slot position. - Collapse show frontends/frontend, backends/backend, healthchecks/healthcheck into single plural-noun nodes with an optional <name> slot. Allows 'sh ba' (list all) and 'sh ba nginx0' (show one) without ambiguity. - Add 'config reload' command. - Fix tabwriter ANSI alignment: continuation lines in transition output now carry the same label() byte overhead as the header line. - Fix broken Walk for 'set frontend' command: setFrontendPoolName and setWeightValue were fixed-word nodes that couldn't capture user input; mark them as slot nodes with dynNone. - Add tree_test.go covering expandPaths, cycle detection, prefix matching, and the full weight-command walk. gRPC / proto - Add ReloadConfig RPC: checks config then applies it to the running checker, returning ok/parse_error/semantic_error/reload_error. - Add logging to CheckConfig (config-check-start/config-check-done at INFO level). maglevd - SIGHUP handler now calls maglevServer.TriggerReload(), sharing the same code path as the gRPC ReloadConfig RPC. docs - Collapse show command documentation to use [<name>] optional syntax. - Remove developer-facing 'Command tree and parser' section. - Document 'config reload'.
maglevd
Health checker and gRPC control plane for VPP Maglev load balancing.
Build and Install
make # builds build/<arch>/maglevd and build/<arch>/maglevc
make test # runs all tests
make pkg-deb # Creates a debian package for arm64 and amd64
Requires Go 1.25+ and (for make proto) protoc with protoc-gen-go and
protoc-gen-go-grpc.
Produces vpp-maglev_<version>_amd64.deb and vpp-maglev_<version>_arm64.deb
in the build/ directory by cross-compiling with GOOS=linux GOARCH=<arch>.
Requires dpkg-deb (available on any Debian/Ubuntu host).
Running
After installing, the unit is enabled but not started automatically:
# edit /etc/vpp-maglev/maglev.yaml, then:
systemctl enable --now vpp-maglevd
Or run the server and client by hand:
maglevd --config /etc/vpp-maglev/maglev.yaml --grpc-addr :9090
maglevd --version # print version and exit
maglevc --server localhost:9090 # interactive shell
maglevc show frontends # one-shot
maglevc -color=false show backends # one-shot, no ANSI color
maglevc set backend nginx0-ams pause
Send SIGHUP to maglevd to reload config without restarting.
maglevd requires CAP_NET_RAW for ICMP health checks.
Check out a minimal configuration file in [debian/maglev.yaml].
See docs/user-guide.md for flags, signals, and maglevc usage.
See docs/config-guide.md for the full configuration reference.
See docs/healthchecks.md for health state machine details.
Docker
docker build -t maglevd .
docker run --cap-add NET_RAW -v /etc/vpp-maglev:/etc/vpp-maglev maglevd