Pim van Pelt 74448cf6d0 Guard pause/resume against disabled backends; clean up CLI errors
- PauseBackend and ResumeBackend return an error (not bool) when the
  backend is disabled, preventing an inconsistent state where the
  health state says "paused" but enabled=false.
- DisableBackend and EnableBackend now log uniform backend-transition
  lines with from/to instead of separate backend-disable/backend-enable
  messages.
- CLI errors strip gRPC boilerplate ("rpc error: code = ... desc = ")
  and display the server message in red (when color is enabled). Both
  the interactive shell and one-shot mode use the same formatError path.
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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
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A health-checking maglev controlplane for VPP
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