sidecar_task Block

The sidecar_task block allows configuring various options for the proxy sidecar or Connect gateway managed by Nomad for the Consul Connect integration such as resource requirements, kill timeouts and more as defined below. It is valid only within the context of a connect block.

job "countdash" {
  datacenters = ["dc1"]

  group "api" {
    network {
      mode = "bridge"
    }

    service {
      name = "count-api"
      port = "9001"

      connect {
        sidecar_service {}

        sidecar_task {
          resources {
            cpu    = 500
            memory = 1024
          }
        }
      }
    }

    task "web" {
      driver = "docker"

      config {
        image = "hashicorpdev/counter-api:v3"
      }
    }
  }
}

Default Envoy configuration

Nomad automatically launches and manages an Envoy task for use as a proxy sidecar or connect gateway, when sidecar_service or gateway are configured.

The default Envoy task is equivalent to:

sidecar_task {
  name = "connect-proxy-<service>"
  #      "connect-gateway-<service>" when used as a gateway

  lifecycle { # absent when used as a gateway
    hook    = "prestart"
    sidecar = true
  }

  driver = "docker"

  config {
    image = "${meta.connect.sidecar_image}"
    #       "${meta.connect.gateway_image}" when used as a gateway

    args = [
      "-c",
      "${NOMAD_SECRETS_DIR}/envoy_bootstrap.json",
      "-l",
      "${meta.connect.log_level}",
      "--concurrency",
      "${meta.connect.proxy_concurrency}",
      "--disable-hot-restart"
    ]
  }

  logs {
    max_files     = 2
    max_file_size = 2 # MB
  }

  resources {
    cpu    = 250 # MHz
    memory = 128 # MB
  }

  shutdown_delay = "5s"
}

The meta.connect.sidecar_image, meta.connect.gateway_image, meta.connect.log_level, and meta.connect.proxy_concurrency variables are client configurable variables with the following defaults:

• sidecar_image - (string: "docker.io/envoyproxy/envoy:v${NOMAD_envoy_version}") - The official upstream Envoy Docker image, where ${NOMAD_envoy_version} is resolved automatically by a query to Consul.
• gateway_image - (string: "docker.io/envoyproxy/envoy:v${NOMAD_envoy_version}") - The official upstream Envoy Docker image, where ${NOMAD_envoy_version} is resolved automatically by a query to Consul.
• log_level - (string: "info") - Envoy sidecar log level. "debug" is useful for debugging Connect related issues.
• proxy_concurrency - (string: "1") - The number of worker threads the Envoy sidecar will run.

Custom images can make use of Consul's preferred Envoy version by making use of Nomad's version interpolation, e.g.

meta.connect.sidecar_image = custom/envoy-${NOMAD_envoy_version}:latest

sidecar_task Parameters

• name (string: "connect-[proxy|gateway]-<service>") - Name of the task. Defaults to including the name of the service the proxy or gateway is providing.

• driver (string: "docker") - Driver used for the sidecar task.

• user (string: nil) - Determines which user is used to run the task, defaults to the same user the Nomad client is being run as.

• config (map: nil) - Configuration provided to the driver for initialization. Keys and values support runtime variable interpolation.

• env (map: nil) - Map of environment variables used by the driver.

• resources (Resources) - Resources needed by the sidecar task.

• meta (map: nil) - Arbitrary metadata associated with this task that's opaque to Nomad.

• logs (Logs: nil) - Specifies logging configuration for the stdout and stderr of the task.

• kill_timeout (string: "5s") - Time between signalling a task that will be killed and killing it.

• shutdown_delay (string: "5s") - Delay between deregistering the task from Consul and sending it a signal to shutdown.

• kill_signal (string:SIGINT) - Kill signal to use for the task, defaults to SIGINT.

sidecar_task Examples

The following example configures resources for the sidecar task and other configuration.

   sidecar_task {
     resources {
       cpu = 500
       memory = 1024
     }

     env {
       FOO = "abc"
     }

     shutdown_delay = "5s"
   }