fix(health): a draining gateway stays live - #1049
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`/livez` answered `503` once graceful shutdown began, and the shipped Helm chart wires `/livez` as the container's livenessProbe. Liveness decides whether to RESTART an instance, and a draining one is finishing the requests it already accepted — restarting it kills exactly those. Withdrawing traffic is `/readyz`'s job, and it already does it. This was the half of AISIX-Cloud#591 that never landed. That issue's option 1 was "add /readyz for traffic eligibility, keep /livez focused on process liveness"; #655 added `/readyz` and softened `/livez` from 500 to 503, but left the shutdown check on it. The comment left behind on that branch — "503 so Kubernetes stops routing" — is readiness reasoning on a liveness endpoint, and Kubernetes does not route on liveness. Kubernetes stops probing liveness once a pod enters graceful termination, so a rolling update never acted on the answer. Verified on kind (1.33.1) against the real 0.10.0 image with `periodSeconds: 1` / `failureThreshold: 1`: `/livez` returned 503 throughout, and the restart count stayed 0 for the whole drain. That makes this a latent defect rather than a live one — but the gateway also ships as a single container under docker or systemd, where a supervisor watching `/livez` does act on it, and any monitor treating `/livez` as "is the process healthy" saw a false alarm on every rolling update. `livez_response` no longer takes `LivezState`, and neither route handler takes its state extractor. Not receiving the drain state is a stronger guarantee that the answer cannot depend on it than a comment saying so. The admin OpenAPI drops `/livez`'s 503 response: liveness now has no failure to document, since an instance that cannot answer does not reply at all. Documentation is corrected in the paired api7/docs#2191 and api7/docs.apiseven.com#500.
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participant Operator
participant aisix-proxy
participant aisix-admin
participant HealthEndpoints
Operator->>aisix-proxy: Send SIGTERM
aisix-proxy->>HealthEndpoints: Enter graceful draining
Operator->>aisix-proxy: Request /readyz
HealthEndpoints-->>Operator: 503 Service Unavailable
Operator->>aisix-proxy: Request /livez
HealthEndpoints-->>Operator: 200 OK
Operator->>aisix-admin: Request /livez
aisix-admin->>HealthEndpoints: Call livez_response(verbose)
HealthEndpoints-->>Operator: 200 OK
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tests/e2e/src/cases/health-minimal-e2e.test.ts (1)
14-20: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winUpdate the stale "default is 30" comment to match this test's actual 5-second override.
The comment at line 124 states the default
shutdown.min_drain_secsis30, and uses that to argue the poll window is wide. This test overridesmin_drain_secsto5at line 20, not30. With the override, the poll deadline (5000 ms) is the same order of magnitude as the drain window (5 s), not clearly "wide." Update the comment to reference the actual configured value, or explain why the margin still holds under the5s override.✏️ Proposed comment fix
- // Gate on readiness having withdrawn rather than on a sleep: it - // proves the drain has actually begun AND that the process is still - // serving, which is the window the liveness assertion below is - // about. The default `shutdown.min_drain_secs` is 30, so the window - // is wide. + // Gate on readiness having withdrawn rather than on a sleep: it + // proves the drain has actually begun AND that the process is still + // serving, which is the window the liveness assertion below is + // about. This test overrides `shutdown.min_drain_secs` to 5 (see + // above), and readiness withdrawal happens almost immediately after + // SIGTERM, so the 5s poll deadline below leaves ample margin before + // the process actually exits.Also applies to: 121-125
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In `@tests/e2e/src/cases/health-minimal-e2e.test.ts`:
- Around line 14-20: Update the stale drain-window comment near the health
polling test to reflect the configured shutdown.min_drain_secs override of 5
seconds rather than the default value of 30, and adjust its explanation so it
does not claim the 5000 ms poll deadline is clearly wider than the drain window.
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… sets Review follow-up. The comment cited the gateway's 30s default, but this spec configures 5 — and the poll deadline outlasted that window, so a genuinely stuck drain would have been reported as a timeout on the wrong side of it.
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Fixed — the comment cited the gateway's 30s default while this spec configures 5 in Worth more than the comment, though: the poll deadline was 5000ms, i.e. exactly the window it was waiting inside. A drain that never started would have been reported as a timeout at the moment the window closed, which is an ambiguous failure. Dropped it to 3000ms so the poll gives up strictly inside the window and the assertion says what actually went wrong. |
/livezanswered503once graceful shutdown began, and the shipped Helm chart wires/livezas the container'slivenessProbe(charts/aisix/templates/deployment.yaml). Liveness decides whether to restart an instance, and a draining one is finishing the requests it already accepted — restarting it kills exactly those. Withdrawing traffic is/readyz's job, and it already does it.This is the half of #591 that never landed
That issue spelled out the distinction and offered two options:
#655 did the mechanics of option 1 (added
/readyz) and option 2 (softened/livezfrom 500 to 503), but never removed the shutdown check from/livez. The comment it left behind reads:"so Kubernetes stops routing" is readiness reasoning on a liveness endpoint. Kubernetes does not route on liveness.
Severity: latent, not live
Kubernetes stops probing liveness once a pod enters graceful termination, so a rolling update never acted on the answer. Verified rather than assumed — on kind (k8s 1.33.1), against the real
api7/aisix:0.10.0image, with alivenessProbeon/livezatperiodSeconds: 1/failureThreshold: 1(30x more aggressive than the chart default) and a 60s drain:/livezreturned 503 throughout,restartCountstayed0, and noUnhealthyevent followedKilling.Where it does bite:
/livezrestarts a healthy draining process mid-flight./livezas "is the process healthy" raised a false alarm on every rolling update.What changed
livez_responseno longer consults the drain state, and no longer takesLivezStateat all. Neither route handler takes its state extractor either. Not receiving the state is a stronger guarantee that the answer cannot depend on it than a comment saying so./livez's503response and rewrites its description. Liveness now has no failure to document: a draining instance answers200like any other, and an instance that cannot answer does not reply at all./readyzis untouched. The drain has to be visible somewhere, and readiness is where.The chart needs no change —
/livezfor liveness and/readyzfor readiness was always the right wiring; the endpoint's behaviour was what did not match.Behaviour change
GET /livezon both the proxy and admin listeners now returns200during a graceful drain instead of503. Anyone using/livezto detect draining should use/readyz, which has reported it since #655. Worth a release-note line.Tests
health-minimal-e2egains the real contract against the real binary: after SIGTERM, poll until/readyzreports 503 — which proves the drain has begun and the process is still serving — then assert/livezis200on both listeners. It fails against the old behaviour withexpected 503 to be 200.min_drain_secs: 5. The harness default is0, so the process exited within milliseconds of SIGTERM — which is why the test it replaces passed: it counted a connection error as "unhealthy", so it never actually observed a 503.livez_stays_ok_while_drainingpins both halves in one place:/livez200,/readyz503, same drained state.200, and the OpenAPI test now asserts/livezdocuments no 503 while/readyzdoes.Documentation is corrected in the paired api7/docs#2191 and api7/docs.apiseven.com#500, which also fix a line left stale by #1048 (HTTP/2 receives its GOAWAY when the drain starts, not when the listener closes).
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okresponse during graceful shutdown.