scheduler: bound renewal concurrency via CERTCTL_RENEWAL_CONCURRENCY

Closes the #9 acquisition-readiness blocker from the 2026-05-01 issuer
coverage audit. Pre-fix, JobService.ProcessPendingJobs ran every
claimed job sequentially in a single goroutine: safe but slow, and
operators with large fleets had no lever to dial throughput up.
Switching to fire-and-forget per-job goroutines would have unbounded
the upstream-CA call rate and tripped DigiCert / Entrust / Sectigo
rate limits — certctl's response to 429 was to retry on the next
tick, re-fanning out the same calls and digging deeper into the
limit. Operators need a knob.

This commit:

- Adds CERTCTL_RENEWAL_CONCURRENCY env var (default 25) loaded via
  the existing getEnvInt pattern in internal/config/config.go.
  Documented inline as the cap for the per-tick renewal/issuance/
  deployment goroutine fan-out, with operator-tuning guidance:
  permissive upstream limits + large fleets (>10k certs) → 100;
  strict limits or async-CA-heavy fleets → 25 or lower.

- Wires golang.org/x/sync/semaphore.Weighted around the per-job
  goroutine launch in JobService.ProcessPendingJobs. Acquire(ctx, 1)
  is the load-bearing piece — it BLOCKS the loop when at the cap,
  providing real backpressure rather than fire-and-forget. The
  fan-out is split into processPendingJobsSequential (legacy,
  preserved for unit-test wiring that doesn't call
  SetRenewalConcurrency) and processPendingJobsConcurrent (production,
  delegates to a generic boundedFanOut helper).

- boundedFanOut takes the per-job work as a closure so the cap can
  be tested directly without standing up the renewal/deployment
  service graph. processed/failed counters use atomic.Int64 to
  avoid mutex overhead on every job completion; final log line
  reads both AFTER wg.Wait so the counts reflect every dispatched
  job. ctx-aware Acquire ensures a shutdown ctx cancel interrupts
  the dispatch loop promptly; in-flight goroutines drain via Wait
  before the function returns so no goroutine outlives the
  scheduler tick.

- shouldSkipJob extracted as a package-private helper so the
  agent-routed-deployment skip logic is shared between the
  sequential and concurrent paths byte-for-byte (the audit prompt's
  "channel-based semaphore without ctx-aware acquire" anti-pattern
  is explicitly avoided — semaphore.Weighted.Acquire returns on ctx
  done; channel <- struct{}{} would block forever).

- SetRenewalConcurrency setter on JobService normalises ≤0 to 1.
  semaphore.NewWeighted(0) constructs a semaphore that blocks every
  Acquire forever; the normalisation prevents a misconfigured env
  var from wedging the scheduler.

- cmd/server/main.go wires SetRenewalConcurrency(cfg.Scheduler.
  RenewalConcurrency) on the freshly-built jobService, immediately
  after SetAuditService. Production deployments always take the
  bounded path; tests that build JobService directly via
  NewJobService keep their strict-sequential behaviour because
  renewalConcurrency is the zero value.

- Tests in internal/service/job_concurrency_test.go:
  * TestBoundedFanOut_CapHolds — primary regression guard. 50 jobs
    × 50ms work × cap=5 → asserts peak in-flight never exceeds 5
    AND reaches 5 at least once (catches both upper-bound regressions
    and gates that incorrectly cap below the configured value).
    Lock-free max via CompareAndSwap so the measurement instrument
    doesn't itself constrain concurrency.
  * TestBoundedFanOut_AllJobsRun — lower-bound: every non-skipped
    job is dispatched.
  * TestBoundedFanOut_SkipsAgentRoutedDeployments — pins the
    shouldSkipJob contract.
  * TestBoundedFanOut_CtxCancelInterrupts — ctx cancellation
    interrupts a stuck fan-out within the timeout budget.
  * TestBoundedFanOut_FailedJobsCounted — per-job errors don't
    abort the fan-out.
  * TestSetRenewalConcurrency_NormalizesNonPositive — ≤0 → 1 fail-safe
    pinned across negative/zero/positive inputs.

- docs/features.md: scheduler-loop table augmented with the
  concurrency-cap env-var pointer alongside the job-processor row.

- docs/architecture.md: Concurrency Safety section gains a paragraph
  explaining the cap, the operator-tuning guidance, the ctx-aware
  Acquire semantics, and the audit reference.

Operator-facing impact: the first big renewal sweep no longer
takes down the upstream CA's rate-limit budget. Existing deployments
get the bounded path automatically (default 25); operators can
override via env var without code changes.

Verified locally:
- gofmt -l . clean
- go vet ./... clean
- staticcheck ./... clean
- go test -short -count=1 across service / scheduler / config /
  integration: green
- Six new tests under TestBoundedFanOut* + TestSetRenewalConcurrency*:
  green

Audit reference: cowork/issuer-coverage-audit-2026-05-01/RESULTS.md
Top-10 fix #9.
This commit is contained in:
shankar0123
2026-05-02 14:12:30 +00:00
parent 3a665ae6ba
commit 35e18bfc56
8 changed files with 427 additions and 9 deletions

View File

@@ -1044,6 +1044,8 @@ For deployments that need JWT/OIDC/mTLS, the standard pattern is to put an authe
The background scheduler uses `sync/atomic.Bool` idempotency guards on every loop (8 always-on plus up to 4 optional) — if a tick fires while the previous iteration is still running, it skips. A `sync.WaitGroup` tracks all in-flight goroutines. `WaitForCompletion(timeout)` blocks during shutdown until all work finishes or the timeout expires, preventing state corruption from mid-flight database operations during process exit.
The job-processor tick fans the per-job work out across up to `CERTCTL_RENEWAL_CONCURRENCY` goroutines (default 25), gated by `golang.org/x/sync/semaphore.Weighted`. The cap is the operator's lever for "how many concurrent CA calls per scheduler tick" — operators with permissive upstream limits and large fleets (>10k certs) can bump to 100; operators with strict limits or async-CA-heavy fleets should stay at 25 or lower. Values ≤ 0 normalise to 1 (sequential). The Acquire is ctx-aware so a shutdown-driven ctx cancel interrupts the dispatch loop promptly; in-flight goroutines drain via Wait before the tick returns. Closes the #9 acquisition-readiness blocker from the 2026-05-01 issuer coverage audit (pre-fix the fan-out had no cap, so a 5,000-cert sweep tripped DigiCert / Entrust / Sectigo rate limits and the next tick re-fanned-out the same calls).
### Logging
All logging throughout the service layer uses Go's `log/slog` package for structured, queryable logs. This replaces ad-hoc `fmt.Printf` statements with consistent key-value logging that includes request context, operation names, and error details. Agents also implement exponential backoff on network failures to gracefully handle temporary connectivity issues with the control plane.

View File

@@ -1205,7 +1205,7 @@ Single SQL `UNION` query replaces the previous "fetch all, filter in Go" approac
| Loop | Default Interval | Always-on | Env Var | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Renewal check | 1 hour | Yes | `CERTCTL_SCHEDULER_RENEWAL_CHECK_INTERVAL` | Check expiring certs, query ARI, create renewal jobs |
| Job processor | 30 seconds | Yes | `CERTCTL_SCHEDULER_JOB_PROCESSOR_INTERVAL` | Process pending jobs |
| Job processor | 30 seconds | Yes | `CERTCTL_SCHEDULER_JOB_PROCESSOR_INTERVAL` | Process pending jobs (concurrency cap via `CERTCTL_RENEWAL_CONCURRENCY`, default 25) |
| Job retry | 5 minutes | Yes | `CERTCTL_SCHEDULER_RETRY_INTERVAL` | Retry Failed jobs (I-001) |
| Job timeout reaper | 10 minutes | Yes | `CERTCTL_JOB_TIMEOUT_INTERVAL` (per-state thresholds: `CERTCTL_JOB_AWAITING_APPROVAL_TIMEOUT`, `CERTCTL_JOB_AWAITING_CSR_TIMEOUT`) | Fail AwaitingCSR/AwaitingApproval jobs past timeout (I-003) |
| Agent health check | 2 minutes | Yes | `CERTCTL_SCHEDULER_AGENT_HEALTH_CHECK_INTERVAL` | Check agent heartbeat staleness |