On 27 Aug 16:30, Bjoern Rabenstein wrote:
> On 24.08.20 09:35, Brian Brazil wrote:
> > On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 at 16:56, Julien Pivotto <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > 
> >     On 23 Aug 12:17, Brian Brazil wrote:
> >     > On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 at 12:08, Julien Pivotto 
> > <[email protected]>
> >     > wrote:
> >     >
> >     > > Dear developers,
> >     > >
> >     > > Prometheus has an experimental api V2 in GRPC, which does not get 
> > any
> >     > > updates. In addition, it is marked experimental, so we could drop 
> > it in
> >     > > minor releases.
> >     > >
> >     > > The code itself is quite small, there is (to my knowledge) no
> >     > > documentation and no tests.
> >     > >
> >     > > The feature surface seems to be really small, with only 
> > admin-specific
> >     > > API's implemented.
> >     > >
> >     > > At this point, I'd like to see if we could remove that code, and 
> > also
> >     > > the cmux library we use, which did not get any updated in 2 years, 
> > and
> >     > > is incompatible with recent releases of GRPC.
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > The plan of record is to remove it whenever 3.0 is released, however 
> > if
> >     > it's causing us hassle I see no issue with removing it sooner.
> > 
> >     1. CMUX
> > 
> >     That cmux library is using the helloworld package from grpc which is
> >     gone.
> >     https://github.com/soheilhy/cmux/blob/
> >     8a8ea3c53959009183d7914522833c1ed8835020/example_test.go#L32
> > 
> >     Additionally, the 2.21 fixes some misconfiguration of the cmux that
> >     makes prometheus hang on SIGTERM. I hope that the mitigation we have is
> >     complete, but the library lacks features like clean shutdown:
> >     https://github.com/soheilhy/cmux/issues/39
> > 
> >     At the end the repo seems abandoned since 2 years.
> > 
> >     2. GRPC
> > 
> >     We can not update GRPC, partly because of cmux, partly because we are
> >     friendly with downstream, cortex, which depends on etcd, which
> >     requires an old version of grpc.
> > 
> >     This is blocking an update of google.golang.org/api, which is used
> >     in our GCE discovery.
> > 
> > 
> > Those sound like good enough reasons to me.
> 
> +1

Do we want to add in the 2.21 release notes that we will remove it in
2.22?

-- 
Julien Pivotto
@roidelapluie

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