change worker_consistency to eventual

[hbagdi]

Summary

eventual seems to be the right and sane default and we should switch to it as soon as possible. We keep running into it with customers with larger deployments.

[hbagdi]

xref Kong/charts#228

[bungle]

@hbagdi, I agree, I want to propose deprecation of that setting and get rid of it with 3.0 (which would make it the default and the only option).

[hbagdi]

I want to propose deprecation of that setting and get rid of it with 3.0 (which would make it the default and the only option).

+1 to that if that path is available

[scrudge]

We're trying to set this in our KIC deployment using environmental variables on the container. We've tried KONG_WORKER_CONSISTENCY and KONG_NGINX_WORKER_CONSISTENCY but neither seems to work.

[hbagdi]

Please make sure you are setting it on the kong container of the pod and not the controller container.

[scrudge]

I asked the same question. We will validate, but I believe that we are putting them on the correct container.

To validate that the settings are in effect, we are logging into the proxy container and looking for worker_consistency in the /usr/local/kong/nginx-kong.conf. Is that the correct way to validate?

[hbagdi]

Umm, no.
You won't see any difference in that file.
Set KONG_WORKER_CONSISTENCY=eventual as an environment variable and you should be good.

https://docs.konghq.com/gateway-oss/2.4.x/configuration/#worker_consistency

[scrudge]

Ok, thanks.
Is there anyway way we can validate the the setting is changed?

[hbagdi]

/usr/local/kong/.kong_env should have that property set.