The automatic creation of a self-signed certificate while nice presents
several problems. To make connections not reject the self-signed
certificate the validation of TLS certificates are wholesale disabled,
decreasing the security even when properly set up and trusted
certificates are used.
To make the created self-signed certificate pass validation it is
necessary for it to list the host names it's valid for and to copy it to
each machine that intends to connect to the server. These two steps
complicate automating the process in a reliable way and will likely lead
to confused users seeking to disable TLS certificate validation as the
easy way out to problems.
For these reasons, remove the automating creation of a broke self-signed
certificate, fix validation of certificates and document how to set up
TLS properly. This makes HTTPS recommended when accessing over the
internet, but still something which must be explicitly configured.
When reducing the collection interval in Prometheus it may be necessary
to to reduce the metrics gathering timeout to ensure it's less than the
interval. Add config options to adjust the timeouts used for metrics
gathering so that these can be set accordingly.
Add option to set the the maximum amount of commands transmitted in
parallel to the game. Increasing this value allows a greater rate of
commands to be executed.
Use 45 seconds as the default heartbeat interval instead of 60. Using
60 causes connections to drop when proxied through Nginx as the default
timeout there is also 60 seconds.
Move the definition and implementation of the config command to
lib/shared_comhmands.js, this removes the need for lib config to depend
on the fs module, which is not accessible in web build.
Add a separate plugin-list.json file for storing which plugins are
available and the path to pass to require in order to load it. This
allows plugins to be published and installed as npm packages. And also
replaces the old method of installing plugins by putting them in the
plugins folder.
Move the code generating the master authentication secret from the
inital value function of the master.auth_secret config entry to the
master startup. Having the authentication secret generated in the
config library poses issues with using the config library in browser.
Make the config and link libraries compatible with packing for web with
webpack. This would fail due to ws not being web compatible and config
using a node function not available in the web shim for util.
Split up codebase into the packages @clsterio/lib, @clusterio/master,
@clusterio/slave, and @clusterio/ctl using lerna to manage them. This
will allow deployment to use only the parts needed reducing install
size, and better separate the code into shared library, master, slave
and control.
Hornwitser