agent

Optimizely Agent

Optimizely Agent is a service which exposes the functionality of the Full Stack and Rollouts SDKs as a highly available and distributed web application.

Optimizely Full Stack is A/B testing and feature flag management for product development teams. Experiment in any application. Make every feature on your roadmap an opportunity to learn. Learn more at https://www.optimizely.com/platform/full-stack/, or see the documentation.

Optimizely Rollouts is free feature flags for development teams. Easily roll out and roll back features in any application without code deploys. Mitigate risk for every feature on your roadmap. Learn more at https://www.optimizely.com/rollouts/, or see the documentation.

Getting Started

To get started with Optimizely Agent, follow the getting started guide and view example usage in our examples folder.

Prerequisites

Optimizely Agent is implemented in Golang. Golang version 1.13+ is required for developing and compiling from source. Installers and binary archives for most platforms can be downloaded directly from the Go downloads page.

Running from source (Linux / OSX)

Once Go is installed, the Optimizely Agent can be started via the following make command:

make setup
make run

This will start the Optimizely Agent with the default configuration in the foreground.

Running from source (Windows)

A helper script is available under scripts/build.ps1 to automate compiling Agent in a Windows environment. The script will download and install both Git and Golang and then attempt to compile Agent. Open a Powershell terminal and run

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope CurrentUser

.\scripts\build.ps1

.\bin\optimizely.exe

Running via Docker

If you have Docker installed, Optimizely Agent can be started as a container. First pull the Docker image with:

docker pull optimizely/agent

By default this will pull the "latest" tag. You can also specify a specific version of Agent by providing the version as a tag to the docker command:

docker pull optimizely/agent:X.Y.Z

Then run the docker container with:

docker run -p 8080:8080 optimizely/agent

This will start Agent in the foreground and expose the container API port 8080 to the host.

Note that when a new version is released, 2 images are pushed to dockerhub, they are distinguished by their tags:

• :latest (same as :X.Y.Z)
• :alpine (same as :X.Y.Z-alpine)

The difference between latest and alpine is that latest is built FROM scratch while alpine is FROM alpine.

• latest Dockerfile
• alpine Dockerfile

Configuration Options

Optimizely Agent configuration can be overridden by a yaml configuration file provided at runtime.

By default the configuration file will be sourced from the current active directory e.g. ./config.yaml. Alternative configuration locations can be specified at runtime via environment variable or command line flag.

OPTIMIZELY_CONFIG_FILENAME=config.yaml make run

The default configuration can be found here.

Below is a comprehensive list of available configuration properties.

Property Name	Env Variable	Description
admin.auth.clients	N/A	Credentials for requesting access tokens. See: Authorization Guide
admin.auth.jwksURL	OPTIMIZELY_ADMIN_AUTH_JWKSURL	JWKS URL for validating access tokens. See: Authorization Guide
admin.auth.jwksUpdateInterval	OPTIMIZELY_ADMIN_AUTH_JWKSUPDATEINTERVAL	JWKS Update Interval for caching the keys in the background. See: Authorization Guide
admin.auth.hmacSecrets	OPTIMIZELY_ADMIN_AUTH_HMACSECRETS	Signing secret for issued access tokens. See: Authorization Guide
admin.auth.ttl	OPTIMIZELY_ADMIN_AUTH_TTL	Time-to-live of issued access tokens. See: Authorization Guide
admin.port	OPTIMIZELY_ADMIN_PORT	Admin listener port. Default: 8088
api.auth.clients	N/A	Credentials for requesting access tokens. See: Authorization Guide
api.auth.hmacSecrets	OPTIMIZELY_API_AUTH_HMACSECRETS	Signing secret for issued access tokens. See: Authorization Guide
api.auth.jwksURL	OPTIMIZELY_API_AUTH_JWKSURL	JWKS URL for validating access tokens. See: Authorization Guide
api.auth.jwksUpdateInterval	OPTIMIZELY_API_AUTH_JWKSUPDATEINTERVAL	JWKS Update Interval for caching the keys in the background. See: Authorization Guide
api.auth.ttl	OPTIMIZELY_API_AUTH_TTL	Time-to-live of issued access tokens. See: Authorization Guide
api.enableNotifications	OPTIMIZELY_API_ENABLENOTIFICATIONS	Enable streaming notification endpoint. Default: false
api.enableOverrides	OPTIMIZELY_API_ENABLEOVERRIDES	Enable bucketing overrides endpoint. Default: false
api.maxConns	OPTIMIZLEY_API_MAXCONNS	Maximum number of concurrent requests
api.port	OPTIMIZELY_API_PORT	Api listener port. Default: 8080
author	OPTIMIZELY_AUTHOR	Agent author. Default: Optimizely Inc.
certfile	OPTIMIZELY_CERTFILE	Path to a certificate file, used to run Agent with HTTPS
client.batchSize	OPTIMIZELY_CLIENT_BATCHSIZE	The number of events in a batch. Default: 10
client.flushInterval	OPTIMIZELY_CLIENT_FLUSHINTERVAL	The maximum time between events being dispatched. Default: 30s
client.pollingInterval	OPTIMIZELY_CLIENT_POLLINGINTERVAL	The time between successive polls for updated project configuration. Default: 1m
client.queueSize	OPTIMIZELY_CLIENT_QUEUESIZE	The max number of events pending dispatch. Default: 1000
client.datafileURLTemplate	OPTIMIZELY_CLIENT_DATAFILEURLTEMPLATE	Template URL for SDK datafile location. Default: https://cdn.optimizely.com/datafiles/%s.json
client.eventURL	OPTIMIZELY_CLIENT_EVENTURL	URL for dispatching events. Default: https://logx.optimizely.com/v1/events
config.filename	OPTIMIZELY_CONFIG_FILENAME	Location of the configuration YAML file. Default: ./config.yaml
keyfile	OPTIMIZELY_KEYFILE	Path to a key file, used to run Agent with HTTPS
log.level	OPTIMIZELY_LOG_LEVEL	The log level for the agent. Default: info
log.pretty	OPTIMIZELY_LOG_PRETTY	Flag used to set colorized console output as opposed to structured json logs. Default: false
name	OPTIMIZELY_NAME	Agent name. Default: optimizely
version	OPTIMIZELY_VERSION	Agent version. Default: git describe --tags
sdkKeys	OPTIMIZELY_SDKKEYS	List of SDK keys used to initialize on startup
server.disabledCiphers	OPTIMIZELY_SERVER_DISABLEDCIPHERS	List of TLS ciphers to disable when accepting HTTPS connections
server.readTimeout	OPTIMIZELY_SERVER_READTIMEOUT	The maximum duration for reading the entire body. Default: “5s”
server.writeTimeout	OPTIMIZELY_SERVER_WRITETIMEOUT	The maximum duration before timing out writes of the response. Default: “10s”
server.healthCheckPath	OPTIMIZELY_SERVER_HEALTHCHECKPATH	Path for the health status api. Default: /health
webhook.port	OPTIMIZELY_WEBHOOK_PORT	Webhook listener port: Default: 8085
webhook.projects.<projectId>.sdkKeys	N/A	Comma delimited list of SDK Keys applicable to the respective projectId
webhook.projects.<projectId>.secret	N/A	Webhook secret used to validate webhook requests originating from the respective projectId
webhook.projects.<projectId>.skipSignatureCheck	N/A	Boolean to indicate whether the signature should be validated. TODO remove in favor of empty secret.

More information about configuring Agent can be found in the Advanced Configuration Notes.

API

The core API is implemented as a REST service configured on it's own HTTP listener port (default 8080). The full API specification is defined in an OpenAPI 3.0 (aka Swagger) spec.

Each request made into the API must include a X-Optimizely-SDK-Key in the request header to identify the context the request should be evaluated. The SDK key maps to a unique Optimizely Project and Environment allowing multiple Environments to be serviced by a single Agent.

Webhooks

The webhook listener used to receive inbound Webhook requests from optimizely.com. These webhooks enable PUSH style notifications triggering immediate project configuration updates. The webhook listener is configured on its own port (default: 8085) since it can be configured to select traffic from the internet.

To accept webhook requests Agent must be configured by mapping an Optimizely Project Id to a set of SDK keys along with the associated secret used for validating the inbound request. An example webhook configuration can be found in the the provided config.yaml.

Admin API

The Admin API provides system information about the running process. This can be used to check the availability of the service, runtime information and operational metrics. By default the admin listener is configured on port 8088.

Info

The /info endpoint provides basic information about the Optimizely Agent instance.

Example Request:

curl localhost:8088/info

Example Response:

{
    "version": "v0.10.0",
    "author": "Optimizely Inc.",
    "app_name": "optimizely"
}

Health Check

The /health endpoint is used to determine service availability.

Example Request:

curl localhost:8088/health

Example Response:

{
    "status": "ok"
}

Agent will return a HTTP 200 - OK response if and only if all configured listeners are open and all external dependent services can be reached. A non-healthy service will return a HTTP 503 - Unavailable response with a descriptive message to help diagnose the issue.

This endpoint can used when placing Agent behind a load balancer to indicate whether a particular instance can receive inbound requests.

Metrics

The /metrics endpoint exposes telemetry data of the running Optimizely Agent. The core runtime metrics are exposed via the go expvar package. Documentation for the various statistics can be found as part of the mstats package.

Example Request:

curl localhost:8088/metrics

Example Response:

{
    "cmdline": [
        "bin/optimizely"
    ],
    "memstats": {
        "Alloc": 924136,
        "TotalAlloc": 924136,
        "Sys": 71893240,
        "Lookups": 0,
        "Mallocs": 4726,
        "HeapAlloc": 924136,
        ...
        "Frees": 172
    },
    ...
}

Custom metrics are also provided for the individual service endpoints and follow the pattern of:

"timers.<metric-name>.counts": 0,
"timers.<metric-name>.responseTime": 0,
"timers.<metric-name>.responseTimeHist.p50": 0,
"timers.<metric-name>.responseTimeHist.p90": 0,
"timers.<metric-name>.responseTimeHist.p95": 0,
"timers.<metric-name>.responseTimeHist.p99": 0,

Profiling

Agent exposes the runtime profiling data in the format expected by the pprof visualization tool.

You can use the pprof tool to look at the heap profile:

go tool pprof http://localhost:6060/debug/pprof/heap

Or to look at a 5-second CPU profile: (higher durations require configuring the server.writeTimeout)

go tool pprof http://localhost:6060/debug/pprof/profile?seconds=5

Or to look at the goroutine blocking profile, after setting runtime.blockProfileRate in the configuration:

go tool pprof http://localhost:8088/debug/pprof/block

Or to collect a 5-second execution trace:

wget "http://localhost:8088/debug/pprof/trace?seconds=5"

Or to look at the holders of contended mutexes, after setting runtime.mutexProfileFraction in your configuration:

go tool pprof http://localhost:6060/debug/pprof/mutex

To view all available profiles can be found at http://localhost:8088/debug/pprof/ in your browser.

Authorization

Optimizely Agent supports authorization workflows based on OAuth and JWT standards, allowing you to protect access to its API and Admin interfaces. For details, see the Authorization Guide.

Notifications

Just as you can use Notification Listeners to subscribe to events of interest with Optimizely SDKs, you can use the Notifications endpoint to subscribe to events in Agent. For more information, see the Notifications Guide.

Package Structure

Following best practice for go project layout as defined here

• api - OpenAPI/Swagger specs, JSON schema files, protocol definition files.
• bin - Compiled application binaries.
• cmd - Main applications for this project.
• config - Application configuration.
• docs - User documentation files.
• pkg - Library code that can be used by other applications.
• scripts - Scripts to perform various build, install, analysis, etc operations.

Make targets

The following make targets can be used to build and run the application:

• build - builds optimizely and installs binary in bin/optimizely
• clean - runs go clean and removes the bin/ dir
• cover - runs test suite with coverage profiling
• cover-html - generates test coverage html report
• install - installs all dev and ci dependencies, but does not install golang
• lint - runs golangci-lint linters defined in .golangci.yml file
• run - builds and executes the optimizely binary
• test - recursively tests all .go files

Credits

This software is used with additional code that is separately downloaded by you. These components are subject to their own license terms which you should review carefully.

Gohistogram (c) 2013 VividCortex License (MIT): github.com/VividCortex/gohistogram

Chi (c) 2015-present Peter Kieltyka (https://github.com/pkieltyka), Google Inc. License (MIT): github.com/go-chi/chi

chi-render (c) 2016-Present https://github.com/go-chi ‑ authors License (MIT): github.com/go-chi/render

go-kit (c) 2015 Peter Bourgon License (MIT): github.com/go-kit/kit

guuid (c) 2009,2014 Google Inc. All rights reserved. License (BSD 3-Clause): github.com/google/uuid

optimizely go sdk (c) 2016-2017, Optimizely, Inc. and contributors License (Apache 2): github.com/optimizely/go-sdk

concurrent-map (c) 2014 streamrail License (MIT): github.com/orcaman/concurrent-map

zerolog (c) 2017 Olivier Poitrey License (MIT): github.com/rs/zerolog

viper (c) 2014 Steve Francia License (MIT): github.com/spf13/viper

testify (c) 2012-2018 Mat Ryer and Tyler Bunnell License (MIT): github.com/stretchr/testify

net (c) 2009 The Go Authors License (BSD 3-Clause): https://github.com/golang/net

sync (c) 2009 The Go Authors License (BSD 3-Clause): https://github.com/golang/sync

statik (c) 2014 rakyll License (Apache 2): github.com/rakyll/statik v0.1.7

sys (c) 2009 The Go Authors License (BSD 3-Clause): https://github.com/golang/sys

Apache Copyright Notice

Copyright 2019-present, Optimizely, Inc. and contributors

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