Improve keepalive handling.

- Tweak how the upstreams are setup to prevent temporary connection
  failures from removing the servers from rotation.
- Allow connection retries to upstreams in the event of connection
  failures.
- Enable so_keepalive on listening sockets (I don't necessarily think
  this will help with the upstream keepalive issues, but is probably a
  good idea, and could help with keepalive behavior to any front-facing
  load balancers.

This cropped up after introducing an AWS NAT Gateway into our stack,
which closes inactive keepalive connections after 5 minutes:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/vpc-nat-gateway.html#nat-gateway-troubleshooting-timeout

See 18F/api.data.gov#446

Author: GUI

src/api-umbrella/proxy/load_backends.lua

@@ -45,7 +45,23 @@ local function generate_upstream_config(api)
             nginx_ip = ip
           end
 
-          table.insert(servers, "server " .. nginx_ip .. ":" .. server["port"] .. ";")
+          -- Insert 5 copies of the server, and set max_fails=0. In combination
+          -- with the global "proxy_next_upstream error" setting, this allows
+          -- for the API backend requests to retry up to 5 times if a
+          -- connection was never actually established.
+          --
+          -- This is a bit of a hack, but this helps deal with upstream
+          -- keepalive connections that might get closed (either by the API
+          -- backend or some other firewall or NAT in between).
+           -
+          -- max_fails=0 is important so that single servers don't get
+          -- completely removed from rotation (for fail_timeout) if a single
+          -- request fails. By repeating the same server IP multiple times,
+          -- this also gives proxy_next_upstream a chance to failover and retry
+          -- the same server.
+          for i = 1, 5 do
+            table.insert(servers, "server " .. nginx_ip .. ":" .. server["port"] .. " max_fails=0;")
+          end
         end
       end
     end

templates/etc/nginx/router.conf.mustache

@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ http {
     'ca=$connections_active cr=$connections_reading cw=$connections_writing '
     'ct=$connections_waiting cq=$connection_requests bs=$bytes_sent '
     'rl=$request_length rt=$request_time uct=$upstream_connect_time '
-    'uht=$upstream_header_time urt=$upstream_response_time';
+    'uht=$upstream_header_time urt=$upstream_response_time '
+    'ua="$upstream_addr" us="$upstream_status"';
   access_log {{log_dir}}/nginx/{{nginx.access_log_filename}} combined_extended {{nginx.access_log_options}};
 
   client_body_temp_path {{tmp_dir}}/nginx-client_body_temp;
@@ -211,14 +212,14 @@ http {
   dyups_trylock on;
   dyups_read_msg_timeout 300ms;
   server {
-    listen {{nginx.dyups.host}}:{{nginx.dyups.port}};
+    listen {{nginx.dyups.host}}:{{nginx.dyups.port}} so_keepalive=on;
     location / {
       dyups_interface;
     }
   }
 
   server {
-    listen {{api_server.host}}:{{api_server.port}};
+    listen {{api_server.host}}:{{api_server.port}} so_keepalive=on;
     set $x_api_umbrella_request_id $http_x_api_umbrella_request_id;
 
     location /api-umbrella/v1/health {
@@ -232,12 +233,12 @@ http {
 
   {{#hosts}}
   server {
-    listen {{http_port}}{{#default}} default_server{{/default}};
-    listen [::]:{{http_port}}{{#default}} default_server{{/default}};
+    listen {{http_port}}{{#default}} default_server so_keepalive=on{{/default}};
+    listen [::]:{{http_port}}{{#default}} default_server so_keepalive=on{{/default}};
     server_name {{_nginx_server_name}};
 
-    listen {{https_port}} ssl{{#default}} default_server{{/default}};
-    listen [::]:{{https_port}} ssl{{#default}} default_server{{/default}};
+    listen {{https_port}} ssl{{#default}} default_server so_keepalive=on{{/default}};
+    listen [::]:{{https_port}} ssl{{#default}} default_server so_keepalive=on{{/default}};
     {{#ssl_cert}}
     ssl_certificate {{ssl_cert}};
     ssl_certificate_key {{ssl_cert_key}};
@@ -277,7 +278,7 @@ http {
   {{/hosts}}
 
   server {
-    listen {{static_site.host}}:{{static_site.port}};
+    listen {{static_site.host}}:{{static_site.port}} so_keepalive=on;
     server_name _;
 
     root {{static_site.build_dir}};
@@ -296,7 +297,7 @@ http {
   }
 
   server {
-    listen {{router.api_backends.host}}:{{router.api_backends.port}};
+    listen {{router.api_backends.host}}:{{router.api_backends.port}} so_keepalive=on;
     server_name _;
 
     set $x_api_umbrella_request_id $http_x_api_umbrella_request_id;
@@ -339,7 +340,7 @@ http {
   }
 
   server {
-    listen {{web.host}}:{{web.port}};
+    listen {{web.host}}:{{web.port}} so_keepalive=on;
     server_name _;
 
     set $x_api_umbrella_request_id $http_x_api_umbrella_request_id;