Flip to using a positive behaviour flag instead of negative

Signed-off-by: Rafael da Fonseca <rafael.fonseca@wildlifestudios.com>

charts/ingress-nginx/templates/controller-configmap.yaml

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ metadata:
   namespace: {{ include "ingress-nginx.namespace" . }}
 data:
   allow-snippet-annotations: "{{ .Values.controller.allowSnippetAnnotations }}"
+  enable-serial-reloads: "{{ .Values.controller.enableSerialReloads }}"
 {{- if .Values.controller.addHeaders }}
   add-headers: {{ include "ingress-nginx.namespace" . }}/{{ include "ingress-nginx.fullname" . }}-custom-add-headers
 {{- end }}

charts/ingress-nginx/values.yaml

@@ -88,6 +88,8 @@ controller:
   # when users add those annotations.
   # Global snippets in ConfigMap are still respected
   allowSnippetAnnotations: false
+  # -- This configuration defines if NGINX workers should reload serially instead of concurrently when multiple changes that require reloads are queued
+  enableSerialReloads: false
   # -- Required for use with CNI based kubernetes installations (such as ones set up by kubeadm),
   # since CNI and hostport don't mix yet. Can be deprecated once https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/23920
   # is merged

docs/user-guide/nginx-configuration/configmap.md

@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ The following table shows a configuration option's name, type, and the default v
 |[worker-processes](#worker-processes)|string|`<Number of CPUs>`||
 |[worker-cpu-affinity](#worker-cpu-affinity)|string|""||
 |[worker-shutdown-timeout](#worker-shutdown-timeout)|string|"240s"||
-|[concurrently-reload-worker-processes](#concurrently-reload-worker-processes)|bool|"true"||
+|[enable-serial-reloads](#enable-serial-reloads)|bool|"false"||
 |[load-balance](#load-balance)|string|"round_robin"||
 |[variables-hash-bucket-size](#variables-hash-bucket-size)|int|128||
 |[variables-hash-max-size](#variables-hash-max-size)|int|2048||

internal/ingress/controller/config/config.go

@@ -479,7 +479,7 @@ type Configuration struct {
 	// With this setting on false, configuration changes in the queue will be re-queued with an exponential backoff, until the number of worker process is the expected value.
 	// By default new worker processes are spawned every time there's a change that cannot be applied dynamically with no upper limit to the number of running workers
 	// http://nginx.org/en/docs/ngx_core_module.html#worker_processes
-	ConcurrentlyReloadWorkers bool `json:"concurrently-reload-worker-processes,omitempty"`
+	WorkerSerialReloads bool `json:"enable-serial-reloads,omitempty"`
 
 	// Defines a timeout for a graceful shutdown of worker processes
 	// http://nginx.org/en/docs/ngx_core_module.html#worker_shutdown_timeout
@@ -849,7 +849,7 @@ func NewDefault() Configuration {
 		UseGzip:                          false,
 		UseGeoIP2:                        false,
 		WorkerProcesses:                  strconv.Itoa(runtime.NumCPU()),
-		ConcurrentlyReloadWorkers:        true,
+		WorkerSerialReloads:              false,
 		WorkerShutdownTimeout:            "240s",
 		VariablesHashBucketSize:          256,
 		VariablesHashMaxSize:             2048,

internal/ingress/controller/nginx.go

@@ -672,8 +672,8 @@ Error: %v
 //
 //nolint:gocritic // the cfg shouldn't be changed, and shouldn't be mutated by other processes while being rendered.
 func (n *NGINXController) OnUpdate(ingressCfg ingress.Configuration) error {
-	concurrentlyReloadWorkers := n.store.GetBackendConfiguration().ConcurrentlyReloadWorkers
-	if !concurrentlyReloadWorkers && n.workersReloading {
+	workerSerialReloads := n.store.GetBackendConfiguration().WorkerSerialReloads
+	if workerSerialReloads && n.workersReloading {
 		return errors.New("worker reload already in progress, requeuing reload")
 	}
 
@@ -743,7 +743,7 @@ func (n *NGINXController) OnUpdate(ingressCfg ingress.Configuration) error {
 	}
 
 	// Reload status checking runs in a separate goroutine to avoid blocking the sync queue
-	if !concurrentlyReloadWorkers {
+	if workerSerialReloads {
 		go n.awaitWorkersReload()
 	}
 

internal/ingress/controller/template/configmap.go

@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ const (
 	luaSharedDictsKey             = "lua-shared-dicts"
 	plugins                       = "plugins"
 	debugConnections              = "debug-connections"
-	concurrentlyReloadWorkers     = "concurrently-reload-worker-processes"
+	workerSerialReloads           = "enable-serial-reloads"
 )
 
 var (
@@ -386,15 +386,15 @@ func ReadConfig(src map[string]string) config.Configuration {
 		delete(conf, workerProcesses)
 	}
 
-	if val, ok := conf[concurrentlyReloadWorkers]; ok {
+	if val, ok := conf[workerSerialReloads]; ok {
 		boolVal, err := strconv.ParseBool(val)
 		if err != nil {
-			to.ConcurrentlyReloadWorkers = true
-			klog.Warningf("failed to parse concurrently-reload-worker-processes setting, valid values are true or false, found %s", val)
+			to.WorkerSerialReloads = false
+			klog.Warningf("failed to parse enable-serial-reloads setting, valid values are true or false, found %s", val)
 		} else {
-			to.ConcurrentlyReloadWorkers = boolVal
+			to.WorkerSerialReloads = boolVal
 		}
-		delete(conf, concurrentlyReloadWorkers)
+		delete(conf, workerSerialReloads)
 	}
 
 	if val, ok := conf[plugins]; ok {