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Perform Git over HTTP request to primary repo

Igor Drozdov requested to merge id-geo-http-push into main

Instead of proxying the Geo request via Rails, let's do the Git over HTTP request to the primary repo

Related issue: #614 (closed)

sequenceDiagram
    participant C as Git on client
    participant S as GitLab Shell
    participant I as Workhorse & Rails
    participant P as Workhorse & Rails

    Note left of C: git fetch
    Note over S,I: Secondary site
    Note over P: Primary site
    C->>+S: ssh git receive-pack request
    S->>I: SSH key validation (api/v4/internal/authorized_keys?key=..)
    I-->>S: HTTP/1.1 300 (custom action status) with {endpoint, msg, primary_repo}
    S->>I: POST /api/v4/geo/proxy_git_ssh/info_refs_receive_pack
    I->>P: POST $PRIMARY/foo/bar.git/info/refs/?service=git-receive-pack
    P-->>I: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    I-->>S: <response>
    S-->>C: return Git response from primary
    C-->>S: stream Git data to push
    S->>I: POST /api/v4/geo/proxy_git_ssh/receive_pack
    I->>P: POST $PRIMARY/foo/bar.git/git-receive-pack
    P-->>I: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    I-->>S: <response>
    S-->>-C: gitlab-shell receive-pack response

After

When a user performs a Git over SSH request to secondary node, Gitlab Shell performs Git over HTTP requests to primary Workhorse & Rails.

sequenceDiagram
    participant C as Git on client
    participant S as GitLab Shell
    participant I as Workhorse & Rails
    participant P as Workhorse & Rails

    Note left of C: git fetch
    Note over S,I: Secondary site
    Note over P: Primary site
    C->>+S: ssh git receive-pack request
    S->>I: SSH key validation (api/v4/internal/authorized_keys?key=..)
    I-->>S: HTTP/1.1 300 (custom action status) with {endpoint, msg, primary_repo, authorization headers}
    S->>P: POST $PRIMARY/foo/bar.git/info/refs/?service=git-receive-pack
    P-->>S: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    P-->>S: <response>
    S-->>C: return Git response from primary
    C-->>S: stream Git data to push
    S->>P: POST $PRIMARY/foo/bar.git/git-receive-pack
    P-->>S: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    P-->>S: <response>
    S-->>-C: gitlab-shell receive-pack response

Testing

Edited by Igor Drozdov

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