Attempting to improve our CI speeds as its recently been a pain point.
Major changes:
- Use a github action to pull stable/nightly rust rather than building it each run
- Shift test suite to `nexttest` https://github.com/nextest-rs/nextest for CI
UPDATE:
So I've iterated on some changes, and although I think its still not optimal I think this is a good base to start from. Some extra things in this PR:
- Shifted where we pull rust from. We're now using this thing: https://github.com/moonrepo/setup-rust . It's got some interesting cache's built in, but was not seeing the gains that Jimmy managed to get. In either case tho, it can pull rust, cargofmt, clippy, cargo nexttest all in < 5s. So I think it's worthwhile.
- I've grouped a few of the check-like tests into a single test called `code-test`. Although we were using github runners in parallel which may be faster, it just seems wasteful. There were like 4-5 tests, where we would pull lighthouse, compile it, then run an action, like clippy, cargo-audit or fmt. I've grouped these into a single action, so we only compile lighthouse once, then in each step we run the checks. This avoids compiling lighthouse like 5 times.
- Ive made doppelganger tests run on our local machines to avoid pulling foundry, building and making lcli which are all now baked into the images.
- We have sccache and do not incremental compile lighthouse
Misc bonus things:
- Cargo update
- Fix web3 signer openssl keys which is required after a cargo update
- Use mock_instant in an LRU cache test to avoid non-deterministic test
- Remove race condition in building web3signer tests
There's still some things we could improve on. Such as downloading the EF tests every run and the web3-signer binary, but I've left these to be out of scope of this PR. I think the above are meaningful improvements.
Co-authored-by: Paul Hauner <paul@paulhauner.com>
Co-authored-by: realbigsean <seananderson33@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: antondlr <anton@delaruelle.net>
## Issue Addressed
Web3Signer validators do not support client authentication. This means the `--tls-known-clients-file` option on Web3Signer can't be used with Lighthouse.
## Proposed Changes
Add two new fields to Web3Signer validators, `client_identity_path` and `client_identity_password`, which specify the path and password for a PKCS12 file containing a certificate and private key. If `client_identity_path` is present, use the certificate for SSL client authentication.
## Additional Info
I am successfully validating on Prater using client authentication with Web3Signer and client authentication.
[EIP-3030]: https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-3030
[Web3Signer]: https://consensys.github.io/web3signer/web3signer-eth2.html
## Issue Addressed
Resolves#2498
## Proposed Changes
Allows the VC to call out to a [Web3Signer] remote signer to obtain signatures.
## Additional Info
### Making Signing Functions `async`
To allow remote signing, I needed to make all the signing functions `async`. This caused a bit of noise where I had to convert iterators into `for` loops.
In `duties_service.rs` there was a particularly tricky case where we couldn't hold a write-lock across an `await`, so I had to first take a read-lock, then grab a write-lock.
### Move Signing from Core Executor
Whilst implementing this feature, I noticed that we signing was happening on the core tokio executor. I suspect this was causing the executor to temporarily lock and occasionally trigger some HTTP timeouts (and potentially SQL pool timeouts, but I can't verify this). Since moving all signing into blocking tokio tasks, I noticed a distinct drop in the "atttestations_http_get" metric on a Prater node:
I think this graph indicates that freeing the core executor allows the VC to operate more smoothly.
### Refactor TaskExecutor
I noticed that the `TaskExecutor::spawn_blocking_handle` function would fail to spawn tasks if it were unable to obtain handles to some metrics (this can happen if the same metric is defined twice). It seemed that a more sensible approach would be to keep spawning tasks, but without metrics. To that end, I refactored the function so that it would still function without metrics. There are no other changes made.
## TODO
- [x] Restructure to support multiple signing methods.
- [x] Add calls to remote signer from VC.
- [x] Documentation
- [x] Test all endpoints
- [x] Test HTTPS certificate
- [x] Allow adding remote signer validators via the API
- [x] Add Altair support via [21.8.1-rc1](https://github.com/ConsenSys/web3signer/releases/tag/21.8.1-rc1)
- [x] Create issue to start using latest version of web3signer. (See #2570)
## Notes
- ~~Web3Signer doesn't yet support the Altair fork for Prater. See https://github.com/ConsenSys/web3signer/issues/423.~~
- ~~There is not yet a release of Web3Signer which supports Altair blocks. See https://github.com/ConsenSys/web3signer/issues/391.~~
