Collect Deployment Flag Options (#1578)

Problem: We want to collect deployment flag options so we can understand what a typical installation is using.

Solution: Collect the deployment flag options.

Author: bjee19

cmd/gateway/commands.go

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
+	"github.com/spf13/pflag"
 	"go.uber.org/zap"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/types"
 	utilruntime "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/runtime"
@@ -178,6 +179,8 @@ func createStaticModeCommand() *cobra.Command {
 				}
 			}
 
+			flagKeys, flagValues := parseFlags(cmd.Flags())
+
 			conf := config.Config{
 				GatewayCtlrName:          gatewayCtlrName.value,
 				ConfigName:               configName.String(),
@@ -215,6 +218,10 @@ func createStaticModeCommand() *cobra.Command {
 				Version:              version,
 				ExperimentalFeatures: gwExperimentalFeatures,
 				ImageSource:          imageSource,
+				Flags: config.Flags{
+					Names:  flagKeys,
+					Values: flagValues,
+				},
 			}
 
 			if err := static.StartManager(conf); err != nil {
@@ -450,3 +457,26 @@ func createSleepCommand() *cobra.Command {
 
 	return cmd
 }
+
+func parseFlags(flags *pflag.FlagSet) ([]string, []string) {
+	var flagKeys, flagValues []string
+
+	flags.VisitAll(
+		func(flag *pflag.Flag) {
+			flagKeys = append(flagKeys, flag.Name)
+
+			if flag.Value.Type() == "bool" {
+				flagValues = append(flagValues, flag.Value.String())
+			} else {
+				val := "user-defined"
+				if flag.Value.String() == flag.DefValue {
+					val = "default"
+				}
+
+				flagValues = append(flagValues, val)
+			}
+		},
+	)
+
+	return flagKeys, flagValues
+}

cmd/gateway/commands_test.go

@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ import (
 
 	. "github.com/onsi/gomega"
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
+	"github.com/spf13/pflag"
+	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/types"
 )
 
 type flagTestCase struct {
@@ -454,3 +456,128 @@ func TestSleepCmdFlagValidation(t *testing.T) {
 		})
 	}
 }
+
+func TestParseFlags(t *testing.T) {
+	g := NewWithT(t)
+
+	flagSet := pflag.NewFlagSet("flagSet", 0)
+	// set SortFlags to false for testing purposes so when parseFlags loops over the flagSet it
+	// goes off of primordial order.
+	flagSet.SortFlags = false
+
+	var boolFlagTrue bool
+	flagSet.BoolVar(
+		&boolFlagTrue,
+		"boolFlagTrue",
+		true,
+		"boolean true test flag",
+	)
+
+	var boolFlagFalse bool
+	flagSet.BoolVar(
+		&boolFlagFalse,
+		"boolFlagFalse",
+		false,
+		"boolean false test flag",
+	)
+
+	customIntFlagDefault := intValidatingValue{
+		validator: validatePort,
+		value:     8080,
+	}
+	flagSet.Var(
+		&customIntFlagDefault,
+		"customIntFlagDefault",
+		"default custom int test flag",
+	)
+
+	customIntFlagUserDefined := intValidatingValue{
+		validator: validatePort,
+		value:     8080,
+	}
+	flagSet.Var(
+		&customIntFlagUserDefined,
+		"customIntFlagUserDefined",
+		"user defined custom int test flag",
+	)
+	err := flagSet.Set("customIntFlagUserDefined", "8081")
+	g.Expect(err).To(Not(HaveOccurred()))
+
+	customStringFlagDefault := stringValidatingValue{
+		validator: validateResourceName,
+		value:     "default-custom-string-test-flag",
+	}
+	flagSet.Var(
+		&customStringFlagDefault,
+		"customStringFlagDefault",
+		"default custom string test flag",
+	)
+
+	customStringFlagUserDefined := stringValidatingValue{
+		validator: validateResourceName,
+		value:     "user-defined-custom-string-test-flag",
+	}
+	flagSet.Var(
+		&customStringFlagUserDefined,
+		"customStringFlagUserDefined",
+		"user defined custom string test flag",
+	)
+	err = flagSet.Set("customStringFlagUserDefined", "changed-test-flag-value")
+	g.Expect(err).To(Not(HaveOccurred()))
+
+	customStringFlagNoDefaultValueUnset := namespacedNameValue{
+		value: types.NamespacedName{},
+	}
+	flagSet.Var(
+		&customStringFlagNoDefaultValueUnset,
+		"customStringFlagNoDefaultValueUnset",
+		"no default value custom string test flag",
+	)
+
+	customStringFlagNoDefaultValueUserDefined := namespacedNameValue{
+		value: types.NamespacedName{},
+	}
+	flagSet.Var(
+		&customStringFlagNoDefaultValueUserDefined,
+		"customStringFlagNoDefaultValueUserDefined",
+		"no default value but with user defined namespacedName test flag",
+	)
+	userDefinedNamespacedName := types.NamespacedName{
+		Namespace: "changed-namespace",
+		Name:      "changed-name",
+	}
+	err = flagSet.Set("customStringFlagNoDefaultValueUserDefined", userDefinedNamespacedName.String())
+	g.Expect(err).To(Not(HaveOccurred()))
+
+	expectedKeys := []string{
+		"boolFlagTrue",
+		"boolFlagFalse",
+
+		"customIntFlagDefault",
+		"customIntFlagUserDefined",
+
+		"customStringFlagDefault",
+		"customStringFlagUserDefined",
+
+		"customStringFlagNoDefaultValueUnset",
+		"customStringFlagNoDefaultValueUserDefined",
+	}
+	expectedValues := []string{
+		"true",
+		"false",
+
+		"default",
+		"user-defined",
+
+		"default",
+		"user-defined",
+
+		"default",
+		"user-defined",
+	}
+
+	flagKeys, flagValues := parseFlags(flagSet)
+
+	g.Expect(flagKeys).Should(Equal(expectedKeys))
+	g.Expect(flagValues).Should(Equal(expectedValues))
+}

go.mod

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.18.0
 	github.com/prometheus/common v0.48.0
 	github.com/spf13/cobra v1.8.0
+	github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.5
 	github.com/tsenart/vegeta/v12 v12.11.1
 	go.uber.org/zap v1.27.0
 	k8s.io/api v0.29.2
@@ -71,7 +72,6 @@ require (
 	github.com/prometheus/client_model v0.5.0 // indirect
 	github.com/prometheus/procfs v0.12.0 // indirect
 	github.com/rs/dnscache v0.0.0-20211102005908-e0241e321417 // indirect
-	github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.5 // indirect
 	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.8.4 // indirect
 	go.uber.org/multierr v1.11.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/exp v0.0.0-20231006140011-7918f672742d // indirect

internal/mode/static/config/config.go

@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ type Config struct {
 	ImageSource string
 	// AtomicLevel is an atomically changeable, dynamic logging level.
 	AtomicLevel zap.AtomicLevel
+	// Flags contains the NGF command-line flag names and values.
+	Flags Flags
 	// GatewayNsName is the namespaced name of a Gateway resource that the Gateway will use.
 	// The Gateway will ignore all other Gateway resources.
 	GatewayNsName *types.NamespacedName
@@ -105,3 +107,13 @@ type UsageReportConfig struct {
 	// InsecureSkipVerify controls whether the client verifies the server cert.
 	InsecureSkipVerify bool
 }
+
+// Flags contains the NGF command-line flag names and values.
+// Flag Names and Values are paired based off of index in slice.
+type Flags struct {
+	// Names contains the name of the flag.
+	Names []string
+	// Values contains the value of the flag in string form.
+	// Each Value will be either true or false for boolean flags and default or user-defined for non-boolean flags.
+	Values []string
+}

internal/mode/static/manager.go

@@ -253,6 +253,7 @@ func StartManager(cfg config.Config) error {
 				Name:      cfg.GatewayPodConfig.Name,
 			},
 			ImageSource: cfg.ImageSource,
+			Flags:       cfg.Flags,
 		})
 		if err = mgr.Add(createTelemetryJob(cfg, dataCollector, nginxChecker.getReadyCh())); err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("cannot register telemetry job: %w", err)

internal/mode/static/telemetry/collector.go

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import (
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/types"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/client"
 
+	"github.com/nginxinc/nginx-gateway-fabric/internal/mode/static/config"
 	"github.com/nginxinc/nginx-gateway-fabric/internal/mode/static/state/dataplane"
 	"github.com/nginxinc/nginx-gateway-fabric/internal/mode/static/state/graph"
 )
@@ -55,6 +56,7 @@ type Data struct {
 	Arch              string
 	DeploymentID      string
 	ImageSource       string
+	Flags             config.Flags
 	NGFResourceCounts NGFResourceCounts
 	NodeCount         int
 	NGFReplicaCount   int
@@ -74,6 +76,8 @@ type DataCollectorConfig struct {
 	PodNSName types.NamespacedName
 	// ImageSource is the source of the NGF image.
 	ImageSource string
+	// Flags contains the command-line NGF flag keys and values.
+	Flags config.Flags
 }
 
 // DataCollectorImpl is am implementation of DataCollector.
@@ -134,6 +138,7 @@ func (c DataCollectorImpl) Collect(ctx context.Context) (Data, error) {
 		ImageSource:     c.cfg.ImageSource,
 		Arch:            runtime.GOARCH,
 		DeploymentID:    deploymentID,
+		Flags:           c.cfg.Flags,
 	}
 
 	return data, nil

internal/mode/static/telemetry/collector_test.go

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import (
 	gatewayv1 "sigs.k8s.io/gateway-api/apis/v1"
 
 	"github.com/nginxinc/nginx-gateway-fabric/internal/framework/events/eventsfakes"
+	"github.com/nginxinc/nginx-gateway-fabric/internal/mode/static/config"
 	"github.com/nginxinc/nginx-gateway-fabric/internal/mode/static/state/dataplane"
 	"github.com/nginxinc/nginx-gateway-fabric/internal/mode/static/state/graph"
 	"github.com/nginxinc/nginx-gateway-fabric/internal/mode/static/state/resolver"
@@ -77,8 +78,8 @@ var _ = Describe("Collector", Ordered, func() {
 		ngfPod                  *v1.Pod
 		ngfReplicaSet           *appsv1.ReplicaSet
 		kubeNamespace           *v1.Namespace
-
-		baseGetCalls getCallsFunc
+		baseGetCalls            getCallsFunc
+		flags                   config.Flags
 	)
 
 	BeforeAll(func() {
@@ -125,6 +126,11 @@ var _ = Describe("Collector", Ordered, func() {
 				UID:  "test-uid",
 			},
 		}
+
+		flags = config.Flags{
+			Names:  []string{"boolFlag", "intFlag", "stringFlag"},
+			Values: []string{"false", "default", "user-defined"},
+		}
 	})
 
 	BeforeEach(func() {
@@ -137,6 +143,7 @@ var _ = Describe("Collector", Ordered, func() {
 			ImageSource:       "local",
 			Arch:              runtime.GOARCH,
 			DeploymentID:      string(ngfReplicaSet.ObjectMeta.OwnerReferences[0].UID),
+			Flags:             flags,
 		}
 
 		k8sClientReader = &eventsfakes.FakeReader{}
@@ -153,6 +160,7 @@ var _ = Describe("Collector", Ordered, func() {
 			Version:             version,
 			PodNSName:           podNSName,
 			ImageSource:         "local",
+			Flags:               flags,
 		})
 
 		baseGetCalls = createGetCallsFunc(ngfPod, ngfReplicaSet, kubeNamespace)