Commit 540d5efa authored by Evan Read's avatar Evan Read

Merge branch 'pks-strong-consistency-circumstances' into 'master'

Weaken statement about strong consistency guarantees

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!36688
parents e5e4d10a 6768d96c
...@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ The availability objectives for Gitaly clusters are: ...@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ The availability objectives for Gitaly clusters are:
Writes are replicated asynchronously. Any writes that have not been replicated Writes are replicated asynchronously. Any writes that have not been replicated
to the newly promoted primary are lost. to the newly promoted primary are lost.
[Strong consistency](#strong-consistency) can be used to improve this to "no loss". [Strong consistency](#strong-consistency) can be used to avoid loss in some
circumstances.
- **Recovery Time Objective (RTO):** Less than 10 seconds. - **Recovery Time Objective (RTO):** Less than 10 seconds.
...@@ -886,8 +887,8 @@ after the write to the primary Gitaly node has happened. ...@@ -886,8 +887,8 @@ after the write to the primary Gitaly node has happened.
Praefect can instead provide strong consistency by creating a transaction and writing Praefect can instead provide strong consistency by creating a transaction and writing
changes to all Gitaly nodes at once. Strong consistency is currently in changes to all Gitaly nodes at once. Strong consistency is currently in
[alpha](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/product/#alpha-beta-ga) and not enabled by [alpha](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/product/#alpha-beta-ga) and not enabled by
default. For more information, see the default. If enabled, transactions are only available for a subset of RPCs. For more
[strong consistency epic](https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/1189). information, see the [strong consistency epic](https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/1189).
To enable strong consistency: To enable strong consistency:
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