website: clarify that modifying intentions will not kill the conn

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Mitchell Hashimoto 2018-06-16 20:12:29 -07:00 committed by Jack Pearkes
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@ -44,6 +44,11 @@ The intention above is a deny intention with a source of "web" and
destination of "db". This says that connections from web to db are not
allowed and the connection will be rejected.
When an intention is modified, existing connections will not be affected.
This means that changing a connection from "allow" to "deny" today
_will not_ kill the connection. Addressing this shortcoming is on
the near term roadmap for Consul.
### Wildcard Intentions
An intention source or destination may also be the special wildcard
@ -156,5 +161,5 @@ for registered services.
Because all the intention data is cached locally, the agents can fail static.
Even if the agents are severed completely from the Consul servers, inbound
connection authorization continues to work for a configured amount of time.
Changes to intentions will not be picked up until the partition heals, but
Changes to intentions will not be picked up until the partition heals, but
will then automatically take effect when connectivity is restored.

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@ -185,6 +185,11 @@ connection again. Intentions allow services to be segmented via a centralized
control plane (Consul). To learn more, read the reference documentation on
[intentions](/docs/connect/intentions.html).
Note that in the current release of Consul, changing intentions will not
affect existing connections. Therefore, you must establish a new connection
to see the effects of a changed intention. This will be addressed in the near
term in a future version of Consul.
## Next Steps
We've now configured a service on a single agent and used Connect for