On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 8:01 PM, Manuranga Perera <[email protected]> wrote:

> Options
> 1) No session. Everything is in DB or Window.localStorage. Authentication
> via a token validation endpoint. (We keep the token in a front end cookie)
> 2) Session as a service
> 3) The session is local, works with session affinity
> 4) The session is distributed
>
> My personal order of preference - 1, 2, 3, 4
> Azeez says 2 (or 1? )
> Sanjiva says 3, with 4 being plug-able
>
> I think 1 is doable.
> Yes, there will be some development overhead.
> But it'll be scalable/simpler at run time.
>

My order of preference - 3, 1, 2, 4

For me we lived sometime with # 3 and widely applicable option for now,  #
1 also appealing but we need more time to try out and identify proper use
cases because it seem not a generic solution for all the cases.

Thanks !

>
>
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 6:59 PM, Sanjiva Weerawarana <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Not practical Azeez - you're massively complicating the deployment and
>> second its far less performant than replication. Earlier we did global
>> replication which we really shouldn't do.
>>
>> I'm not suggesting replication .. I'm saying we support non-HA sessions
>> by default but make that part pluggable so we can plug in a replicating
>> model (or even a DB model) if needed.
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 6:43 PM, Afkham Azeez <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> What if we follow an approach of persisting the session to a datastore,
>>> like we've done in the petstore sample, that way you don't need to worry
>>> about affinity or the node having the session failing. In memory session
>>> replication is costly & leads to a whole lot of other issues, like the ones
>>> we've seen with replicated caches, so it best to avoid it.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 6:32 PM, Sanjiva Weerawarana <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Manu's question is in the context of the reusable UI framework stuff
>>>> we're working on.
>>>>
>>>> Fundamentally, is it necessary to have sessions to write a UI? Can we
>>>> use HATEOS for some stuff, browser local storage for some stuff etc. and
>>>> not have sessions at all??
>>>>
>>>> I feel we need sessions as a lot of simple things become hard without
>>>> them.
>>>>
>>>> Then comes the question of how do we do sessions and whether we do some
>>>> kind of replication or rely on affinity based routing.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 5:23 PM, Afkham Azeez <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> With such a model, you don't have to worry about things like session
>>>>> replication in order to achieve HA.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Manuranga Perera <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Should we aim to do the same in the UIs we ship, such as products ES?
>>>>>> There will be some extra effort.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Afkham Azeez <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In the petstore sample, the sessions of the frontend apps are stored
>>>>>>> in Redis.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 1:57 PM, Imesh Gunaratne <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi Manuranga,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Yes, what you are saying it true! We should only use session aware
>>>>>>>> load balancing for existing applications which has session management
>>>>>>>> features built into them.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Ideally when implementing new applications those should be designed
>>>>>>>> in a way to store their sessions outside the application (irrespective 
>>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>> they run on containers or not). This can be done with either using a
>>>>>>>> database or a service (ex: Redis). In that way we can scale the 
>>>>>>>> application
>>>>>>>> and session management service separately and also route request 
>>>>>>>> without
>>>>>>>> handling sessions at the load balancer level.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Manuranga Perera <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> We are currently using sessions and session affinity in our apps.
>>>>>>>>> But going forward, especially in Micro Services/Docker model does it 
>>>>>>>>> make
>>>>>>>>> scene?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Eg: If we bring up a new container due to high load, requests will
>>>>>>>>> still route to old continents due to the session. If we kill a 
>>>>>>>>> container
>>>>>>>>> that is associated with some session where should the request go?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> We have written (I think) a session aware router for Docker. It's
>>>>>>>>> ok for external apps, but I think it defeats the purpose of
>>>>>>>>> containerization, due to about reasons.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I think the correct way to do this in our apps is to, have
>>>>>>>>> authentication as a service. A micro service will translate the 
>>>>>>>>> session-id
>>>>>>>>> to a token. App depends fully on the token.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> What do you think?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>> With regards,
>>>>>>>>> *Manu*ranga Perera.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> phone : 071 7 70 20 50
>>>>>>>>> mail : [email protected]
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>
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>
>
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>
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