Hi Pubudu,

On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 12:01 PM Pubudu Gunatilaka <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think it is a basic need to have a health API for the microgateway. This
> is the pull model. If you take any container mgt system or any other
> system, to configure the health of the microgateway we need to provide an
> endpoint.
>

Yes, we need this anyway. My above response was about if we're going to
have our own external service, the push model will be more scalable and
simple.

Thanks,
Bhathiya


>
> As explained above in the problem description, if the microgateway needs
> to connect to the external service, then we may need the push model as
> well. We can provide an extension point for the users to come up with their
> own implementation based on the external service.
>
> IMHO we may need to think about having both options in the microgateway.
>
> Thank you!
>
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 11:20 AM Bhathiya Jayasekara <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This will be a good addition. I'm more into a push model because of the
>> scalable nature of that.
>>
>> I found this[1] interesting even though it's questionable what happens if
>> the agent stops responding. Maybe they have implemented a deadman's
>> switch[2].
>>
>> [1]
>> https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/2693#issuecomment-280095924
>> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_switch
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bhathiya
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 10:22 AM Tharindu Dharmarathna <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Sanjeewa,
>>>
>>> The use of pull model it's the best model to operate since container
>>> system also supports to give availability from health check api.
>>>
>>> Configure outside system inside gateway is tricky as we locked down the
>>> outside system can't be change with the time . ( Different load
>>> balancers,etc.).
>>>
>>> On Thursday, February 7, 2019, Sanjeewa Malalgoda <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>> When we deploy API micro-gateway without complete container management
>>>> system we do not have way to track all running instance details from
>>>> central place. Sometimes all the deployments will not have enough resources
>>>> to deploy container management system. In that case if we have some
>>>> mechanism to run simple ballerina code within gateway itself that would be
>>>> helpful. If we have something like that then when server starts up it can
>>>> call some external service and confirm gateway existence. Also over the
>>>> time it can do periodic call to external system and update it with
>>>> aliveness.
>>>> We can implement this feature in different ways. Push model and pull
>>>> model both should work in this case.
>>>>
>>>> Pull Model - The external system can call some API and based on the
>>>> response trigger an action. In this case external system need to know IP
>>>> address and port of each micro-gateway running in system. If we have
>>>> controlled environment with fixed known number of gateways this will be
>>>> good option.
>>>> Push model - The external system opens some API to call to do an
>>>> action. So in this case micro-gateway will call external and update about
>>>> its aliveness. Advantage with this approach is central system do not need
>>>> to know anything about gateways and running locations. We can start
>>>> gateways anywhere and they will inform status to central system.
>>>>
>>>> In this case external system can be some monitoring tool, control
>>>> point, service registry, management server or anything like that. We can
>>>> see use-cases related to each of these. Having generic support with
>>>> extension capability would be much useful here.
>>>> Shall we let users to engage some kind of ballerina file when generate
>>>> microgateway artifact? So when gateway runs it will call some init function
>>>> and it can do some background work while gateway running. This capability
>>>> will help us to do some additional stuff when we implement solutions. As
>>>> example we can think of generating UUID during server startup and send it
>>>> to some external system for tracking purpose.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> sanjeewa.
>>>>
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