Hi Sudharma, It's a good proposal :)
I have one piece information to provide you. As you must be aware that ODE stores it's deployment artifacts on a file system. In a cluster environment this file system should either be accessible to all the nodes or we need a distributed/replicated file system. Though i would recommend using a replicated file system more than a shared file system. A shared file system would either be on a separate box on the cluster and its single point of failure. By using a replicated file system store we can provide maximum cluster availability. What do you think Tammo. regards, sathwik On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 10:16 AM, sudharma subasinghe <suba...@cse.mrt.ac.lk > wrote: > Hi Tammo, > > Thank you for the feedback. I'll complete the proposal as your comment. > > Thank you. > > On 27 March 2015 at 04:45, Tammo van Lessen <tvanles...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Sudharma, > > > > very good proposal. A minor comment on the paragraph about the conflicts > > during deployment: There is already a marker file for deployed processes, > > so it wont happen that a node tries to deploy a process that is already > > known to the database, even it has changed. The race condition that needs > > to be avoided by the clustering implementation is that two node take up > > newly added processes at the very same time. > > > > Could you please add a short paragraph about your availabilty and how > much > > time you can commit for GSOC this summer? I'd love to also see a > > deliverable that allows us to easily test ODE in a clustered setup, e.g. > > using docker-compose. Would that fit into the "Testing and develop" time > > slot? > > > > Thanks, > > Tammo > > > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 5:26 PM, sudharma subasinghe < > > suba...@cse.mrt.ac.lk> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi Tammo, > > > > > > I drafted the proposal.This is the link for Google doc. It would be > great > > > if you can give a feedback on this. > > > > > > > > > > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H7cLekwUr2juNX2DFzgqq5FEkHZPDtFkHKz0aLWiB2k/edit?usp=sharing > > > > > > Thank you. > > > > > > On 26 March 2015 at 21:35, Tammo van Lessen <tvanles...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Sudharma, > > > > > > > > yes. Regarding 3) it is in particular the isolation of process > > instances. > > > > There must be a load balancer in front of ODE, and the lock is to > avoid > > > the > > > > case where node one is processing a process instance and node two > > > receives > > > > a message for the same process instance and starts processing as > well. > > > > > > > > Looking forward to your proposal. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Tammo > > > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 4:52 PM, sudharma subasinghe < > > > > suba...@cse.mrt.ac.lk> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi Tammo, > > > > > > > > > > Thank you for reply. I went through the thread in jira which is > > > referring > > > > > this issue. I extracted few ideas from there. As I think > > implementation > > > > > should contain following points. > > > > > > > > > > 1) Support cluster awareness in deploying phase > > > > > 2) Improve the ODE's scheduler > > > > > 3) Implement a distributed lock to avoid concurrent modification in > > > > cluster > > > > > > > > > > I am drafting a proposal including those points. I'll send it for > > your > > > > > review soon. > > > > > > > > > > Thank you. > > > > > > > > > > On 26 March 2015 at 18:49, Tammo van Lessen <tvanles...@gmail.com> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > > > ODE is originally designed to be run in a clustered fashion, > > however > > > it > > > > > has > > > > > > never been implemented in ODE. The goal would be to integrate a > > > > > clustering > > > > > > framework like Hazelcast in order to add this functionality. > > > > > > > > > > > > The main integration points are the ODE scheduler and the process > > > > store. > > > > > > The scheduler is already capable to handle several nodes but > needs > > > the > > > > > > integration to know if cluster nodes are still present. The API > > > > currently > > > > > > anticipates a heart beat model, with Hazelcast this might need to > > be > > > > > > changed or adapted. The other part is the process store, which > > > > implements > > > > > > the (hot-)deployment that is filesystem based. Under the > assumption > > > > that > > > > > a > > > > > > distributed filesystem is used, the cluster implementation needs > to > > > > take > > > > > > care that only one single node (the master) is taking care of new > > > > > > deployments, just in order to avoid multiple nodes doing the same > > > thing > > > > > in > > > > > > parallel. Then there is also one lock that needs to be > distributed, > > > > > either > > > > > > using database locks or a distributed lock (e.g. from hazelcast). > > > > > > > > > > > > Addtional requirements would be the integration with our config > > file > > > so > > > > > > that a cluster (and its nodes) can be configured as well as some > > > basic > > > > > > monitoring. Also a basic test environment, e.g. based on Docker > > would > > > > be > > > > > > very good to verify the approach. > > > > > > > > > > > > So I guess the steps would be: 1. Research to find a suitable > > cluster > > > > > > framework (I think Hazelcast would be a good fit) and getting > > > familiar > > > > > with > > > > > > ODE and this framework. 2. Identify the integration points in > ODE. > > 3. > > > > > Based > > > > > > on the chosen framework, develop approaches to serve these > > > integration > > > > > > points (We need leader election for the store, a distributed lock > > for > > > > the > > > > > > runtime and the information whether nodes are joining or leaving > > the > > > > > > cluster to be able to reschedule tasks from lost nodes) along > with > > a > > > > > > distributed setup to test. 4. Develop and test, 5. Test. > > > > > > > > > > > > For questions regarding the integration points please feel free > to > > > ask > > > > > > here, I can give you some pointers. > > > > > > > > > > > > HTH, > > > > > > Tammo > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 5:03 AM, sudharma subasinghe < > > > > > > suba...@cse.mrt.ac.lk> > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I am interested in this project as I have enough basic > knowledge > > > > about > > > > > > > apache axis2, apache ODE, WS-BPEL and I am currently studying > > > those. > > > > > So I > > > > > > > appreciate if you can provide more details on project. > > > > > > > Thank you > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Tammo van Lessen - http://www.taval.de > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Tammo van Lessen - http://www.taval.de > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Tammo van Lessen - http://www.taval.de > > >
