+1 For the approach. We may need to add improvements such as detect if OS
restart is required, and if in a cluster with more than one member, not
terminate and re-spawn but restart the service, etc. But those things can
be gradually added. This is a good approach to start with.


On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Reka Thirunavukkarasu <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Lakmal Warusawithana <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi Reka,
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:18 PM, Reka Thirunavukkarasu <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> +1. Nice thoughts to implement cartridge patching/upgrade mechanism with
>>> stratos.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:18 PM, Lakmal Warusawithana 
>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> We need to come up with, how do we going to patch/upgrade cartridges.
>>>> Here what I got in my mind.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - first devOps should update puppet manifest of the relevant
>>>>    cartridge that need to patch or upgrade that need to be applied.
>>>>    - Then from the devOps interface (both in CLI and UI) we should
>>>>    provide interface to set relevant service cluster (basically a 
>>>> cartridge)
>>>>    to patching mode.
>>>>    - When it set, SM should get all member information from the
>>>>    topology and start setting up existing cartridge instances to patching
>>>>    mode. It will get all current members into a queue and set one instance
>>>>    into patching mode. SM can call CC to set relevant instance topology to
>>>>    patching mode.
>>>>    - Then auto scaler will get this information via topology and
>>>>    create an extra new instance from that cartridge, which will come with 
>>>> all
>>>>    patch/upgrade from the puppet.
>>>>
>>>> Can't we use the same patch mode instance to execute the puppet to get
>>> the upgrade/patch via a topic event? So that, the instance which is there
>>> in patching state will become activated by cartridge agent once the patch
>>> got applied properly. Then, SM can remove the particular member from the
>>> queue and keep track of the others in the queue. By using the same
>>> instance, we can  optimize the resources for the user.
>>>
>>
>> I also thought this scenario but here is my concerns. If we set one
>> instance in patching mode and remove it from the LB, at that movement
>> particular cluster will running one instance short. (also if its max=1
>> scenario we cant do it.). Next concern is if this patch required OS
>> restart? e.g. security patch for OS. So solution for these scenarios is we
>> have to have two patching mode, which AS life put more complex. Thats why I
>> suggest having simple single way to handle all patching scenario.
>>
>
> +1. The mentioned approach as bringing up new instance with patching will
> be simple in this case. When billing gets introduced, anyone can ignore
> billing or not for the patching mode depends on their environment.
>
> Thanks,
> Reka
>
>>
>>>>    - After this extra instance come active, AS will gracefully
>>>>    shutdown patching mode instance.
>>>>    - SM will continue this until all old instance gracefully shutdown.
>>>>
>>>> With this, we can guarantee no downtimes for services that undergoing
>>>> with patching state. Please share your thoughts?
>>>>
>>>> PS: Please note that this is not the artifact update. Artifact updates
>>>> are real time and there is no downtime at all. This is only applied
>>>> patches, security updates ..etc which required restart services/instances.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Reka
>>>
>>>>
>>>> thanks
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Lakmal Warusawithana
>>>> Software Architect; WSO2 Inc.
>>>> Mobile : +94714289692
>>>> Blog : http://lakmalsview.blogspot.com/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Reka Thirunavukkarasu
>>> Software Engineer,
>>> WSO2, Inc.:http://wso2.com,
>>> Mobile: +94776442007
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Lakmal Warusawithana
>> Software Architect; WSO2 Inc.
>> Mobile : +94714289692
>> Blog : http://lakmalsview.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Reka Thirunavukkarasu
> Software Engineer,
> WSO2, Inc.:http://wso2.com,
> Mobile: +94776442007
>
>
>


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