During the demo yesterday it was pointed out that 'cache_only' doesn't make
sense as a name anymore since Pulp itself isn't doing the caching. Here's
an issue to rename it with some naming suggestions:

https://pulp.plan.io/issues/4243

On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 3:26 PM Brian Bouterse <bbout...@redhat.com> wrote:

> I've heard a lot of positive feedback on this idea and no objections. I
> made this story tracking this threads proposal specifically [0] and I made
> it a subtask of the lazy epic [1]. My next step to finish the streamer is
> to work on [0] so I've taken that as assigned. I'll reply to the list when
> the next round of PRs are posted and passing in Travis. Hopefully that
> should complete most of the work for the lazy epic [1].
>
> [0]: https://pulp.plan.io/issues/4239
> [1]: https://pulp.plan.io/issues/3693
>
> On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 4:07 PM Dennis Kliban <dkli...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Since no one is objecting, I'd like to see the PR[0] from @bmbouter
>> finished up and merged soon. I am updating the pass-through cache story[1]
>> to get it ready for implementation. I would like to remove all mention of
>> separate content app and streamer from the description.
>>
>>
>> [0] https://github.com/pulp/pulp/pull/3779
>> [1] https://pulp.plan.io/issues/3894
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 1:54 PM Tatiana Tereshchenko <ttere...@redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> +1 to merge
>>> +1 to have clear docs for plugin writers how to create their own content
>>> app
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 11:25 PM Dennis Kliban <dkli...@redhat.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It was pointed out on IRC that plugins that have to supply their own
>>>> content app (such as docker) currently need to supply 2 implementations of
>>>> it in order to support on-demand use cases. One using django and another
>>>> using aiohttp.
>>>>
>>>> We should not burden plugin writers in such a way. We really have to
>>>> make the proposed change.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 3:24 PM Dana Walker <dawal...@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> In light of the efficiency gains and lack of significant drawbacks,
>>>>> I'm +1 on this proposal.
>>>>>
>>>>> --Dana
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Dana Walker
>>>>>
>>>>> Associate Software Engineer
>>>>>
>>>>> Red Hat
>>>>>
>>>>> <https://www.redhat.com>
>>>>> <https://red.ht/sig>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 2:40 PM Dennis Kliban <dkli...@redhat.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I like the idea of combining the two applications for all the reasons
>>>>>> already outlined on this thread. The user experience is going to be
>>>>>> simplified by this change. However, I want to point out that it will also
>>>>>> alter the plugin writer experience. Plugin writers that want to have 
>>>>>> their
>>>>>> own content app will now need to provide it as a plugin for the content 
>>>>>> app
>>>>>> (which is not a Django project). We should be able to clearly document 
>>>>>> this
>>>>>> for plugin writers. pulp_docker plugin will need to adopt this change. 
>>>>>> For
>>>>>> that reason I'd like us to make a decision on this soon.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 4:59 PM Jeff Ortel <jor...@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *BACKGROUND*
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The pulp3 content app and the streamer (in-progress) currently have
>>>>>>> a lot of duplicate code and functionality.  At the very least, I think
>>>>>>> there is a opportunity to refactor both and share code.  But, this would
>>>>>>> leave us with two components with significant overlap in functionality.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The functionality exclusive to the content-app:
>>>>>>>   - Optionally delegate file serving to a web server. (Eg:
>>>>>>> mod_xsendfile).
>>>>>>>   - Optional redirect to the streamer.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The functionality exclusive to the streamer:
>>>>>>>   - Using the Remote & RemoteArtifact to download the file and
>>>>>>> stream on demand.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Not much difference which raises the question: "Why do we have
>>>>>>> both?"  I think the answer may be that we don't.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *PROPOSAL*
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Let's pull the content-app out and merge it with the streamer.  The
>>>>>>> new content (app) would have *streamer* architecture &
>>>>>>> functionality.  When a requested artifact has not been downloaded, it 
>>>>>>> would
>>>>>>> download/streamed instead of REDIRECT.  This does mean that deployments 
>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>> development environments would need to run an additional service to 
>>>>>>> serve
>>>>>>> content.  The /pulp/content endpoint would be on a different port than 
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> API.  I see this separation as a healthy thing.  There is significant
>>>>>>> efficiency to be gained as well.  Let's start with eliminating the
>>>>>>> REDIRECTs.  Cutting the GET requests in half is a win for both the 
>>>>>>> client,
>>>>>>> the network and the Pulp web stack.  Next is database queries.  Since 
>>>>>>> both
>>>>>>> applications needed to perform many of the same queries, combining the
>>>>>>> applications will roughly cut them in half as well.  Since the streamer 
>>>>>>> is
>>>>>>> based on asyncio and so would the merged app.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There are probably lots of other pros/cons I have not considered but
>>>>>>> it seems relatively straight forward.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm thinking the new content app/service would be named:
>>>>>>> *pulp-content*.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>>>>
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