I'm working to get a Pulp service built in Docker containers and created using 
Kubernetes.  I'm building on Aaron Weitekamp's initial docker work.

When putting a Pulp service up in containers it is important to know the 
requirements and boundaries of each component service.  I'd like to have a way 
to verify each service component before moving on to the next.

With MongoDB and QPID/AMQP, I know how do do this:

Mongo:

  mongo <hostname or IP address>
  > show dbs

I can verify a connnection to the mongodb server, confirm that the pulp 
database has or has not been created.

QPID:

For a qpid service I can connect and send/recieve a message.

https://gist.github.com/markllama/e0a5db776d2a1c876ff6

  test_qpid.py <hostname or IP address>


What I'd like is some incantation to check that the pulp components have 
connected to the database.  Do they heartbeat? The same for QPID.   Do they 
create a set
of topics or queues who's presence and activity would indicate that the 
components have connected?  Do the pulp services have the equivalent of an echo 
or ping message which could be used to query the connected processes?


1) Mongo service exists
 a) can connect
 b) database initialized
 c) * celerybeat service connected, heartbeating ??

2) QPID service exists
 a) can connect
 b) can echo

3) Celery beat
 a) Mongodb: db exists and is initialized
 a) Mongodb: Beat heartbeats?
 b) QPID:  Pulp topics/queues exist
 c) QPID:  celery beat service connected, heartbeating ??
 d) QPID:  celery beat service responds to echo request

4) Resource Manager worker
 ...

5) Apache server - content
 ...

6) Apache server - admin
 ...


What I'm really looking for is an internal behavior profile for a working 
service.

I'd also like a comprehensive list of the expected startup and lifecycle syslog 
entries for each service.  When a service starts and attaches to 
mongo/qpid/beat what would the signatures of success look like?  What would be 
signatures of common failure modes?

Does anything like this exist?  Pointers?

How are people verifying the operation of the service both new and over its 
life-cycle?

- Mark

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