Hi All,

Only 9 have responded so far to the survey.  Your response is really
important to understand communities preference.

Thanks in Advance,
Dhilip

On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 4:37 PM, DhilipKumar Sankaranarayanan <
s.dhilipku...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Sorry for the long gap.  We had an interesting discussion last week at
> Mesosphere HQ again on this topic before the Mesos SF Meetup.
>
> The discussion revolved around several areas and suggestions on the
> proposed design.
>
> One of the main item that popped up was the approach through which we
> should achieve Mesos Federation.  The intend was to take the approach that
> will be more sensible for the community and easy to adopt by most.
>
> *Approach 1:* (Peer to Peer with a separate policy Engine) Already
> Proposed Design
> *Approach 2:*  (Hierarchical Design) Design similar to Kubernetes
> Federation where we introduce a Federation Layer in-between Framework and
> the Masters.
>
> Both the designs have their unique advantages and dis-advantages.  So here
> is the survey link please provide your feedback, this should set the ball
> rolling for us.
>
> https://goo.gl/forms/DpVRV9Zh3kunhJkP2
>
> If you have third approach to be include please write to me, ill be happy
> to add that in the survey
>
> Regardless of the design chosen, following enhancement to the master will
> be helpful to reduce "offers" traffic across continents.
>
> Enhancement: A framework will be able to send RequestResource( constrains)
> to the master, the master then only sends those offers that match the
> constrain.
>
> Regards,
> Dhilip
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 3:46 PM, DhilipKumar Sankaranarayanan <
> s.dhilipku...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I got a chance to bring this up during yesterdays Community Sync.  It was
>> great discussing with you all.
>>
>> As a general feedback the role of policy engine in the design needs to be
>> clearer, i will update the Document with more information on PE very soon.
>>
>> We are yet to get more insight on the License issues like bringing in a
>> Mozzilla 2.0 library into an Apache 2.0 project.
>>
>> It will be fantastic to get more thoughts on this from the community so
>> please share if you or your organisation had thought about it.
>>
>> HI Alex,
>>
>> Thanks again.
>>
>> a) Yes you are correct, thats exactly what we thought, a Framework could
>> simply query and learn about its next step (bursting or load balancing).
>> b)  We are currently thinking that the Framework will run in only one
>> place and should be able to connect to other datacenters.  Each data
>> centres could have some Frameworks running the local and some part of a
>> federation.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dhilip
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 9:17 AM, Alexander Gallego <agall...@concord.io>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 2:40 AM, DhilipKumar Sankaranarayanan <
>>> s.dhilipku...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> HI Alex,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for taking a look.  We have simplified the design since the
>>>> conference.  The Allocation and Anonymous modules where only helping us to
>>>> control the offers sent to the frameworks.  Now we think that Roles and
>>>> Quota in Moses elegantly solve this problem and we could take advantage of
>>>> it.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Sounds good, given that the design is entirely different now, can you
>>> share some of these thoughts.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> The current design does not propose Mesos Modules, the POC we
>>>> demonstrated @ the mesoscon is slightly out of date in that respect.
>>>>
>>>> The current design only enforces that any Policy Engine implementation
>>>> should honour certain REST apis.   This also removes Consul out of the
>>>> picture, but at Huawei our implementation would pretty much consider Consul
>>>> or something similar.
>>>>
>>>> 1) Failure semantics
>>>> I do agree it is not straight forward to declare that a DC is lost just
>>>> because framework lost the connection intermittently.  Probing the
>>>> 'Gossiper' we would know that the DC is still active but not just reachable
>>>> to us,  In that case its worth the wait.  If the DC in question is not
>>>> reachable from everyother DC, only then we could come to such conclusion.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> how do you envision frameworks integrating w/ this. Are you saying that
>>> frameworks should poll the HTTP endpoint of the Gossiper?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> 2)  Can you share more details about the allocator modules.
>>>> As mentioned earlier these modules are no longer relevant we have much
>>>> simpler way to achieve this.
>>>>
>>>> 3) High Availability
>>>> I think you are talking about the below section?
>>>> "Sequence Diagram for High Availability
>>>>
>>>> (Incase of local datacenter failure)
>>>> Very Similar to cloud bursting use-case scenario.  "
>>>> The sequence diagram only represents flow of events in case if the
>>>> current datacenter fails and the framework needs to connect to a new one.
>>>> It is not talking about the approach you mentioned.  I will update doc
>>>> couple more diagrams soon to make it more understandable.  We would
>>>> certainly like to have a federated K/V storage layer across the DCs which
>>>> is why Consul was considered in the first place.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Does this mean that you have to run the actual framework code in all of
>>> the DC's ?  or you have yet to iron this out?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> 4) Metrics / Monitoring - probably down the line
>>>> The experimental version of gossiper already queries the maser at a
>>>> frequent interval and exchange it amongst them.
>>>>
>>>> Ultimately DC federation is a hard problem to solve.  We have plenty of
>>>> use cases which is why we wanted to reach out to the community, share our
>>>> experience and build something that is useful for all of us.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Thanks !! excited about this work.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Dhilip
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 7:58 PM, Alexander Gallego <agall...@concord.io
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> This is very cool work, i had a chat w/ another company thinking about
>>>>> doing the exact same thing.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think the proposal is missing several details that make it hard to
>>>>> evaluate on paper (also saw your presentation).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) Failure semantics, seem to be the same from the proposed design.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> As a framework author, how do you suggest you deal w/ tasks on
>>>>> multiple clusters, i.e.: i feel like there have to be richer semantics
>>>>> about the task at least on the mesos.proto level where the state is
>>>>> STATUS_FAILED_DC_OUTAGE or smth along those lines.
>>>>>
>>>>> We respawn operators and having this information may allow me as a
>>>>> framework author to wait a little longer before trying to declare that 
>>>>> task
>>>>> as dead (KILLED/FAILED/LOST) if I spawn it on a different data center.
>>>>>
>>>>> Would love to get details on how you were thinking of extending the
>>>>> failure semantics for multi datacenters.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2) Can you share more details about the allocator modules.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> After reading the proposal, I anderstand it as follows.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> [ gossiper ] -> [ allocator module ] -> [mesos master]
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this correct ? if so, you are saying that you can tell the mesos
>>>>> master to run a task  that was fulfilled by a framework on a different 
>>>>> data
>>>>> center?
>>>>>
>>>>> Is the constraint that you are forced to run a scheduler per framework
>>>>> on each data center?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 3) High availability
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> High availability on a multi dc layout means something entirely
>>>>> different. So are all frameworks now on standby on every other cluster? 
>>>>> the
>>>>> problem i see with this is that the metadata stored by each framework to
>>>>> support HA now has to spans multiple DC's. It would be nice to perhaps at
>>>>> the mesos level extend/expose an API for setting state.
>>>>>
>>>>> a) On the normal mesos layout, this key=value data store would be
>>>>> zookeeper.
>>>>>
>>>>> b) On the multi dc layout it could be zookeeper per data center but
>>>>> then one can piggy back on the gossiper to replicate that state in the
>>>>> other data centers.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 4) Metrics / Monitoring - probably down the line, but would be good to
>>>>> also piggy back some of the mesos master endpoints
>>>>> through the gossip architecture.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Again very cool work, would love to get some more details on the
>>>>> actual implementation that you built plus some of the points above.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Alex
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 6:11 PM, DhilipKumar Sankaranarayanan <
>>>>> s.dhilipku...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please find the initial version of the Design Document
>>>>>> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U4IY_ObAXUPhtTa-0Rw_5zQxHDRnJFe5uFNOQ0VUcLg/edit?usp=sharing>
>>>>>> for Federating Mesos Clusters.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U4IY_ObAXUPhtTa-0Rw_5zQxHDRnJFe5uFNOQ0VUcLg/edit?usp=sharing
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We at Huawei had been working on this federation project for the past
>>>>>> few months.  We also got an opportunity to present this in recent 
>>>>>> MesosCon
>>>>>> 2016. From further discussions and feedback we have received so far, we
>>>>>> have greatly simplified the design.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Also I see that no one assigned to this JIRA now could i get that
>>>>>> assigned to myself ? It would be great to know if there is anyone willing
>>>>>> to shepherd this too.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I would also like to bring this up in the community Sync that happens
>>>>>> tomorrow.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We would love to hear your thoughts. We will be glad to see
>>>>>> collaborate with you in the implementation.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Dhilip
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Reference:
>>>>>> JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-3548
>>>>>> Slides:
>>>>>> http://www.slideshare.net/mKrishnaKumar1/federated-mesos-clusters-for-global-data-center-designs
>>>>>> Video :
>>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqyVQzwwD5E&index=17&list=PLGeM09tlguZQVL7ZsfNMffX9h1rGNVqnC
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Alexander Gallego
>>>>> Co-Founder & CTO
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Alexander Gallego
>>> Co-Founder & CTO
>>>
>>
>>
>

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