Nice work!

First question: don't you think that operations should differentiate short
and long maintenance?
I am thinking about frameworks that use persistent storage on disk for
example. A short maintenance such as a slave reboot or upgrade could be
done without moving the data to another slave. However decommissioning
requires to drain the storage too.

If you have an HDFS datanode with 50TB of (replicated) data, you might not
want to drain it for a reboot (assuming your replication factor is high
enough) since it takes ages. However for decommission it might make sense
to drain it.

Not sure if this is a good example but I feel the need to know if the
maintenance is planned to be short or is forever. I know this does not fit
the nice modeling you describe :-/

Actually for HDFS we could define a threshold where "good enough"
replication without the slave would be considered enough and thus we could
deactivate the slave. This would prevent a rolling restart to go too fast.
However could you specify that when you drain a slave with hard:false you
don't enter the drained state even when the deadline has passed if tasks
are still running? This is not explicit in the document and we want to make
sure operators have the information about this and could avoid unfortunate
rolling restarts.
On Aug 25, 2014 9:25 PM, "Benjamin Mahler" <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I wanted to take a moment to thank Alexandra Sava, who completed her OPW
> internship this past week. We worked together in the second half of her
> internship to create a design document for maintenance primitives in Mesos
> (the original ticket is MESOS-1474
> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-1474>, but the design
> document is the most up-to-date plan).
>
> Maintenance in this context consists of anything that requires the tasks
> running on the slave to be killed (e.g. kernel upgrades, machine
> decommissioning, non-recoverable mesos upgrades / configuration changes,
> etc).
>
> The desire is to expose maintenance events to frameworks in a generic
> manner, as to allow frameworks to respect their SLAs, perform better task
> placement, and migrate tasks if necessary.
>
> The design document is here:
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NjK7MQeJzTRdfZTQ9q1Q5p4dY985bZ7cFqDpX4_fgjM/edit?usp=sharing
>
> Please take a moment before the end of next week to go over this design. 
> *Higher
> level feedback and questions can be discussed most effectively in this
> thread.*
>
> Let's thank Alexandra for her work!
>
> Ben
>

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