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Hyunsik Choi updated WHIRR-266:
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    Description: 
Using whirr, I experimented some problems. Especially, if at least one of the 
steps for installing and configuring a service meets some exception or error, 
whirr cannot construct the running cluster. In another case, some of entire 
clusters do not startup by whirr due to unknown reasons. In both cases, users 
have to recover them manually. It may be really burden for users.

However, the current implementation does not support any recovery ways. In 
addition, service scripts (install and post-configure) bundles up too many 
tasks. For example, for hadoop service the configuration script mounts devices, 
configures *-site.xml files, and executes the service start script. It makes 
users hard to reuse that scripts.

Thus, I propose that we separate both scripts (i.e., install and 
post-configure) into more normalized and detailed functions, such as 
*service-clean, service-install, service-configuration, service-start, and 
service-stop*. In addition, they should be executable individually by a user.

I expect that it will give us many benefits: 1) it makes debugging easier 2) 
when an exception or error occurs during starting a service, a user can recover 
easily the cluster by using appropriate functions.

  was:
Using whirr, I experimented some problems. Especially, if at least one of the 
steps for installing and configuring a service meets some exception or error, 
whirr cannot construct the running cluster. In another case, some of entire 
clusters do not startup by whirr due to unknown reasons. In both cases, users 
have to recover them manually. It may be really burden for users.

However, the current implementation does not support any recovery ways. In 
addition, service scripts (install and post-configure) bundles up too many 
tasks. For example, for hadoop service the configuration script mounts devices, 
configures *-site.xml files, and executes the service start script. It makes 
users hard to reuse that scripts.

Thus, I propose that we separate both scripts (i.e., install and 
post-configure) into more normalized and detailed functions, such as 
*service-clean, service-install, service-configuration, service-start, and 
service-stop*. In addition, they should be executed individually by a user.

I expect that it will give us many benefits: 1) it makes debugging easier 2) 
when an exception or error occurs during starting a service, a user can recover 
easily the cluster by using appropriate functions.


> Separate tasks of both install and configuration scripts into more generic 
> and detailed functions
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: WHIRR-266
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WHIRR-266
>             Project: Whirr
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: core
>            Reporter: Hyunsik Choi
>             Fix For: 0.5.0
>
>
> Using whirr, I experimented some problems. Especially, if at least one of the 
> steps for installing and configuring a service meets some exception or error, 
> whirr cannot construct the running cluster. In another case, some of entire 
> clusters do not startup by whirr due to unknown reasons. In both cases, users 
> have to recover them manually. It may be really burden for users.
> However, the current implementation does not support any recovery ways. In 
> addition, service scripts (install and post-configure) bundles up too many 
> tasks. For example, for hadoop service the configuration script mounts 
> devices, configures *-site.xml files, and executes the service start script. 
> It makes users hard to reuse that scripts.
> Thus, I propose that we separate both scripts (i.e., install and 
> post-configure) into more normalized and detailed functions, such as 
> *service-clean, service-install, service-configuration, service-start, and 
> service-stop*. In addition, they should be executable individually by a user.
> I expect that it will give us many benefits: 1) it makes debugging easier 2) 
> when an exception or error occurs during starting a service, a user can 
> recover easily the cluster by using appropriate functions.

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