Hi OpenWhisk developers, some weeks ago, I started working on some database performance and one item affects the whisks-database. All actions, rules, triggers, packages and activations are stored in this database. Because of all the activations, this database becomes really huge over time. To keep the database with the artifacts, created by the users (actions, ...), small we had the idea to put all activations into another database. The activations-db.
To solve the problem of the migration of existing OpenWhisk deployments, my proposal is to make the split configurable with ansible. PR 2123 (https://github.com/openwhisk/openwhisk/pull/2123) creates this flag. By default, the whisks database will be used to store activations. After some time, I'll open another PR, that changes the default to use the activations-db. Again, after some time, I'll open a third PR to remove this flag again. By default, all activations will go into the activations-db. The reason for removing this flag again is, that it will be easier to maintain only one configuration: the configuration to use two seperate dbs. And we think, that all owners of OpenWhisk deployments agree that it would be good to split configuration data of the user (actions, ...) and logs (activations, ...). If you need to migrate your deployment, it would work with the steps on the following document: https://gist.github.com/cbickel/37e651965781b27de245eac0ce831a53 (https://gist.github.com/cbickel/37e651965781b27de245eac0ce831a53) Does anyone have any concerns about this change or any comments? Greetings Christian
