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Sandaruwan Nanayakkara commented on STRATOS-1234:
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Hi Imesh,

I will prepare a doc and submit to you.  Thanks for helping :-)

Regards
Sandaruwan

>  Software Update Management Solution for Stratos
> ------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: STRATOS-1234
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STRATOS-1234
>             Project: Stratos
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: Imesh Gunaratne
>              Labels: gsoc2015, mentor
>
> Stratos uses Virtual Machines and Containers for hosting platform services on 
> different Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions. At present Puppet is 
> used for orchestration management on Virtual Machine based systems and 
> manages all required software in Puppet Master. Container based systems 
> creates Docker images for each platform service by including required 
> software in the Docker image itself.
> In Virtual Machine use-case VM instances will communicate with Puppet master 
> and execute the software installation. The same approach can be used for 
> applying software updates. 
> In Docker use-case we do not use Puppet because a new container with required 
> software can be started in few seconds. This is very efficient compared to 
> using Puppet and installing software on demand.
> The requirement of this project is to implement a core Stratos feature to 
> propagate software updates in a live PaaS environment.
> 1. Puppet based solution:
> - Push software updates of a cartridge to Puppet Master (might not need to 
> automate).
> - Invoke the software update process via the Stratos API for a given 
> application.
> - Stratos Manager could send a new event to trigger puppet agent in each 
> instance to apply the updates.
> 2. Docker based solution
> - Create a new docker image (with a new image id) for the cartridge with 
> software updates (might not need to automate).
> - Invoke the software update process via the Stratos API for a given 
> application.
> - Autoscaler can implement a new feature to bring down existing instances and 
> create new instances with the new docker image id.
> Important!
> - In each scenario if updates are backward compatible, software update 
> process should execute in phases, it should not bring down the entire cluster 
> to apply the updates. If so the service will be unavailable for a certain 
> time period. The idea is to apply the updates to set of members at a time.
> - If the updates are not backward compatible, we could make the entire 
> cluster unavailable at once and apply the updates.
> - Member's state needs to be changed to a new state called "Updating" when 
> applying the updates.
> If there is an interest on doing this project please send a mail to imesh at 
> apache dot org by copying Apache Dev mailing list [1]. Please refer Stratos 
> Wiki [2] for more information on Stratos architecture and how it works.
> [1] http://stratos.apache.org/community/mailing-lists.html
> [2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/STRATOS



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