LOL. We are going around in circles…let’s start over. In 4.1.0, there are two pairs of limits on instance numbers, one called partitionMin/Max (specified in the Deployment Policy) and one called cartridgeMin/Max alongside the subscription info (specified in the Application).
My question was what is the point of cartridgeMax? You gave a very confusing example in reply with what look like several crucial typos, and even if I guess at what was intended, I still don’t see a strong reason to have cartridgeMax. Specifically, in your example, if I wanted to limit the application to 5 instances of PHP, why would I not simply set the partitionMax to 2,3 or 3,2 in the two partitions? Similarly, I have yet to see any convincing response as to why cartridgeMin is really required. The subtle shift in behavior being claimed in these cases seems confusing at best, and simply broken at worst. I claim broken because there are no clear rules as to how all 4 values relate, and no clear use-case to have all 4. In short, I have no idea how or why I should set them. Please clarify or remove. Thanks, Shaheed From: Lahiru Sandaruwan [mailto:lahi...@wso2.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 3:43 AM To: dev Subject: Re: [Discuss] Cartridge definition doesn't need "maxInstanceLimit" property anymore Hi Shaheed, We can define the maximum number of instances that can be spawned per partition in deployment policy. You can find a simple sample which is written for next developer preview at [1]. This sample is an end to end sample with single cartridge application and Mock IaaS. See the step 5 for partitionMax usage. Thanks. [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/STRATOS/4.1.0-Beta+Install+Stratos+with+a+Mock+IaaS On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Shaheedur Haque (shahhaqu) <shahh...@cisco.com<mailto:shahh...@cisco.com>> wrote: Hi Lahiru, What do you mean by partition max? Where is it specified? Thanks, Shaheed From: Lahiru Sandaruwan [mailto:lahi...@wso2.com<mailto:lahi...@wso2.com>] Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2015 2:31 AM To: dev Subject: Re: [Discuss] Cartridge definition doesn't need "maxInstanceLimit" property anymore Hi Shaheedur, This is the same model we had from 4.0.0 and we did not change the concept in this release. Explanation as below, There can be several partitions that a particular cartridge(service cluster) can span over. E.g. Say PHP cartridge have 3 partitions(P1 and P2). P1 has 3 as partition max and P1 has 6 as partition max. PHP has 2 as Cartridge min and 5 as Cartridge max. With one-after-another algorithm between partitions, Min instances creation, Both the minimum instances will be created in P1. Scaling up, First scaling up member will be created in P1 and the next members will be created in P2. It can only create 3 members in P1 and 2 members in P2 as it will reach it's max of 5 members. That's where the cartridge max is used. With round-robin algorithm between partitions, Min instances creation, One of the minimum instances will be created in P1 and the other in P2. Scaling up, Scaling up members will be created in round-robin manner in P1 and P2. On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Shaheedur Haque (shahhaqu) <shahh...@cisco.com<mailto:shahh...@cisco.com>> wrote: After discussing a bit with Imesh, we identified 3 points that need clarifying: • If there is to be a cartridgeMin attribute, it should at least be optional and take its default value from the deployment policy minimum value. Do you mean the minimum value per partition? I cannot see such value. There is only maximum in partitions of deployment policy. • If there is to be a cartridgeMin attribute, its behaviour needs to be specified with respect to the deployment min and max. For example, what happens if the cartridgeMin is greater than the deployment max? This is a good question. Ideally, with current implementation, it will not create instances beyond partition Max. • We need to find out what, if anything, the cartridgeMax is for. IMO partition max are for limiting the instances in IaaS, for particular region, zone or so. But cartridge need it's own limit when it scales up, where reusable partitions may have less or more space. Therefore we need both. Stratos will create instances until the lowest of those max values(Cartridge max and partition max). Thanks. From: Shaheedur Haque (shahhaqu) Sent: 13 March 2015 08:22 To: dev@stratos.apache.org<mailto:dev@stratos.apache.org> Subject: RE: [Discuss] Cartridge definition doesn't need "maxInstanceLimit" property anymore Hi Reka, First, I strongly suggest we not use internal terms like “cluster”, since they are not part of the user visible model, to explain user visible behaviour. For example, my understanding of a cluster is almost certainly not as good as you think it is ☺. Nevertheless… I think I understand: you are saying that when a group scales up, you will initially spin up cartridgeMin instances, correct? If this is not correct, please clarify. If it is correct, then: • I would have thought that the correct behaviour was to enforce the minimum value specified in the deployment policy. • Even if there is a theoretical use case where a new group should start with a different values that the one in the deployment policy, you would need to clearly explain how cartridgeMin relates to both deployment min *and* max when the values clash. I say we should rather keep it simple and use the deployment policy values. • What is cartridgeMax used for? Thanks, Shaheed From: Reka Thirunavukkarasu [mailto:r...@wso2.com] Sent: 13 March 2015 02:54 To: dev Subject: Re: [Discuss] Cartridge definition doesn't need "maxInstanceLimit" property anymore Hi Shaheedur, Sorry for the confusion..Let me explain what cartridgeMin is and the purpose of having it in the application. As you already aware, we have the group instances/cluster instances concept with 4.1.0 in order to support group scaling. For the cluster level, we will need a minimum count for the members in order to maintain this minimum count all the time. Since we have cluster instance concept, we will need a minimum members per cluster instance level. So that whenever a new cluster instance is getting created, we can satisfy the cluster instance by creating the cartridgeMin number of members and can send the clusterInstanceActivated event. That's why cartridgeMin got introduced in the application. "cartridgeMin" means the minimum number of members per cluster instance. When a cluster instance is getting created, let's say you have two as the cartridgeMin. In that case in order to create those two members, we will need to find out the partition. For that, we will get the associated policy and find the suitable partition to spin those members one by one. If one of the partition is full, our algorithm is capable of choosing the next available partition. Please let me know, if it is unclear still.. Thanks, Reka On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Shaheedur Haque (shahhaqu) <shahh...@cisco.com<mailto:shahh...@cisco.com>> wrote: I’m now thoroughly confused as to what is going and staying. I *think* the latest part of this thread says we need to keep cartridgeMin and cartridgeMax. Why do we need cartridgeMin and cartridgeMax at this point in the system? From: Reka Thirunavukkarasu [mailto:r...@wso2.com<mailto:r...@wso2.com>] Sent: 12 March 2015 17:09 To: dev Subject: Re: [Discuss] Cartridge definition doesn't need "maxInstanceLimit" property anymore Hi Raj, On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Rajkumar Rajaratnam <rajkum...@wso2.com<mailto:rajkum...@wso2.com>> wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 10:24 PM, Reka Thirunavukkarasu <r...@wso2.com<mailto:r...@wso2.com>> wrote: Hi Lahiru/Raj, I think that we have introduced this cartridgeMin/cartridgeMax when introducing the deployment policy for cartridge and groups as global deployment policy. Since we have the same concept now, i would like to review the implementation and confirm whether it is required or not. Can you please hold until that? I will quickly confirm on this.. Hi Reka, I am not sure whether I understood you wrong. Yes we need cartridgeMin and cartridgeMax, which are defined in application json. But we don't need maxInstanceLimit property, which used to define in cartridge json in 4.0.0. I guess we have already removed references to this property from code base, but not from sample artifacts. Thanks for the details.. We no longer using maxInstanceLimit. +1 to remove it..I was bit confused when i read the mail body as i thought that you are going to remove cartidgeMin/cartridgeMax. Now it is clear.. Thanks, Reka Thanks, Reka On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Lahiru Sandaruwan <lahi...@wso2.com<mailto:lahi...@wso2.com>> wrote: Noticed today. It was misleading as we have this left in samples. I will clean this up. Thanks. On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Rajkumar Rajaratnam <rajkum...@wso2.com<mailto:rajkum...@wso2.com>> wrote: Hi Devs, We are defining cartridge min max count in application definition. { "applicationId": "single-cartridge-app", "alias": "single-cartridge-app", "multiTenant": false, "components": { "cartridges": [ { "type": "php", "cartridgeMin": 1, "cartridgeMax": 10, "subscribableInfo": { "alias": "my-php", "autoscalingPolicy": "autoscaling-policy-1", "deploymentPolicy": "deployment-policy-1", "artifactRepository": { "privateRepo": false, "repoUrl": "https://github.com/imesh/stratos-php-applications.git";, "repoUsername": "", "repoPassword": "" } } } ] } } In 4.0.0, we used to define these in cartridge definition, in IaaS provider section. We have now removed it from cartridge bean classes. However I can see that samples still have this attribute. I will remove it. Thanks. -- Rajkumar Rajaratnam Committer & PMC Member, Apache Stratos Software Engineer, WSO2 Mobile : +94777568639<tel:%2B94777568639> Blog : rajkumarr.com<http://rajkumarr.com> -- -- Lahiru Sandaruwan Committer and PMC member, Apache Stratos, Senior Software Engineer, WSO2 Inc., http://wso2.com lean.enterprise.middleware phone: +94773325954<tel:%2B94773325954> email: lahi...@wso2.com<mailto:lahi...@wso2.com> blog: http://lahiruwrites.blogspot.com/ linked-in: http://lk.linkedin.com/pub/lahiru-sandaruwan/16/153/146 -- Reka Thirunavukkarasu Senior Software Engineer, WSO2, Inc.:http://wso2.com, Mobile: +94776442007<tel:%2B94776442007> -- Rajkumar Rajaratnam Committer & PMC Member, Apache Stratos Software Engineer, WSO2 Mobile : +94777568639<tel:%2B94777568639> Blog : rajkumarr.com<http://rajkumarr.com> -- Reka Thirunavukkarasu Senior Software Engineer, WSO2, Inc.:http://wso2.com, Mobile: +94776442007<tel:%2B94776442007> -- Reka Thirunavukkarasu Senior Software Engineer, WSO2, Inc.:http://wso2.com, Mobile: +94776442007<tel:%2B94776442007> -- -- Lahiru Sandaruwan Committer and PMC member, Apache Stratos, Senior Software Engineer, WSO2 Inc., http://wso2.com lean.enterprise.middleware phone: +94773325954<tel:%2B94773325954> email: lahi...@wso2.com<mailto:lahi...@wso2.com> blog: http://lahiruwrites.blogspot.com/ linked-in: http://lk.linkedin.com/pub/lahiru-sandaruwan/16/153/146 -- -- Lahiru Sandaruwan Committer and PMC member, Apache Stratos, Senior Software Engineer, WSO2 Inc., http://wso2.com lean.enterprise.middleware phone: +94773325954 email: lahi...@wso2.com<mailto:lahi...@wso2.com> blog: http://lahiruwrites.blogspot.com/ linked-in: http://lk.linkedin.com/pub/lahiru-sandaruwan/16/153/146
