On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:58 PM, Lakmal Warusawithana <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 8:34 PM, Akila Ravihansa Perera < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Currently we are providing patches to PPaaS cartridge agent as >> artifacts to be replaced manually. This is because cartridge agent >> does not have an OSGi run time. But this goes against the support >> model that we are following in other components. It will be very hard >> to keep track of patches applied if we continue like this. >> >> This can be improved by creating Puppet scripts to simulate the >> support patching process. Patches for cartridge agent should be >> placed inside <agent puppet module>/files/patches/ directory. Puppet >> should go through all the patches available and apply them accordingly >> (simulate Carbon patching process). The patches may include jar >> artifacts, extension scripts, configuration scripts and server startup >> scripts. >> >> My suggestion is to automate patching all these artifacts via Puppet >> rather than having to manually replace them. This includes patching >> scripts as well, not just jars artifacts. If we define a proper >> directory structure for patches, this can be easily achieved. In that >> way we can easily keep track of changes and rollback quickly if >> needed. >> >> Any thoughts? >> > +1. AFAIK puppet can apply any changes in the master configs periodically to the relevant instances. The ideal way would be to apply the patches and restart the server from puppet itself. However, since we use Cartridge Agent to start the server, we might have to find a workaround for that. > > Yeah, nice thinking will go for that. > > >> >> -- >> Akila Ravihansa Perera >> Software Engineer >> WSO2 Inc. >> http://wso2.com >> >> Phone: +94 77 64 154 38 >> Blog: http://ravihansa3000.blogspot.com >> > > > > -- > Lakmal Warusawithana > Vice President, Apache Stratos > Director - Cloud Architecture; WSO2 Inc. > Mobile : +94714289692 > Blog : http://lakmalsview.blogspot.com/ > > -- Thanks and Regards, Isuru H. +94 716 358 048* <http://wso2.com/>*
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