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Niklas Quarfot Nielsen commented on MESOS-2841:
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Labels are trading off structure for generality. I think both key/value pairs
_and_ structured capabilities could be useful.
I have a hard time reasoning that these are resources though and the resource
math becomes complicated.
It is small change to enable the framework info to set these key value pairs
until we have widespread use-cases for structured 'capabilities' (for example;
messages describing 'I am a storage framework and can be accessed this way,
etc.')
Wrapping Labels in a envelope message would give us freedom to do that.
> FrameworkInfo should include a Labels field to support arbitrary, lightweight
> metadata
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> Key: MESOS-2841
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-2841
> Project: Mesos
> Issue Type: Epic
> Reporter: James DeFelice
> Labels: mesosphere
>
> A framework instance may offer specific capabilities to the cluster: storage,
> smartly-balanced request handling across deployed tasks, access to 3rd party
> services outside of the cluster, etc. These capabilities may or may not be
> utilized by all, or even most mesos clusters. However, it should be possible
> for processes running in the cluster to discover capabilities or features of
> frameworks in order to achieve a higher level of functionality and a more
> seamless integration experience across the cluster.
> A rich discovery API attached to the FrameworkInfo could result in some form
> of early lock-in: there are probably many ways to realize cross-framework
> integration and external services integration that we haven't considered yet.
> Rather than over-specify a discovery info message type at the framework level
> I think FrameworkInfo should expose a **very generic** way to supply metadata
> for interested consumers (other processes, tasks, etc).
> Adding a Labels field to FrameworkInfo reuses an existing message type and
> seems to fit well with the overall intent: attaching generic metadata to a
> framework instance. These labels should be visible when querying a mesos
> master's state.json endpoint.
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