On 03/14/2017 02:50 PM, Julien Danjou wrote:
On Tue, Mar 14 2017, Jay Pipes wrote:
Not tooz, because I'm not interested in a DLM nor leader election library
(that's what the underlying etcd3 cluster handles for me), only a fast service
liveness/healthcheck system, but it shows usage of etcd3 and Google Protocol
Buffers implementing a simple API for liveness checking and host maintenance
reporting.
Cool cool. So that's the same feature that we implemented in tooz 3
years ago. It's called "group membership". You create a group, make
nodes join it, and you know who's dead/alive and get notified when their
status change.
The point of os-lively is not to provide a thin API over ZooKeeper's
group membership interface. The point of os-lively is to remove the need
to have a database (RDBMS) record of a service in Nova.
tooz simply abstracts a group membership API across a number of drivers.
I don't need that. I need a way to maintain a service record (with
maintenance period information, region, and an evolvable data record
format) and query those service records in an RDBMS-like manner but
without the RDBMS being involved.
My plan is to push some proof-of-concept patches that replace Nova's
servicegroup API with os-lively and eliminate Nova's use of an RDBMS for
service liveness checking, which should dramatically reduce the amount of both
DB traffic as well as conductor/MQ service update traffic.
Interesting. Joshua and Vilob tried to push usage of tooz group
membership a couple of years ago, but it got nowhere. Well, no, they got
2 specs written IIRC:
https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/nova-specs/specs/liberty/approved/service-group-using-tooz.html
But then it died for whatever reasons on Nova side.
It died because it didn't actually solve a problem.
The problem is that even if we incorporate tooz, we would still need to
have a service table in the RDBMS and continue to query it over and over
again in the scheduler and API nodes.
I want all service information in the same place, and I don't want to
use an RDBMS for that information. etcd3 provides an ideal place to
store service record information. Google Protocol Buffers is an ideal
data format for evolvable versioned objects. os-lively presents an API
that solves the problem I want to solve in Nova. tooz didn't.
Best,
-jay
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