If we replace a autoscaling group member, we can't make sure the attached 
resources keep the same, why not to call the evacuate or rebuild api of nova,
just to add meters for ha(vm state or host state) in ceilometer, and then 
signal to HA resource(such as HARestarter)?

-----邮件原件-----
发件人: Steven Hardy [mailto:sha...@redhat.com] 
发送时间: 2014年12月23日 2:21
收件人: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org
主题: [openstack-dev] [heat] Application level HA via Heat

Hi all,

So, lately I've been having various discussions around $subject, and I know 
it's something several folks in our community are interested in, so I wanted to 
get some ideas I've been pondering out there for discussion.

I'll start with a proposal of how we might replace HARestarter with AutoScaling 
group, then give some initial ideas of how we might evolve that into something 
capable of a sort-of active/active failover.

1. HARestarter replacement.

My position on HARestarter has long been that equivalent functionality should 
be available via AutoScalingGroups of size 1.  Turns out that shouldn't be too 
hard to do:

 resources:
  server_group:
    type: OS::Heat::AutoScalingGroup
    properties:
      min_size: 1
      max_size: 1
      resource:
        type: ha_server.yaml

  server_replacement_policy:
    type: OS::Heat::ScalingPolicy
    properties:
      # FIXME: this adjustment_type doesn't exist yet
      adjustment_type: replace_oldest
      auto_scaling_group_id: {get_resource: server_group}
      scaling_adjustment: 1

So, currently our ScalingPolicy resource can only support three adjustment 
types, all of which change the group capacity.  AutoScalingGroup already 
supports batched replacements for rolling updates, so if we modify the 
interface to allow a signal to trigger replacement of a group member, then the 
snippet above should be logically equivalent to HARestarter AFAICT.

The steps to do this should be:

 - Standardize the ScalingPolicy-AutoScaling group interface, so aynchronous 
adjustments (e.g signals) between the two resources don't use the "adjust" 
method.

 - Add an option to replace a member to the signal interface of AutoScalingGroup

 - Add the new "replace adjustment type to ScalingPolicy

I posted a patch which implements the first step, and the second will be 
required for TripleO, e.g we should be doing it soon.

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/143496/
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/140781/

2. A possible next step towards active/active HA failover

The next part is the ability to notify before replacement that a scaling action 
is about to happen (just like we do for LoadBalancer resources
already) and orchestrate some or all of the following:

- Attempt to quiesce the currently active node (may be impossible if it's
  in a bad state)

- Detach resources (e.g volumes primarily?) from the current active node,
  and attach them to the new active node

- Run some config action to activate the new node (e.g run some config
  script to fsck and mount a volume, then start some application).

The first step is possible by putting a SofwareConfig/SoftwareDeployment 
resource inside ha_server.yaml (using NO_SIGNAL so we don't fail if the node is 
too bricked to respond and specifying DELETE action so it only runs when we 
replace the resource).

The third step is possible either via a script inside the box which polls for 
the volume attachment, or possibly via an update-only software config.

The second step is the missing piece AFAICS.

I've been wondering if we can do something inside a new heat resource, which 
knows what the current "active" member of an ASG is, and gets triggered on a 
"replace" signal to orchestrate e.g deleting and creating a VolumeAttachment 
resource to move a volume between servers.

Something like:

 resources:
  server_group:
    type: OS::Heat::AutoScalingGroup
    properties:
      min_size: 2
      max_size: 2
      resource:
        type: ha_server.yaml

  server_failover_policy:
    type: OS::Heat::FailoverPolicy
    properties:
      auto_scaling_group_id: {get_resource: server_group}
      resource:
        type: OS::Cinder::VolumeAttachment
        properties:
            # FIXME: "refs" is a ResourceGroup interface not currently
            # available in AutoScalingGroup
            instance_uuid: {get_attr: [server_group, refs, 1]}

  server_replacement_policy:
    type: OS::Heat::ScalingPolicy
    properties:
      # FIXME: this adjustment_type doesn't exist yet
      adjustment_type: replace_oldest
      auto_scaling_policy_id: {get_resource: server_failover_policy}
      scaling_adjustment: 1

By chaining policies like this we could trigger an update on the attachment 
resource (or a nested template via a provider resource containing many 
attachments or other resources) every time the ScalingPolicy is triggered.

For the sake of clarity, I've not included the existing stuff like ceilometer 
alarm resources etc above, but hopefully it gets the idea accross so we can 
discuss further, what are peoples thoughts?  I'm quite happy to iterate on the 
idea if folks have suggestions for a better interface etc :)

One problem I see with the above approach is you'd have to trigger a failover 
after stack create to get the initial volume attached, still pondering ideas on 
how best to solve that..

Thanks,

Steve

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