[openstack-dev] [Heat] Heat Juno Mid-cycle Meetup report

Jyoti Ranjan jranjan at gmail.com
Fri Aug 29 04:32:23 UTC 2014


Yes, after version and agent ensuring to pick correct data will not cause
Swift issue.


On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 2:59 AM, Steve Baker <sbaker at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 28/08/14 03:41, Zane Bitter wrote:
> > On 27/08/14 11:04, Steven Hardy wrote:
> >> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 07:54:41PM +0530, Jyoti Ranjan wrote:
> >>>     I am little bit skeptical about using Swift for this use case
> >>> because of
> >>>     its eventual consistency issue. I am not sure Swift cluster is
> >>> good to be
> >>>     used for this kind of problem. Please note that Swift cluster
> >>> may give you
> >>>     old data at some point of time.
> >>
> >> This is probably not a major problem, but it's certainly worth
> >> considering.
> >>
> >> My assumption is that the latency of making the replicas consistent
> >> will be
> >> small relative to the timeout for things like SoftwareDeployments, so
> >> all
> >> we need is to ensure that instances  eventually get the new data, act on
> >
> > That part is fine, but if they get the new data and then later get the
> > old data back again... that would not be so good.
>
> It would be fairly easy for the agent to check last modified headers and
> ignore data which is older than the most recently fetched metadata.
>
>
>
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