Open Stack

On 01/07/14 15:47, Mike Spreitzer wrote:
> In AWS, an autoscaling group includes health maintenance functionality
> --- both an ability to detect basic forms of failures and an ability to
> react properly to failures detected by itself or by a load balancer.
>   What is the thinking about how to get this functionality in OpenStack?
>   Since OpenStack's OS::Heat::AutoScalingGroup has a more general member
> type, what is the thinking about what failure detection means (and how
> it would be accomplished, communicated)?
>
> I have not found design discussion of this; have I missed something?

Yes :)

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/95907/

The idea is that Convergence will provide health maintenance for _all_ 
forms of resources in Heat. Once this is implemented, autoscaling gets 
it for free by virtue of that fact that it manages resources using Heat 
stacks.

cheers,
Zane.