[openstack-dev] [nova] [cinder] API service in service group API

Joshua Harlow harlowja at outlook.com
Fri May 8 17:41:49 UTC 2015


See also:

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-May/063602.html

:-/

-Josh

Jay Pipes wrote:
> On 05/08/2015 08:06 AM, Dulko, Michal wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I wonder why nova-api or cinder-api aren't present service group API
>> of each project:
>
> Technically, this is because the API workers do not inherit from
> nova.service.Service [1], which is for RPC-based workers. They inherit
> from nova.service.WSGIService [2], which is for REST-based workers.
>
> Only the RPC-based workers ever get a service record created in the
> services table in the database, and thus only those records appear in
> the service list output.
>
> Frankly, the entire services table, DB-based servicegroup API, and the
> services API extensions should die in a fire. They don't belong in Nova
> or Cinder at all. This kind of thing belongs in ZooKeeper or some other
> group monitoring solution, not in the projects themselves.
>
> See also: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/138607/
>
> Best,
> -jay
>
> [1] http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova/tree/nova/service.py#n123
>
> [2] http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova/tree/nova/service.py#n308
>
>> mdulko:devstack/ (master) $ cinder service-list
>> +------------------+-------------------------------+------+---------+-------+----------------------------+-----------------+
>>
>> | Binary | Host | Zone | Status | State | Updated_at | Disabled Reason |
>> +------------------+-------------------------------+------+---------+-------+----------------------------+-----------------+
>>
>> | cinder-backup | mdulko-VirtualBox | nova | enabled | up |
>> 2015-05-08T11:58:50.000000 | - |
>> | cinder-scheduler | mdulko-VirtualBox | nova | enabled | up |
>> 2015-05-08T11:58:49.000000 | - |
>> | cinder-volume | mdulko-VirtualBox at lvmdriver-1 | nova | enabled | up
>> | 2015-05-08T11:58:50.000000 | - |
>> | cinder-volume | mdulko-VirtualBox at lvmdriver-2 | nova | enabled | up
>> | 2015-05-08T11:58:50.000000 | - |
>> +------------------+-------------------------------+------+---------+-------+----------------------------+-----------------+
>>
>>
>> Are there any technical limitations to include API services there? Use
>> case is that when service dies during request processing - it leaves
>> some garbage in the DB and quotas. This could be cleaned up by another
>> instance of a service. For that aforementioned instance would need to
>> know if service that was processing the request is down.
>>
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