[Openstack] [Ops] OpenStack and Operations: Input from the Wild

David Kranz david.kranz at qrclab.com
Fri Apr 6 14:43:36 UTC 2012


This is a really great list! With regard to cluster health and 
monitoring, I did a bunch of stuff with Swift before turning to nova and 
really appreciated the
way each swift service has a "healthcheck" call that can be used by a 
monitoring system. While I don't think providing a production-ready 
monitoring system should be part of core OpenStack, it is the core 
architects who really know what needs to be checked to ensure that a 
system is healthy. There are various sets of poking at ports, process 
lists and so on that Crowbar, Zenoss, etc. set up but it would be a big 
improvement for deployers if each openstack service provided healthcheck 
apis based on expert knowledge of what is supposed to be happening 
inside. That would also insulate deployers from changes in the code that 
might impact what it means to be running properly. Looking forward to 
the discussion.

  -David



On 4/6/2012 1:06 AM, Andrew Clay Shafer wrote:
> Interested in devops.
>
> Off the top of my head.
>
> live upgrades
> api queryable indications of cluster health
> api queryable cluster version and configuration info
> enabling monitoring as a first class concern in OpenStack (either as a 
> cross cutting concern, or as it's own project)
> a framework for gathering and sharing performance benchmarks with 
> architecture and configuration
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Duncan McGreggor <duncan at dreamhost.com 
> <mailto:duncan at dreamhost.com>> wrote:
>
>     For anyone interested in DevOps, Ops, cloud hosting management, etc.,
>     there's a proposed session we could use your feedback on for topics of
>     discussion:
>     http://summit.openstack.org/sessions/view/57
>
>     Respond with your thoughts and ideas, and I'll be sure to add them
>     to the list.
>
>     Thanks!
>
>     d
>
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