[Openstack] is anyone using zeromq for RPC?

Noel Burton-Krahn noel at pistoncloud.com
Sat Sep 6 18:14:27 UTC 2014


We couldn't get the zmq driver to work so we stuck with our patched rabbit
version.

On 2014-09-06 10:15 AM, "Doug Hellmann" <doug at doughellmann.com> wrote:
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> On Sep 6, 2014, at 11:00 AM, Sandy Walsh <sandy.walsh at RACKSPACE.COM>
wrote:
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> >> From: Doug Hellmann [doug at doughellmann.com]
> >> On Sep 5, 2014, at 11:13 PM, Sandy Walsh <sandy.walsh at RACKSPACE.COM>
wrote:
> >
> >>>> From: Doug Hellmann [doug at doughellmann.com]
> >>>> The zmq driver in oslo.messaging, used for internal communication
> >>>> between OpenStack services, has been without a maintainer for a
> >>>> significant period of time. It isn’t actively tested, and it isn’t
> >>>> clear whether or not it works. The Oslo team would like to drop
> >>>> support for it in Kilo, but before we do that we would like to find
> >>>> out if (a) anyone uses it and (b) if any of those people would like
to
> >>>> contribute to maintaining it.
> >>>
> >>> Why not just break it out into a separate repo? It would still be
> >>> loadable via stevedore. This would let people keep using it if they
> >>> desire (and, more importantly, maintain it externally) vs. the all-or-
> >>> nothing inclusion/exclusion decision.
> >
> >> If a maintainer is found, we can extract the files or resurrect them
> >> in place at any point in the future.
> >
> > Well, yeah, but that doesn't help the operators that have it deployed
> > already and didn't see this thread.
> >
> > Their update process will be: 1. install 2. wtf?! 3. scramble.
>
> I expect to make a lot of noise about it between now and the middle/end
of kilo when we actually remove the driver. As I said it's not at all clear
the driver even works in its current state, so I don't know if anyone could
be using it as it is.
>
> Doug
>
> >
> >> Doug
>
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