One thing I would like to point out is the thermos CLI is not required for Aurora operation. I think we would be better served by advertising it as an optional component that provides operators and users with debugging ability.
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Joseph Smith <yasumo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I believe it absolutely is- ideally as we deprecate the Observer, we can > then lean on the Mesos Slave for this information instead. This will > further decrease the number of moving pieces, simplifying the operation of > an Aurora/Mesos cluster. > > > On Feb 17, 2015, at 6:33 PM, Zameer Manji <zma...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > Joe, > > > > If I understand Brian's proposal correctly < > > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/aurora-dev/201501.mbox/%3CCAFTdr0DZvH21tR=NLK0qP-Y9-oL9SyULy6GLah=capuw0sv...@mail.gmail.com%3E > >, > > we are going to depreciate the Observer. This combined with your proposal > > will make the executor the only component that can read the thermos > > checkpoints and produce some output that is human readable. Is that > > something we want to do? > > > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Joseph Smith <yasumo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> Hi everyone, > >> > >> After reviewing the functionality offered by the Thermos Commandline > tool > >> vs. what’s exported via the Thermos Observer, I was hoping to bring up a > >> question I had: > >> > >> Can we deprecate the Thermos CLI? > >> > >> Removing this would decrease the number of components required for a > >> functional Aurora installation (a huge victory, in my opinion) and also > >> enable the Observer to fully take over the duty of providing visibility > >> into what’s running on a most. In addition, maintenance is performed via > >> the HostMaintenance API < > >> > https://github.com/apache/incubator-aurora/blob/master/src/main/python/apache/aurora/admin/host_maintenance.py#L26 > > > >> and should not be done using thermos kill, which would cause LOST tasks. > >> > >> That said, removing this tool makes it much more difficult for Thermos > to > >> be used as a monit <http://mmonit.com/monit/> replacement, which is > >> actually rather feasible now. In addition, it also forces people to > >> remember + learn the port the Observer is running on in order to get > >> information about tasks. > >> > >> Any thoughts and opinions would be much appreciated! > >> > >> Thanks! > >> Joe > >> > >> -- > >> Zameer Manji > >> > >> > > -- > Zameer Manji > >
