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Entropy

Revised on: 3/7/2014 by Pranesh Pandurangan

Summary

Entropy is a framework to write audit and repair scripts for openstack. It will allow writing cluster-check scripts, and define reactions to the errors/issues these bugs raise.

Entropy will allow developers to write health checkers without worrying about deployment, setting up a Jenkins, integrating with an emailer, etc. It also allows definition of "reaction" scripts that wait on issues and take well defined actions (file a ticket, mark a hypervisor bad, etc). This automates reacting to failure at one level, and tackles inundating SEs with emails about (probably) minor issues. A potentially more important use is to aggregate failures, notice trends in failures, and developing a database of known failures to make dealing with new ones easier.

Conceptual Example

Design

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Contributors

  • Pranesh Pandurangan (Yahoo!)
  • Joshua Harlow (Yahoo!)
  • Mike Wilson
  • Debojyoti Dutta (Cisco)
  • You!!

Join us!

IRC: You will also find us in #openstack-entropy on freenode

Todo

https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/openstack-entropy

Code