Entropy
Revised on: 6/8/2014 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
We're working on uploading entropy to Pypi. You'll need to run entropy manually till then.
# install git clone https://github.com/stackforge/entropy.git cd entropy python setup.py install (might need sudo). # Pick out entropy/entropy/examples. The example cfgs might need a few minor changes to work for you. Terminal 1: # start an engine. cd entropy/ python entropy start-engine -n test -c examples/cfg/test.cfg Terminal 2: tail -f examples/logs/entropy.log Terminal 3: python entropy register-repair -n demo -c examples/repair/react.json -e test python entropy register-audit -n demo -c examples/audit/audit.json -e test # running the above commands will create a demo.log in examples/logs Terminal 4: tail -f examples/logs/demo.log
Design
Contributors
- Pranesh Pandurangan (Yahoo!)
- Joshua Harlow (Yahoo!)
- Mike Wilson
- Debojyoti Dutta (Cisco)
- You!!
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IRC: You will also find us in #openstack-entropy
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Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/openstack-entropy
Todo
https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/openstack-entropy