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== Host Agent ==
 
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=== Requirements ===
 
=== Requirements ===
  
* should be ''nice'' to unix daemons
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* should be a ''nice'' unix daemon
 
* should support syslog
 
* should support syslog
 
* failure should not affect guest instances
 
* failure should not affect guest instances

Latest revision as of 23:30, 17 February 2013

Host Agent

Live Notes may be taken for this topic at: http://etherpad.openstack.org/HostAgent

Requirements

  • should be a nice unix daemon
  • should support syslog
  • failure should not affect guest instances

Considerations

  • Heavy I/O operations should be executed with Processing Pools (or some mechanism that limits concurrent operations)
  • Upgrades to HostAgent code (apt-get update) without breaking current long running tasks (spawning of instances)
  • HostAgent should be stateless, with persistent state in the datastore
  • Support GuestAgent ...