Meetings/Storlets

Meeting Time: Every Wednesday at 13:00 UTC in #openstack-storlets

Agenda:

• Prioritize patches (suggestion):
  • https://review.openstack.org/#/c/283486/ (COPY functionality)
  • https://review.openstack.org/#/c/276545/ (Improve timeout handling)
  • https://review.openstack.org/#/c/282135/ (Refactor unit tests about storlet docker gateway)
  • https://review.openstack.org/#/c/280570/ (waiting 282135)
  • https://review.openstack.org/#/c/285947/ (Refactor directory structure about python modules): Should be fixed
    • We should decide when we deal with directory refactoring, to avoid many merge conflicts caused by that change. [takashi]

• Storlet in Hackathon etherpad
  • I would like to add another analytics related question.
  • What timeframe do we think we need?

Austin:

• We currently have the following abstract
  • Title: From Analytic to Image Processing in Swift with Openstack Storlets
  • Openstack Stolets is an emerging Openstack project aimed at pushing down data centric compute jobs to the object store. Storlets offer a server-less programming model enabling developers to quickly develop and deploy data path computations without worrying about the underlying platform details.
  • Storlets facilitate several interesting use cases such as:
    • Performing image processing in the storage, allowing to process large objects without downloading it.
    • Spark analytic push down to the store, saving on both bandwidth and memory in the analytic cluster.
    • Data obfuscation and anonymization at the source. Thus, preventing sensitive data from ever leaving the store.
  • In this talk we will present the project, discuss and demonstrate the use cases and present a PoC about an effective architecture for image processing using Storlets done at NTT.

Swift Hackathon

• See the following etherpad
  • https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/swift-hackathon-feb-2016-storlets

Bugs

• Range handling: on going
  • bug reports
    • https://bugs.launchpad.net/storlets/+bug/1534414
    • https://bugs.launchpad.net/storlets/+bug/1534455
  • patches
    • https://review.openstack.org/#/c/282931/
    • https://review.openstack.org/#/c/283423/
• FD leak
  • FD leak in Storlet GET: https://bugs.launchpad.net/storlets/+bug/1537982 (Fix Released)
    • https://review.openstack.org/#/c/272379/ ... merged
  • There are other possible FD leaks, which may happen in timeout/exception case.
    • Use context manager to make sure all FDs are closed: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/282211/ (patch should be fixed)