Design details and discussion for KNOX-88
Definition
Knox HA is a set of routines for transparent work with Hadoop service that stands in HA mode.
Purpose of Knox HA service
- Automatic failover. (Example: switch request from not responding name-node to active name-node.)
- Pluggable support of failover strategies.
- Daemon-service for regular ping of Hadoop service state (Performance optimization to keeping actual state of service).
Architecture
New provider will be added (descendant ProviderDeploymentContributorBase class) with a set of filters. See Pic.#1 for common architecture.
Pic. #1 – Providers architecture
Definition.
Alias – set of Hadoop name-nodes configured for High Availability mode.
Definition.
High Availability Strategy – plan of defining active name-node and switching between active and stand-by name-nodes. Strategy may contain such parameters as retryCount and timeoutInterval. See Pic.#2 for class diagram for HA mode.
Pic.#2 Class diagram for HA mode.
See Table #1 for class description.
Table #1. – HA mode new classes description.
# | Class name | Description |
---|---|---|
1 | HaUrlRewriteFunctionDescriptor | Describes function that resolves URLs in HA mode |
2 | HaUrlRewriteFunctionProcessor | Implements main logic of defining active or standby URL |
3 | HaBaseStrategyHostMapper | Implements base strategy for HA mode. Contains parameters: retryCount, timeoutInterval. |
See Pic.#2 for UML sequence diagram for UrlRewriteProcessor.
Pic #3 – UML sequence diagram for UrlRewriteProcessor.
Provider configuration example
Please look at the WebHDFS HA section http://knox.apache.org/books/knox-0-5-0/knox-0-5-0.html#WebHDFS
4 Comments
Kevin Minder
Kevin Minder
Where are you planning on detecting the result of a given request in order to determine if that request has failed?
Kevin Minder
How will you be managing the state of a set of service endpoints and how will that be kept thread safe?
Kevin Minder
Minor point. Should failover_strategy be failoverStrategy for consistency?