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Brian Stansberry commented on WFCORE-1340:
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A WFC 2 slave will send its ignore-unused-configuration setting when it registers. If this
is set to true, the DC will not use any of this domain wide data in its handling of that
slave. That setting means the slave is taking responsibility for informing the DC of what
should be ignored. Mixing this WFCORE-1340 functionality into that creates too much
complication.
An EAP 6.x slave can't set ignore-unused-configuration, so there is no confusion for
that use case, which is the primary one.
Store "host ignore" data in the domain wide model
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Key: WFCORE-1340
URL:
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFCORE-1340
Project: WildFly Core
Issue Type: Enhancement
Components: Domain Management
Reporter: Brian Stansberry
Assignee: Brian Stansberry
Fix For: 3.0.0.Alpha1
Including an EAP 6.x slave in a mixed domain managed by a WF 10 / EAP 7 DC is overly
difficult operationally because potentially numerous host configurations need to be
manually updated whenever new server groups and profiles are added.
An issue with managing mixed domains is the need for the slave's host.xml to include
configuration of what domain-wide content should be ignored. This isn't nice as it
requires modifying potentially many host configs when new domain-wide content is added
(e.g. new server groups or profiles that the legacy slaves won't understand.)
Core 2 / Full 10 are better in this regard as they allow
"ignore-unused-configuration" where stuff is auto-ignored. But this still has
weaknesses:
1) The "ignore-unused-configuration" logic is slave-side and is not present in
EAP 6.x slaves. So for those slaves manual configuration is the only option.
2) Extensions are not covered, so new extensions in later releases may need to be
manually configured. (The goal though is to cover this in 11, so this JIRA would just
provide a fallback for 11 DCs managing 10 slaves in case that goal is not met. EAP 6
slaves would not benefit from this though.)
Idea here is to include config for host-ignores in the domain-wide model, for use by the
DC. It's in the domain-wide model, not the DC's host.xml, to ensure that any
backup HC has the latest data.
Proposed structure:
Resources are at address /host-ignore=*
Attributes are:
* slave-api-major-version
* slave-api-minor-version
* slave-api-micro-version
* slave-release
These identify the category of slave to which host-ignore data should be applied when a
matching slave registers. The first 3 attributes identify the *core management API
version* of the slave (not its release version.) The last is a user-friendly *alternative*
to the first 3 and is an enum identifying well known releases (e.g. EAP6.2, EAP6.3,
EAP6.4) from which the api versions can be derived.
If slave-api-micro-version is undefined, the meaning is the config applies to all
releases of the given major/minor version, excluding any for which a config with a micro
version specified is also present. Not specifying a micro is expected to be the norm. The
"slave-release" enums will be for minors.
In addition to the above scoping attributes, the following attributes will be supported:
* ignored-extensions
* unignored-server-groups
The ignored-extensions attribute is a list of extension names the resources for which
(/extension=X) should be treated as ignored by the target hosts.
The unignored-server-groups attribute is a list of server groups names the members of
which should be treated as *not* ignored by the target hosts. These are the groups used by
the host's servers. The server-group and related profile, socket-binding-group and
deployment resources will not be ignored; all others will be ignored. This is the same
data that a core 2 / WF 10 slave sends when it registers. This JIRA just provides a
different mechanism for making the data known to the DC.
Adding a new group to unignored-server-groups will not cause existing slave HCs to get
new data sent to them, at least not in the first round of this work. The slave will need
to reconnect to get new data.
There is other data that could be included in these resources, e.g. fine grained
"ignore" information matching what can be configured in host.xml, but that is
out of scope for this first cut, and may never be added if there is no clear demand.