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Oleg Komarov
August 14, 2013
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yapc::eu 2013
reliable cron jobs in distributed environment
Oleg Komarov
August 14, 2013
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Transcript
Reliable Cron Jobs in Distributed Environment Oleg Komarov 2013-08-14
What this talk is about decentralizing background job execution maintaining
concurrency (think locks and leases)
Figure: not decentralized
Figure: decentralized
Problems to solve avoid duplicate processes (locking) avoid resource conflicts
(leasing) bear in mind collecting logs monitoring
Common pitfalls of distributed locks no lock cleanup on process
death operating not actually holding the lock
Apache ZooKeeper http://zookeeper.apache.org a distributed, open-source coordination service for distributed
applications reliable, replicated, trx-ordered, single system image operations: create, get, set, get children, delete, exists features: watchers, ephemeral nodes, sequential nodes
Sequential nodes $zkh->create( "/path/basename-", $data, flags => ZOO_SEQUENTIAL ) for
(1 .. 3); creates /path/basename-0000000001 /path/basename-0000000002 /path/basename-0000000003
Synchronization http://zookeeper.apache.org/doc/r3.4.5/recipes.html CPAN Net::ZooKeeper::Lock Net::ZooKeeper::Semaphore
Non-blocking exclusive lock $zkh->create($lock_path, $node_data, acl => ZOO_OPEN_ACL_UNSAFE, flags =>
ZOO_EPHEMERAL, ); if (my $error = $zkh->get_error) { if ($error == ZNODEEXISTS) { return undef; # the lock is held by someone else } else { die "Could not acquire lock $lock_path: $error"; } } # success return $zkh->exists($lock_path, watch => $lock_watch);
Figure: lock supervising
Figure: switchman
switchman a flock-style utility for distributed locks and semaphores https://github.com/komarov/switchman
https://metacpan.org/release/switchman
Features reliable locking fair resource leasing (no starvation) lease name
macros server groups
Resources global DB API utilization local cpu memory io local
as global cpu@serverA memory@serverA
Macros names FQDN cpu FQDN mem values 1:CPU 4096:MEMMB
Figure: control flow
How to setup install switchman create a local configuration file
create a znode in zookeeper modify your crontabs
Configuration /etc/switchman.conf: { "prefix":"/switchman", "zkhosts":"zk1:2181,zk2:2181,zk3:2181", "loglevel":"info", "logfile":"/path/to/log" }
ZooKeeper znode layout /switchman /locks /queues /semaphores
Configuration /switchman znode data: { "groups":{"grp1":["host1","host2"],"grp2":"host1"}, "resources":["FQDN_mem","FQDN_cpu"] }
Usage switchman COMMAND # lockname == command’s basename switchman --lockname
LOCK -- COMMAND [ARGS] switchman --lease FQDN_cpu=1:CPU COMMAND switchman --group grp2 COMMAND # runs only on host1
Left out of scope log aggregation monitoring
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