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Selena Deckelmann
May 06, 2014
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The Final Crontab
About crontabber:
https://github.com/mozilla/crontabber
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May 06, 2014
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The Final Crontab Selena Deckelmann Data Architect, Mozilla @selenamarie http://chesnok.com/
crontabber
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socorro1 socorro3 WAL Socorro1 .dev Socorro1. stage base_backup copy Sunday
noon PT streaming rep Prod socorro2 backup4 base_backup & pg_dump backup reporting1 WAL socorro-db-zeus-rw socorro-db-zeus-ro very architecture very architecture such replicas such replicas wow wow
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Tons more at: http://lqbs.fr/suchcomments/
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http://github.com/mozilla/socorro
http://bit.ly/1fOgBSB
*/5 * * * * socorro crontabber.sh
image by @CoryLoftis
Motivating factors
#ThreeWordHorrorStories
No unit tests
No unit tests
Bespoke shell scripts
Postgres stored procedures
Email from cron
0 5000 10000 15000 20000 25000 Dec 5, 2010 May
5, 2011 Oct 5, 2011 Mar 5, 2012 Aug 5, 2012 Jan 5, 2013 Jun 5, 2013 Nov 5, 2013 Apr 5, 2014 Cron alert messages
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Email from cron that you need to read.
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Cron, what is it good for? • birthday reminders •
status updates for a website • doxygen output for manuals every 12 hours • email nags about bugs filed wrong • ETL • Postgres -> Cloudwatch • Batch processing • Backups of RO DB • Machine heartbeat • “sweet fuck all” • “auto” updates • logging laptop IP • check for abandoned twitter accounts
Running jobs on a predictable schedule
How Socorro uses cron • Time-dependent reports or maintenance •
“Simple” event detection and triggers • Status logging
Our use cases • Stored procedures for materialized views in
Postgres • Daily map-reduces (largely deprecated) • FTP Scraping into Postgres • Bulk email responses to crash submissions pulled from Elastic Search
Jobs that don’t lend themselves to queue management because of
time-dependencies, fragility or complexity.
crontabber https://github.com/mozilla/crontabber
On Github: Peter Bengtsson @peterbe & Lars Lohn @twobraids
pip install crontabber
Our crontabber jobs
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configman https://github.com/mozilla/configman
Our config https://github.com/mozilla/socorro/blob/ master/config/crontabber.ini-dist
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No more shell scripts
#!/bin/bash . /etc/socorro/socorrorc NAME=`basename $0 .sh` lock --ignore-existing $NAME ${PYTHON}
${APPDIR}/socorro/cron/crontabber.py \ --admin.conf=/etc/socorro/crontabber.ini \ >> /var/log/socorro/crontabber.log 2>&1 EXIT_CODE=$? unlock $NAME exit $EXIT_CODE
Retries on failure
Waits to run if a dependency fails
Nagios alerts
15:58 < nagios-phx1> | Sun 15:58:44 PDT [1085] socorroadm.stage.private.phx1.mozilla.com: Socorro
Admin - crontab is CRITICAL: CRITICAL - correlations-addon-matview (CorrelationsAddonCronApp) (http://m.mozilla.org/Socorro+Admin+-+crontab)
Allow configurable number of failures before CRITICAL
Unit test framework for all jobs
Documented dependencies
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Config can get hairy
One-off runs aren’t simple
Parallel execution coming soon! or...
*/5 * * * * socorro crontabber \ --admin.conf=/etc/crontabber1.ini */5
* * * * socorro crontabber \ --admin.conf=/etc/crontabber2.ini */5 * * * * socorro crontabber \ --admin.conf=/etc/crontabber3.ini
crontabber as a module is running in our stage environment
Dependencies • Python 2.6 or higher • Postgres 9.2 or
higher •
https://github.com/mozilla/crontabber Ping us in #breakpad on irc.mozilla.org Tune in: Tuesday
June 10th at 7pm PDT at air.mozilla.com!
The Final Crontab Selena Deckelmann Data Architect, Mozilla @selenamarie http://chesnok.com/