OpenStack Heat

Auto-scaling notifications through Marconi, the OpenStack Queuing and Notification Service

Registered by Patrick Petit

Enabling of stack's life-cycles management with auto-scaling requires some form user-land notifications to be inform of scale-up and scale-down events. Upon the receiving of such notifications, a Heat client could initiate a (re)configuration action to take into account that change of state. For example, add or remove the IP address of a cluster of instances and so reflect the actual state of the stack. The creation of an auto-scaling-group in AWS EC2 supports that capability through specifying a NotificationConfiguration property which associates an SNS topic with a list of auto-scaling events.
Check http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-properties-as-notificationconfiguration.html for details. Similarly, it is assumed that user-land notifications could be supported in Heat for auto-scaling using Marconi, the OpenStack Queuing and Notification Service for the following event types:

- autoscaling:EC2_INSTANCE_LAUNCH
- autoscaling:EC2_INSTANCE_LAUNCH_ERROR
- autoscaling:EC2_INSTANCE_TERMINATE
- autoscaling:EC2_INSTANCE_TERMINATE_ERROR

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Currently there is no clear support of an asynchronous pub/sub notification service in Marconi but the Icehouse design summit agenda suggests that it will be extended to (hopefully) fulfill that gap (see https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Summit/Icehouse/Etherpads).

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