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Mistral Introduction. Lingxian Kong <anlin.kong@gmail.com> IRC: xylan_kong. Agenda. What's Mistral Use Cases Example Concepts & Architecture Key Features Mistral v.s. Heat/TaskFlow/SWF Roadmap. What's Workflow?. What's Mistral ?.
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Mistral Introduction Lingxian Kong <anlin.kong@gmail.com> IRC: xylan_kong
Agenda What's Mistral Use Cases Example Concepts & Architecture Key Features Mistral v.s. Heat/TaskFlow/SWF Roadmap
What's Mistral? Mistral is an OpenStack Official Project under 'Big Tent' Provide a mechanism to define and execute workflows without writing the code
Use Cases Cloud Cron: a system administrator can schedule cloud tasks for periodical execution Cloud Environment Deployment: Specify workflows needed for deploying environments consisting of multiple VMs and applications. Live Migration: on CPU close to 100% run specific migration workflow Long-Running Business Process Big Data Analysis & Reporting ......
Cloud Cron Mistral acts as a mediator between a user, virtual instances and cloud services in a sense that it brings capabilities over them like task management (start, stop etc.), task state and execution monitoring (success, failure, in progress etc.) and task scheduling
Who are Mistral Users? • OpenStack developers: Nova, Heat, Murano, Solum etc. • Administrators: capabilities like Cloud Cron to schedule periodic helper cloud tasks (statement analysis, backups etc.) • Enterprise application developers: automate business processes consisting of multiple distributed processing steps
Concepts Workflow - consists of tasks (at least one) describing what exact steps should be made during workflow execution Task - Task is what a workflow consists of Action - a particular piece of work associated with a task CronTrigger - periodicly executed workflow Execution - indicates an individual running procedure of a workflow workflow
Key Features Restful Web service Cron trigger Synchronous/Asynchronous task Direct/Reverse workflow Nested workflows Workflow validation Built-in actions: core OpenStack service clients integration, HTTP, Email, SSH… Pluggable actions Task policies and conditions Scalability for executions Ad-hoc actions Dry-run actions coming with more...
Mistral & Heat Heat application-oriented application lifecyle management nested stack pluggable resources retry/rollback on failure ... Mistral workflow-oriented nested workflow pluggable actions execution monitoring & user-defined transition ...
Mistral & TaskFlow TaskFlow Python library that you can use inside your Python app to manage Python workflows Mistral out-of-process service that is language-agnostic cannot execute some arbitrary Python code directly as an external service it can have distributed task execution, scalability and HA
Mistral & Amazon SWF Simple Workflow Service task management infrastructure designed to be language-oriented (Java, Ruby) only can be used with its SDK Mistral a standalone service usable without SDK in any programming language
Roadmap Polishing Mistral Dashboard (all needed CRUD operations) Service managment Expiration-policies-for-executions Resource sharing among tenants Mesos integration(maybe) ......
How to contribute Launchpad home page https://launchpad.net/mistral Code repos https://github.com/openstack/mistral https://github.com/openstack/mistral-extra https://github.com/openstack/python-mistralclient Description on OpenStack Wiki wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Mistral Contributors: Huawei, Mirantis, StackStorm, Alcatel-Lucent...
Thanks for Attending! Project: launchpad.net/mistral IRC: #openstack-mistral Me: Lingxian Kong Email: anlin.kong@gmail.com Q & A