This adds a '--io-setup N' command line option, which users can pass to
specify whether they want to run the "scylla_io_setup" script or not.
This is useful if users want to specify I/O settings themselves in
environments such as Kubernetes, where running "iotune" is problematic.
Fixes#6587
We already have a docker image option to enable alternator on an unencrypted
port, "--alternator-port", but we forgot to also allow the similar option
for enabling alternator on an encrypted (HTTPS) port: "--alternator-https-port"
so this patch adds the missing option, and documents how to use it.
Note that using this option is not enough. When this option is used,
Alternator also requires two files, /etc/scylla/scylla.crt and
/etc/scylla/scylla.key, to be inserted into the image. These files should
contain the SSL certificate, and key, respectively. If these files are
missing, you will get an error in the log about the missing file.
Fixes#6583.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@scylladb.com>
Message-Id: <20200621125219.12274-1-nyh@scylladb.com>
Alternator supports four ways in which write operations can use quorum
writes or LWT or both, which we called "write isolation policies".
Until this patch, Alternator defaulted to the most generally safe policy,
"always_use_lwt". This default could have been overriden for each table
separately, but there was no way to change this default for all tables.
This patch adds a "--alternator-write-isolation" configuration option which
allows changing the default.
Moreover, @dorlaor asked that users must *explicitly* choose this default
mode, and not get "always_use_lwt" without noticing. The previous default,
"always_use_lwt" supports any workload correctly but because it uses LWT
for all writes it may be disappointingly slow for users who run write-only
workloads (including most benchmarks) - such users might find the slow
writes so disappointing that they will drop Scylla. Conversely, a default
of "forbid_rmw" will be faster and still correct, but will fail on workloads
which need read-modify-write operations - and suprise users that need these
operations. So Dor asked that that *none* of the write modes be made the
default, and users must make an informed choice between the different write
modes, rather than being disappointed by a default choice they weren't
aware of.
So after this patch, Scylla refuses to boot if Alternator is enabled but
a "--alternator-write-isolation" option is missing.
The patch also modifies the relevant documentation, adds the same option to
our docker image, and the modifies the test-running script
test/alternator/run to run Scylla with the old default mode (always_use_lwt),
which we need because we want to test RMW operations as well.
Fixes#6452
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@scylladb.com>
Message-Id: <20200524160338.108417-1-nyh@scylladb.com>
This adds a "alternator-address" and "alternator-port" configuration
options to the Docker image, so people can enable Alternator with
"docker run" with:
docker run --name some-scylla -d <image> --alternator-port=8080
Message-Id: <20190902110920.19269-1-penberg@scylladb.com>
While we keep ordinary hints in a directory parallel to the data directory,
we decided to keep the materialized view hints in a subdirectory of the data
directory, named "view_pending_updates". But during boot, we expect all
subdirectories of data/ to be keyspace names, and when we notice this one,
we print a warning:
WARN: database - Skipping undefined keyspace: view_pending_updates
This spurious warning annoyed users. But moreover, we could have bigger
problems if the user actually tries to create a keyspace with that name.
So in this patch, we move the view hints to a separate top-level directory,
which defaults to /var/lib/scylla/view_hints, but as usual can be configured.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@scylladb.com>
Message-Id: <20190107142257.16342-1-nyh@scylladb.com>
By default Scylla docker runs without the security features.
This patch adds support for the user to supply different params values for the
authenticator and authorizer classes and allowing to setup a secure Scylla in
Docker.
For example if you want to run a secure Scylla with password and authorization:
docker run --name some-scylla -d scylladb/scylla --authenticator
PasswordAuthenticator --authorizer CassandraAuthorizer
Update the Docker documentation with the new command line options.
Signed-off-by: Noam Hasson <noam@scylladb.com>
Message-Id: <20180620122340.30394-1-noam@scylladb.com>
By default, overprovisioned is not enabled on docker unless it is
explicitly set. I have come to believe that this is a mistake.
If the user is running alone in the machine, and there are no other
processes pinned anywhere - including interrupts - not running
overprovisioned is the best choice.
But everywhere else, it is not: even if a user runs 2 docker containers
in the same machine and statically partitions CPUs with --smp (but
without cpuset) the docker containers will pin themselves to the same
sets of CPU, as they are totally unaware of each other.
It is also very common, specially in some virtualized environments, for
interrupts not to be properly distributed - being particularly keen on
being delivered on CPU0, a CPU which Scylla will pin by default.
Lastly, environments like Kubernetes simply don't support pinning at the
moment.
This patch enables the overprovisioned flag if it is explicitly set -
like we did before - but also by default unless --cpuset is set.
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glauber@scylladb.com>
Message-Id: <20180331142131.842-1-glauber@scylladb.com>
This patch takes a modified version of the Ubuntu 14.04 housekeeping
service script and uses it in Docker to validate the current version.
To disable the version validation, pass the --disable-version-check flag
when running the container.
Message-Id: <20180220161231.1630-1-amnon@scylladb.com>
Using --hostname to give the container a meaningful name is a good
practice, and make the monitoring dashboard easier to understand
Signed-off-by: Tzach Livyatan <tzach@scylladb.com>
Message-Id: <20170803081027.6675-1-tzach@scylladb.com>
Glauber "eagle eyes" Costa pointed out that the Scylla logo used in our
Docker image documentation looks broken because it's missing the Scylla
text.
Fix the problem by using the Scylla mascot instead.
Message-Id: <1471525154-2800-1-git-send-email-penberg@scylladb.com>
The bug tracker URL in our Docker image documentation is not clickable
because the URL Markdown extracts automatically is broken.
Fix that and add some more links on how to get help and report issues.
Message-Id: <1471524880-2501-1-git-send-email-penberg@scylladb.com>
Fix Docker Hub documentation to match what we have right now.
More work is needed in the following areas:
* How to make a cluster
* How to configure Docker image for production use
