After this change, the load balancer can make progress with active migrations. If the algorithm is called with active tablet migrations in tablet metadata, those are treated by load balancer as if they were already completed. This allows the algorithm to incrementally make decision which when executed with active migrations will produce the desired result. Overload of shards is limited by the fact that the algorithm tracks streaming concurrency on both source and target shards of active migrations and takes concurrency limit into account when producing new migrations. The coordinator executes the load balancer on edges of tablet state machine stransitions. This allows new migrations to be started as soon as tablets finish streaming. The load balancer is also continuously invoked as long as it produces a non-empty plan. This is in order to saturate the cluster with streaming. A single make_plan() call is still not saturating, due to the way algorithm is implemented.
ScyllaDB Documentation
This repository contains the source files for ScyllaDB Open Source documentation.
- The
devfolder contains developer-oriented documentation related to the ScyllaDB code base. It is not published and is only available via GitHub. - All other folders and files contain user-oriented documentation related to ScyllaDB Open Source and are sources for docs.scylladb.com.
To report a documentation bug or suggest an improvement, open an issue in GitHub issues for this project.
To contribute to the documentation, open a GitHub pull request.
Key Guidelines for Contributors
- Follow the ScyllaDB Style Guide.
- The user documentation is written in reStructuredText (RST) - a plaintext markup language similar to Markdown. If you're not familiar with RST, see ScyllaDB RST Examples.
- The developer documentation is written in Markdown. See Basic Markdown Syntax for reference.
Creating Knowledge Base Articles
The kb/ directory holds source files for knowledge base articles in the Knowledge Base section of the ScyllaDB documentation.
The kb/kb_common subdirectory contains a template for knowledge base articles to help you create new articles.
To create a new knowledge base article (KB):
- Copy the
kb-article-template.rstfile from/kb/kb_commonto/kband rename it with a unique name. - Open the new file and fill in the required information.
- Remove what is not needed.
- Run
make previewto build the docs and preview them locally. - Send a PR with "KB" in its title.
Building User Documentation
Prerequisites
- Python 3. Check your version with
$ python --version. - poetry 1.12 or later
- make
Mac OS X
You must have a working Homebrew in order to install the needed tools.
You also need the standard utility make.
Check if you have these two items with the following commands:
brew help
make -h
Linux Distributions
Building the user docs should work out of the box on most Linux distributions.
Windows
Use "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" for the same tools and capabilities as on Linux distributions.
Building the Docs
- Run
make previewto build the documentation. - Preview the built documentation locally at http://127.0.0.1:5500/.
Cleanup
You can clean up all the build products and auto-installed Python stuff with:
make pristine
Information for Contributors
If you are interested in contributing to Scylla docs, please read the Scylla open source page at http://www.scylladb.com/opensource/ and complete a Scylla contributor agreement if needed. We can only accept documentation pull requests if we have a contributor agreement on file for you.
Third-party Documentation
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Do any copying as a separate commit. Always commit an unmodified version first and then do any editing in a separate commit.
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We already have a copy of the Apache license in our tree, so you do not need to commit a copy of the license.
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Include the copyright header from the source file in the edited version. If you are copying an Apache Cassandra document with no copyright header, use:
This document includes material from Apache Cassandra.
Apache Cassandra is Copyright 2009-2014 The Apache Software Foundation.