Docker Swarm zero conf about orbiter HOT 1 CLOSED

The autodetection is implemented only for swarm. Because at the moment DigitalOcean doesn't support this kind of strategy.

At the moment the code is a mess but it's working. If you don't specify a configuration file when you start orbiter

orbiter daemon -config

The daemon fallback to autodetection mode. It's only implemented for Swarm and it works in this way:

1. Check for EnvVar and it creates a new Docker client and it checks if there is a daemon up and running. If there is not the daemon is going to exit because the autodetection didn't discover anything.
2. If there is a daemon up and running it checks if swarm mode is enabled. If it's not orbiter exit.
3. It gets list of services and it checks for the label orbiter if it exists it register a new autoscaler called autodetect_swarm/wikidiff_worker. Where wikidiff_worker is the service name.
4. It also looks for other 2 labels orbiter.up and orbiter.down to set the right scaling value. If they doesn't exist is using 1 and 1.

At this point you have all the services registered and you can do something like:

curl -v -d '{"direction": true}'  http://localhost:8000/handle/autodetect_swarm/wikidiff_worker

To scale as usual.

What do to

There is something to do:

1. Move the autodetection logic into the provider. If the provider is not supporting autodetecting it can just return an error.
2. Make smarter the fallback function in order to scale and to call all the autodetection provider to self-configure orbiter.

This two points are necessary to make the codebase flexible and maintainable. But the POC is there and it's working.

Follow up issues #13

from orbiter.