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Inductor

The Inductor consumes WorkOrders (rfc / configuration change) or ActionOrders (start, stop, etc) from a queue by zone, executes them and posts a result message back to the controller.

A WorkOrder is a request for change (RFC) of a configuration item (CI). An ActionOrder is request to perform an action that is typically not associated to a configuration item. Example action are reboot, repair, snapshot, restore, etc.

The account.Cloud.location is used by the controller to publish the order into a queue. The inductors consume, does the work and publish the result back to the controller.response queue.

Here is the logical flow from CMS:

Inductor Details

The inductor is Java core with Ruby for control. The Java side is standard maven + spring,basically a Spring DefaultMessageListenerContainer using Apache Commons DefaultExecutor to spawn either local chef-solo (for IaaS or non-managed via orders) or a remote via SSH chef-solo execution.

The image below shows a logical view of the classes in com.oneops.inductor.

There is a ruby gem to simplify setup and control.

Source / Downloads

Repo
Gem

Control

An Inductor runs using Java jar with a several arguments. There is a gem or bash script to make easier.

Inductor gem: inductor help, start, stop, restart, status

Inductor control bash script located in the root dir of the repo: ./inductor start,stop,restart,status

Logs / Inductor Log Agent and Sink

The Inductor will put logs where the conf.dir’s log4j.xml specifies. The gem redirects to the relative log dir.

The inductor logs are shipped using logstash forwarder to backe end elastic search cluster.

The UI uses the daq api (Spring based) PerfController to get data.

Inductor Directory Structure

The directory structure after you have created inductor successfully will look like this,

cd /opt/oneops/inductor
├── circuit-oneops-1 -> /home/oneops/build/circuit-oneops-1 from (https://github.com/oneops/circuit-oneops-1)
├── clouds-available # All inductor which are created will go in this
│   └── public.oneops.clouds.aws
├── clouds-enabled
│   └── public.oneops.clouds.aws -> ../clouds-available/public.oneops.clouds.aws
├── Gemfile
├── Gemfile.lock
├── init.d
│   └── inductor
├── lib
│   └── client.ts
├── log
└── shared ## Refer (https://github.com/oneops/oneops-admin/tree/master/lib/shared)
    ├── cookbooks
    ├── exec-gems.yaml
    ├── exec-order.rb
    └── hiera.yaml

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