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svn commit: r1680318 - /incubator/slider/site/trunk/content/docs/slider_specs/application_pkg_upgrade.md

Author: gourksaha
Date: Tue May 19 15:33:12 2015
New Revision: 1680318

URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1680318
Log:
few modifications of upgrade verbiage

Modified:
    incubator/slider/site/trunk/content/docs/slider_specs/application_pkg_upgrade.md

Modified: incubator/slider/site/trunk/content/docs/slider_specs/application_pkg_upgrade.md
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/slider/site/trunk/content/docs/slider_specs/application_pkg_upgrade.md?rev=1680318&r1=1680317&r2=1680318&view=diff
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--- incubator/slider/site/trunk/content/docs/slider_specs/application_pkg_upgrade.md (original)
+++ incubator/slider/site/trunk/content/docs/slider_specs/application_pkg_upgrade.md Tue May 19 15:33:12 2015
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ to `1.1.0`, then sufficient **_regionser
 at the time of the upgrade. Application owners also need to ensure that their application is compatible 
 in a mixed version mode. So, while the **_regionservers_** are getting upgraded, the **_master_** will 
 still be the older version. Hence `1.1.0` **_regionserver_** should be backward compatible with `0.98.4` 
-**_masters_**.
+**_master_**.
 
 Currently, _Ambari Slider View_ supports automated deployment and management of application packages.
 Automated application package upgrade will be supported soon.
@@ -38,19 +38,19 @@ Automated application package upgrade wi
 ## Phases of Upgrade/Downgrade
 
 #### YARN core (libraries and configurations) upgrade/downgrade
-Running Slider apps will continue to run, with no downtime
+> Running Slider apps will continue to run, with no downtime
 
 #### Slider client upgrade/downgrade
-Does not affect running Slider apps at all. New version of client can co-exist with older versions.
+> Does not affect running Slider apps at all. New version of client can co-exist with older versions of client.
 
 #### Slider Application Master upgrade/downgrade of running applications
-Applications started prior to the start of YARN core upgrade/downgrade, will continue to run with the 
-older versions of Slider and Hadoop core libraries. To upgrade running Slider AMs the application needs 
-to be stopped and restarted with the new version of the client. There is no support for rolling upgrade 
-of Slider AM.
+> Applications started prior to the start of YARN core upgrade/downgrade, will continue to run with the 
+older versions of Slider core and Hadoop libraries. There is no support for rolling upgrade of Slider AM.
+To upgrade running Slider AMs, the application needs to be stopped and restarted with the new version
+of the client.
 
 #### Applications deployed by Slider (binaries and configurations) upgrade/downgrade
-This is the what this document is primarily about.
+> This is the what this document is primarily about.
 
 ## Upgrade Slider Application Packages
 
@@ -58,6 +58,15 @@ A run-book style list of atomic steps ex
 by Apache Ambari in a future release. It can be easily orchestrated by a shell script 
 or executed manually in the correct order.
 
+Note, the following YARN property should be specified to a reasonably high value (say 5 or 10) before performing
+application upgrade. The default value of this property in a YARN cluster is set to 2, which is not recommended
+for long running applications (specifically when performing upgrade).
+
+    <property>
+      <name>yarn.resourcemanager.am.max-attempts</name>
+      <value>10</value>
+    </property>
+
 ### An application owner brings a new package and creates a new instance
 
 Upload a new application package *slider-hbase-app-package_v1.0.zip*
@@ -66,11 +75,11 @@ Upload a new application package *slider
 
 Create an application *MyHBase_Facebook_Finance*
 
-    slider create MyHBase_Facebook_Finance --template ~/myHBase_template_v1.0.json --resources ~/myHBase_resources_v1.0.json
+    slider create MyHBase_Facebook_Finance --template ~/myHBase_appConfig_v1.0.json --resources ~/myHBase_resources_v1.0.json
 
-Application *MyHBase_Facebook_Finance* goes through its usual lifecycle
+Application *MyHBase_Facebook_Finance* goes through its usual lifecycle, say flex *regionservers* up
 
-    slider flex MyHBase_Facebook_Finance --component HBASE_MASTER 5
+    slider flex MyHBase_Facebook_Finance --component HBASE_REGIONSERVER 5
 
 ### The app owner can list all containers of an app instance with filtering options
 
@@ -84,27 +93,27 @@ Application *MyHBase_Facebook_Finance* g
 
 ### At some point, the app owner has a newer version of the package and needs to upgrade
 
-Uploads the newer version 2.0 of the app package
+Upload the newer version 2.0 of the app package
 
     slider package --install --name MyHBase_Facebook --version 2.0 --package ~/slider-hbase-app-package_v2.0.zip
 
-This command upgrades the internal state of Slider App Master with the new config and resource 
-specifications. After this, upgrade command needs to be issued against all containers to upgrade 
+The following command upgrades the internal state of Slider App Master with the new config and resource 
+specifications. After this, upgrade command needs to be issued against all containers, to upgrade 
 them to the new app version e.g. v2.0 in this case. Note, it is recommended to not issue the 
-flex command, although Slider does not explicitly block it.
+flex command until all containers are upgraded, although Slider does not explicitly block it.
 
-    slider upgrade MyHBase_Facebook_Finance --template ~/myHBase_template_v2.0.json --resources ~/myHBase_resources_v2.0.json
+    slider upgrade MyHBase_Facebook_Finance --template ~/myHBase_appConfig_v2.0.json --resources ~/myHBase_resources_v2.0.json
     
 At this point the upgrade orchestrator (Ambari or a script) will rely on the slider `list` command with 
 `--containers` option (with additional filter options `--components` and/or `--version`) to find all 
 the containers that are running for the application. The orchestrator needs to decide how it wants to 
 span/schedule the upgrade commands of every single container. This will primarily depend on the 
-type of the application. For e.g. say *HBase* might want to call upgrade on all *Master* containers 
+type of the application. For e.g. say, *HBase* might want to call upgrade on the *Master* container(s) 
 first before calling upgrade on any of the *RegionServer* containers. *Storm* might want to provide 
 a 5 min delay between the upgrade of the *Nimbus* and *Supervisor* container(s).
 
 Upgrade all containers with ids `id1, id2, .. idn`. It is possible that all these n containers can 
-actually be down at the same time. If this is not desired, then issue n upgrade command with a 
+actually be down at the same time. If this is not desired, then issue n upgrade commands with a 
 single container id at a time.
 
     slider upgrade MyHBase_Facebook_Finance --containers id1 id2 .. idn
@@ -121,9 +130,10 @@ one container at a time.
 
 ### When do we know that upgrade is complete?
 
-The upgrade command need to be executed against all containers and upgrade can be considered 
-complete only if the command `slider list MyHBase_Facebook_Finance --containers --version 1.0`  
-returns no containers.
+The upgrade command needs to be executed against all containers. Upgrade can be considered 
+complete only if the following command returns no containers.
+
+    slider list MyHBase_Facebook_Finance --containers --version 1.0
 
 The app owner can also call `slider list MyHBase_Facebook_Finance --containers` to explicitly 
 check that all expected containers are running and with the desired new version (e.g. 2.0 in 
@@ -144,9 +154,9 @@ were upgraded to the newer version.
 This command although called upgrade, actually downgrades the internal state of Slider App 
 Master with the old v1.0 config and resource specifications
 
-    slider upgrade MyHBase_Facebook_Finance --template ~/myHBase_template_v1.0.json --resources ~/myHBase_resources_v1.0.json
+    slider upgrade MyHBase_Facebook_Finance --template ~/myHBase_appConfig_v1.0.json --resources ~/myHBase_resources_v1.0.json
 
-Take the list of all containers returned by the list command -
+Gather the list of all containers returned by the *list* command -
 
     slider list MyHBase_Facebook_Finance --containers --version 2.0
 
@@ -154,38 +164,50 @@ And issue upgrade command on all of them
 
     slider upgrade MyHBase_Facebook_Finance --containers id1 id2 .. idn
 
+Downgrade is done when the following command returns no containers.
+
+    slider list MyHBase_Facebook_Finance --containers --version 2.0
+
 ## Pre and post upgrade hooks
 
 ### Pre-upgrade hook (optional)
-The pre-upgrade steps, if provided, will allow applications to execute simple housekeeping tasks 
+> The pre-upgrade steps, if provided, will allow applications to execute simple housekeeping tasks 
 before Slider actually calls stop operation in an upgrade scenario (specifically if they need to 
 be performed in every single container and 1000s of them are running). An example could be to 
 send a message to a queue that the current instance of memcached is going down so that the load 
 balancer rules can be dynamically updated. Performing long-running tasks or tasks that needs to 
 be executed by only 1 instance of a component (n instances of which are running) should be 
-performed manually before calling upgrade (or maybe before calling the upgrade command). The 
+performed manually before starting the upgrade process. The 
 pre-upgrade hook is not a good candidate for such operations. Additional parameters might have 
 to be exposed, like timeout, which can be used to wait at most n seconds (say) after which Slider 
 will call the application stop hook even if the pre-upgrade operation is not completed.
 
-### Post-upgrade hook (optional) - not yet supported
-This allows applications to perform simple housekeeping tasks prior to calling start on the new 
+> Use `app-packages/hbase/package/scripts/hbase_master.py` as a sample for defining the 
+pre-upgrade hook. Note, the pre-upgrade hook will be triggered only if the currently running
+application has been created using Slider verion `0.80.0-incubating` or later and the scripts
+in the package has the pre-upgrade hook defined.
+
+### Post-upgrade hook (optional) - `not yet supported`
+> This allows applications to perform simple housekeeping tasks prior to calling start on the new 
 version of the application component. This is helpful only if such tasks are required to be 
-performed in every single container and 1000s of them are running. This is required only in the 
-upgrade scenario and should not be called on new containers created using flex up in non-upgrade 
-scenarios. This is tricky, how will Slider determine this? I don’t think we need a post-upgrade 
-hook? Clarify with Rakesh and remove?
+performed in every single container and 1000s of them are running. This hook will be triggered only in the 
+upgrade scenario. It will not be called on new containers created using flex up, in non-upgrade 
+scenarios. This makes triggering of post-upgrade hook a little tricky and hence is not supported
+today. This will be looked into, in future releases.
 
 ## Upgrade support of simple apps with no packages
 - Upgrade of such simple apps does not involve binaries
 - Upgrade of such simple apps basically means re-configuration only
 - The following can be done to perform the reconfiguration (or upgrade if you prefer to call so)
-    - Download the app package that was internally created by Slider from HDFS (First class Slider 
-      command-line support will not be provided for download. So refer to documentation or get 
-      Slider/Yarn admin support to find the app package location in HDFS.)
+    - Download the app package that was internally created by Slider from HDFS. This is the path
+       defined in `application.def` property in the *appConfig.json* file. Slider client command-line
+      support is not available to perform this download (yet). So, refer to documentation or get 
+      Slider/Yarn admin support if required.
+    - Unzip the application package
     - Make necessary changes to metainfo.json and repackage the app
     - Make necessary updates to appConfig.json and resources.json
-    - Follow the upgrade steps provided in this document to upgrade the simple app
+    - Re-package the application package (this is the newer version of your package, say v2.0)
+    - Follow the upgrade steps provided in this document to upgrade the simple app to v2.0
 
 ## Assumptions/Recommendations
 
@@ -195,10 +217,9 @@ hook? Clarify with Rakesh and remove?
   (on which the upgrade command was not called yet) fails, then its replacement container will 
   come up with the newer version of the application.
 - It is recommended to not call `flex` (to increase or decrease the no of containers assigned 
-  to a specific role) after the upgrade command has been issued and until upgrade command is 
+  to a specific role) after the upgrade spec command has been issued and until upgrade command is 
   issued on all currently running containers (as per current resource specification). Basically 
   avoid calling flex until `slider list --containers --version <old_ver>` returns no more 
   containers. Note, flex command is not explicitly blocked by Slider, hence unexpected 
-  behavior of the application might occur if called.
-
+  behavior of the application might occur, if called.