[jira] [Commented] (HELIX-94) Add the ability to enable and disable a resource

["kishore gopalakrishna (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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kishore gopalakrishna commented on HELIX-94:
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I thought a little more about it. We might actually have two requirements

1. PAUSE resource: We want to controller to not send any transitions related to a resource. This may not only be at the start up of the cluster, it might be at any time. Its more like pause option for the cluster which means controller will not do issue any transitions but the participant will continue to function normally. This option is useful when some is starting up the cluster for the first time or do a rolling upgrade. Pausing the controller will avoid lot of unnecessary transitions.

2. DISABLE resource: This is more like disabling an instance or a partition. It means the resource should not be hosted on any PARTICIPANT. So if the resource is already hosted on some PARTICIPANTS controller will bring it back to OFFLINE similar to what it does when an instance is disabled.

What do you think?
                
> Add the ability to enable and disable a resource
> ------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HELIX-94
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HELIX-94
>             Project: Apache Helix
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: helix-core
>    Affects Versions: 0.6.0-incubating
>            Reporter: Vinayak Borkar
>
> It would be useful to provide a way to enable and disable resource just as there are ways to enable/disable partitions and instances.
> Initially, when a new resource is created, it should start in the disabled state. The user will be required to explicitly enable the resource in order for it to participate in External View computation. This will provide a clean interface for users to add new resources and configure them fully before they are made "visible" to the cluster to provide an "atomic" view of a configured resource.

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