Policy Manager: Managing facts, rules and actions

Guillermo Jiménez, Fernando López

IMDEA // TIDCloud Chapter. FICOREGuillermo.jimenezprieto@imdea.org, @geon_exus

fernando.lopezaguilar@telefonica.com, @flopezaguilar

TECHNOLOGIES

PythonDjango

Pyclips frameworkClips

Redis

RabbitMQMySQL

POLICIES

• Policy Manager provides different policies to get VMautomation in the cloud.

• It could be uses to get notification about different factsand actions.

• Those facts and actions are executed when certainconditions are taking place.

EXAMPLE POLICIES

• Data resources collected from the virtual machines.

• CPU, Memory, Hard Disk and network usage.

• User could define some conditions and actions to beperformed.

• This allows infinite possibilities:

• load balancing policies moving VMs to nodes with less utilization,

• increase resources or nodes number

• availability policies (restart VM) when it crashes.

• generate this VM in different nodes, etc.

FEATURES

Policy Manager implements a REST API to manage rules.

User could write his own rules.

Rules are written in a simple human language: JSON.

User can implement his own actions from a notification.

Api-Agent

Rules Engine

CLIENTFiware-cloto

Fiware-cloto

Nova, Murano, etc

OpenStack ServicesUser Server

Actions

Api-Agent

Rules Engine

Fact-Gen

(defRule)

store(Conditions and actions)

(actions)

get(Conditions, actions)

(Facts)

(AverageFacts)

suscribe(URL, serverId)

PUT ContextData(CPU, RAM, HDD, Network?)

External Service

STARTPOST(conditions, actions, serverId)

Fiware-Facts

Redis

store(AverageFacts)

Fiware-cloto

POST(subscriptions)

RabbitMQ

EnvironmentManager

get(AverageFacts)

Environments *

(actions)

eval(AverageFacts, Conditions, actions)

(conditions, actions)

(actions)

Context Broker

POLICY MANAGER RULES

Definition of a rule:

{"action": {

"actionName": "notify-scale","operation": "scaleUp"

}, "name": "AlertCPU", "condition": {

"cpu": {"value": 98.3,"operand": "greater"

},"mem": {

"value": 95,"operand": "greater equal"

},"hdd": {

"value": 95,"operand": "greater equal"

},"net": {

"value": 95,"operand": "greater equal"

}}

}

POLICY API INFORMATION

REST API

POLICY API AUTHENTICATION

Each request requires credentials and require a headercontaining a valid Token from OpenStack keystone.

X-Auth-Token: eaaafd18-0fed-4b3a-81b4-663c99ec1cbb

POLICY API OPERATIONS

• General Operations.• Get the information of the API.• Update the window size.

• Elasticity rules.• Create a new elasticity rule.• Update an elasticity rule.• Delete an elasticity rule. Get an elasticity

rule.

• Servers. Get the list of all servers'rules.• Get the list of all rules of a server.• Update the context of a server.

• Subscription to rules.• Create a new subscription.• Delete a subscription.• Get a subscription.

Kind of actionsnotify-scale

• scaleUp

• scaleDown

notify-email

"action": {

"actionName": "notify-scale",

"operation": "scaleUp"

},

"action": {

"actionName": "notify-scale",

"operation": "scaleDown"

},

"action": {

"actionName": "notify-email",

"email": “name@host.com”,

"body": “Example description”

},

POLICY MANAGER RULES

More possible actions:

• Check VM alive

• Restart VM

• Move to another node

• Stop VM

• All actions you can implement.

POLICY MANAGER RULES

Kind of operands about servermeasures (cpu, mem, hdd and disk):

• greater

• greater equal

• less

• less equal

"condition": {

"cpu": {

"value": 98.3,

"operand": "greater"

},

"mem": {

"value": 95,

"operand": "greater equal"

},

"hdd": {

"value": 95,

"operand": "greater equal"

},

"net": {

"value": 95,

"operand": "greater equal"

}

}

POLICY MANAGER RULES

DEMO

N

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• Policy Manager:https://forge.fi-ware.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/fiware/index.php/Policy_Manager_Open_RESTful_API_Specification

• Pyclips Webpage: http://pyclips.sourceforge.net

• Django project: https://www.djangoproject.com

• Redis: http://redis.io

• RabbitMQ: http://www.rabbitmq.com

• MySQL: http://mysql.com

REFERENCES

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