[Pulp-list] Consumers v2.0 Design & Requirements

[Jay Dobies]

On 01/18/2012 12:07 PM, Jeff Ortel wrote:
> In:
>
> register(id, description, tags, supports_bus=True)
>
> I think the 'support_bus' needs to be broken down into a dictionary that
> defines the consumer's (agent) capabilities from the pulp server's
> perspective.
>
> Here are some examples. We could prefix all of the attributes with
> 'supports_' but that seemed redundant.
>
>
> Pulp consumers:
>
> {
> heartbeat : True, # supports heartbeat
> content :
> {
> types : [RPM,], # supported content types
> bind : False, # supports bind/unbind RMI, pulp managed
> },
> }
>
> Katello consumers:
>
> {
> heartbeat : False, # heartbeat not supported
> content :
> {
> types : [RPM,..], # supported content types
> bind : True|False, # bind/unbind RMI not supported, RHSM managed.
> },
> }

This is a good call. I meant to have the consumer indicate to Pulp what 
types it will support but totally forgot to add it. I'll make the change 
in a bit.


> On 01/17/2012 02:36 PM, Jay Dobies wrote:
>> https://fedorahosted.org/pulp/wiki/GCConsumers
>>
>> That wiki is still very much a work in progress, but I figured I'd
>> throw it out there now
>> in case people wanted to take a look.
>>
>> I started with the requirements of what Pulp should be able to do with
>> consumers. It
>> should be extremely close to what we do today without much extra added
>> in, but let me know
>> if I'm missing anything.
>>
>> I also added some ideas for the APIs and responsibility of the
>> profiler plugins. At the
>> bottom I started on the calls through the system and have a few more
>> diagrams to add.
>>
>
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