[Review Queue] Elastisys Charmscaler Promulgated!

[Merlijn Sebrechts]

Awesome stuff!

Would it make sense to expose the autoscaling options over an
interface/relationship? So that you can connect the autoscaler to a charm
and the charm tells the autoscaler how it should be scaled....


2017-03-20 21:54 GMT+01:00 Simon Kollberg <simon.kollberg at elastisys.com>:

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>
> On 20 March 2017 at 18:13, Charles Butler <charles.butler at canonical.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I realized last week I had completed a review and failed to send an
>> update to the mailing list. As some of you may have heard on the Juju Show
>> that Elastisys released their Charm Scaler to the promulgated channel.
>>
>>
>> This was an easy +1 from me, with comprehensive test suites, and example
>> cases for auto-horizontal-scaling workloads based on CPU load.
>>
>> https://jujucharms.com/charmscaler/
>>
>>
> Thanks a lot for the review, Charles!
>
> We're really looking forward to see the community use our autoscaler to
> increase performance and availability for all of the awesome charms out
> there and we hope the CharmScaler can become a great addition to the Juju
> ecosystem. The CharmScaler is very much in it's infancy when it comes to
> functionality but we are planning on extending it with a lot of features
> that is already available in the Elastisys platform such as support for
> more built-in and custom metrics, smarter scaling-algorithms and
> robustness. We also welcome PRs, feature requests and/or bug reports on the
> charm's GitHub page https://github.com/elastisys/layer-charmscaler .
>
>
>> This particular charm is near and dear to my own interests, as they have
>> published a POC bundle using Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes as the
>> subject matter. Enjoy horizontally scaled workers when you reach node
>> pressure thresholds on CPU.
>>
>> https://jujucharms.com/u/elastisys/autoscaled-kubernetes/0
>>
>
> Seeing how easy Juju makes bundling charms together building and deploying
> the autoscaled Kubernetes was a sheer pleasure. To be honest, what took me
> the most time was creating a (sort of) nice look for the GUI. :) However, I
> think we should go one step further. Rather than having to create a
> completely new bundle every time you want to extend a "core" bundle with
> one or more charms, why not enable bundles in the bundle manifests? That
> way two or more bundles could be combined just like charms. I know I'm not
> the first one to bring this up, so if this has already been requested on
> the mailing-list excuse this and just count it as a +1!
>
>
>>
>>
>> Congratulations on your promulgation status to our friends at Elastisys!
>> I look forward to seeing the bundles this charm unlocks the auto-scaling
>> goodness thanks to tight integration with Juju.
>>
>
> We are very excited to see our charm getting the Juju stamp of approval!
> Thanks again.
>
>
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Charles
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