[Maas-devel] Registration of workers (aka Cluster Controllers)

[Gavin Panella]

On 20 August 2012 02:50, Julian Edwards <julian.edwards at canonical.com> wrote:
...
> I had a chat with Rob about this and he suggested that we work with a SRV
> record in the DNS which will contain enough information to let a new worker
> connect to the MAAS server and enlist itself (where an admin would accept it
> and enter all the DHCP details).
>
> The SRV record should just need to contain a URL to the MAAS API where workers
> can anonymously enlist, and RabbitMQ connection details.  When accepted, the
> MAAS server would create a special job, routed to that specific worker, which
> tells it all the DHCP data and auth keys for the API.
>
> What do you all think?

Seems like a very good suggestion. Can we just pick a service name out
of the air, or ought we to register it? Wikipedia [1] mentions IANA
and RFC 6335 [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record
[2] http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc6335.html