[Maas-devel] RFC: "Serialising" power actions

[Mark Shuttleworth]

On 18/09/14 13:33, Gavin Panella wrote:
> MAAS can never provide a perfect service. Even if we coded everything
> perfectly, it would still suffer from failures outside of its control,
> like hardware failure, poor quality BMC firmware, human error, fire,
> flood, war, and so on. Not resuming power commands after a crash or
> restart of a cluster is a failure mode that we can iterate on and
> reduce, but it's not the end of days.

External failures are things you have to anticipate and handle well.
Internal failures are completely different and not something to be blase
about.

Mark

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