Re: Evaluating Azkaban

[Richard]

I'm unfamiliar with AutoSys, which makes it difficult to do a comparison.

Can you give specific examples of what your needs would be? 

In particular, what reason would you have to replace AutoSys and what features would Azkaban need to have to support your production environment?

Thanks,

-Richard

On Wednesday, May 8, 2013 10:15:49 AM UTC-7, emg4p...@gmail.com wrote:

I am tasked with evaluating this product to see if it will work in our production environment.  We currently use AutoSys which is not open source.  I have found various sites that talk about the basic functionality.  Anyone here know of any place I can get more details information such as Turnaround Time, Response Time, Naming convention available....etc.

[emg4p...@gmail.com]

Hi Richard.

We are in the initial evaluation phase of this project.  I am looking into what other products are there that can do the same as Autosys without having to pay as much.  It's currently running in a production Unix env.  We would like to have the following functionalities as a requirement in our environment.

* Be able to integrate with Zenoss
* High Availability / Fail Over / Load balancing
* Adaptable to multizone calenars ( some jobs we have have to run in UK/UTC timezones)
* Automatic restarts in a recovery mode
 
These are a few of the functionalities we are looking for.

Appreciate your time.

[Richard Park]

We haven't tried to integrate Zenoss with Azkaban. I don't see why it wouldn't be able to, just need to take the effort to do it.

High availability, fail over and load balancing is currently not available in Azkaban, but we have thought of what we'll need to do to accomplish this.

The work that needs to be done would be the following:

   -Integrate with state manager (zookeeper) to fail over the servers

   -Add the ability to restart or continue a workflow onto another server.

We considered dual writing to a MySQL db for redundancy, but would rather have the db data replicated to a secondary that Azkaban can switch over to.

We allow users to specify the scheduled jobs in UTC as well as their current time. We are currently improving our scheduler to be more robust.

I'd say that Azkaban currently may not fit your needs for the above reasons, but we can assist in getting those features done if you decide to implement them yourself, or you can wait until we get to those features, although we would have to go through our other priorities first.

Thanks,

-Richard

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