kecorbin/collins-scheduler repository overview

⁠Status Update for Collins

⁠Description

Collins is a distributed task processor which can control worker nodes at various sites from a central console. Tasks can be scheduled, and executed at a regular frequency or be executed in an ad-hoc file. The worker nodes require only outbound IP access to the Cloud based API. A task is anything that can be wrapped in a Docker container, and output some basic HTML tags which will be rendered at the central console.

⁠Completed

• Added ability to add/delete jobs to UI
• ACI linter plugin Completed
• implemented DRF adapter for ember-data
• verified ability to traverse firewalls

⁠In Progress

• continuing to cleanup UI
• integration testing
• some backend automations when jobs are submitted

⁠Need help

If someone is familiar with Ansible, I think a cool next plugin would be to execute and arbitrary ansible-playbook and bubble the output up.

⁠Development

This project is under heavy development. The easiest way to start contributing is to run a dev environment using docker-compose. The current docker file will map local volumes so your code is live at all times.

docker-compose build
docker-compose up

⁠Server

virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirementst.txt
python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py runserver

⁠Beat Service

To start the beat service on the server side the following command is ran:

celery -A api beat -l info -S django

⁠Client

The client is the plugin manager, it is responsible for executing jobs

⁠Plugins

• always_pass
• always_fail
• apic-acitoolkit-lint - Sample plugin using the acitoolkit lint application
• apic-api-test - Test Authentication to APIC

⁠Milestones

• API can send/receive jobs
• Sample plugins
• Execute Jobs on celery workers
• Results associated with jobs (django ORM)
• API can send/receive results by job id
• last result functionality Dockerjob.results.last().result should populate last_result on Job
• Save results from jobs ran on celery workers
• Job/Results detail view
• complete executioner code
• build executioner dockerfile
• Job Schedule(periodicTask)
• determine standard for plugin names _ or -
• always_fail plugin pushed to dockerhub
• always_pass plugin pushed to dockerhub
• apic-api-test plugin pushed to dockerhub
• apic-acitoolkit-lint plugin pushed to dockerhub
• remote workers