Recipes and instances

AYS Recipe

• Defines the full life cycle from pre-installation, over installation, to upgrades and monitoring of a service, all described in the above mentioned recipe files:
  • service.hrd
  • instance.hrd
  • action*.py
• In a recipe we describe
  • Parameters relevant for a service instance
  • How to start/stop the instance
  • How to monitor the instance
  • How to install the binary files for the instance
  • How to configure the instance
  • How to get stats from the instance
  • How to export/import the data

Instances

Example: Running several instances of MongoDB on the same machine on different ports.

#the following will init the MongoDB recipe as an instance
ays init -n MongoDB # Use default instance name (main)
ays init -n MongoDB -i mongo2 #instance name is (mongo2)