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Orchestrator for Developers

orchestrator is open source and accepts pull requests.

If you would like to build orchestrator on your own machine, or eventually submit PRs, follow this guide.

Requirements

  • orchestrator is built on Linux and OS/X. I have no hint about MS Windows, and the build is incompatible with Windows.

  • Go 1.9 or higher.

Clone repo

orchestrator is built with Go. Go is picky about where you place your code (tl;dr: in a well structured path under $GOPATH). However the good news is we have the scripting to go around that (no pun intended).

Easy clone + builds

Clone the repo anywhere on your filesystem via

git clone [email protected]:github/orchestrator.git
cd orchestrator

Build orchestrator via

script/build

You will find the binary as bin/orchestrator

This is the same script used by CI to build & test orchestrator.

Not as easy clone + builds

Why would you want this? Because this will empower you with building .DEB, .rpm packages for both Linux and OS/X.

  • Make sure GOPATH is set

  • Issue:

    go get github.com/github/orchestrator/...
cd $GOPATH:/src/github.com/github/orchestrator

  • Compile or run via:

    go build -i go/cmd/orchestrator/main.go
go run go/cmd/orchestrator/main.go

  • Create packages via:

    ./build.sh

    To create packages you will need to have:

    • fpm, which assumes you have ruby and ruby-gems
    • rpmbuild
    • go, gofmt in path
    • tar

DB setup

As per configuration: backend, you may use either SQLite or MySQL as orchestrator's backend database.

Sqlite

No special setup is required. Make sure to configure database file path.

MySQL

MySQL can be installed anywhere and you don't necessarily need it to run on your local box. I usually use mysqlsandbox for local installations. You may choose to just install mysql-server on your dev machine, or run a docker container, a VM, what have you.

Once your backend MySQL setup is complete, issue:

CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS orchestrator;
CREATE USER 'orc_server_user'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'orc_server_password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `orchestrator`.* TO 'orc_server_user'@'%';

orchestrator uses a configuration file whose search path is either /etc/orchestrator.conf.json, conf/orchestrator.conf.json or orchestrator.conf.json. The repository includes a file called conf/orchestrator-sample.conf.json with some basic settings. Issue:

cp conf/orchestrator-sample.conf.json conf/orchestrator.conf.json

The conf/orchestrator.conf.json file is not part of the repository and there is in fact a .gitignore entry for this file.

Verify orchestrator.conf.json matches the above as follows:

...
"MySQLOrchestratorHost": "127.0.0.1",
"MySQLOrchestratorPort": 3306,
"MySQLOrchestratorDatabase": "orchestrator",
"MySQLOrchestratorUser": "orc_server_user",
"MySQLOrchestratorPassword": "orc_server_password",
...

Edit the above as as fit for your MySQL backend install.

Executing from dev environment

You should now be able to:

go run go/cmd/orchestrator/main.go http

or, if you used the easy clone + build process:

bin/orchestrator http

This will also invoke initial setup of your database environment (creating necessary tables in the orchestrator schema).

Browse into http://localhost:3000 or replace localhoast with your dev hostname. You should see the orchestrator (empty) clusters dashboard.

Now to make stuff interesting.

Grant access to orchestrator on all your MySQL servers

For orchestrator to detect your replication topologies, it must also have an account on each and every topology. At this stage this has to be the same account (same user, same password) for all topologies. On each of your masters, issue the following:

CREATE USER 'orchestrator'@'orch_host' IDENTIFIED BY 'orch_topology_password';
GRANT SUPER, PROCESS, REPLICATION SLAVE, RELOAD ON *.* TO 'orchestrator'@'orch_host';

REPLICATION SLAVE is required if you intend to use Pseudo GTID

Replace orch_host with hostname or orchestrator machine (or do your wildcards thing). Choose your password wisely. Edit orchestrator.conf.json to match:

"MySQLTopologyUser": "orchestrator",
"MySQLTopologyPassword": "orch_topology_password",

Discovering MySQL instances

Go to the Discovery page at http://localhost:3000/web/discover. Type in a hostname & port for a known MySQL instance, preferably one that is part of a larger topology (again I like using MySQLSandbox for such test environments). Submit it.

Depending on your configuration (InstancePollSeconds) this may take a few seconds to a minute for orchestrator to fully scan the replication topology this instance belongs to, and present it under the clusters dashboard.

If you've made it this far, you've done 90% of the work. You may consider configuring Pseudo GTID queries, DC awareness etc. See "want to have" sub-sections under configuration.

Customizations

There are some hooks in the Orchestrator web frontend which can be used to add customizations via CSS and JavaScript.

The corresponding files to edit are resources/public/css/custom.css and resources/public/js/custom.js.

You can find available hooks via grep -r 'orchestrator:' resources/public/js.

Please note that all APIs and structures are bound to change and any customizations are unsupported. Please file issues against uncustomized versions.

Forking and Pull-Requesting

If you want to submit pull-requests you should first fork http://github.com/github/orchestrator.

Setting up the environment is basically the same, except you don't want to

go get github.com/github/orchestrator/...

But instead clone your own repository.

Assume you fork onto github.com/you-are-awesome/orchestrator. Golang has tight coupling between source code import paths and actual URIs. This leads to much confusion. Please consult Forking Golang repositories on GitHub and managing the import path as for ways to solve that coupling.

Very briefly, you will either want to:

go get github.com/github/orchestrator/...
git remote add awesome-fork https://github.com/you-are-awesome/orchestrator.git

Or you will workaround as follows:

cd $GOPATH
mkdir -p {src,bin,pkg}
mkdir -p src/github.com/github/
cd src/github.com/github/
git clone [email protected]:you-are-awesome/orchestrator.git # OR: git clone https://github.com/you-are-awesome/orchestrator.git
cd orchestrator/

You will have a fork of orchestrator to which you can push your changes and from which you can send pull requests. It is best that you first consult (use the project issues) whether some kind of development would indeed be merged.

You will need to license your code in Apache 2.0 license or compatible.

Thank you for considering contributions to orchestrator!