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Workspace Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)
Created by Guest
Created on May 5, 2018

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Rename kafka and zookeeper resources for LWE to avoid conflicts with existing distro/user packages

GPFS provides installations for apache kafka and zookeeper software are part of mmmsgqueue/LWE/filesystem audit functionality. Existing user environments which employ tools which rely on access to zookeeper, using standard provided library interfaces, may already have zookeeper installed. The same potentially applies to kafka.

In order to install the gpfs.kafka package, users must resolve the conflict (which in our case shows up in the systemd directories) by either locally patching upstream packages or the IBM-provided packages (or foregoing all of the internal tooling which depends on zookeeper). None of these are ideal solutions in the long term.

Since IBM has re-packaged kafka/zookeeper without providing the original RPM's dependencies, one possible solution could be to just amend the IBM RPM to "provide" the missing dependencies and allow yum to replace apache-zookeeper with gpfs.kafka. But that opens us up to potential version mismatch issues.

An optimal solution would allow for side-by-side existence of both the stock packages and IBM packages on a machine, such that there were no conflicts in filesystem locations, systemd unit names, or package dependencies.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 30, 2020

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - IBM Spectrum Scale
    Product - Spectrum Scale (formerly known as GPFS) - Public RFEs
    Component - Product functionality

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - IBM Spectrum Scale
    Product - Spectrum Scale (formerly known as GPFS) - Public RFEs
    Component - V4 Product functionality

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 8, 2020

    We are eliminating entirely the use of kafka and zookeeper within LWE

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