clustr-node

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clustr-node

facts

  • each worker register to the cluster on process start
  • each worker deregister from the cluster on process end
  • each worker is able to spawn new processes
  • each worker is able to talk with each worker
  • each worker is able to kill each workers
  • each worker is able to fetch cluster info
  • each worker respawns by default
  • each worker has a stats object containing event statistics of its own process
  • each worker knows the pid of the master process
  • cluster reloads when master receives SIGHUP (exit code 1)
  • when master receives SIGHUP, each worker is forced to reload sequantially
  • cluster dies when master receives SIGTERM (exit code 15)
  • cluster dies when master receives signal from emitKill

install

npm install clustr-node

dependencies

  • clustr uses pubsub for ipc, so you have to run a redis server on your machine.
  • clustr uses taskset for cpu affinity, so clustr should be used on unix systems.

usage

require

To require the module, just do.

Clustr = require("clustr-node")

create

Create a master process.

master = Clustr.Master.create(options = {})

Create a worker process.

worker = Clustr.Worker.create
  group: "worker"

master options

  • reloadDelay, time in ms to wait before the master forces the next worker to reload
  • logger, custom logger to log process output
  • publisher, redis publisher
  • subscriber, redis subscriber

master listener

onClusterStarted

that method is called when all workers registered to the master and the cluster is successfully started.

master.onClusterStarted () ->
  # do something when cluster is started. 

onClusterReloaded

that method is called when all workers registered to the master and the cluster is successfully reloaded.

master.onClusterReloaded () ->
  # do something when cluster is reloaded. 

worker options

  • group, name of the group the worker is member of
  • reloadDelay, time in ms to wait before the master forces the next worker to reload
  • logger, custom logger to log process output
  • publisher, redis publisher
  • subscriber, redis subscriber

worker registration

to register to the master, a worker needs to be registered. the emitReady method needs to be called when the worker process is ready. on reloads the next worker is forced to reload when the emitReady callback is fired and the reloadDelay ends.

worker.emitReady()

groups

Workers can be in every possible group you can imagine. There is just one special group. The master group. Also there may should be only one worker in the master group.

onPublic

Public messages are send to each living process. To make a worker listen to messages from the public channel do.

worker.onPublic (message) =>
  # do something with public message when it was received 

onPrivate

Private messages are for a specific worker only that is identified by its pid property. To make a worker listen to private messages do.

worker.onPrivate (message) =>
  # do something with private message when it was received 

onGroup

Group messages are for a specific group only that is defined by its group property. To make a worker listen to group messages do.

worker.onGroup (message) =>
  # do something with group message when it was received 

onKill

Before a worker dies, it is possible to do something before. Here it is necessary to execute the cb given to the onKill method. If the callback is not fired, the process will not die. To let a worker do his last action befor death do.

worker.onKill (cb) =>
  # process last actions befor death 
  cb()

onConfirmation

Worker are able to receive confirmations. To listen to a confirmation just do the following. As described, the callback is executed when the message "identifier" was received 2 times. Also, messages provided by the callback contains meta data of all confirmed workers.

worker.onConfirmation 2"identifier"(messages) =>
  # do something when messages "identifier" was received 2 times 

emitPublic

To make a worker publish a public message do.

worker.emitPublic("message")

emitPrivate

To make a worker publish a private message do.

worker.emitPrivate("pid""message")

emitGroup

To make a worker publish a group message do.

worker.emitGroup("group""message")

emitKill

Each process is able to kill another. For that action you need to know the unique pid of the worker you want to kill. pid here is the systems pid. Each valid exitCode, a process respects, can be send (0, 1, etc.). exitCode defaults to 0. Killing a worker will terminate its children too. So be careful by sending a kill signal to the master process. That will terminate the whole cluster. To send an exit code to an worker do.

worker.emitKill("pid"0)

emitConfirmation

To make a worker publish a confirmation message do.

worker.emitConfirmation("message")

emitClusterInfo

Workers are able to receive cluster infos like that. See also the clusterInfo section.

webWorkerChild.emitClusterInfo (message) =>
  # do something with cluster info when it was received 

spawn

Each process is able to spawn workers.

required:

  • file defines the file a worker should execute.

optional:

  • cpu set cpu affinity using the taskset command, which only works under unix systems.
  • command defines the command that executes file. By default file will be executed using the parents execution command.
  • respawn by default is set to true. To prevent respawning a worker set respawn to false.
  • args an object of command line arguments that will be explicitly given to a process. command line arguments the master receives, WONT BE applied to workers, unless prefixed with cluster-

To make a worker spawn workers, do something like that.

worker.spawn [
  { file: "./web_worker.coffee",   cpu: 0 }
  { file: "./web_worker.coffee",   cpu: 1args: { "cluster-option": "foo"private: "option" } }
  { file: "./cache_worker.coffee"cpu: 2respawn: false }
  { file: "./cache_worker.coffee"cpu: 3respawn: false }
  { file: "./bashscript"command: "bash" }
]

close

It is possible to close a worker using a given exitCode, that defaults to 1. That means the worker respawns by default. Sending exitCode 0 let the worker dieing if respawn is set to false. Closing a worker means the following.

  • The worker will be deregistered from the cluster.
  • All connections will be closed.
  • All listeners will be removed.
  • The process exits with the given exitCode or 1.
worker.close(1)

masterPid

The master process id is available for each worker. It will be bubbled through the cluster. So all workers are always able to talk with the master like that.

worker.emitPrivate(worker.masterPid"message")

reloading

Reloading the cluster enables zero downtime deployments. One worker after another is forced to be killed and reloaded, delayed by reloadDelay.

  • do kill -s SIGTERM masterpid to kill cluster
  • do kill -s SIGHUP masterpid to reload cluster
  • reloadDelay delays reloading single workers to enable buffering, defaults to 500ms

messages

If a process receives a message it looks something like that. Each meta item should be a string. The data you send can be whatever is stringifyable. So you will be able to receive what you send. Note that confirmation messages should only be simple strings.

message =
  meta:
    pid:   PROCESS_ID
    group: GROUP
  data:    YOUR_MESSAGE

stats

Each worker has a stats object containing event statistics with the following properties.

  • emitPublic
  • emitPrivate
  • emitGroup
  • emitKill
  • emitConfirmation
  • onMessage
  • onPublic
  • onGroup
  • onPrivate
  • spawnChildProcess
  • respawnChildProcess
  • receivedConfirmations
  • successfulConfirmations

clusterInfo

The clusterInfo object could look something like that. It contains lists of cluster process ids grouped by the current cluster group names.

clusterInfo =
  webWorker:   [ 51825184 ]
  cacheWorker: [ 51865188 ]

argv

Command line argument parsing is realized using the optimist library. Arguments by default are used by the given process. To bubble arguments through each process of the cluster, prefix command line options with cluster-. See the examples section, where --cluster-verbose is given to each spawned child process, to enable logging for the whole cluster. So, if you start the cluster just using --verbose, only the master is able to log. Also, if you set a cluster option to a spawned worker definition using the args property, each children of that worker will receive that option too.

logging

By default the cluster do not log any information. To make the master log its own output, add --verbose to the execution command. To enable logging for the whole cluster, add --cluster-verbose to the execution command.

examples

For examples take a look into the examples/ directory and play around.

reload examples

cd examples/reload/ && npm install && coffee master.coffee --cluster-verbose

messaging examples

cd examples/messaging/ && npm install && coffee master.coffee --cluster-verbose

tests

Tests are located in spec/ directory. To run it just do.

npm test

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