Rackspace Autoscale

There Otter be an Otter scaling system.

If you have docker installed then running docker-compose up -d should run otter along with all its dependent services and cafe and trial integration tests against it. Try checking docker-compose logs cafe to see cloudcafe test results and docker-compose logs trial to see trial integration test results.

Talk with us! Join us in:

irc.freenode.net #rackerlabs/otter

Otter Dev Hall of Fame (alphabetical):

• cyli
• lvh
• manisht
• radix
• wirehead

Honorary Otters:

• glyph

Emeritus otters:

• dreid
• fsargent
• oubiwann
• rockstar

make targets

Development

• make hooks to set up pre-commit hooks for the project (PLEASE RUN THIS IF DEVELOPING ON THE PROJECT)

Build an environment:

• make env-precheck makes sure you have enough pre-existing infrastructure to be able to run make env to begin with.
• make env creates and switches into the Python virtualenv environment. It'll also pip-install development requirements.

Run tests, check code quality:

• make test runs both unit and integration tests.
• make unit runs unit tests.
• make integration runs integration tests.
• make coverage performs coverage analysis.
• make lint performs a lint (PEP8, et. al.) check on the source code.
• make listoutdated returns the packages that are currently installed that have new versions available on PyPI. This is normally run as a part of make lint.
• make flake8diff looks at the diff introduced by your current branch and lints it. This is normally run as a part of make lint.
• make flake8full is like flake8diff, except on the entire repository.

Build the documentation:

• make docs builds all other documentation targets (listed below).
• make sphinxdocs builds all Sphinx documentation.
• make docbook builds all user-facing Docbook documentation.

Deployment

• make bundle builds a "bundle" appropriate for deployment (Ubuntu only). For Jenkins and Chef use only.
• make run starts up an instance of the Otter API.

Cleaning up

• make cleandocs removes all documentation artifacts without removing other artifacts.
• make clean removes all build-time artifacts, leaving the repository in a distributable state.

Build and migrate Cassandra schemata

Some tools for building Cassandra schemata as CQL files:

• make schema-setup generates the setup CQL files.
• make schema-teardown generates the teardown CQL files.
• make schema generates the CQL files corresponding to setting up and tearing down Otter's Cassandra schema. Equivalent to running make schema-setup schema-teardown manually.

Some tools for applying Cassandra schemata (by default, these are pointed at localhost, because they're typically only used within the development VM):

• make load-dev-schema will attempt to load the development schema into Cassandra.
• make migrate-dev-schema will attempt to update the development schema on an existing Cassandra instance.
• make teardown-dev-schema will attempt to remove a development schema from an existing Cassandra instance.
• make clear-dev-schema first removes any existing development schema, then re-installs a fresh schema.