kogia

Dynamically scale docker swarm services using the number of unacknowledged messages from an AMQP queue like RabbitMQ. This is useful if you use AMQP as a job queue and the number of messages indicates the load on your system.

Installation

go get github.com/sprungknoedl/kogia

Configuration

kogia is configured using a YAML configuration file. Below is an example configuration for the docker swarm service helloworld:

connection:
  amqp: amqp://localhost:5672/
  docker: unix:///run/docker.sock
defaults:
  sample_rate: 2s
  scale_rate: 30s
  upscale_delay: 3m
  downscale_delay: 5m
  coverage: .75
services:
  - service: helloworld
    metrics: 
    - queue.helloworld
    threshold: 10
    min_replicas: 1
    max_replicas: 10

Parameters

kogia can scale multiple docker swarm services at once, all with different scale intervals and delays.

Each service has the following configuration parameters. If the parameter is not provided for a service, the default value specified in the configuration will be used. kogia doesn't provide any internal defaults!

• service: name of the docker swarm service to scale.
• metrics: list of names of the AMQP queues used as load indicator.
• coverage: percentage of metrics required to calculate average queue length (recommended: 0.75).
• threshold: number of messages on a queue representing maximum load of one service replica.
• min_replicas: minimum number of replicas for this service. kogia will never scale the service below this number. It is safe to specify 0; as soon as some message are queued, kogia will scale the replicas to 1.
• max_replicas: maximum number of replicas for this service. kogia will never scale the service above this number.
• sample_rate: time interval between measurements of the metric (recommended: 2s).
• scale_rate: time interval between autoscaling calculations. Must be a multiple of sample_rate (recommended: 30s).
• upscale_delay: minimum time between the last rescaling and the next upscaling (recommended: 3m).
• downscale_delay: minimum time between the last rescaling and the next downscaling. The downscale_delay should be higher than the upscale_delay to prevent flapping (recommended: 5m).