Masakari service overview

Masakari provides Virtual Machines High Availability(VMHA), and rescues KVM-based Virtual Machines(VM) from a failure events described below:

  • VM process down - restart vm (use nova stop API, and nova start API).
    Libvirt events will be also emitted by other failures.
  • Provisioning process down - restarts process, changes nova-compute service
    status to maintenance mode (use nova service-disable).
  • nova-compute host failure - evacuate all the VMs from failure host to
    reserved host (use nova evacuate API).

The below services enables deplores to integrate with the Masakari directly or through custom plug-ins.

The Masakari service consists of the following components:

masakari-api
An OpenStack-native REST API that processes API requests by sending them to the masakari-engine over Remote Procedure Call (RPC).
masakari-engine
Processes the notifications received from masakari-api by executing the recovery workflow in asynchronous way.