{"id":8040,"date":"2015-05-07T11:09:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T09:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/?p=8040"},"modified":"2015-05-07T11:28:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T09:28:18","slug":"watchtower-v1-0-0-just-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/watchtower-v1-0-0-just-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Watchtower v1.0.0 just released!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/files\/2015\/04\/watchtower.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8076\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/files\/2015\/04\/watchtower.png\" alt=\"Watchtower\" width=\"216\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Today marks the release of <b>Watchtower v<b>1<\/b>.<b>0<\/b>.0<\/b>. <b>Watchtower<\/b> is a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/cloud-incident-management\/\">Cloud Incident Management<\/a> solution that we, the <b>ICCLab<\/b>, have been working on. It has been developed as part of the initiative with the same name primarily by <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/victor-munteanu\/\">Victor Munteanu<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>Watchtower<\/b> is built around a <b>Microservices Architecture<\/b> as a <b>Cloud Native Application<\/b>. It integrates several open source solutions: <a href=\"http:\/\/kafka.apache.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Apache Kafka<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.openstack.org\/wiki\/Monasca\" target=\"_blank\">HP Monasca<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/camunda.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Camunda<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/rundeck.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rundeck<\/a>. As of v1.0.0, it has six components of which four provide running services:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>watchtower-common<\/b> &#8212; contains common, reusable, code for all watchtower components. It facilitates communication between components through common objects and provides Json serialization for them<\/li>\n<li><b>watchtower-monitoring<\/b> &#8212; its primary role is to get, process, and forward events from the monitoring solutions to <b>watchtower-workflow<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>watchtower-automation<\/b> &#8212; handles communication with automation engines<\/li>\n<li><b>watchtower-workflow<\/b> &#8212; provides an interface between the workflow engine and the rest of watchtower&#8217;s components<\/li>\n<li><b>watchtower-workflow-camunda<\/b> &#8212; is a component of watchtower which is deployed onto Camunda and contains both the BPM workflow and the REST service to which watchtower-workflow connects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Features contained by this release are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ability to receive alarms from Monasca or raw Watchtower Events, process and forward them<\/li>\n<li>Basic workflow management with information persistence, identification of similar incidents, support for a human operator, and automation support<\/li>\n<li>Running jobs on Rundeck, retrieving their results, all of this however without sending job specific parameters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The current release is centered around the following workflow:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/files\/2015\/04\/workflow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8072\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/files\/2015\/04\/workflow.jpg\" alt=\"Camunda Workflow\" width=\"745\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/files\/2015\/04\/workflow.jpg 745w, https:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/files\/2015\/04\/workflow-300x103.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/files\/2015\/04\/workflow-500x172.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All source code along with installation instructions can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/icclab?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;query=watchtower\" target=\"_blank\">Github<\/a>, each component having its own specific project. Additional watchtower components are under way, however they are not ready as this time.<\/p>\n<p>In order to facilitate automated installation, we are working on having <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ansible.com\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Ansible<\/a> playbooks which will be available through <i>ansible-galaxy<\/i>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pt-sm\">Schlagw\u00f6rter: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/tag\/camunda\/\">camunda<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/tag\/cloud-incident-management-2\/\">cloud incident management<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/tag\/kafka\/\">kafka<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/tag\/monasca\/\">monasca<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/tag\/rundeck\/\">rundeck<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/tag\/watchtower\/\">watchtower<\/a><br><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the release of Watchtower v1.0.0. 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