Autoscaling agent for the Notify PaaS applications.

Runs every SCHEDULE_INTERVAL_SECONDS (currently 5 seconds) interval, checks some metrics and sets the desired instance count accordingly.

mkvirtualenv -p /usr/local/bin/python3 notifications-paas-autoscaler
pip install -r requirements.txt

make test

The Autoscaler can scale the worker applications based on a schedule defined in the schedule.yml file.

The format of the file is:

name-of-the-app:
  <workdays|weekends>:
      - HH:MM-HH:MM
      - HH:MM-HH:MM
      - ...
name-of-another-app:
  <workdays|weekends>:
      - HH:MM-HH:MM
      - ...

For example, if you need to schedule the research worker to scale on weekends between 9 in the morning and 2 in the afternoon you would add this to the schedule.yml:

notify-delivery-worker-research:
  weekends:
    - 09:00-14:00

The Autoscaler will scale the specified apps to the number of instances equal to SCHEDULED_SCALE_FACTOR * max_instance_count unless some other metric requires the instance to scale to a higher number (e.g. a large scheduled job)

Depending on the problem you're facing you can use different approaches to get more information about it:

1. You can see any events related to the Autoscaler app using cf events notify-paas-autoscaler. This will show you deployments or restarts
2. You can tail the logs with cf logs notify-paas-autoscaler or, if Autoscaler has crashed, look into the latest logs with cf logs notify-paas-autoscaler --latest
3. You can also log onto the box with cf ssh notify-paas-autoscaler and see if there are any exceptions logged in /home/vcap/logs/app.log

The application uses a user provided service to read the secret credentials it needs.

Edit the credentials/<env>/paas/service/paas-auto-scaler file in the notify-credentials repository, which has the following format:

{
  "aws_access_key_id": "...",
  "aws_secret_access_key": "...",
  "cf_username": "...",
  "cf_password": "..."
}

Update the PaaS user provided services:

cd .../notifications-aws/paas
make <env> update-services

When you change the service data you have to restage the application (or push it again):

cf restage notify-paas-autoscaler