ZooKeeper

Table of contents

1. Preface
   1. Audience
   2. Contents of This Book
   3. Conventions Used in this Book
   4. Using Code Examples
   5. Safari® Books Online
   6. How to Contact Us
   7. Acknowledgments
2. I. ZooKeeper Concepts and Basics
3. 1. Introduction
   1. The ZooKeeper Mission
      1. How the World Survived without ZooKeeper
      2. What ZooKeeper Doesn’t Do
      3. The Apache Project
      4. Building Distributed Systems with ZooKeeper
   2. Example: Master–Worker Application
      1. Master Failures
      2. Worker Failures
      3. Communication Failures
      4. Summary of Tasks
   3. Why Is Distributed Coordination Hard?
   4. ZooKeeper Is a Success, with Caveats
4. 2. Getting to Grips with ZooKeeper
   1. ZooKeeper Basics
      1. API Overview
      2. Different Modes for Znodes
      3. Watches and Notifications
      4. Versions
   2. ZooKeeper Architecture
      1. ZooKeeper Quorums
      2. Sessions
   3. Getting Started with ZooKeeper
      1. First ZooKeeper Session
      2. States and the Lifetime of a Session
      3. ZooKeeper with Quorums
      4. Implementing a Primitive: Locks with ZooKeeper
   4. Implementation of a Master–Worker Example
      1. The Master Role
      2. Workers, Tasks, and Assignments
      3. The Worker Role
      4. The Client Role
   5. Takeaway Messages
5. II. Programming with ZooKeeper
6. 3. Getting Started with the ZooKeeper API
   1. Setting the ZooKeeper CLASSPATH
   2. Creating a ZooKeeper Session
      1. Implementing a Watcher
      2. Running the Watcher Example
   3. Getting Mastership
      1. Getting Mastership Asynchronously
      2. Setting Up Metadata
   4. Registering Workers
   5. Queuing Tasks
   6. The Admin Client
   7. Takeaway Messages
7. 4. Dealing with State Change
   1. One-Time Triggers
      1. Wait, Can I Miss Events with One-Time Triggers?
   2. Getting More Concrete: How to Set Watches
   3. A Common Pattern
   4. The Master–Worker Example
      1. Mastership Changes
      2. Master Waits for Changes to the List of Workers
      3. Master Waits for New Tasks to Assign
      4. Worker Waits for New Task Assignments
      5. Client Waits for Task Execution Result
   5. An Alternative Way: Multiop
   6. Watches as a Replacement for Explicit Cache Management
   7. Ordering Guarantees
      1. Order of Writes
      2. Order of Reads
      3. Order of Notifications
   8. The Herd Effect and the Scalability of Watches
   9. Takeaway Messages
8. 5. Dealing with Failure
   1. Recoverable Failures
      1. The Exists Watch and the Disconnected Event
   2. Unrecoverable Failures
   3. Leader Election and External Resources
   4. Takeaway Messages
9. 6. ZooKeeper Caveat Emptor
   1. Using ACLs
      1. Built-In Authentication Schemes
      2. SASL and Kerberos
      3. Adding New Schemes
   2. Session Recovery
   3. Version Is Reset When Znode Is Re-Created
   4. The sync Call
   5. Ordering Guarantees
      1. Order in the Presence of Connection Loss
      2. Order with the Synchronous API and Multiple Threads
      3. Order When Mixing Synchronous and Asynchronous Calls
   6. Data and Child Limits
   7. Embedding the ZooKeeper Server
   8. Takeaway Messages
10. 7. The C Client
    1. Setting Up the Development Environment
    2. Starting a Session
    3. Bootstrapping the Master
    4. Taking Leadership
    5. Assigning Tasks
    6. Single-Threaded versus Multithreaded Clients
    7. Takeaway Messages
11. 8. Curator: A High-Level API for ZooKeeper
    1. The Curator Client
    2. Fluent API
    3. Listeners
    4. State Changes in Curator
    5. A Couple of Edge Cases
    6. Recipes
       1. Leader Latch
       2. Leader Selector
       3. Children Cache
    7. Takeaway Messages
12. III. Administering ZooKeeper
13. 9. ZooKeeper Internals
    1. Requests, Transactions, and Identifiers
    2. Leader Elections
    3. Zab: Broadcasting State Updates
    4. Observers
    5. The Skeleton of a Server
       1. Standalone Servers
       2. Leader Servers
       3. Follower and Observer Servers
    6. Local Storage
       1. Logs and Disk Use
       2. Snapshots
    7. Servers and Sessions
    8. Servers and Watches
    9. Clients
    10. Serialization
    11. Takeaway Messages
14. 10. Running ZooKeeper
    1. Configuring a ZooKeeper Server
       1. Basic Configuration
       2. Storage Configuration
       3. Network Configuration
       4. Cluster Configuration
       5. Authentication and Authorization Options
       6. Unsafe Options
       7. Logging
       8. Dedicating Resources
    2. Configuring a ZooKeeper Ensemble
       1. The Majority Rules
       2. Configurable Quorums
       3. Observers
    3. Reconfiguration
       1. Managing Client Connect Strings
    4. Quotas
    5. Multitenancy
    6. File System Layout and Formats
       1. Transaction Logs
       2. Snapshots
       3. Epoch Files
       4. Using Stored ZooKeeper Data
    7. Four-Letter Words
    8. Monitoring with JMX
       1. Connecting Remotely
    9. Tools
    10. Takeaway Messages
15. Index