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Tom Clegg, 08/09/2018 07:03 PM

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h1. Federated collections
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In a federation, a client on cluster A can read a collection that is hosted on cluster B. Cluster A pulls the metadata and file content from cluster B as needed. The client's behavior is exactly the same as it is for collections hosted on cluster A.
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Cases:
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* Read collection by uuid
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* Read collection by pdh
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* Update collection by uuid (not covered here yet; needs a strategy for writing the data through to the remote cluster)
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h2. Differences from federated workflow retrieval
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If the collection is requested from cluster A with @GET /arvados/v1/collections/{uuid}@, cluster A can proxy a request to cluster B, using the same approach used for workflows in #13493.
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If the collection is requested from cluster A with @GET /arvados/v1/collections/{pdh}@, and cluster A does not have a matching collection, it can scan remote clusters until it finds one.
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Once the collection is retrieved, the client also needs to read the data blocks. Without some additional mechanism, this won't work: the local keepstore servers will reject the blob signatures provided by the remote cluster, and they generally won't have the requested data anyway.
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h2. Remote data hints
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If cluster A uses a salted token to retrieve a collection from cluster B, cluster B provides a signed manifest:
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<pre>
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. acbd18db4cc2f85cedef654fccc4a4d8+3+Aabcdef@12345678 0:3:foo.txt
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</pre>
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Cluster A propagates cluster B's signature but includes the remote cluster ID:
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<pre>
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. acbd18db4cc2f85cedef654fccc4a4d8+3+Abbbbb-abcdef@12345678 0:3:foo.txt
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</pre>
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Any keepstore service on cluster A will be able to fetch the block from cluster B:
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* Look up bbbbb in remote cluster list in discovery doc
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* Look up bbbbb's keepproxy address in bbbbb's discovery doc
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* Fetch <code>https://{keepproxy}/acbd18db4cc2f85cedef654fccc4a4d8+3+Abcdefa@12345678</code>
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h2. Remote signature hint
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Possible syntaxes:
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* acbd18db4cc2f85cedef654fccc4a4d8+3+Abbbbb-bcdefa@12345678
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* acbd18db4cc2f85cedef654fccc4a4d8+3+Rbbbbb-bcdefa@12345678
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The chosen syntax must support having both local and remote signatures on a single locator. This can help a sophisticated (future) controller communicate securely to keepstore, on a per-block or per-collection basis, whether keepstore should skip contacting the remote cluster when returning remote data that also happens to be stored locally.
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* acbd18db4cc2f85cedef654fccc4a4d8+3+Abbbbb-bcdefa@12345678+Aabcdef@12345678
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* acbd18db4cc2f85cedef654fccc4a4d8+3+Rbbbbb-bcdefa@12345678+Aabcdef@12345678
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h2. Optimization: Data cache on cluster A
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A keepstore service on cluster A, when proxying a GET request to cluster B, has some opportunities to conserve network resources:
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# Before proxying, check whether the block exists on a local volume. If so:
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## Request a content challenge from the remote cluster to ensure the remote cluster does in fact have the data. (This can be skipped if cluster A trusts cluster B to enforce data access permissions.)
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## Return the local copy.
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# When passing a proxied response through to the client, write the data to a local volume as well, so it can be returned more efficiently next time.
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h2. Optimization: Identical content exists on cluster A
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When proxying a "get collection by UUID" request to cluster B, cluster A might notice that the PDH returned by cluster B matches a collection stored on cluster A. In this case, all data blocks are already stored locally: it can replace the cluster B's signatures with its own, and the client will end up reading the blocks from local volumes.
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To avoid an information leak, a configuration setting can restrict this optimization to cases where the caller's token has permission to read the existing local collection.
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h2. Implementation
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* #13993 [API] Fetch remote-hosted collection by UUID
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* #13994 [Keepstore] Fetch blocks from federated clusters