Zero Downtime Deployment
On Section: Performing a rolling restart in a highly available system under https://pdn.pega.com/documents/pega-72-high-availability-administration-guide, it explains how to achieve zero downtime.
For the following scenario:
- Before deployment, user are on server1 using ruleset 01-01-01.
- Proceed to perform rolling restart (quiesce user) on server1, user will then be moved to server2 using ruleset 01-01-01.
- Import ruleset 01-01-02 on server1, this will be propagated to server2, however application will still use ruleset 01-01-01. At this point, new user login to server2 will still use ruleset 01-01-01
- Restarted server1 and start serving requests.
- Proceed to quiesce users on server2 using ruleset 01-01-01 and move users to server1.
We are trying to achieve zero downtime deployment in the event that server restart is required (e.g. table structure changes, etc.)
Questions:
On Section: Performing a rolling restart in a highly available system under https://pdn.pega.com/documents/pega-72-high-availability-administration-guide, it explains how to achieve zero downtime.
For the following scenario:
- Before deployment, user are on server1 using ruleset 01-01-01.
- Proceed to perform rolling restart (quiesce user) on server1, user will then be moved to server2 using ruleset 01-01-01.
- Import ruleset 01-01-02 on server1, this will be propagated to server2, however application will still use ruleset 01-01-01. At this point, new user login to server2 will still use ruleset 01-01-01
- Restarted server1 and start serving requests.
- Proceed to quiesce users on server2 using ruleset 01-01-01 and move users to server1.
We are trying to achieve zero downtime deployment in the event that server restart is required (e.g. table structure changes, etc.)
Questions:
1. At point #4, how do we make sure new users on server1 will use ruleset 01-01-02 while users on new users on server2 will still use ruleset 01-01-01?
2. At point #5, when users move to server1, what ruleset user will be using? Can we force it to use ruleset 01-01-02?
Any idea?