skywalking-java/docs/en/setup/backend/backend-cluster.md

Cluster Management

In many product environments, backend need to support high throughputs and provide HA to keep robustness, so you should need cluster management always in product env.

Backend provides several ways to do cluster management. Choose the one you need/want.

• Zookeeper coordinator. Use Zookeeper to let backend instance detects and communicates with each other.
• Kubernetes. When backend cluster are deployed inside kubernetes, you could choose this by using k8s native APIs to manage cluster.
• Consul. Use Consul as backend cluster management implementor, to coordinate backend instances.

Zookeeper coordinator

Zookeeper is a very common and wide used cluster coordinator. Set the cluster module's implementor to zookeeper in the yml to active.

Required Zookeeper version, 3.4+

cluster:
  zookeeper:
    nameSpace: ${SW_NAMESPACE:""}
    hostPort: ${SW_CLUSTER_ZK_HOST_PORT:localhost:2181}
    # Retry Policy
    baseSleepTimeMs: 1000 # initial amount of time to wait between retries
    maxRetries: 3 # max number of times to retry

• hostPort is the list of zookeeper servers. Format is IP1:PORT1,IP2:PORT2,...,IPn:PORTn
• hostPort, baseSleepTimeMs and maxRetries are settings of Zookeeper curator client.

In some cases, oap default gRPC host and port in core are not suitable for internal communication among the oap nodes. The following setting are provided to set the hot and port manually, based on your own LAN env.

• internalComHost, the host registered and other oap node use this to communicate with current node.
• internalComPort, the port registered and other oap node use this to communicate with current node.

zookeeper:
  nameSpace: ${SW_NAMESPACE:""}
  hostPort: ${SW_CLUSTER_ZK_HOST_PORT:localhost:2181}
  #Retry Policy
  baseSleepTimeMs: ${SW_CLUSTER_ZK_SLEEP_TIME:1000} # initial amount of time to wait between retries
  maxRetries: ${SW_CLUSTER_ZK_MAX_RETRIES:3} # max number of times to retry
  internalComHost: 172.10.4.10
  internalComPort: 11800

Kubernetes

Require backend cluster are deployed inside kubernetes, guides are in Deploy in kubernetes. Set implementor to kubernetes.

cluster:
  kubernetes:
    watchTimeoutSeconds: 60
    namespace: default
    labelSelector: app=collector,release=skywalking
    uidEnvName: SKYWALKING_COLLECTOR_UID

Consul

Now, consul is becoming a famous system, many of companies and developers using consul to be their service discovery solution. Set the cluster module's implementor to consul in the yml to active.

cluster:
  consul:
    serviceName: ${SW_SERVICE_NAME:"SkyWalking_OAP_Cluster"}
    # Consul cluster nodes, example: 10.0.0.1:8500,10.0.0.2:8500,10.0.0.3:8500
    hostPort: ${SW_CLUSTER_CONSUL_HOST_PORT:localhost:8500}

Same as Zookeeper coordinator, in some cases, oap default gRPC host and port in core are not suitable for internal communication among the oap nodes. The following setting are provided to set the hot and port manually, based on your own LAN env.

• internalComHost, the host registered and other oap node use this to communicate with current node.
• internalComPort, the port registered and other oap node use this to communicate with current node.