[SLIDER-663] Make it easy to develop and deploy application packages that are essentially shell commands

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Slider 0.60
• Fix Version/s: Slider 0.80
• Component/s: agent-provider, app-package
• Sprint: Slider Feb #1, Slider April #1
• Assignee: Sumit Mohanty
• Reporter: Sumit Mohanty
• Created: 20/Nov/14 01:36
• Updated: 05/Oct/15 00:15
• Resolved: 28/Apr/15 20:50

Description

Slider app packages require several artifacts for completeness such as a metainfo.xml, a python script to read config and a python script for life cycle commands, a tarball, etc.

A simple application can be modeled as a shell command or as a java application that just needs a jar and some system properties. So the application requirement can be summarized as:

• a jar
• a command
• a small set of properties

While it is possible to model these as an application package (e.g. memcached) it is also evident that there are a lot of common patterns that need to be duplicated.

Slider should provide a way to pass these parameters in the create call itself rather than having to create a full application package.