[WHIRR-288] Add blob store persistence for cluster state

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.5.0
• Assignee: Andrei Savu
• Reporter: Andrei Savu
• Created: 28/Apr/11 14:34
• Updated: 05/May/11 14:03
• Resolved: 05/May/11 14:03

Description

Right now Whirr persists the current cluster state (instance IDs, public and private IPs and roles) on the local filesystem (~/.whirr/<cluster-name>/instances). It should be possible to save the state as a blob so that it's easily accessible from multiple machines.

Issue Links

• is blocked by: WHIRR-246 Single place to store/load cluster state
• relates to: WHIRR-214 Add/Remove nodes to/from running clusters
• relates to: WHIRR-238 Scaling Monitor/Coordinator