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NetKAN Infrastructure

The NetKAN Infrastructure Project is a re-write of the original monolithic NetKAN-bot, with the goal of easier maintenance, a faster code to deployment pipeline, infrastructure as code.

Theory of operation

We use a modern microservice architecture to continuously index new mods and mod updates as the upstream mod files change. The microservices communicate via the AWS SQS system.

Microservices

Scheduler

Every once in a while, the Scheduler kicks off and submits NetKAN metadata for the Inflator to work with.

Inflator

The core of the system, it has the job to inflate NetKAN metadata to CKAN metadata as described in the Schema and Spec.

Indexer

The Indexer takes inflated metadata and, if the metadata is different to currently existing one, or entirely new, pushes it to the metadata repository. It also updates the status database.

Mirrorer

Uploads freshly indexed mods to the Internet Archive, if allowed by their licenses.

Webhooks

The webhooks provide a web server that responds to messages from other hosts and services, usually by queueing a module to be inflated by the Inflator.

Download Counter

Collects download counts for indexed mods and commits them to the metadata repository.

Status Page

The status page shows the current status of the inflation for each mod: Time of last inflation, time of last indexing, or errors that occurred during inflation. It accesses a DynamoDB database in the background.

SpaceDock Adder

Generates pull requests in the NetKAN repo when SpaceDock users request a mod to be added to CKAN.

Ticket Closer

Closes stale issues on GitHub.

Auto-Freezer

Submits pull requests to the NetKAN repo to freeze mods that haven't been indexed in a long time.

Containers

Container Image Repo Code
Scheduler kspckan/netkan NetKAN-Infra netkan/netkan/scheduler.py
Inflator kspckan/inflator CKAN Netkan/Processors/QueueHandler.cs
Indexer kspckan/netkan NetKAN-Infra netkan/netkan/indexer.py
Mirrorer kspckan/netkan NetKAN-Infra netkan/netkan/mirrorer.py
Download Counter kspckan/netkan NetKAN-Infra netkan/netkan/download_counter.py
Adder kspckan/netkan NetKAN-Infra netkan/netkan/spacedock_adder.py
TicketCloser kspckan/netkan NetKAN-Infra netkan/netkan/ticket_closer.py
AutoFreezer kspckan/netkan NetKAN-Infra netkan/netkan/auto_freezer.py
Status Dumper kspckan/netkan NetKAN-Infra netkan/netkan/cli/utilities.py
Webhooks kspckan/netkan NetKAN-Infra netkan/netkan/webhooks
Webhooks Proxy kspckan/webhooks-proxy NetKAN-Infra
Cert Bot certbot/dns-route53 certbot/certbot

Queues

The individual services communicate via Amazon's SQS (Simple Queue Service) system where needed. The Scheduler sends the netkans as SQS message to an SQS queue, where the Inflator picks them up and inflates them to ckan metadata. The Inflator again sends the resulting metadata via another queue to the Indexer.

Inbound.fifo

Message Attribute Usage
Releases Number of releases to inflate, for modules with backports
HighestVersion Version number of the latest release already indexed

Payload: JSON contents of .netkan to inflate

Outbound.fifo

Message Attribute Usage
ModIdentifier The identifier of the module
Staged "true" to commit to new branch and submit a pull request
Success "true" if inflation succeeded, "false" if there was an error
CheckTime The datetime when the inflation happened, in ISO 8601 format
FileName Name of file to create or update, usually identifier-version.ckan
ErrorMessage Explanation of why inflation failed if Success is "false", omitted otherwise
WarningMessages Non-fatal potential problems noted during inflation, separated by newlines
StagingReason Body for pull request if Staged is "true", omitted otherwise

Payload: JSON contents of .ckan file to index

Adding.fifo

Message Attribute Usage
N/A N/A

Payload: JSON encoding of request received from SpaceDock to index a new mod

Mirroring.fifo

Message Attribute Usage
N/A N/A

Payload: Path of .ckan file just added to CKAN-meta

Webhooks

The webhooks run on https://netkan.ksp-ckan.space/ and are firewalled to only a few servers that we know need to access them (so they're not going to work if you try them in your browser).

Route Parameters Usage
/inflate POST body: {"identifiers": [ "Id1", "Id2", ... ]} Inflate the given modules (used by SpaceDock-Notify)
/sd/add POST form: See Adder code comments Index a new mod from SpaceDock
/sd/inflate POST form: mod_id=1234&event_type=update Inflate modules with the given SpaceDock ID
/gh/inflate See the push API Inflate modules after commits to NetKAN
/gh/release?identifier=Id See the release API Inflate a module when a new release is uploaded to GitHub
/gh/mirror See the push API Archive a mod that was just indexed

Developing

How to set up a local development environment

References

Performing Updates

Updating the Stack:

aws cloudformation update-stack --stack-name DevQueues --template-body "`python dev-stack.py`" --capabilities CAPABILITY_IAM --profile ckan --region us-west-2

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