Discussion: Separate the chaostoolkit-azure extension in two extensions

[buderre]

The ct-azure extension hosts actions for i) the Azure Service Fabric and ii) the Azure infrastructure.

The Azure Service Fabric is an orchestration framework, comparable to K8s. Microsoft states that Service Fabric is portable, and can be deployed on for example AWS.

Some main points for the discussion of separating those two parts:

• The Azure Service Fabric differs in its business scope from the Azure infrastructure
• The Azure Service Fabric differs in its authentication logic from the Azure infrastructure authentication
• The Azure Service Fabric as an orchestration framework shall maybe treated like the K8s extension

From the ct clients' point of view, it could also be beneficial to see, that ct supports Azure and Azure Service Fabric.

What do you think?

[Lawouach]

Hey @buderre

I can see the rationale for this completely. I think it showed my lack of understanding of Azure when I created the extension later on.

Might be useful to ping @seriousscorpion @matsch55 and @mkaszub as they contributed to the extension, so it would be cool to have their feedback and awareness :)

[mkaszub]

Hey @buderre That's a good point. As Service Fabric is cloud independent it most likely should not be in azure extension.

[buderre]

I would not like to throw it away. It could be a positive option to separate it in two extensions - the Azure and the Service Fabric extension? This suggestion could on one side help us in the technical approach to separate those two extensions and on the other side increase the users' awareness for the Azure infrastructure extension.

This could have the charmant effect to update https://chaostoolkit.org/extensions with an additional extension and have two: Azure and Service Fabric as an extension.

I'm wondering what you think about this @mkaszub @Lawouach

[Lawouach]

If you folks feel like it's the right path, I'm more than happy to create a new repo called chaostoolkit-azure-service-fabric. It's a mouthful but clear :)

[matsch55]

That sounds good, but I would call it chaostoolkit-service-fabric, because service-fabrics could also be deloyed on AWS (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-fabric/service-fabric-tutorial-standalone-create-infrastructure).

[Lawouach]

Sounds good by me! I'll create it now.

[Lawouach]

Done https://github.com/chaostoolkit-incubator/chaostoolkit-service-fabric

[Lawouach]

You may copy this extension over and clean it up as a PR. Or use a template project and start from scratch https://github.com/dastergon/cookiecutter-chaostoolkit

[buderre]

Nice one. Like it.