Problem Description

As a systems administrator, I am granted a 5-minute lock timeout from an active Bamboo instance. It is not possible to manipulate the lock even if the active Bamboo instance is shut down. The static 5-minute lock imposes a forced delay to any cluster takeover or manual switching between cluster members (or passive/disaster recovery takeovers)

Suggested Solution

Define a way to:

• Tune the lock timeout // Cluster takeover time (to allow fine-grained control over cluster timings)
• Retrieve the lock ownership and status (for monitoring)
• Release the lock immediately after shutdown (so other nodes can takeover immediately)
• Hold the lock so other nodes will not take over the service (in case the active node just needs to restart but still remain active)
• Forcibly takeover the lock by special initialisation flag (to be used in a hard takeover from the passive node)

Settings can be set either via properties/java env or from the API.

Workaround for displaying node status

• To list all the cluster nodes

  SELECT * FROM cluster_node_heartbeat 

• To list the active node

  SELECT node_id FROM cluster_lock WHERE lock_name='bamboo_primary_cluster_node';