Hot-pluggable plugins¶

The hot-pluggable plugins do not affect the core deployment and can be installed on existing environments. Another term for hot-pluggable plugins is application-level plugins.

The following are characteristics of a hot-pluggable plugin:

• Provides new applications.
• Installs applications on a new node.
• Does not affect existing services or applications.
• Does not override existing tasks.

Example of hot-pluggable plugins:

• Dynatrace
• LMA Collector

Compare these to the plugins that affect Fuel core functionality, such as SDN or storage plugins. These plugins can only be installed before deploying an environment.

Defining tasks for existing roles in a hot-pluggable plugin executes these tasks with the corresponding roles if these nodes are installed after the plugin is enabled. This option, however, is error-prone, as you cannot differentiate between the nodes deployed before and after the plugin is enabled. In this case, nodes have the same role but different functionality.

The recommended use case for a hot-pluggable plugin is to add a node with a plugin-specific role to an already existing environment.

An application-level plugin must have the is_hotpluggable attribute set to true in the metadata.yaml file:

is_hotpluggable: true