[ckan-dev] Session storage and stateless instances

Sat May 17 02:31:59 UTC 2014

1. Not sure.

2. File store.

Nigel Babu
Developer, Open Knowledge

On 16 May 2014 23:35, Nick Stenning <nick.stenning at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have two questions: one specific, and one general.
>
> 1. If I found time to make the appropriate adjustments to CKAN to make
> the database the default session store, would anyone be averse to that?
> Storing sessions on disk causes all kinds of problems, the most
> important of which for me is that it makes it difficult to load balance
> multiple identically-configured CKAN instances. One either has to define
> server affinity based on session cookies, or put the filesystem session
> storage onto a network filesystem, which is a terrible idea on many
> levels (atomicity, network partitions, etc.)
>
> 2. More generally, is anyone aware of any other aspects of CKAN which
> stand in the way of application instances being fully stateless?
>
> -N
>
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> Nick Stenning
> Technical Director, Open Knowledge
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