temporalio / temporalio/temporal-worker-controller
[Feature Request] Multi-pod worker deployments
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Consider a workflow DSL that lets users define their own workflows inside the product. The workflow implementation that interprets this DSL uses two kinds of activities:
- Activities that perform heavy computation
- Activities that only make HTTP or DB calls
The different activity workers and the workflow worker should not live in the same pod, for a few reasons:
- Each activity worker type and the workflow worker has its own security policy /
ServiceAccount. - If an activity container fails, it should not affect the workflow worker. When
containers share a pod, both contribute to whether the pod is considered healthy. - They have different scaling factors
- ......
That said, a single release that covers all workers is usually desirable, except in specific cases.
Describe the solution you'd like
Let users set the Temporal deployment name explicitly instead of always auto-generating it. With an explicit name, users could run multiple WorkerDeployment resources that share the same temporal deployment.
There might be a better way or practice how to handle such cases
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Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating the WorkerDeployment resource and the code that auto-generates the Temporal deployment name. Done should be defined as an explicit naming option that allows multiple WorkerDeployment resources to share one Temporal deployment while preserving the single-release behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- kubernetes
- Domain
- infrastructure
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100