py-citus-rebalancer 1.0.4

A python command line tool to provide the commands necessary to run on citus to have a balanced cluster

# python-citus-rebalancer A python command to get recommendations on commands to run to rebalance an unbalaned citus cluster.

Sometimes when your cluster grows, you can have an uneven size on nodes: for example if one customers ingests more data than other. This simple commands helps you figure out what master_move_shard commands to run on your coordinator.

## Installation ### Install with pip install

1. Run pip install py-citus-rebalancer

### Install from source code

1. Clone the github repository
2. Run python setup.py develop

## Running the command

This command has different options:

• –host: is your postgres connection string
• –delta: is the maximum difference you expect between the node size and the idea size. For example if you have 4 nodes and 20GB of data, the idea size would be 5GB per node. The delta that you can give is for example 10% difference. It’s an integer representing the percent.
• –file: path to the file where you want the command to be written: example /path/to/rebalance.sql. You can then run the file on your coordinator

1. Run the command citus-rebalancer –host=postgres://user:pwd@host:5432/dbname –delta=10
2. It will return commands to run, run them on your coordinator to rebalance the cluster.