Gateway has infrastructural support for optional features and extensions (such as Video Clipping for Partial File Restore) that can be drop into a Swarm implementation as desired. (v6.1)

Installing Dynamic Features

After obtaining the optional package for a feature, install it on the Gateways, along with any supporting frameworks needed, such as FFmpeg, which DataCore provides preconfigured within a Docker container.

1. Copy the package for the feature to a server running Content Gateway: 
   caringo-FEATURE-VERSION.noarch.rpm

2. Upgrade to RHEL/CentOS 7 (required by Docker) if the server is running RHEL/CentOS 6.x.

3. Upgrade Gateway (versions 6.1 and higher support drop-in features such as video clipping) if running Content Gateway 6.0 or earlier.
   See Gateway Installation.

4. Upgrade Content UI to support this feature if running version 6.1 or earlier. 
   See Content UI Installation.

5. Install the package.

   yum install caringo-FEATURE-VERSION.noarch.rpm

   The installation creates a features.d directory under /etc/caringo/cloudgateway/, which is where Gateway detects optional, dynamic features.

6. Install any additional frameworks, such as multimedia support via FFmpeg, which DataCore provides preconfigured in a Docker container. 
   From an Internet-connected machine: 

   1. Check whether Docker is installed: docker info
      Else, install the Docker package, start the daemon, check its status, and enable it system-wide. See CentOS.

   2. Verify Docker by running a container test:

      docker run hello-world

   3. Load the provided container: 

      docker load < caringo-gateway-VERSION.feature.FEATURE.via.docker.VERSION.x86_64

7. Gateway creates the following directory for spooling content: /var/spool/caringo/cloudgateway/features
   Gateway refuses to start if it cannot create this directory.

8. In setting  iptables rules, Docker closes external TCP access to port 80 (although ping and ssh work); explicitly open port 80 again so clients can access Gateway. 

9. Repeat the above process on any remaining Content Gateway servers.

10. Restart the Gateway(s).
    On reboot, Content Gateway detects the feature; on a page refresh, Content UI displays the additional functionality, such as the clipping control for video content.

Metrics for Feature Usage

Dynamic features include a set of metrics providing visibility in to how each feature is being used. (v6.2)

These are the Prometheus Node Exporter and Grafana metrics displaying dynamic features:

See Prometheus Node Exporter and Grafana.

Audit Logging for Features

Each dynamic feature logs operations to provide auditing. When creating a video clip, for example, Gateway handles it asynchronously and acknowledges the request with an INVOKE message, which appears first in the audit log. That acknowledgement references the future JSON result object. When that JSON result later posts, it reports the outcome of the clipping request, such as the FFmpeg exit code and the duration, capturing the same information received on the response if it is synchronous.

All JSON result objects are temporary, by default: they are created with a lifepoint that triggers deletion after 5 days. Change the default in the Gateway Configuration, gateway.cfg ([dynamic_features] resultObjectLifetime=5).

See Gateway Audit Logging.