Netflix/asgard — pull request #497 by joesondow (2014-03-07 19:03:31+00:00)
Title: ASGARD-1286 runtime flag to skip cache load

Instead of relying on a startup skipCacheLoad flag only, allow a runtime flag to be set through FlagController, FlagService, and Flag, to skip caching loading even if Asgard is already running and trying to load caches.

This gives Asgard admins an emergency quick back door to bring up a new Asgard instance that is working sufficiently well for use (based on the admin's personal judgement about the situation). This is for times when the existing Asgard instance is behaving very badly and needs to be replaced, but at the same time Amazon is also having problems with a surprising new type of cloud object listing. Last month it was volumes, this month it's snapshots, next month it could be something else.