Scheduling and tracking control plane operations for distributed storage systems

A method, comprising:

• performing, by one or more computing devices:
• maintaining information about a plurality of control plane events detected at a distributed storage service, wherein each of the plurality of detected control plane events corresponds to one or more control plane operations to be performed at the distributed storage system in response to detecting the control plane event;
• determine current resource utilization for currently performing control plane operations and currently scheduled control plane operations at the distributed storage service;
• and
• analyzing the information about the detected control plane events to schedule at least one of the one or more control plane operations corresponding to the detected control plane events to be performed, based, at least in part, on applying one or more resource constraints for performing the one or more control plane operations to the determined current resource utilization for the distributed storage service.

A non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium, storing program instructions that when executed by one or more computing devices cause the one or more computing devices to implement a control plane task engine configured to direct the performance of control plane operations among one or more of nodes implementing a distributed storage service, wherein the task engine implements:

• maintaining information about a plurality of control plane events detected at the distributed storage service, wherein each of the plurality of detected control plane events corresponds to one or more control plane operations to be performed at the distributed storage service in response to detecting the event;
• determine current resource utilization for currently performing control plane operations and currently scheduled control plane operations at the distributed storage service;
• and
• analyzing the information about the detected control plane events to schedule at least one of the one or more control plane operations corresponding to the detected control plane events to be performed, based, at least in part, on applying one or more resource constraints for performing the one or more control plane operations to the determined current resource utilization for the distributed storage service.