Bug 1569917 - Installer does not set correctly node labels in node-config.yaml and bootstrap-node-config.yaml
Summary: Installer does not set correctly node labels in node-config.yaml and bootstra...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: OpenShift Container Platform
Classification: Red Hat
Component: Installer
Version: 3.10.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
: 3.10.z
Assignee: Russell Teague
QA Contact: Gaoyun Pei
URL:
Whiteboard: aos-scalability-310
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-04-20 09:16 UTC by Jiří Mencák
Modified: 2018-12-13 17:09 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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One of the tasks of the openshift-ansible installer is to include the tuned role and apply the correct per-node tuning. The tuned role relies on the "recommend" tuned daemon functionality, which queries node-config.yaml for appropriate node labels and sets the correct tuned profile according to these labels. Unfortunately, with the introduction of the openshift-node/sync pods, the node labeling information may be set by the sync pods after the installer finished and therefore OpenShift nodes may run with incorrect tuned profiles. This adds a functionality to restart the tuned daemon and as a result set the correct tuned profile when node-config.yaml changes.
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Last Closed: 2018-12-13 17:09:08 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2018:3750 0 None None None 2018-12-13 17:09:14 UTC

Description Jiří Mencák 2018-04-20 09:16:50 UTC
Description of problem:
In 3.9 node labels were set correctly in /etc/origin/node/node-config.yaml, so that tools could find out the type of the node and set relevant tuned profiles.  In 3.10, there is not enough information in node-config.yaml or /etc/origin/node/bootstrap-node-config.yaml to establish type of the node (control plane/computes).  This is a regression wrt to 3.9.

Version-Release number of the following components:
$ git describe
openshift-ansible-3.10.0-0.25.0

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install a small 4-node OCP cluster with 1 master, 1 infra node, 1 lb and 1 worker node with node labels as follows:
[nodes]
# masters
b1.lan openshift_schedulable=true openshift_node_labels="{'region': 'infra', 'zone': 'default'}"
# infras
b2.lan openshift_schedulable=true openshift_node_labels="{'region': 'infra', 'zone': 'default'}"
# worker/application nodes
b3.lan openshift_schedulable=true openshift_node_labels="{'region': 'primary', 'zone': 'default'}"

Actual results:

On 3.9, you'll get:
root@b1: # grep -C1 infra /etc/origin/node/node-config.yaml
  node-labels:
  - region=infra
  - zone=default
root@b2: ~ # grep -C1 infra /etc/origin/node/node-config.yaml
  node-labels:
  - region=infra
  - zone=default

On 3.10, you'll get

root@b1: # grep -C1 infra /etc/origin/node/node-config.yaml
  node-labels:
  - region=infra
  - zone=default

root@b1: ~ # grep -C1 infra /etc/origin/node/node-config.yaml
root@b1: ~ # grep -C1 infra /etc/origin/node/bootstrap-node-config.yaml 
root@b1: ~ # grep -A2 node-labels /etc/origin/node/node-config.yaml
  node-labels: 
  - "node-role.kubernetes.io/master=true"
  enable-controller-attach-detach:
root@b1: ~ # grep -A2 node-labels /etc/origin/node/bootstrap-node-config.yaml 
  node-labels: 
  - ""
  enable-controller-attach-detach:
root@b2: ~ # grep -A2 node-labels /etc/origin/node/bootstrap-node-config.yaml 
  node-labels: 
  - ""
  enable-controller-attach-detach:
root@b2: ~ # grep -A2 node-labels /etc/origin/node/node-config.yaml 
  node-labels: 
  - "node-role.kubernetes.io/compute=true"
  enable-controller-attach-detach:

Expected results:
/etc/origin/node/bootstrap-node-config.yaml ideally for 3.10 or any other file in /etc/origin needs to contain enough information about the type of the OCP node.

Additional info:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1504475

Comment 1 Scott Dodson 2018-05-02 14:28:30 UTC
This is going to be problematic as this is now driven by configmaps rather than the configuration files. I'm going to mark this as 3.10.z.

Comment 3 Scott Dodson 2018-08-02 20:07:04 UTC
/etc/origin/node/node-config.yaml should have these labels today in 3.10 and 3.11, but wasn't when this was BZ was first created. Though they're going to be 'node-role.kubernetes.io/infra=true' etc and that file will not exist until the host has been bootstrapped. Does tuned have the ability to watch files for changes?

I'm not sure how well this will translate into our efforts to move to upstream dynamic config.

https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/reconfigure-kubelet/

Comment 4 Jiří Mencák 2018-08-03 06:16:17 UTC
(In reply to Scott Dodson from comment #3)
> Does tuned have the ability to watch files for changes?

I do not believe the current tuned has this functionality.  Adding Jaroslav Skarvada.  For 4.0 there are plans to have tuned containerized and have inotifywatch check changes in files that need to be checked.  But a tuned functionality to have certain files watched and then reloaded based on changes in them would definitely help in a more dynemic environment.

Comment 5 Jaroslav Škarvada 2018-08-03 09:59:11 UTC
(In reply to jmencak from comment #4)
> (In reply to Scott Dodson from comment #3)
> > Does tuned have the ability to watch files for changes?
> 
> I do not believe the current tuned has this functionality.  Adding Jaroslav
> Skarvada.  For 4.0 there are plans to have tuned containerized and have
> inotifywatch check changes in files that need to be checked.  But a tuned
> functionality to have certain files watched and then reloaded based on
> changes in them would definitely help in a more dynemic environment.

Unfortunately there is no such functionality at the moment. Feel free to open Tuned bugzilla.

Comment 6 Scott Dodson 2018-08-03 12:37:42 UTC
We could have the sync pod, which deploys the new node-config.yaml and restarts the kubelet, trigger a tuned command after updating the file. If we do that, what would that command be?

Comment 7 Jiří Mencák 2018-08-06 05:27:27 UTC
(In reply to Scott Dodson from comment #6)
> We could have the sync pod, which deploys the new node-config.yaml and
> restarts the kubelet, trigger a tuned command after updating the file. If we
> do that, what would that command be?

Basically the same thing the tuned role in openshift-ansible does, i.e.:
- rm /etc/tuned/{active_profile,profile_mode} # Make tuned use the recommended tuned profile on restart
- systemctl restart tuned

Comment 8 Scott Dodson 2018-08-06 13:39:29 UTC
Summarizing and transfering to pod team.

Prior to 3.10 the installer configured node-config.yaml with labels which triggered tuned profile selection. Due to the refactoring of the install process this is now no longer possible because node-config.yaml is retrieved via the API server at runtime rather than install time. As such I think we need to make the sync pod responsible for notifying tuned whenever node-config.yaml is updated so that tuned selects the proper profiled based on the node's current role. See comment 7 for details of the steps necessary to make that happen.

Comment 9 Seth Jennings 2018-08-15 16:19:21 UTC
There is a file laid down by the installer that has the role information in 3.10 and 3.11 at least:

$ grep BOOTSTRAP_CONFIG_NAME /etc/sysconfig/atomic-openshift-node 
BOOTSTRAP_CONFIG_NAME=node-config-compute

where "compute" is the role and I assume tuned is configuring based on this information.  Can this be used?

Comment 10 Jiří Mencák 2018-08-17 09:09:08 UTC
Thanks, Seth, I believe we can use /etc/sysconfig/atomic-openshift-node for that purpose now.

Comment 13 Russell Teague 2018-11-20 14:24:53 UTC
Proposed 3.10: https://github.com/openshift/openshift-ansible/pull/10730

Comment 14 Gaoyun Pei 2018-11-26 07:04:28 UTC
Tried this with latest release-3.10 branch
$ git describe
openshift-ansible-3.10.79-1-16-g5621b67

After modifying one configmap of node_group, tuned service got restart on corresponding nodes afterwards.

[root@ip-172-18-11-150 ~]# tailf /var/log/tuned/tuned.log

2018-11-26 02:02:53,311 INFO     tuned.daemon.controller: terminating controller
2018-11-26 02:02:53,311 INFO     tuned.daemon.daemon: stopping tuning
2018-11-26 02:02:53,511 INFO     tuned.daemon.daemon: terminating Tuned, rolling back all changes
2018-11-26 02:02:53,712 INFO     tuned.daemon.application: dynamic tuning is globally disabled
2018-11-26 02:02:53,720 INFO     tuned.daemon.daemon: using sleep interval of 1 second(s)
2018-11-26 02:02:53,720 INFO     tuned.daemon.daemon: Running in automatic mode, checking what profile is recommended for your configuration.
2018-11-26 02:02:53,721 INFO     tuned.daemon.daemon: Using 'openshift-node' profile
2018-11-26 02:02:53,722 INFO     tuned.profiles.loader: loading profile: openshift-node
2018-11-26 02:02:53,767 INFO     tuned.daemon.controller: starting controller
2018-11-26 02:02:53,768 INFO     tuned.daemon.daemon: starting tuning
2018-11-26 02:02:53,777 INFO     tuned.plugins.base: instance cpu: assigning devices cpu0, cpu1
2018-11-26 02:02:53,781 WARNING  tuned.plugins.plugin_cpu: your CPU doesn't support MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS, ignoring CPU energy performance bias
2018-11-26 02:02:53,781 INFO     tuned.plugins.base: instance disk: assigning devices dm-0, xvda
2018-11-26 02:02:53,782 INFO     tuned.plugins.base: instance net: assigning devices eth0
2018-11-26 02:02:54,113 INFO     tuned.plugins.plugin_sysctl: reapplying system sysctl
2018-11-26 02:02:54,127 INFO     tuned.daemon.daemon: static tuning from profile 'openshift-node' applied


The proposed PR https://github.com/openshift/openshift-ansible/pull/10730 not merged into latest openshift-ansible rpm package - openshift-ansible-3.10.79-1.git.0.10daf7d yet, so change it to MODIFIED.

Comment 19 Russell Teague 2018-11-29 19:20:07 UTC
Fixed in openshift-ansible-3.10.80-1

Comment 20 Gaoyun Pei 2018-12-04 06:11:10 UTC
openshift-ansible-3.10.83-1.git.0.12699eb.el7 now attached to https://errata.devel.redhat.com/advisory/38171, move this bug to verified per Comment 14.

Comment 22 errata-xmlrpc 2018-12-13 17:09:08 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:3750


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