Bug 1835974 - [Baremetal] API VIP doesn't fail over to another master when local LB is not healthy.
Summary: [Baremetal] API VIP doesn't fail over to another master when local LB is not ...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: OpenShift Container Platform
Classification: Red Hat
Component: Installer
Version: 4.4
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
: 4.5.0
Assignee: Yossi Boaron
QA Contact: Eldar Weiss
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-05-14 20:05 UTC by Yossi Boaron
Modified: 2020-07-13 17:39 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 4.5.0-0.nightly-2020-06-09-050255
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Cause: Failure of the self-hosted Loadbalancer used for distributing OCP API traffic on the master node that serves as API LB frontend (owns the API VIP). Consequence: The relevant master node will continue to own the API-VIP IP address although local LB is unhealthy and as a result of that OCP API will be unreachable for ~10 seconds. Fix: The Keepalived check for API-VIP script will monitor also self-hosted Loadbalancer health. Result: In case of a failure in local self-hosted Loadbalancer in the master node holding the API-VIP the API-VIP will failover to another master-node and we shouldn't hit service downtime for OCP-API.
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Last Closed: 2020-07-13 17:39:04 UTC
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Github openshift machine-config-operator pull 1733 0 None closed Bug 1835974: Update keepalived API script to monitor also LB health 2021-01-05 12:38:35 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2020:2409 0 None None None 2020-07-13 17:39:19 UTC

Description Yossi Boaron 2020-05-14 20:05:59 UTC
Description of problem:

In the current implementation,  the API VIP fails over to another master only based on local kube-api-server pod status.
With this approach, the API VIP can be owned by a master node without a healthy LB.

Version-Release number of the following components:
4.5.0-0.ci-2020-05-14-170026


How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Ssh to the master node holds API VIP
2.Run script that repeatedly deletes Haproxy LB, like so

sleep 1
sudo crictl rm -f $(sudo crictl ps --name haproxy | awk 'FNR==2{ print $1}') 
 

Actual results:

1. API VIP still owned by this master node although local LB is unhealthy/doesn't run
2. In case OCP-APi is not accessible via LB, haproxy-monitor container will delete (after ~10 Sec) the firewall rule that redirects API traffic to LB. so API traffic will be sent directly to local kube-api-server and won't be distributed between masters. 


Expected results:

If local LB is not healthy, API VIP should failover to another master node.

Comment 1 Kirsten Garrison 2020-05-15 17:36:36 UTC
@Yossi Can you add a severity to this BZ please?

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2020-07-13 17:39:04 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-2020:2409


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