systemd node spec proposal #17688

derekwaynecarr · 2015-11-23T22:50:46Z

The following outlines changes that I want to make to the kubelet in order to better integrate with systemd systems, and to better isolate containers in their own cgroup based on the qos tier.

I think this is a precursor to getting more intelligent low compute resource eviction.

/cc @smarterclayton @ncdc @pmorie @dchen1107 @vishh @bgrant0607

This change is

dchen1107 · 2015-11-23T23:21:15Z

cc/ @jonboulle to make sure this is align with rkt

yifan-gu · 2015-11-23T23:29:29Z

cc @yifan-gu @alban

alban · 2015-11-24T13:24:03Z

docs/proposals/systemd-nodespec.md

+* ```service``` - a file that describes how to manage a service or application on the server; how to start/stop a service; when it should
+be started; under what circumstances it should be restarted; and any resource controls that should be applied to the service.
+* ```slice``` - a file that describes the inner-leaves of the cgroup hierarchy.  the name aligns with its placement in the hierarchy tree;
+for example, ```kubelet-besteffort.slice``` denotes a cgroup node ```/sys/fs/cgroup/<controller>/kubelet.slice/besteffort.slice```.  A


It actually denotes a cgroup node /sys/fs/cgroup/<controller>/kubelet.slice/kubelet-besteffort.slice. The kubelet part is repeated in the cgroup path.

Example: foo-bar.slice is a slice that is located within foo.slice, which in turn is located in the root slice -.slice.

http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.slice.html

@alban - thanks for the typo catch! will update.

vishh · 2015-11-24T14:57:24Z

I'd prefer kubelet having complete access to croups rather than be bound to systemd cgroups APIs, which is not complete yet.

vishh · 2015-11-24T15:00:09Z

I'd suggest splitting this proposal into a separate bootstrapping/setup phase and a runtime phase.
The bootstrapping suggestions seems fine to me, but the runtime cgroups setup has some issues.
Let's get the first part of of the way, since the runtime is anyways still controlled by docker as of now.

jonboulle · 2015-11-24T18:43:18Z

I'd prefer kubelet having complete access to croups rather than be bound to systemd cgroups APIs, which is not complete yet.

This is a pretty significant decision either way. On the rkt side we'd definitely have a preference for sticking to the systemd cgroups API for now since it's a lot simpler and provides a much cleaner abstraction/integration with the way rkt pods are structured. I think as was discussed in the systemd integration meeting the other week, now that unified hierarchy is landing we're at a point where we could start to push on upstream to add the different things we need.

But if it's a dealbreaker we can make something work the other way...

derekwaynecarr · 2015-11-24T19:33:49Z

@vishh - I know we discussed setting up memory soft limits (which is in systemd, was not in docker last I looked, but looking at master it looks like some work went into adding --reservation field; i need to verify the release that is actually in). Are there specific controllers or properties not yet exposed that you want to exploit in the near term?

Either way, I agree splitting the proposal into the phases proposed.

Thanks!

pmorie · 2015-11-25T18:36:35Z

docs/proposals/systemd-nodespec.md

+
+**Status**: Proposed
+
+*This document presents a specification for how the ```kubelet``` interfaces with ```systemd``` with a focus on quality of service concerns.*


nit: triple backticks unnecessary, single is fine.

pmorie · 2015-11-25T18:40:47Z

Nit: wrapping lines at 100 chars helps make proposals easier to comment on.

vishh · 2015-11-30T20:47:45Z

@derekwaynecarr: Acknowledged.

derekwaynecarr · 2015-12-04T23:53:03Z

@vishh - I hope this clarifies what I am looking to enable.

@mrunalp - your review is appreciated as well.

Anyone else please take a look and provide input.

vishh · 2015-12-05T00:04:38Z

docs/proposals/kubelet-systemd.md

+
+## kubelet cgroups per quality of service (qos) tier
+
+It is desired to parent containers in a cgroup based on their qos tier to facilitate local node accounting scenarios.


@derekwaynecarr: Kubelet doesn't do any qos specific cgroup management as of now. Until the overall plan for cgroup management is finalized, can we exclude this section from this proposal?
Let's get the node initial bootstrapping finalized while the cgroups part gets finalized.
WDYT?

That's fine , hope idea was clear for future discussion topics. I just wanted to relate with cgroup-root that we have today.

derekwaynecarr · 2016-03-16T19:49:43Z

I am going to take another pass at this to update based on the state of Kubernetes 1.2.

Aspects of this document are stale.

derekwaynecarr · 2016-04-05T21:12:42Z

add a point on volume storage driver daemons:
#23491 (comment)

derekwaynecarr · 2016-05-19T20:46:58Z

one more item to note:

when systemd manages docker, and resource accounting is off for that unit, the container runtime stats defaults to the cpu cgroup container, which will be /, which means its the same as node level stats. We need to require that the unit file that manages docker has the following:

[Unit]
Description=Docker Application Container Engine
Documentation=http://docs.docker.com
After=network.target

[Service]
CPUAccounting=true
MemoryAccounting=true

Otherwise, runtime accounting will be wrong.

dchen1107 · 2016-05-19T21:15:43Z

cc/ @adityakali @andyzheng0831 this is the proposal I mentioned to you earlier related to NodeAllocatable configuration for GCI image.

andyzheng0831 · 2016-05-19T21:46:06Z

@dchen1107 not sure if this proposal covers cAdvisor. So far I feel cAdvisor does not work well with systemd in some cases.

dchen1107 · 2016-05-19T22:21:18Z

@andyzheng0831 The proposal doesn't cover cAdvisor since it is part of kubelet today. This one is trying to standardize systemd node configuration, especially on resource management side.

dchen1107 · 2016-05-19T22:28:28Z

docs/proposals/kubelet-systemd.md

+
+### Docker runtime support for --cgroup-parent
+
+Docker versions <= 1.0.9 did not have proper support for `-cgroup-parent` flag on `systemd`.  This


Docker 1.7 is minimal version Kubelet support since 1.1 release. Kubelet will mark the node not_ready today if docker version is below that minimal version.

dchen1107 · 2016-05-19T22:30:47Z

LGTM

vishh · 2016-05-19T22:56:54Z

@andyzheng0831 @dchen1107 It would help enumerate cAdvisor issues to see if any of them falls within the scope of this PR. WDYT?

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derekwaynecarr · 2016-05-20T00:44:12Z

I am happy to look at cAdvisor issues if enumerated. I had added some stuff this release to ignore .mount cgroups. Happy to do others if there is a known list.

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		Status: Proposed

		This document presents a specification for how the ```kubelet``` interfaces with ```systemd``` with a focus on quality of service concerns.


		## kubelet cgroups per quality of service (qos) tier

		It is desired to parent containers in a cgroup based on their qos tier to facilitate local node accounting scenarios.


		### Docker runtime support for --cgroup-parent

		Docker versions <= 1.0.9 did not have proper support for `-cgroup-parent` flag on `systemd`. This

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