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[Federation] HPA controller #45993

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@irfanurrehman irfanurrehman commented May 17, 2017

This PR implements the design listed in kubernetes/community#593.
This is still a work in progress, and needs more unit tests to be added.
I will add the integration tests and e2e tests in a separate PR(s).

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Horizontal Pod Autoscaling is now available as an alpha feature in federation. 
It can be used to distribute and scale workload across clusters joined in a federation. 
In its current form, it works only on cpu utilization and the support for other metrics is yet to be built in.

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func (a *HpaAdapter) Schedule(obj pkgruntime.Object, current map[string]pkgruntime.Object) (map[string]pkgruntime.Object, error) {
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This method is pushing 400 lines. Not only is that fundamentally untestable, it's also impossible to review effectively. I'd like to see you refine your ideas before I commit to providing further feedback, because in its current form I don't think the code is capable of communicating your intent clearly.

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Agree, I am already trying to refine it !!
I labelled the PR as WIP, as I firsthand wanted to show my implementation intent over the sync controller.

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@irfanurrehman irfanurrehman force-pushed the fed-hpa branch 2 times, most recently from 3786009 to 09828b9 Compare May 23, 2017 14:19
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irfanurrehman commented May 23, 2017

@kubernetes/sig-federation-pr-reviews especially @marun @quinton-hoole , request you guys to have a look at the code.
The first two commits can be ignored for now, (merging that with @perotinus is still open) as they are to ensure, that this controller works on top of sync controller.
Main feedback is needed on the schedule algorithm.
Also, this is the first phase alpha implementation, and would request you to treat this work as incremental. Suggestions welcome to add more features and use cases as follow ons.

@@ -54,6 +54,15 @@ type FederatedTypeAdapter interface {
ClusterWatch(client kubeclientset.Interface, namespace string, options metav1.ListOptions) (watch.Interface, error)

NewTestObject(namespace string) pkgruntime.Object

// ImplementsReconcileHook is used to explicitly state, if the adapter implements ReconcilePlugin interface also.
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I would prefer if you could separate this and all related code into a separate PR. It should be fairly trivial, and very easy to understand and/or revert if necessary.

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Its actually the code in another PR #45497.

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ok, makes sense.

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marun commented May 30, 2017

Not a full review, just taking another look to inform my review of @perotinus's first PR.


Reviewed 6 of 11 files at r1, 2 of 3 files at r3, 1 of 1 files at r4.
Review status: 3 of 15 files reviewed at latest revision, 3 unresolved discussions, some commit checks failed.


federation/pkg/federatedtypes/crudtester/crudtester.go, line 205 at r5 (raw file):

			// Controllers which need additional reconcile split the objects;
			// The spec of the fed object and local objects need not be same, thus.
			if c.adapter.ImplementsReconcilePlugin() &&

I'm not sure this logic belongs here. Consider instead defining a method on the adapter intended to compare a federation object with its cluster-specific equivalent.


federation/pkg/federation-controller/sync/hpa_controller_test.go, line 47 at r1 (raw file):

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func TestAutoscalerController(t *testing.T) {

While this test function is in keeping with the old way of testing controllers, I think it is a unit test in name only and that it is too dependent on complicated fixture. I think a combination of targeted unit testing and integration testing would provide better coverage for less cost.


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@@ -54,6 +54,15 @@ type FederatedTypeAdapter interface {
ClusterWatch(client kubeclientset.Interface, namespace string, options metav1.ListOptions) (watch.Interface, error)

NewTestObject(namespace string) pkgruntime.Object

// ImplementsReconcileHook is used to explicitly state, if the adapter implements ReconcilePlugin interface also.
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ok, makes sense.

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func (a *HpaAdapter) FedCreate(obj pkgruntime.Object) (pkgruntime.Object, error) {
hpa := obj.(*autoscalingv1.HorizontalPodAutoscaler)
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What if the cast fails?

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Catching this failure here and at all other places which use runtime.object and then cast to a specific type might be considered as being extremely safe programming local to the function. But if this happens then there probably is much bigger a problem which needs to be looked into and the tests I guess can catch that, for sure. Also, this is same as done for all other controllers using sync controller.

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Fair enough, but failure will cause the whole controller manager to crash. Please file an issue to have it fixed holistically across sync controllers.

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I think @marun might be better at explaining the point of view, this is this way (per his original code); or conclude that this needs correction, if any. Request @marun to have a look.

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func (a *HpaAdapter) FedUpdate(obj pkgruntime.Object) (pkgruntime.Object, error) {
hpa := obj.(*autoscalingv1.HorizontalPodAutoscaler)
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As above.

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Ditto!

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func (a *HpaAdapter) ClusterCreate(client kubeclientset.Interface, obj pkgruntime.Object) (pkgruntime.Object, error) {
hpa := obj.(*autoscalingv1.HorizontalPodAutoscaler)
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As above.

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Ditto!

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func (a *HpaAdapter) ClusterUpdate(client kubeclientset.Interface, obj pkgruntime.Object) (pkgruntime.Object, error) {
hpa := obj.(*autoscalingv1.HorizontalPodAutoscaler)
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As above.

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Ditto!

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func (a *HpaAdapter) ReconcileHook(fedObj pkgruntime.Object, currentObjs map[string]pkgruntime.Object) (map[string]pkgruntime.Object, error) {
fedHpa := fedObj.(*autoscalingv1.HorizontalPodAutoscaler)
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What if the cast fails?

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Ditto!

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func (a *HpaAdapter) ReconcileHook(fedObj pkgruntime.Object, currentObjs map[string]pkgruntime.Object) (map[string]pkgruntime.Object, error) {
fedHpa := fedObj.(*autoscalingv1.HorizontalPodAutoscaler)
requestedMin := int32(1)
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Surely the default is 0 and not 1?

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Never mind, I see that the current default is 1.

minReplicas := int32(1)

In this case, can this additional override be omitted?

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Can we keep it to be on the safer side, especially with the version of the api and the way we expose the same in federation can change?

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Can you better explain the value of having a hardcoded constant value buried deep in the code like this? Perhaps I'm missing something. Under what conditions would you want the value here to be different from the default (which is currently equal to the value here). What safety does it confer? If its absolutely necessary to have it set to exactly one always, then please explain why in a comment, so that nobody accidentally changes it. And you'll also need to clearly explain in the API documentation why the default value for federation might be different than for Kubernetes.

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To be clear, I'm just wanting both of the default values (for federation and for non-federation) to refer to the same named constant, not be two independent literals buried in different parts of the code, that could get out of sync.

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Actually if you see the code, this is used only in the case when this field value is not already set (Spec.MinReplicas == nil on the object), which is unlikely because if the object for whatever reason (for example user does not specify it while creating) this field is unspecified, and if the request came from valid route (creating into the api server), the default will already by set by api defaults (the code you pointed at), even if its something else then 1. However, I am still inclined at keeping this local default, in case this code is invoked from tests, which might provide an object with this field unset. I have made it a constant and provided a comment to elaborate its use.

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I think you're making it unnecessarily difficult for people to understand the code (e.g. if a user does not provide a value via the API, this field will receive the value in autoscaling/v1/defaults . (which might be any other number in future), but here you make it look like it will default to a potentially different value, for no apparent benefit. I don't understand why you don't make both defaulting operations default to the same constant, that can be changed in one place, not two. But we've spent too much time on this already.

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const (
HpaKind = "horizontalpodautoscaler"
HpaControllerName = "horizontalpodautoscalers"
scaleForbiddenWindow = 5 * time.Minute
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It would be good to add a comment explaining exactly what this does.

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Done!

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Thanks

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type HpaAdapter struct {
client federationclientset.Interface
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I'm curious why it's necessary to have this here, in the HPA-specific adapter, rather than in the generic sync controller.

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To be clear, why does only HpaAdaptor need a federationclientset.Interface. Surely all controllers need one of these?

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Yes all controllers which are now based on sync have a federation clientset. How I understand it is that this is set in newAdapter() (of that type) once, rather then it being passed in each adapter interface method. Its used in pretty much all the interface method implementations.

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type hpaLists struct {
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It would be good to add a comment explaining these fields, and in particular why they are sets of strings.

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Aah, I see below that they are lists of cluster names. Good to clarify here with a comment though.

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Done!

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func (a *HpaAdapter) ReconcileHook(fedObj pkgruntime.Object, currentObjs map[string]pkgruntime.Object) (map[string]pkgruntime.Object, error) {
fedHpa := fedObj.(*autoscalingv1.HorizontalPodAutoscaler)
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Never mind, I see that the current default is 1.

minReplicas := int32(1)

In this case, can this additional override be omitted?

min: requestedReplicas.min / int32(len(currentObjs)),
max: requestedReplicas.max / int32(len(currentObjs)),
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if rdc.min < 1 {
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nit: This could perhaps be eliminated by using max(1, ...) above? Up to you whether or not you prefer this.

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Skipping for now!

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// Pass 1: reduction of replicas if needed ( situation that fedHpa updated replicas
// to lesser then existing).
// In this pass, we remain pessimistic and reduce one replica per cluster at a time.
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Ideally this should be a configurable value, rather than hard coded to 1. I'm thinking of cases where there are large numbers of clusters with large numbers of autoscaling replicasets, each with large numbers of replicas. It could take a very long time to converge these if only moving one at a time per reconciliation cycle.
This could of course be done in a followup PR, as it's a non-trivial code change, and not absolutely necessary.

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I thought of keeping this to a pessimistic lowest, until the "slowness of using this value" could be established. I did it to avoid any thrashing whatsoever, if using an aggressive value. As you mentioned can be done later.

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I'm pretty sure that you will need to do it later. Please open an issue so that you do not forget. To be clear, you can make it a configurable value, and set it to 1 by default. That way you avoid the potential thrashing, but make it easy to adjust later if needed.

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if maxReplicasNeeded(currentObjs[cluster]) {
scheduled[cluster].max++
if lists.availableMax.Len() > 0 {
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I think you need to do this check before you allocate the replica above? Otherwise you will routinely overallocate.

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The algo is a little like below (example maxReplicas):
replicasToDistribute = fedHpaReplicas - (total of all cluster replicas) [this can be negative also, in which case some local hpas will get lesser replicas then now]

  • find clusters which can offer max, if any (lists.availableMax) in one pass of all clusters.
  • reduce the replicas if needed (situation when fedHpa has lesser then clusters together). In this step reduce first from those hpas which already have max reducible. Once such clusters are over and reduction still needed, reduce one at a time from all clusters, randomly. This step will ensure that the exceeding replicas in local hpas are reduced to match the fedHpa (Would not be called in most scenarios).
  • Distribute the replicas. In this step we have replicas to distribute (which include fed replicas exceeding the sum total of local, and one replica from each cluster which can offer replicas). We first distribute to clusters which need replicas, considering those as the crucial guys who are in need of replicas the line u gave this comment on, then if we have some remaining, we distribute evenly to those clusters which do not have any hpa, and if we still have more, then we distribute to all clusters randomly.

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OK, thanks, I'd add a comment to that effect, to make it clearer.

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Done!

if maxReplicasNeeded(currentObjs[cluster]) {
scheduled[cluster].max++
if lists.availableMax.Len() > 0 {
popped, notEmpty := lists.availableMax.PopAny()
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nit: You should ideally take replicas from the clusters which have the greatest excess available. I realize that that's difficult with the code as it currently is, but it would be good to do that in a followup PR (and file an issue for it in the mean time).

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yes, this is a certain optimisation; thanks for the suggestion (as always :) ); would put it as follow up.

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// If we have new clusters where we can give our replicas,
// then give away all our replicas to the new clusters first.
if lists.noHpa.Len() > 0 {
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Are cluster selectors taken into account higher up in the stack? You don't want to create HPA's in clusters that are not selected by the cluster selector.

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Yes.

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Thanks.

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}
if toDistributeMax < rdc.max {
scheduled[cluster].max += toDistributeMax
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Here you seem to dump all remaining replicas on one cluster? Why?

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For some optimisation (as compared to distributing 1 replica at a time) to reduce cycles, I am using replicaDistributionCount ( = max or minReplicas / total available clusters) and distribute replicas rdc at a time to each cluster. At the end of this distribution cycle remaining quotient smaller then rdc can exist (in case max or min is not completely divisible by cluster num). This line dumps this quotient on to the last cluster in this distribution.

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OK, but that can lead to severe imbalances (as opposed to just small rounding errors).

For example if you have 99 replicas, and 100 clusters, you will dump all 99 on the last cluster, rather than 1 in each. Or am I missing something here?

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That's a peculiar use case, but floating point values are not used here so we are safe.
int32(99) / int32(100) = 0; int which case its set to 1.

	if rdc.min < 1 {
		rdc.min = 1
	}

Similar stuff happens for max replicas.

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Aah, that makes sense. I misread the code, sorry.

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Really nicely written code Irfan! Super-easy to follow the logic, even though it's necessarily quite complex. Let me know your opinions on my feedback.

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Again here you dump all remaining replicas on one cluster. I don't understand why. Can you explain? It seems that you should distribute the remaining replicas across all clusters, rather than fill one cluster, and leave the others empty?

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As above.

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OK, I'll go through the code again and make sure I understand it.

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Comment as above. I don't think it's right.

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Extending #45993 (comment).

min value of rdc for max is set to 2. (in a similar case of 99/100 or 5/6 which results in 0). So for an example of 5 replicas on 6 clusters, the distribution that will happen would be 2:2:1 max replicas into 3 clusters.

	// TODO: Is there a better way?
	// We need to cap the lowest limit of Max to 2, because in a
	// situation like both min and max become 1 (same) for all clusters,
	// no rebalancing would happen.
	if rdc.max < 2 {
		rdc.max = 2
	}

I intentionally kept this value to 2, for reasons in the comment. As of now, I dont have a better way.. :).

return toDistributeMax
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func distributeMinReplicas(toDistributeMin int32, lists hpaLists, rdc replicaNums,
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Similar comment to above. I wonder whether it's desirable to collapse distributeMaxReplicas and distributeMinReplicas into one function (perhaps with trivial wrapper functions for readability), given that the logic is non-trivial, and almost identical (cut 'n paste, with a few minor edits)?

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Yes, as in another comment above, I did try this and can be done; but it forsake readability (if u see the logic would be similar with subtle difference and different conditional checks at different places). I would prefer it as its now, unless you have objections.

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I"ll see whether I can collapse it cleanly. If not, I agree with you.

return toDistributeMin
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func (a *HpaAdapter) finaliseScheduled(fedObj pkgruntime.Object, scheduled map[string]*replicaNums) (map[string]pkgruntime.Object, error) {
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It would be good to add a comment here explaining what this function does, and what it's parameters and return value are.

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Done!

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Thanks.

hpa := obj.(*autoscalingv1.HorizontalPodAutoscaler)
if !isScaleable(hpa) ||
((hpa.Spec.MinReplicas != nil) &&
(*hpa.Spec.MinReplicas+1) > hpa.Spec.MaxReplicas) {
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Rather use >= and remove the '+1'?
e.g. (*hpa.Spec.MinReplicas) >= hpa.Spec.MaxReplicas)

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Done!

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Thanks.

return false
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func minReplicasAdjusteable(obj pkgruntime.Object) bool {
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nit: Adjustable does not have an 'e'. Also, I think this should perhaps be minReplicasIncreasable? It look like the logic returns false even if minReplicas is decreasable?

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Updated to minReplicasIncreasable.

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Thanks

@@ -356,10 +356,34 @@ func (s *FederationSyncController) reconcile(namespacedName types.NamespacedName
return statusError
}

schedObjsAccessor := func(adapter federatedtypes.FederatedTypeAdapter, fedObj pkgruntime.Object,
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nit: The reconcile function is 80 lines long. Can we move this func out to reduce that by about 20 lines?

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This is separately done as part of the sync controller.

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OK, I will recheck the code.

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func (a *HpaAdapter) FedCreate(obj pkgruntime.Object) (pkgruntime.Object, error) {
hpa := obj.(*autoscalingv1.HorizontalPodAutoscaler)
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scaledTime := now
if scaleable {
// definitely more then 5 minutes ago
scaledTime = metav1.NewTime(now.Time.Add(-6 * time.Minute))
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I don't like this minus 6 literal burried deep in the code here. Can you lift it out into a named, configurable constant? Also, what's magic about 5?

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Actually, I did make this particular time configurable on a separate PR #49583. I have put good amount of comments there to explain the same: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49583/files#diff-e303386d7ba192e209b310d96206a157R75.

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Cool, thanks.

if clusterObj != nil {
clusterHpa := clusterObj.(*autoscalingv1.HorizontalPodAutoscaler)
if clusterHpa.Status.CurrentCPUUtilizationPercentage != nil {
*typedInfo.fedStatus.currentCPUUtilizationPercentage +=
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I don't really like that you're storing a very large intermediate number, that is not actually a percentage, in a field intended to store a percentage. And then only in a different function below do you divide the large intermediate number by the number of replicas, to arrive at a percentage, which you then overwrite the large intermediate number with. This makes for fragile, highly coupled code (primarily because the structure returned by this function must return the large intermediate number rather than the percentage, and updateStatus() below must receive the large intermediate number rather than the percentage, in order for the code to work.

One simple suggestion to improve it would be to rename the currentCPUUtilizationPercentage field in hpaSchedulingInfo to something like aggregatedCPUUtilization, and then use it to calculate the percentage (in updateStatus below, which you could store there in a separate, local variable).

Sorry, this is a very convoluted explanation, but hopefully it makes sense :-)

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Updated as per your suggestion!

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ghost commented Aug 3, 2017

OK, I think we're almost there @irfanurrehman . Just a few remaining changes required (see my comments).

I see that you have no e2e tests yet? Are you planning to rely on the basic CRUD tests?

I think it would be good to add a very basic e2e test to create a federated hpa replicaset, and ensure that at least minReplicas, and at most maxReplicas are reported in it's replicaCount status. That way we'll know that at least the basic functionality works end-to-end. The finer details can be verified with your existing unit tests.

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irfanurrehman commented Aug 5, 2017

OK, I think we're almost there @irfanurrehman . Just a few remaining changes required (see my comments).

I see that you have no e2e tests yet? Are you planning to rely on the basic CRUD tests?

I think it would be good to add a very basic e2e test to create a federated hpa replicaset, and ensure that at least minReplicas, and at most maxReplicas are reported in it's replicaCount status. That way we'll know that at least the basic functionality works end-to-end. The finer details can be verified with your existing unit tests.

@quinton-hoole, thanks for all the time that you gave for the review! I have taken care of the latest comments also.
I did try to separate the code into logical chain of PRs to ease the review. I have updated the e2e tests in another PR.

I would really appreciate, if this PR chains length could be reduced in steps now (given all the code is there now) The PRs that complete the review cycles can be merged (for example 1 and 2 below), where as the latter PRs are yet to be reviewed.
The sequence is as below, starting from this PR:

  1. [Federation] HPA controller #45993
  2. [Federation] Make the hpa scale time window configurable #49583
  3. [Federation] Hpa controller controls target objects #49950
  4. [Federation] hpa e2e tests #50168

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@irfanurrehman I think this just needs a release note from you now (it was previously labelled release-not-none, but I don't think we can merge it without a release note), and then it should merge automatically.

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@irfanurrehman I think this just needs a release note from you now (it was previously labelled release-not-none, but I don't think we can merge it without a release note), and then it should merge automatically.

Thanks @quinton-hoole; I have updated the release notes.
Additionally I see a "keep open" label here, I think it will need to be removed for this PR to get merged.
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[Federation] Make the hpa scale time window configurable

This PR is on top of open pr #45993.
Please review only the last commit in this PR.
This adds a config param to controller manager, the value of which gets passed to hpa adapter via sync controller.
This is needed to reduce the overall time limit of the hpa scaling window to much lesser (then the default 2 mins) to get e2e tests run faster. Please see the comment on the newly added parameter.

**Special notes for your reviewer**:
@kubernetes/sig-federation-pr-reviews 
@quinton-hoole 
@marun to please validate the mechanism used to pass a parameter from cmd line to adapter.

**Release note**:

``` 
federation-controller-manager gets a new flag --hpa-scale-forbidden-window.
This flag is used to configure the duration used by federation hpa controller to determine if it can move max and/or min replicas 
around (or not), of a cluster local hpa object, by comparing current time with the last scaled time of that cluster local hpa. 
Lower value will result in faster response to scalibility conditions achieved by cluster local hpas on local replicas, but too low 
a value can result in thrashing. Higher values will result in slower response to scalibility conditions on local replicas.
```
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Automatic merge from submit-queue (batch tested with PRs 48043, 48200, 49139, 36238, 49130)

[Federation] Make arguments to scheduling type adapter methods generic

This is in the process of trying to rebase kubernetes/kubernetes#45993 on latest.
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Hoping I get some attention to this and later PRs soon.

Associated issue kubernetes/kubernetes#49181

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```NONE
```
perotinus pushed a commit to kubernetes-retired/cluster-registry that referenced this pull request Sep 2, 2017
Automatic merge from submit-queue (batch tested with PRs 50016, 49583, 49930, 46254, 50337)

[Federation] Make the hpa scale time window configurable

This PR is on top of open pr kubernetes/kubernetes#45993.
Please review only the last commit in this PR.
This adds a config param to controller manager, the value of which gets passed to hpa adapter via sync controller.
This is needed to reduce the overall time limit of the hpa scaling window to much lesser (then the default 2 mins) to get e2e tests run faster. Please see the comment on the newly added parameter.

**Special notes for your reviewer**:
@kubernetes/sig-federation-pr-reviews 
@quinton-hoole 
@marun to please validate the mechanism used to pass a parameter from cmd line to adapter.

**Release note**:

``` 
federation-controller-manager gets a new flag --hpa-scale-forbidden-window.
This flag is used to configure the duration used by federation hpa controller to determine if it can move max and/or min replicas 
around (or not), of a cluster local hpa object, by comparing current time with the last scaled time of that cluster local hpa. 
Lower value will result in faster response to scalibility conditions achieved by cluster local hpas on local replicas, but too low 
a value can result in thrashing. Higher values will result in slower response to scalibility conditions on local replicas.
```
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[Federation] Hpa controller controls target objects

This is in the series of PRs over #45993.
The last commit is reviewable. Probably the last PR in this chain with e2e tests for relevant scenario, including the scenario created by this PR is soon to follow.

**Special notes for your reviewer**:
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