Mount propagation in kubelet #46444

jsafrane · 2017-05-25T16:00:33Z

Together with #45724 it implements mount propagation as proposed in kubernetes/community#659

There is:

New alpha annotation that allows user to explicitly set propagation mode for each VolumeMount in pod containers (to be replaced with real VolumeMount.Propagation field during beta) + validation + tests. "Private" is the default one (= no change to existing pods).

I know about proposal for real API fields for alpha feature in https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wuoSqHkeT51mQQ7dIFhUKrdi3-1wbKrNWeIL4cKb9zU/edit, but it seems it's not implemented yet. It would save me quite lot of code and ugly annotation.
Updated CRI API to transport chosen propagation to Docker.
New kubelet --experimental-mount-propagation option to enable the previous bullet without modifying types.go (worked around with changing KubeletDeps... not nice, but it's better than adding a parameter to NewMainKubelet and removing it in the next release...)

kubelet has alpha support for mount propagation. It is disabled by default and it is there for testing only. This feature may be redesigned or even removed in a future release.

@derekwaynecarr @dchen1107 @kubernetes/sig-node-pr-reviews

jsafrane · 2017-05-25T16:24:13Z

And I promise I'll write an e2e or node conformance test when #45724 lands and if there is a way how to add --test-mount-propagation to kubelet under test. Any suggestion/precedent?

derekwaynecarr · 2017-05-25T16:45:10Z

@jsafrane -- if you wanted to use this in node e2e test, you can control how kubelet is launched here: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/test/e2e_node/services/kubelet.go#L130

derekwaynecarr · 2017-05-25T16:47:32Z

pkg/kubelet/apis/cri/v1alpha1/api.pb.go

@@ -161,6 +161,30 @@ func (x Protocol) String() string {
 }
 func (Protocol) EnumDescriptor() ([]byte, []int) { return fileDescriptorApi, []int{0} }

+type MountPropagation int32


cc @yujuhong as primary reviewer for CRI changes.

derekwaynecarr · 2017-05-25T16:50:11Z

pkg/kubelet/dockershim/helpers.go

+// is a comma-separated list of the following strings:
+// 'ro', if the path is read only
+// 'Z', if the volume requires SELinux relabeling
+// propagation mode such as 'rslave'
 func generateMountBindings(mounts []*runtimeapi.Mount) (result []string) {


it would be nice if we had a unit test for this function.

unit test added

derekwaynecarr · 2017-05-25T16:51:26Z

pkg/kubelet/kubelet.go

@@ -232,6 +232,15 @@ type KubeletDeps struct {
 	Writer             kubeio.Writer
 	VolumePlugins      []volume.VolumePlugin
 	TLSOptions         *server.TLSOptions
+	MountOptions       KubeletMountOptions


i thought this would be a pointer.

pointer added

derekwaynecarr · 2017-05-25T16:59:45Z

pkg/kubelet/kubelet_pods.go

@@ -117,6 +117,12 @@ func makeMounts(pod *v1.Pod, podDir string, container *v1.Container, hostName, h
 	mountEtcHostsFile := (pod.Spec.SecurityContext == nil || !pod.Spec.HostNetwork) && len(podIP) > 0 && runtime.GOOS != "windows"
 	glog.V(3).Infof("container: %v/%v/%v podIP: %q creating hosts mount: %v", pod.Namespace, pod.Name, container.Name, podIP, mountEtcHostsFile)
 	mounts := []kubecontainer.Mount{}
+
+	propagations, err := v1helper.GetPodPropagation(pod.Annotations)


i am wondering if the kubelet should reject pods that use this annotation during admission if the feature is not enabled.

i know we said we would deprecate the annotation, but i dont always trust our future self.

Doesn't admission controller run on API server? Or kubelet has it's own?

mountPropagationAdmissionHandler added

jsafrane · 2017-05-26T14:33:30Z

@k8s-bot pull-kubernetes-e2e-gce-etcd3 test this

Random-Liu · 2017-05-26T16:23:51Z

Reassigning to @dchen1107, because she should have better idea on this.

gurvindersingh · 2017-05-26T18:33:44Z

@jsafrane I am not sure as which one will get merge to master for supporting mount propagation. But I am wondering in this PR case the POD author has to add this annotation himself/herself. Wondering if there is a way to auto annotate PODs or it would be an idea to pick the annotation from PV/PVC like here done for GID

kubernetes/pkg/volume/util/volumehelper/volumehelper.go

Line 42 in 1e1040b

VolumeGidAnnotationKey = "pv.beta.kubernetes.io/gid"

as then if there is an annotation on PV/PVC for propagation mode then PODs using those PV/PVC will use that, POD can override the mode if they prefer by adding annotation themselves if that's preferred.

I would like to have a way where I, as a cluster admin, can control the propagation mode for certain PV/PVC which requires mount propagation e.g. backed by distributed file systems.

yujuhong · 2017-05-26T19:35:04Z

@jsafrane @derekwaynecarr maybe I missed some discussions on this topic, but I think the change to the proposal (kubernetes/community#659) should get reviewed first before we jump into the reviewing the code.

Is this slated for 1.7?

jsafrane · 2017-05-26T21:23:57Z

@yujuhong we have mount containers on sig-storage 1.7 list. The agreed proposal won't work (and it was not implemented anyway), I'm trying to catch 1.7 with my update in kubernetes/community#659

jsafrane · 2017-05-26T21:30:03Z

@gurvindersingh, only HostPath volumes can be slave or shared and the mount propagation is property of the destination directory where the HostPath volume is mounted, not the source volume (i.e. PV/PVC). So it does not make much sense to add propagation to PVs/PVCs.

Do you have any specific use case in mind?

gurvindersingh · 2017-05-27T09:08:04Z

@jsafrane PV in this case I mentioned above is hostpath and PVC is the for the same PV. As for security reason we don't allow users to use hostPath directly but a cluster admin creates PV for hostpath and then users can use them using PVC (which are backed by hostPath PV). In my use case I have distributed file system like "GlusterFS" mounted on all worker nodes and then have hostpath PV created from certain directory path depending upon the project. On those PVs, I would like to have "rslave" mode attached as when POD using them with PVCs can get mount/remount events propagated in the case of issue with storage/network layer. So wondering if it make sense to add the mount propagation annotation on PV/PVC to be automated by cluster admin on certain PVs/PVCs.

dims · 2017-05-29T02:11:08Z

/assign @Random-Liu
/unassign

jsafrane · 2017-09-01T14:12:51Z

/test pull-kubernetes-kubemark-e2e-gce
/test pull-kubernetes-e2e-gce-bazel

jsafrane · 2017-09-01T14:24:39Z

/retest

jsafrane · 2017-09-01T14:25:31Z

/test pull-kubernetes-e2e-gce-etcd3

jsafrane · 2017-09-01T15:47:59Z

restoring lgtm after rebase of generated stuff and features.go

In fact, this is one annotation + its parsing & validation. Appropriate kubelet logic that uses this annotation is in following patches.

CRI will blindly obey Kubelet decission about what propagation should be used when.

jsafrane · 2017-09-01T19:40:17Z

rebased, restoring lgtm again

jsafrane · 2017-09-01T21:40:50Z

/retest

jsafrane · 2017-09-02T07:51:24Z

/retest

jsafrane · 2017-09-02T17:27:27Z

/retest

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k8s-github-robot · 2017-09-02T19:11:05Z

Automatic merge from submit-queue (batch tested with PRs 45724, 48051, 46444, 51056, 51605)

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[WiP] Set propagation to rslave for hostPath volume mounts #41683

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In fact, this is one annotation + its parsing & validation. Appropriate kubelet logic that uses this annotation is in following patches.

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Add mount propagation to CRI protocol

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CRI will blindly obey Kubelet decission about what propagation should be used when.

Implement mount propagation in docker shim

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Add e2e test for mount propagation #51905

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Update kubernetes version and support mount propagation containerd/cri#218

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