Add Priority admission controller #49322

bsalamat · 2017-07-20T19:06:14Z

What this PR does / why we need it: Add Priority admission controller. This admission controller checks creation and update of PriorityClasses. It also resolves a PriorityClass name of a pod to its integer value.

Which issue this PR fixes (optional, in fixes #<issue number>(, fixes #<issue_number>, ...) format, will close that issue when PR gets merged): fixes #

Special notes for your reviewer:

Release note:

Add Priority admission controller for monitoring and resolving PriorityClasses.

ref/ #47604
ref/ #48646

bsalamat · 2017-07-20T19:08:01Z

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davidopp · 2017-07-21T19:47:14Z

plugin/pkg/admission/priority/admission.go

+	// HighestUserDefinablePriority is the highest priority for user defined priority classes. Priority values larger than 1 billion are reserved for Kubernetes system use.
+	HighestUserDefinablePriority = 1000000000
+	// SystemCriticalPriority is the beginning of the range of priority values for critical system components.
+	SystemCriticalPriority = 2 * HighestUserDefinablePriority


What is expected to go in between HighestUserDefinablePriority and SystemCriticalPriority?

I thought to keep some room for unforeseen use-cases which may be found in the future.

davidopp · 2017-07-22T06:17:44Z

plugin/pkg/admission/priority/admission.go

+	priorityClassResource = api.Resource("priorityclasses")
+)
+
+// Admit checks Pods and PriorityClasses and admits or rejects them. It also resolved the priority of pods based on their PriorityClass.


s/resolved/resolves/

davidopp · 2017-07-22T06:26:25Z

plugin/pkg/admission/priority/admission.go

+	if _, isMirrorPod := pod.Annotations[api.MirrorPodAnnotationKey]; isMirrorPod {
+		return nil
+	}
+	// Make sure that the user has not set `priority` at the time of pod creation.


s/user/client/

davidopp · 2017-07-22T06:27:00Z

plugin/pkg/admission/priority/admission.go

+	}
+	// Make sure that the user has not set `priority` at the time of pod creation.
+	if operation == admission.Create && pod.Spec.Priority != nil {
+		return admission.NewForbidden(a, fmt.Errorf("The integer value of priority must not be provided in pod spec. The system populates the value from the given PriorityClass name"))


s/system/Priority admission controller/

BTW just to verify -- update of Priority is disallowed by Pod validation, correct? If so, please add a comment about it here. (Though I'm starting to have second thoughts... it may be hard to roll out Priority if users can't update running pods.)

Yes, update of pod is disallowed by pod validation. We can discuss the roll out.

davidopp · 2017-07-22T06:42:58Z

plugin/pkg/admission/priority/admission.go

+	}
+}
+
+func (p *priorityPlugin) admitPod(a admission.Attributes) error {


Please write a comment explaining what policies admitPod() and admitPriorityClass() are implementing.

davidopp · 2017-07-22T06:52:10Z

plugin/pkg/admission/priority/admission.go

+		if dpc != nil {
+			priority = dpc.Value
+		} else {
+			priority = scheduling.DefaultPriorityWhenNoDefaultClassExists


I wonder if we should do this. Components that use Priority to make decisions will need to be able to handle pods that don't have any Priority set, e.g. because user upgraded the master to a version that knows about priority but there are pods running that were created before the upgrade. For example, maybe the preemption logic should say pods with no priority set should never be preempted, or something like that. Anyway I think it might be better to just leave the Pod alone if there is no default priority class, rather than setting it to a hard-coded default.

Yes, my plan is to add priority resolution call to the scheduler exactly for the existing pods with no PriorityClass and no int value of Priority.
Exempting pods from preemption when they don't have a priority class creates a loophole for abusing the system in a real multi-tenant cluster. Users who find this, may send their pods with no priority class to avoid preemption.

davidopp · 2017-07-22T07:01:03Z

plugin/pkg/admission/priority/admission.go

+	operation := a.GetOperation()
+	pc, ok := a.GetObject().(*scheduling.PriorityClass)
+	if !ok {
+		return errors.NewBadRequest("Resource was marked with kind Pod but was unable to be converted")


s/Pod/PriorityClass/

davidopp · 2017-07-22T07:33:04Z

plugin/pkg/admission/priority/admission.go

+				return admission.NewForbidden(a, fmt.Errorf("No PriorityClass with name %v was found", pod.Spec.PriorityClassName))
+			}
+			priority = pc.Value
+		}


It seems that you didn't implement this rule from the design doc: "We set default policies that deny creation of pods with PriorityClassNames corresponding to these (system) priorities. Cluster admins can authorize users or service accounts to create pods with these priorities." BTW I assume "these priorities" is referring to all priorities > HighestUserDefinablePriority, not just the specific priorities that have system PriorityClasses associated with them.

Correct. I think we should first provide a way for admin to authorize certain pods to be created with system priorities and then implement the blocking rule. Probably the authorization mechanism will be priority in resource quota, which will automatically address the blocking logic.
I don't think we should reject any pod with system level priority here. Otherwise, even the system component cannot create such pods.

davidopp · 2017-07-22T07:39:45Z

plugin/pkg/admission/priority/admission.go

+		if dpc != nil {
+			// Throw an error if a second default priority class is being created, or an existing priority class is being marked as default, while another default already exists.
+			if operation == admission.Create || (operation == admission.Update && dpc.GetName() != pc.GetName()) {
+				return admission.NewForbidden(a, fmt.Errorf("PriorityClass %v is already marked as default. Only one default can exist", dpc.GetName()))


Is there any way to un-mark a PriorityClass as default? Or are you just supposed to delete it and re-create it?

GlobalDefault and Description of a priority class can be updated.

davidopp · 2017-07-22T07:44:47Z

plugin/pkg/admission/priority/admission.go

+	return nil
+}
+
+func (p *priorityPlugin) findDefaultPriorityClass() (*scheduling.PriorityClass, error) {


I wonder what the performance impact of this will be, as it may get run a lot. Though actually, maybe the "lister" is operating from a cache already, so this is just doing an iteration in memory, in which case I think it's fine. But probably you should make sure.

Given that there is only one global default value I guess I can cache it here in this admission controller and invalidate the cache only when a new priority class is added, deleted, or updated.

bsalamat · 2017-07-29T01:03:53Z

@davidopp This is ready now.

bsalamat · 2017-07-31T23:50:18Z

/test pull-kubernetes-bazel

davidopp · 2017-08-01T00:27:55Z

@bsalamat let me know when this is ready to review

bsalamat · 2017-08-01T00:39:45Z

@davidopp It is ready to review

bsalamat · 2017-08-03T00:03:30Z

ping @davidopp
Could you please take a look at this? I have another PR which depends on the changes here and would like to send that ASAP.

xiang90 · 2017-08-05T17:36:22Z

plugin/pkg/admission/priority/admission.go

+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	var priority int32


priority := scheduling.DefaultPriorityWhenNoDefaultClassExists

xiang90 · 2017-08-05T17:36:28Z

plugin/pkg/admission/priority/admission.go

+	var priority int32
+	if dpc != nil {
+		priority = dpc.Value
+	} else {


kill this else

xiang90 · 2017-08-05T17:37:35Z

plugin/pkg/admission/priority/admission.go

+	client internalclientset.Interface
+	lister schedulinglisters.PriorityClassLister
+	// globalDefaultPriority caches the value of global default priority class.
+	globalDefaultPriority *int32


why only the globaldefault is cached?

Finding globaldefault requires iterating over all the priorityclasses. Other priorityclasses do not need this.

wanghaoran1988 · 2017-08-06T15:27:25Z

plugin/pkg/admission/priority/admission.go

+// NewPlugin creates a new priority admission plugin.
+func NewPlugin() admission.Interface {
+	return &priorityPlugin{
+		Handler: admission.NewHandler(admission.Create, admission.Update, admission.Delete),


Why we need admission.Delete here?

hmm, seems you are using for priorityClassResource

In order to monitor deletion of priorityclasses and invalidate cached default priority.

Would you mind tell me why we not bootstrap a default priority class?

There was a section in the design proposal that explains our reasons and there was some discussion about it. The main reason is that we don't want to create defacto standards which would be hard to change in the future.
That said, we have two "reserved" class names that the admission controller knows and resolves. They are reserved for critical system pods.

bsalamat · 2017-08-09T21:24:09Z

ping @smarterclayton for approval

bsalamat · 2017-08-11T22:33:38Z

ping @thockin or @smarterclayton for approval.
Thanks!

davidopp · 2017-08-14T19:54:19Z

/lgtm
/approve

thockin · 2017-08-15T05:26:08Z

/approve

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luxas · 2017-09-10T10:24:41Z

Was it an oversight to not enable this for kubeadm clusters or an intentional move?
i.e. should this be enabled-by-default in most clusters in v1.8?
Then we should enable it for kubeadm as well.

Part of what's good with having kubeadm in the core repo is that you can do these kinds of changes in one PR; and kubeadm will then be consumed by other, higher-level tools further
@bsalamat ^

bsalamat · 2017-09-11T18:57:36Z

@luxas It was not intentional. Since there is no documents on how to enable admission controllers, I just followed what older PRs had done.
The priority admission controller is enabled by default in 1.8, but given #52226, I am not sure if enabling it was the right thing to do. We may disable it by default.

luxas · 2017-09-11T19:09:28Z

Ok, gotcha. But isn't this feature alpha in v1.8
Alpha features should be turned off by default, right?

bsalamat · 2017-09-11T20:08:55Z

The feature itself is gated and is be default disabled. The priority admission controller also checks that flag and does not perform the checks when the feature is disabled, but I have added the admission controller to the set of enabled admission controllers.

luxas · 2017-09-12T11:34:59Z

Ok thanks @bsalamat.
@timothysc WDYT, should we enable the admission controller now in v1.8, although feature-gated or should we enable it in v1.9, when it really will be used?
To me, it sounds like v1.9 is fine as long as we open an issue for it so we remember...

timothysc · 2017-09-12T13:18:52Z

1.9

luxas · 2017-09-12T13:30:10Z

Sounds very good to me: kubernetes/kubeadm#434
@bsalamat yeah, we need some place to put a "how to enable new features in our deployment scripts"-guide.

bsalamat · 2017-09-12T21:42:13Z

The current approach is to have the admission controller on, but bypass it in the code when the feature is disabled. The benefit of this approach is that users who want to enable the feature, don't need to worry about enabling the admission controller. Kube-proxy is already using the feature. Changing this require more changes to the script for kube-proxy.

luxas · 2017-09-13T15:18:57Z

Yeah, I see, but I think we can live without this alpha feature for this v1.8 cycle. Changing such a thing is just too risky at this stage I think...

I filed the issue so we can do this early in the v1.9 cycle

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