flag precedence redo #56995

mtaufen · 2017-12-10T06:33:15Z

Changes the Kubelet configuration flag precedence order so that flags take precedence over config from files/ConfigMaps.

This should fix the re-parse issue with #56097 that led to revert.

Fixes #56171.

In order to prevent global flags (registered in 3rd party libs, etc.) from leaking into the command's help text, this PR turns off Cobra's flag parsing in the kubelet command and re-implements help and usage funcs for the Kubelet. Cobra's default funcs automatically merge all global flags into the command's flagset, which results in incorrect help text. I tried to keep the formatting as close as possible to the what the Kubelet currently produces.

Diff between Kubelet's help text on upstream/master vs mtaufen/kc-flags-precedence-redo, which shows a leaked flag being removed, but no change to the formatting:

diff --git a/upstream.master.help b/mtaufen.kc-flags-precedence-redo.help
index 798a030..0797869 100644
--- a/upstream.master.help
+++ b/mtaufen.kc-flags-precedence-redo.help
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ Flags:
       --authorization-mode string                                                                                 Authorization mode for Kubelet server. Valid options are AlwaysAllow or Webhook. Webhook mode uses the SubjectAccessReview API to determine authorization. (default "AlwaysAllow")
       --authorization-webhook-cache-authorized-ttl duration                                                       The duration to cache 'authorized' responses from the webhook authorizer. (default 5m0s)
       --authorization-webhook-cache-unauthorized-ttl duration                                                     The duration to cache 'unauthorized' responses from the webhook authorizer. (default 30s)
-      --azure-container-registry-config string                                                                    Path to the file containing Azure container registry configuration information.
       --bootstrap-checkpoint-path string                                                                          <Warning: Alpha feature> Path to to the directory where the checkpoints are stored
       --bootstrap-kubeconfig string                                                                               Path to a kubeconfig file that will be used to get client certificate for kubelet. If the file specified by --kubeconfig does not exist, the bootstrap kubeconfig is used to request a client certificate from the API server. On success, a kubeconfig file referencing the generated client certificate and key is written to the path specified by --kubeconfig. The client certificate and key file will be stored in the directory pointed by --cert-dir.
       --cadvisor-port int32                                                                                       The port of the localhost cAdvisor endpoint (set to 0 to disable) (default 4194)

Ultimately, I think we should implement a common lib that K8s components can use to generate clean help text, as the global flag leakage problem affects all core k8s binaries. I would like to do so in a future PR, to keep this PR simple. We could base the help text format on the default values returned from Command.HelpTemplate and Command.UsageTemplate. Unfortunately, the template funcs used to process these defaults are private to Cobra, so we'd have to re-implement these, or avoid using them.

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mtaufen · 2017-12-10T19:23:00Z

With node-e2e tests, Kubelet is blatantly failing to start on:

coreos-alpha-1122-0-0-v20160727:
- Failed to start transient service unit: Unit kubelet-1353644705.service is not loaded properly: Invalid argument.
cos-stable-59-9460-64-0:
- Failed to start transient service unit: Invalid argument
ubuntu-gke-1604-xenial-v20170420-1:
- Failed to start transient service unit: Unit kubelet-1228040004.service is not loaded properly: Invalid argument.

but looks like it is at least more ok on these (the Kubelet log is more than one line long):

cos-stable-60-9592-84-0
containervm-v20161208-image

Looks like it has something to do with the argument formatting not being liked by systemd on some images, though notably systemd on cos-stable-60-9592-84-0 is ok with it.

mtaufen · 2017-12-10T22:11:22Z

Looks like manually constructing the command line made things work, some ideas:

--flag=val format wasn't happy everywhere, I think this is unlikely
the command line generated from the entire configuration was too long (or got truncated in a weird place) for some OS configs, maybe

mtaufen · 2018-01-23T18:58:55Z

/retest

liggitt · 2018-01-23T19:02:40Z

cmd/kubelet/app/server.go

 		Run: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) {
+			glog.Infof("starting %v", args)


do we need this if we log args below?

not anymore, will remove, thanks

mtaufen · 2018-01-23T20:55:18Z

/retest

mtaufen · 2018-01-26T21:22:32Z

/retest

This changes the Kubelet configuration flag precedence order so that flags take precedence over config from files/ConfigMaps. See kubernetes#56171 for rationale. Note: Feature gates accumulate with the following precedence (greater number overrides lesser number): 1. file-based config 2. dynamic cofig 3. flag-based config

liggitt · 2018-01-29T18:57:49Z

The feature gate cleanup and order of CLI/static file/dynamic file looks good. I'm wary of the amount of cobra reimplementation going on here. I'm ok with this merging, but this needs more thought before any other components start copying this approach.

With this, is it possible to unify hyperkube to using this now?

/lgtm

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karataliu · 2018-01-30T05:42:26Z

This PR removes following 2 flags of kubelet instantly:

--azure-container-registry-config
--google-json-key

--azure-container-registry-config is still in use, there is an ongoing discussion #58034
--google-json-key was recently marked as deprecated in v1.10.0-alpha.2: #57613

There is a function addCredentialProviderFlags, but not used anywhere now:

kubernetes/cmd/kubelet/app/options/globalflags.go

Line 87 in 6177b42

func addCredentialProviderFlags(fs *pflag.FlagSet) {

Suppose we should hook up the function call right there?

liggitt · 2018-01-30T05:53:31Z

Yes, that was an oversight. AddGlobalFlags should call that

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alexzielenski · 2024-09-09T19:09:51Z

cmd/kubelet/app/server.go

+
+			// load kubelet config file, if provided
+			if configFile := kubeletFlags.KubeletConfigFile; len(configFile) > 0 {
+				kubeletConfig, err = loadConfigFile(configFile)


BUG: This clobbers kubeletConfig and the defaults populated by applyLegacyDefaults within NewKubeletConfiguration

kubernetes/cmd/kubelet/app/options/options.go

Lines 242 to 270 in cc76a75

// NewKubeletConfiguration will create a new KubeletConfiguration with default values

func NewKubeletConfiguration() (*kubeletconfig.KubeletConfiguration, error) {

scheme, _, err := kubeletscheme.NewSchemeAndCodecs()

if err != nil {

return nil, err

}

versioned := &v1beta1.KubeletConfiguration{}

scheme.Default(versioned)

config := &kubeletconfig.KubeletConfiguration{}

if err := scheme.Convert(versioned, config, nil); err != nil {

return nil, err

}

applyLegacyDefaults(config)

return config, nil

}

// applyLegacyDefaults applies legacy default values to the KubeletConfiguration in order to

// preserve the command line API. This is used to construct the baseline default KubeletConfiguration

// before the first round of flag parsing.

func applyLegacyDefaults(kc *kubeletconfig.KubeletConfiguration) {

// --anonymous-auth

kc.Authentication.Anonymous.Enabled = true

// --authentication-token-webhook

kc.Authentication.Webhook.Enabled = false

// --authorization-mode

kc.Authorization.Mode = kubeletconfig.KubeletAuthorizationModeAlwaysAllow

// --read-only-port

kc.ReadOnlyPort = ports.KubeletReadOnlyPort

}

That is intentional, not a bug. The v1beta1 defaults get reapplied to what is read from the config file. When reading from a config file, we have different and better / more secure defaults when running from a config file than from just the command line.

That's what the godoc on applyLegacyDefaults was trying to express (these are defaults that only apply to the CLI flags and do not apply when running kubelet from a config file)

ah thanks for clearing that up jordan! surprised you responded xD hope all is well

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		Run: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) {
		glog.Infof("starting %v", args)

	// NewKubeletConfiguration will create a new KubeletConfiguration with default values
	func NewKubeletConfiguration() (*kubeletconfig.KubeletConfiguration, error) {
	scheme, _, err := kubeletscheme.NewSchemeAndCodecs()
	if err != nil {
	return nil, err
	}
	versioned := &v1beta1.KubeletConfiguration{}
	scheme.Default(versioned)
	config := &kubeletconfig.KubeletConfiguration{}
	if err := scheme.Convert(versioned, config, nil); err != nil {
	return nil, err
	}
	applyLegacyDefaults(config)
	return config, nil
	}

	// applyLegacyDefaults applies legacy default values to the KubeletConfiguration in order to
	// preserve the command line API. This is used to construct the baseline default KubeletConfiguration
	// before the first round of flag parsing.
	func applyLegacyDefaults(kc *kubeletconfig.KubeletConfiguration) {
	// --anonymous-auth
	kc.Authentication.Anonymous.Enabled = true
	// --authentication-token-webhook
	kc.Authentication.Webhook.Enabled = false
	// --authorization-mode
	kc.Authorization.Mode = kubeletconfig.KubeletAuthorizationModeAlwaysAllow
	// --read-only-port
	kc.ReadOnlyPort = ports.KubeletReadOnlyPort
	}

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