Chapter 6. Working with nodes 6.1. Viewing and listing the nodes in your OpenShift Container Platform cluster You can list all the nodes in your cluster to obtain information such as status, age, memory usage, and details about the nodes. When you perform node management operations, the CLI interacts with node objects that are representations of actual node hosts. The master uses the information from node objects to validate nodes with health checks. 6.1.1. About listing all the nodes in a cluster You can get detailed information on the nodes in the cluster. The following command lists all nodes: USD oc get nodes The following example is a cluster with healthy nodes: USD oc get nodes Example output NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION master.example.com Ready master 7h v1.27.3 node1.example.com Ready worker 7h v1.27.3 node2.example.com Ready worker 7h v1.27.3 The following example is a cluster with one unhealthy node: USD oc get nodes Example output NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION master.example.com Ready master 7h v1.27.3 node1.example.com NotReady,SchedulingDisabled worker 7h v1.27.3 node2.example.com Ready worker 7h v1.27.3 The conditions that trigger a NotReady status are shown later in this section. The -o wide option provides additional information on nodes. USD oc get nodes -o wide Example output NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION INTERNAL-IP EXTERNAL-IP OS-IMAGE KERNEL-VERSION CONTAINER-RUNTIME master.example.com Ready master 171m v1.27.3 10.0.129.108 <none> Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 48.83.202103210901-0 (Ootpa) 4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64 cri-o://1.27.3-30.rhaos4.10.gitf2f339d.el8-dev node1.example.com Ready worker 72m v1.27.3 10.0.129.222 <none> Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 48.83.202103210901-0 (Ootpa) 4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64 cri-o://1.27.3-30.rhaos4.10.gitf2f339d.el8-dev node2.example.com Ready worker 164m v1.27.3 10.0.142.150 <none> Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 48.83.202103210901-0 (Ootpa) 4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64 cri-o://1.27.3-30.rhaos4.10.gitf2f339d.el8-dev The following command lists information about a single node: USD oc get node <node> For example: USD oc get node node1.example.com Example output NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION node1.example.com Ready worker 7h v1.27.3 The following command provides more detailed information about a specific node, including the reason for the current condition: USD oc describe node <node> For example: USD oc describe node node1.example.com Example output Name: node1.example.com 1 Roles: worker 2 Labels: kubernetes.io/os=linux kubernetes.io/hostname=ip-10-0-131-14 kubernetes.io/arch=amd64 3 node-role.kubernetes.io/worker= node.kubernetes.io/instance-type=m4.large node.openshift.io/os_id=rhcos node.openshift.io/os_version=4.5 region=east topology.kubernetes.io/region=us-east-1 topology.kubernetes.io/zone=us-east-1a Annotations: cluster.k8s.io/machine: openshift-machine-api/ahardin-worker-us-east-2a-q5dzc 4 machineconfiguration.openshift.io/currentConfig: worker-309c228e8b3a92e2235edd544c62fea8 machineconfiguration.openshift.io/desiredConfig: worker-309c228e8b3a92e2235edd544c62fea8 machineconfiguration.openshift.io/state: Done volumes.kubernetes.io/controller-managed-attach-detach: true CreationTimestamp: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 11:05:57 -0500 Taints: <none> 5 Unschedulable: false Conditions: 6 Type Status LastHeartbeatTime LastTransitionTime Reason Message ---- ------ ----------------- ------------------ ------ ------- OutOfDisk False Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:09:42 -0500 Wed, 13 Feb 2019 11:05:57 -0500 KubeletHasSufficientDisk kubelet has sufficient disk space available MemoryPressure False Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:09:42 -0500 Wed, 13 Feb 2019 11:05:57 -0500 KubeletHasSufficientMemory kubelet has sufficient memory available DiskPressure False Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:09:42 -0500 Wed, 13 Feb 2019 11:05:57 -0500 KubeletHasNoDiskPressure kubelet has no disk pressure PIDPressure False Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:09:42 -0500 Wed, 13 Feb 2019 11:05:57 -0500 KubeletHasSufficientPID kubelet has sufficient PID available Ready True Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:09:42 -0500 Wed, 13 Feb 2019 11:07:09 -0500 KubeletReady kubelet is posting ready status Addresses: 7 InternalIP: 10.0.140.16 InternalDNS: ip-10-0-140-16.us-east-2.compute.internal Hostname: ip-10-0-140-16.us-east-2.compute.internal Capacity: 8 attachable-volumes-aws-ebs: 39 cpu: 2 hugepages-1Gi: 0 hugepages-2Mi: 0 memory: 8172516Ki pods: 250 Allocatable: attachable-volumes-aws-ebs: 39 cpu: 1500m hugepages-1Gi: 0 hugepages-2Mi: 0 memory: 7558116Ki pods: 250 System Info: 9 Machine ID: 63787c9534c24fde9a0cde35c13f1f66 System UUID: EC22BF97-A006-4A58-6AF8-0A38DEEA122A Boot ID: f24ad37d-2594-46b4-8830-7f7555918325 Kernel Version: 3.10.0-957.5.1.el7.x86_64 OS Image: Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 410.8.20190520.0 (Ootpa) Operating System: linux Architecture: amd64 Container Runtime Version: cri-o://1.27.3-0.6.dev.rhaos4.3.git9ad059b.el8-rc2 Kubelet Version: v1.27.3 Kube-Proxy Version: v1.27.3 PodCIDR: 10.128.4.0/24 ProviderID: aws:///us-east-2a/i-04e87b31dc6b3e171 Non-terminated Pods: (12 in total) 10 Namespace Name CPU Requests CPU Limits Memory Requests Memory Limits --------- ---- ------------ ---------- --------------- ------------- openshift-cluster-node-tuning-operator tuned-hdl5q 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) openshift-dns dns-default-l69zr 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) openshift-image-registry node-ca-9hmcg 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) openshift-ingress router-default-76455c45c-c5ptv 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) openshift-machine-config-operator machine-config-daemon-cvqw9 20m (1%) 0 (0%) 50Mi (0%) 0 (0%) openshift-marketplace community-operators-f67fh 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) openshift-monitoring alertmanager-main-0 50m (3%) 50m (3%) 210Mi (2%) 10Mi (0%) openshift-monitoring node-exporter-l7q8d 10m (0%) 20m (1%) 20Mi (0%) 40Mi (0%) openshift-monitoring prometheus-adapter-75d769c874-hvb85 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) openshift-multus multus-kw8w5 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) openshift-sdn ovs-t4dsn 100m (6%) 0 (0%) 300Mi (4%) 0 (0%) openshift-sdn sdn-g79hg 100m (6%) 0 (0%) 200Mi (2%) 0 (0%) Allocated resources: (Total limits may be over 100 percent, i.e., overcommitted.) Resource Requests Limits -------- -------- ------ cpu 380m (25%) 270m (18%) memory 880Mi (11%) 250Mi (3%) attachable-volumes-aws-ebs 0 0 Events: 11 Type Reason Age From Message ---- ------ ---- ---- ------- Normal NodeHasSufficientPID 6d (x5 over 6d) kubelet, m01.example.com Node m01.example.com status is now: NodeHasSufficientPID Normal NodeAllocatableEnforced 6d kubelet, m01.example.com Updated Node Allocatable limit across pods Normal NodeHasSufficientMemory 6d (x6 over 6d) kubelet, m01.example.com Node m01.example.com status is now: NodeHasSufficientMemory Normal NodeHasNoDiskPressure 6d (x6 over 6d) kubelet, m01.example.com Node m01.example.com status is now: NodeHasNoDiskPressure Normal NodeHasSufficientDisk 6d (x6 over 6d) kubelet, m01.example.com Node m01.example.com status is now: NodeHasSufficientDisk Normal NodeHasSufficientPID 6d kubelet, m01.example.com Node m01.example.com status is now: NodeHasSufficientPID Normal Starting 6d kubelet, m01.example.com Starting kubelet. #... 1 The name of the node. 2 The role of the node, either master or worker . 3 The labels applied to the node. 4 The annotations applied to the node. 5 The taints applied to the node. 6 The node conditions and status. The conditions stanza lists the Ready , PIDPressure , MemoryPressure , DiskPressure and OutOfDisk status. These condition are described later in this section. 7 The IP address and hostname of the node. 8 The pod resources and allocatable resources. 9 Information about the node host. 10 The pods on the node. 11 The events reported by the node. Note The control plane label is not automatically added to newly created or updated master nodes. If you want to use the control plane label for your nodes, you can manually configure the label. For more information, see Understanding how to update labels on nodes in the Additional resources section. Among the information shown for nodes, the following node conditions appear in the output of the commands shown in this section: Table 6.1. Node Conditions Condition Description Ready If true , the node is healthy and ready to accept pods. If false , the node is not healthy and is not accepting pods. If unknown , the node controller has not received a heartbeat from the node for the node-monitor-grace-period (the default is 40 seconds). DiskPressure If true , the disk capacity is low. MemoryPressure If true , the node memory is low. PIDPressure If true , there are too many processes on the node. OutOfDisk If true , the node has insufficient free space on the node for adding new pods. NetworkUnavailable If true , the network for the node is not correctly configured. NotReady If true , one of the underlying components, such as the container runtime or network, is experiencing issues or is not yet configured. SchedulingDisabled Pods cannot be scheduled for placement on the node. Additional resources Understanding how to update labels on nodes 6.1.2. Listing pods on a node in your cluster You can list all the pods on a specific node. Procedure To list all or selected pods on selected nodes: USD oc get pod --selector=<nodeSelector> USD oc get pod --selector=kubernetes.io/os Or: USD oc get pod -l=<nodeSelector> USD oc get pod -l kubernetes.io/os=linux To list all pods on a specific node, including terminated pods: USD oc get pod --all-namespaces --field-selector=spec.nodeName=<nodename> 6.1.3. Viewing memory and CPU usage statistics on your nodes You can display usage statistics about nodes, which provide the runtime environments for containers. These usage statistics include CPU, memory, and storage consumption. Prerequisites You must have cluster-reader permission to view the usage statistics. Metrics must be installed to view the usage statistics. Procedure To view the usage statistics: USD oc adm top nodes Example output NAME CPU(cores) CPU% MEMORY(bytes) MEMORY% ip-10-0-12-143.ec2.compute.internal 1503m 100% 4533Mi 61% ip-10-0-132-16.ec2.compute.internal 76m 5% 1391Mi 18% ip-10-0-140-137.ec2.compute.internal 398m 26% 2473Mi 33% ip-10-0-142-44.ec2.compute.internal 656m 43% 6119Mi 82% ip-10-0-146-165.ec2.compute.internal 188m 12% 3367Mi 45% ip-10-0-19-62.ec2.compute.internal 896m 59% 5754Mi 77% ip-10-0-44-193.ec2.compute.internal 632m 42% 5349Mi 72% To view the usage statistics for nodes with labels: USD oc adm top node --selector='' You must choose the selector (label query) to filter on. Supports = , == , and != . 6.2. Working with nodes As an administrator, you can perform several tasks to make your clusters more efficient. 6.2.1. Understanding how to evacuate pods on nodes Evacuating pods allows you to migrate all or selected pods from a given node or nodes. You can only evacuate pods backed by a replication controller. The replication controller creates new pods on other nodes and removes the existing pods from the specified node(s). Bare pods, meaning those not backed by a replication controller, are unaffected by default. You can evacuate a subset of pods by specifying a pod-selector. Pod selectors are based on labels, so all the pods with the specified label will be evacuated. Procedure Mark the nodes unschedulable before performing the pod evacuation. Mark the node as unschedulable: USD oc adm cordon <node1> Example output node/<node1> cordoned Check that the node status is Ready,SchedulingDisabled : USD oc get node <node1> Example output NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION <node1> Ready,SchedulingDisabled worker 1d v1.27.3 Evacuate the pods using one of the following methods: Evacuate all or selected pods on one or more nodes: USD oc adm drain <node1> <node2> [--pod-selector=<pod_selector>] Force the deletion of bare pods using the --force option. When set to true , deletion continues even if there are pods not managed by a replication controller, replica set, job, daemon set, or stateful set: USD oc adm drain <node1> <node2> --force=true Set a period of time in seconds for each pod to terminate gracefully, use --grace-period . If negative, the default value specified in the pod will be used: USD oc adm drain <node1> <node2> --grace-period=-1 Ignore pods managed by daemon sets using the --ignore-daemonsets flag set to true : USD oc adm drain <node1> <node2> --ignore-daemonsets=true Set the length of time to wait before giving up using the --timeout flag. A value of 0 sets an infinite length of time: USD oc adm drain <node1> <node2> --timeout=5s Delete pods even if there are pods using emptyDir volumes by setting the --delete-emptydir-data flag to true . Local data is deleted when the node is drained: USD oc adm drain <node1> <node2> --delete-emptydir-data=true List objects that will be migrated without actually performing the evacuation, using the --dry-run option set to true : USD oc adm drain <node1> <node2> --dry-run=true Instead of specifying specific node names (for example, <node1> <node2> ), you can use the --selector=<node_selector> option to evacuate pods on selected nodes. Mark the node as schedulable when done. USD oc adm uncordon <node1> 6.2.2. Understanding how to update labels on nodes You can update any label on a node. Node labels are not persisted after a node is deleted even if the node is backed up by a Machine. Note Any change to a MachineSet object is not applied to existing machines owned by the compute machine set. For example, labels edited or added to an existing MachineSet object are not propagated to existing machines and nodes associated with the compute machine set. The following command adds or updates labels on a node: USD oc label node <node> <key_1>=<value_1> ... <key_n>=<value_n> For example: USD oc label nodes webconsole-7f7f6 unhealthy=true Tip You can alternatively apply the following YAML to apply the label: kind: Node apiVersion: v1 metadata: name: webconsole-7f7f6 labels: unhealthy: 'true' #... The following command updates all pods in the namespace: USD oc label pods --all <key_1>=<value_1> For example: USD oc label pods --all status=unhealthy 6.2.3. Understanding how to mark nodes as unschedulable or schedulable By default, healthy nodes with a Ready status are marked as schedulable, which means that you can place new pods on the node. Manually marking a node as unschedulable blocks any new pods from being scheduled on the node. Existing pods on the node are not affected. The following command marks a node or nodes as unschedulable: Example output USD oc adm cordon <node> For example: USD oc adm cordon node1.example.com Example output node/node1.example.com cordoned NAME LABELS STATUS node1.example.com kubernetes.io/hostname=node1.example.com Ready,SchedulingDisabled The following command marks a currently unschedulable node or nodes as schedulable: USD oc adm uncordon <node1> Alternatively, instead of specifying specific node names (for example, <node> ), you can use the --selector=<node_selector> option to mark selected nodes as schedulable or unschedulable. 6.2.4. Handling errors in single-node OpenShift clusters when the node reboots without draining application pods In single-node OpenShift clusters and in OpenShift Container Platform clusters in general, a situation can arise where a node reboot occurs without first draining the node. This can occur where an application pod requesting devices fails with the UnexpectedAdmissionError error. Deployment , ReplicaSet , or DaemonSet errors are reported because the application pods that require those devices start before the pod serving those devices. You cannot control the order of pod restarts. While this behavior is to be expected, it can cause a pod to remain on the cluster even though it has failed to deploy successfully. The pod continues to report UnexpectedAdmissionError . This issue is mitigated by the fact that application pods are typically included in a Deployment , ReplicaSet , or DaemonSet . If a pod is in this error state, it is of little concern because another instance should be running. Belonging to a Deployment , ReplicaSet , or DaemonSet guarantees the successful creation and execution of subsequent pods and ensures the successful deployment of the application. There is ongoing work upstream to ensure that such pods are gracefully terminated. Until that work is resolved, run the following command for a single-node OpenShift cluster to remove the failed pods: USD oc delete pods --field-selector status.phase=Failed -n <POD_NAMESPACE> Note The option to drain the node is unavailable for single-node OpenShift clusters. Additional resources Understanding how to evacuate pods on nodes 6.2.5. Deleting nodes 6.2.5.1. Deleting nodes from a cluster To delete a node from the OpenShift Container Platform cluster, scale down the appropriate MachineSet object. Important When a cluster is integrated with a cloud provider, you must delete the corresponding machine to delete a node. Do not try to use the oc delete node command for this task. When you delete a node by using the CLI, the node object is deleted in Kubernetes, but the pods that exist on the node are not deleted. Any bare pods that are not backed by a replication controller become inaccessible to OpenShift Container Platform. Pods backed by replication controllers are rescheduled to other available nodes. You must delete local manifest pods. Note If you are running cluster on bare metal, you cannot delete a node by editing MachineSet objects. Compute machine sets are only available when a cluster is integrated with a cloud provider. Instead you must unschedule and drain the node before manually deleting it. Procedure View the compute machine sets that are in the cluster by running the following command: USD oc get machinesets -n openshift-machine-api The compute machine sets are listed in the form of <cluster-id>-worker-<aws-region-az> . Scale down the compute machine set by using one of the following methods: Specify the number of replicas to scale down to by running the following command: USD oc scale --replicas=2 machineset <machine-set-name> -n openshift-machine-api Edit the compute machine set custom resource by running the following command: USD oc edit machineset <machine-set-name> -n openshift-machine-api Example output apiVersion: machine.openshift.io/v1beta1 kind: MachineSet metadata: # ... name: <machine-set-name> namespace: openshift-machine-api # ... spec: replicas: 2 1 # ... 1 Specify the number of replicas to scale down to. Additional resources Manually scaling a compute machine set 6.2.5.2. Deleting nodes from a bare metal cluster When you delete a node using the CLI, the node object is deleted in Kubernetes, but the pods that exist on the node are not deleted. Any bare pods not backed by a replication controller become inaccessible to OpenShift Container Platform. Pods backed by replication controllers are rescheduled to other available nodes. You must delete local manifest pods. Procedure Delete a node from an OpenShift Container Platform cluster running on bare metal by completing the following steps: Mark the node as unschedulable: USD oc adm cordon <node_name> Drain all pods on the node: USD oc adm drain <node_name> --force=true This step might fail if the node is offline or unresponsive. Even if the node does not respond, it might still be running a workload that writes to shared storage. To avoid data corruption, power down the physical hardware before you proceed. Delete the node from the cluster: USD oc delete node <node_name> Although the node object is now deleted from the cluster, it can still rejoin the cluster after reboot or if the kubelet service is restarted. To permanently delete the node and all its data, you must decommission the node . If you powered down the physical hardware, turn it back on so that the node can rejoin the cluster. 6.3. Managing nodes OpenShift Container Platform uses a KubeletConfig custom resource (CR) to manage the configuration of nodes. By creating an instance of a KubeletConfig object, a managed machine config is created to override setting on the node. Note Logging in to remote machines for the purpose of changing their configuration is not supported. 6.3.1. Modifying nodes To make configuration changes to a cluster, or machine pool, you must create a custom resource definition (CRD), or kubeletConfig object. OpenShift Container Platform uses the Machine Config Controller to watch for changes introduced through the CRD to apply the changes to the cluster. Note Because the fields in a kubeletConfig object are passed directly to the kubelet from upstream Kubernetes, the validation of those fields is handled directly by the kubelet itself. Please refer to the relevant Kubernetes documentation for the valid values for these fields. Invalid values in the kubeletConfig object can render cluster nodes unusable. Procedure Obtain the label associated with the static CRD, Machine Config Pool, for the type of node you want to configure. Perform one of the following steps: Check current labels of the desired machine config pool. For example: USD oc get machineconfigpool --show-labels Example output NAME CONFIG UPDATED UPDATING DEGRADED LABELS master rendered-master-e05b81f5ca4db1d249a1bf32f9ec24fd True False False operator.machineconfiguration.openshift.io/required-for-upgrade= worker rendered-worker-f50e78e1bc06d8e82327763145bfcf62 True False False Add a custom label to the desired machine config pool. For example: USD oc label machineconfigpool worker custom-kubelet=enabled Create a kubeletconfig custom resource (CR) for your configuration change. For example: Sample configuration for a custom-config CR apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 kind: KubeletConfig metadata: name: custom-config 1 spec: machineConfigPoolSelector: matchLabels: custom-kubelet: enabled 2 kubeletConfig: 3 podsPerCore: 10 maxPods: 250 systemReserved: cpu: 2000m memory: 1Gi #... 1 Assign a name to CR. 2 Specify the label to apply the configuration change, this is the label you added to the machine config pool. 3 Specify the new value(s) you want to change. Create the CR object. USD oc create -f <file-name> For example: USD oc create -f master-kube-config.yaml Most Kubelet Configuration options can be set by the user. The following options are not allowed to be overwritten: CgroupDriver ClusterDNS ClusterDomain StaticPodPath Note If a single node contains more than 50 images, pod scheduling might be imbalanced across nodes. This is because the list of images on a node is shortened to 50 by default. You can disable the image limit by editing the KubeletConfig object and setting the value of nodeStatusMaxImages to -1 . 6.3.2. Configuring control plane nodes as schedulable You can configure control plane nodes to be schedulable, meaning that new pods are allowed for placement on the master nodes. By default, control plane nodes are not schedulable. You can set the masters to be schedulable, but must retain the worker nodes. Note You can deploy OpenShift Container Platform with no worker nodes on a bare metal cluster. In this case, the control plane nodes are marked schedulable by default. You can allow or disallow control plane nodes to be schedulable by configuring the mastersSchedulable field. Important When you configure control plane nodes from the default unschedulable to schedulable, additional subscriptions are required. This is because control plane nodes then become worker nodes. Procedure Edit the schedulers.config.openshift.io resource. USD oc edit schedulers.config.openshift.io cluster Configure the mastersSchedulable field. apiVersion: config.openshift.io/v1 kind: Scheduler metadata: creationTimestamp: "2019-09-10T03:04:05Z" generation: 1 name: cluster resourceVersion: "433" selfLink: /apis/config.openshift.io/v1/schedulers/cluster uid: a636d30a-d377-11e9-88d4-0a60097bee62 spec: mastersSchedulable: false 1 status: {} #... 1 Set to true to allow control plane nodes to be schedulable, or false to disallow control plane nodes to be schedulable. Save the file to apply the changes. 6.3.3. Setting SELinux booleans OpenShift Container Platform allows you to enable and disable an SELinux boolean on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) node. The following procedure explains how to modify SELinux booleans on nodes using the Machine Config Operator (MCO). This procedure uses container_manage_cgroup as the example boolean. You can modify this value to whichever boolean you need. Prerequisites You have installed the OpenShift CLI (oc). Procedure Create a new YAML file with a MachineConfig object, displayed in the following example: apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 kind: MachineConfig metadata: labels: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/role: worker name: 99-worker-setsebool spec: config: ignition: version: 3.2.0 systemd: units: - contents: | [Unit] Description=Set SELinux booleans Before=kubelet.service [Service] Type=oneshot ExecStart=/sbin/setsebool container_manage_cgroup=on RemainAfterExit=true [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target graphical.target enabled: true name: setsebool.service #... Create the new MachineConfig object by running the following command: USD oc create -f 99-worker-setsebool.yaml Note Applying any changes to the MachineConfig object causes all affected nodes to gracefully reboot after the change is applied. 6.3.4. Adding kernel arguments to nodes In some special cases, you might want to add kernel arguments to a set of nodes in your cluster. This should only be done with caution and clear understanding of the implications of the arguments you set. Warning Improper use of kernel arguments can result in your systems becoming unbootable. Examples of kernel arguments you could set include: nosmt : Disables symmetric multithreading (SMT) in the kernel. Multithreading allows multiple logical threads for each CPU. You could consider nosmt in multi-tenant environments to reduce risks from potential cross-thread attacks. By disabling SMT, you essentially choose security over performance. systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy : Enables Linux control group version 2 (cgroup v2). cgroup v2 is the version of the kernel control group and offers multiple improvements. enforcing=0 : Configures Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) to run in permissive mode. In permissive mode, the system acts as if SELinux is enforcing the loaded security policy, including labeling objects and emitting access denial entries in the logs, but it does not actually deny any operations. While not supported for production systems, permissive mode can be helpful for debugging. Warning Disabling SELinux on RHCOS in production is not supported. Once SELinux has been disabled on a node, it must be re-provisioned before re-inclusion in a production cluster. See Kernel.org kernel parameters for a list and descriptions of kernel arguments. In the following procedure, you create a MachineConfig object that identifies: A set of machines to which you want to add the kernel argument. In this case, machines with a worker role. Kernel arguments that are appended to the end of the existing kernel arguments. A label that indicates where in the list of machine configs the change is applied. Prerequisites Have administrative privilege to a working OpenShift Container Platform cluster. Procedure List existing MachineConfig objects for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster to determine how to label your machine config: USD oc get MachineConfig Example output NAME GENERATEDBYCONTROLLER IGNITIONVERSION AGE 00-master 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m 00-worker 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m 01-master-container-runtime 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m 01-master-kubelet 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m 01-worker-container-runtime 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m 01-worker-kubelet 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m 99-master-generated-registries 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m 99-master-ssh 3.2.0 40m 99-worker-generated-registries 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m 99-worker-ssh 3.2.0 40m rendered-master-23e785de7587df95a4b517e0647e5ab7 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m rendered-worker-5d596d9293ca3ea80c896a1191735bb1 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m Create a MachineConfig object file that identifies the kernel argument (for example, 05-worker-kernelarg-selinuxpermissive.yaml ) apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 kind: MachineConfig metadata: labels: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/role: worker 1 name: 05-worker-kernelarg-selinuxpermissive 2 spec: kernelArguments: - enforcing=0 3 1 Applies the new kernel argument only to worker nodes. 2 Named to identify where it fits among the machine configs (05) and what it does (adds a kernel argument to configure SELinux permissive mode). 3 Identifies the exact kernel argument as enforcing=0 . Create the new machine config: USD oc create -f 05-worker-kernelarg-selinuxpermissive.yaml Check the machine configs to see that the new one was added: USD oc get MachineConfig Example output NAME GENERATEDBYCONTROLLER IGNITIONVERSION AGE 00-master 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m 00-worker 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m 01-master-container-runtime 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m 01-master-kubelet 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m 01-worker-container-runtime 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m 01-worker-kubelet 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m 05-worker-kernelarg-selinuxpermissive 3.2.0 105s 99-master-generated-registries 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m 99-master-ssh 3.2.0 40m 99-worker-generated-registries 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m 99-worker-ssh 3.2.0 40m rendered-master-23e785de7587df95a4b517e0647e5ab7 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m rendered-worker-5d596d9293ca3ea80c896a1191735bb1 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m Check the nodes: USD oc get nodes Example output NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION ip-10-0-136-161.ec2.internal Ready worker 28m v1.27.3 ip-10-0-136-243.ec2.internal Ready master 34m v1.27.3 ip-10-0-141-105.ec2.internal Ready,SchedulingDisabled worker 28m v1.27.3 ip-10-0-142-249.ec2.internal Ready master 34m v1.27.3 ip-10-0-153-11.ec2.internal Ready worker 28m v1.27.3 ip-10-0-153-150.ec2.internal Ready master 34m v1.27.3 You can see that scheduling on each worker node is disabled as the change is being applied. Check that the kernel argument worked by going to one of the worker nodes and listing the kernel command line arguments (in /proc/cmdline on the host): USD oc debug node/ip-10-0-141-105.ec2.internal Example output Starting pod/ip-10-0-141-105ec2internal-debug ... To use host binaries, run `chroot /host` sh-4.2# cat /host/proc/cmdline BOOT_IMAGE=/ostree/rhcos-... console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8 rootflags=defaults,prjquota rw root=UUID=fd0... ostree=/ostree/boot.0/rhcos/16... coreos.oem.id=qemu coreos.oem.id=ec2 ignition.platform.id=ec2 enforcing=0 sh-4.2# exit You should see the enforcing=0 argument added to the other kernel arguments. 6.3.5. Enabling swap memory use on nodes Important Enabling swap memory use on nodes is a Technology Preview feature only. Technology Preview features are not supported with Red Hat production service level agreements (SLAs) and might not be functionally complete. Red Hat does not recommend using them in production. These features provide early access to upcoming product features, enabling customers to test functionality and provide feedback during the development process. For more information about the support scope of Red Hat Technology Preview features, see Technology Preview Features Support Scope . You can enable swap memory use for OpenShift Container Platform workloads on a per-node basis. Warning Enabling swap memory can negatively impact workload performance and out-of-resource handling. Do not enable swap memory on control plane nodes. To enable swap memory, create a kubeletconfig custom resource (CR) to set the swapbehavior parameter. You can set limited or unlimited swap memory: Limited: Use the LimitedSwap value to limit how much swap memory workloads can use. Any workloads on the node that are not managed by OpenShift Container Platform can still use swap memory. The LimitedSwap behavior depends on whether the node is running with Linux control groups version 1 (cgroups v1) or version 2 (cgroup v2) : cgroup v1: OpenShift Container Platform workloads can use any combination of memory and swap, up to the pod's memory limit, if set. cgroup v2: OpenShift Container Platform workloads cannot use swap memory. Unlimited: Use the UnlimitedSwap value to allow workloads to use as much swap memory as they request, up to the system limit. Because the kubelet will not start in the presence of swap memory without this configuration, you must enable swap memory in OpenShift Container Platform before enabling swap memory on the nodes. If there is no swap memory present on a node, enabling swap memory in OpenShift Container Platform has no effect. Prerequisites You have a running OpenShift Container Platform cluster that uses version 4.10 or later. You are logged in to the cluster as a user with administrative privileges. You have enabled the TechPreviewNoUpgrade feature set on the cluster (see Nodes Working with clusters Enabling features using feature gates ). Note Enabling the TechPreviewNoUpgrade feature set cannot be undone and prevents minor version updates. These feature sets are not recommended on production clusters. If cgroup v2 is enabled on a node, you must enable swap accounting on the node, by setting the swapaccount=1 kernel argument. Procedure Apply a custom label to the machine config pool where you want to allow swap memory. USD oc label machineconfigpool worker kubelet-swap=enabled Create a custom resource (CR) to enable and configure swap settings. apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 kind: KubeletConfig metadata: name: swap-config spec: machineConfigPoolSelector: matchLabels: kubelet-swap: enabled kubeletConfig: failSwapOn: false 1 memorySwap: swapBehavior: LimitedSwap 2 #... 1 Set to false to enable swap memory use on the associated nodes. Set to true to disable swap memory use. 2 Specify the swap memory behavior. If unspecified, the default is LimitedSwap . Enable swap memory on the machines. 6.3.6. Migrating control plane nodes from one RHOSP host to another manually If control plane machine sets are not enabled on your cluster, you can run a script that moves a control plane node from one Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) node to another. Note Control plane machine sets are not enabled on clusters that run on user-provisioned infrastructure. For information about control plane machine sets, see "Managing control plane machines with control plane machine sets". Prerequisites The environment variable OS_CLOUD refers to a clouds entry that has administrative credentials in a clouds.yaml file. The environment variable KUBECONFIG refers to a configuration that contains administrative OpenShift Container Platform credentials. Procedure From a command line, run the following script: #!/usr/bin/env bash set -Eeuo pipefail if [ USD# -lt 1 ]; then echo "Usage: 'USD0 node_name'" exit 64 fi # Check for admin OpenStack credentials openstack server list --all-projects >/dev/null || { >&2 echo "The script needs OpenStack admin credentials. Exiting"; exit 77; } # Check for admin OpenShift credentials oc adm top node >/dev/null || { >&2 echo "The script needs OpenShift admin credentials. Exiting"; exit 77; } set -x declare -r node_name="USD1" declare server_id server_id="USD(openstack server list --all-projects -f value -c ID -c Name | grep "USDnode_name" | cut -d' ' -f1)" readonly server_id # Drain the node oc adm cordon "USDnode_name" oc adm drain "USDnode_name" --delete-emptydir-data --ignore-daemonsets --force # Power off the server oc debug "node/USD{node_name}" -- chroot /host shutdown -h 1 # Verify the server is shut off until openstack server show "USDserver_id" -f value -c status | grep -q 'SHUTOFF'; do sleep 5; done # Migrate the node openstack server migrate --wait "USDserver_id" # Resize the VM openstack server resize confirm "USDserver_id" # Wait for the resize confirm to finish until openstack server show "USDserver_id" -f value -c status | grep -q 'SHUTOFF'; do sleep 5; done # Restart the VM openstack server start "USDserver_id" # Wait for the node to show up as Ready: until oc get node "USDnode_name" | grep -q "^USD{node_name}[[:space:]]\+Ready"; do sleep 5; done # Uncordon the node oc adm uncordon "USDnode_name" # Wait for cluster operators to stabilize until oc get co -o go-template='statuses: {{ range .items }}{{ range .status.conditions }}{{ if eq .type "Degraded" }}{{ if ne .status "False" }}DEGRADED{{ end }}{{ else if eq .type "Progressing"}}{{ if ne .status "False" }}PROGRESSING{{ end }}{{ else if eq .type "Available"}}{{ if ne .status "True" }}NOTAVAILABLE{{ end }}{{ end }}{{ end }}{{ end }}' | grep -qv '\(DEGRADED\|PROGRESSING\|NOTAVAILABLE\)'; do sleep 5; done If the script completes, the control plane machine is migrated to a new RHOSP node. Additional resources For information about control plane machine sets, see Managing control plane machines with control plane machine sets . 6.4. Managing the maximum number of pods per node In OpenShift Container Platform, you can configure the number of pods that can run on a node based on the number of processor cores on the node, a hard limit or both. If you use both options, the lower of the two limits the number of pods on a node. When both options are in use, the lower of the two values limits the number of pods on a node. Exceeding these values can result in: Increased CPU utilization. Slow pod scheduling. Potential out-of-memory scenarios, depending on the amount of memory in the node. Exhausting the pool of IP addresses. Resource overcommitting, leading to poor user application performance. Important In Kubernetes, a pod that is holding a single container actually uses two containers. The second container is used to set up networking prior to the actual container starting. Therefore, a system running 10 pods will actually have 20 containers running. Note Disk IOPS throttling from the cloud provider might have an impact on CRI-O and kubelet. They might get overloaded when there are large number of I/O intensive pods running on the nodes. It is recommended that you monitor the disk I/O on the nodes and use volumes with sufficient throughput for the workload. The podsPerCore parameter sets the number of pods the node can run based on the number of processor cores on the node. For example, if podsPerCore is set to 10 on a node with 4 processor cores, the maximum number of pods allowed on the node will be 40 . kubeletConfig: podsPerCore: 10 Setting podsPerCore to 0 disables this limit. The default is 0 . The value of the podsPerCore parameter cannot exceed the value of the maxPods parameter. The maxPods parameter sets the number of pods the node can run to a fixed value, regardless of the properties of the node. kubeletConfig: maxPods: 250 6.4.1. Configuring the maximum number of pods per node Two parameters control the maximum number of pods that can be scheduled to a node: podsPerCore and maxPods . If you use both options, the lower of the two limits the number of pods on a node. For example, if podsPerCore is set to 10 on a node with 4 processor cores, the maximum number of pods allowed on the node will be 40. Prerequisites Obtain the label associated with the static MachineConfigPool CRD for the type of node you want to configure by entering the following command: USD oc edit machineconfigpool <name> For example: USD oc edit machineconfigpool worker Example output apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 kind: MachineConfigPool metadata: creationTimestamp: "2022-11-16T15:34:25Z" generation: 4 labels: pools.operator.machineconfiguration.openshift.io/worker: "" 1 name: worker #... 1 The label appears under Labels. Tip If the label is not present, add a key/value pair such as: Procedure Create a custom resource (CR) for your configuration change. Sample configuration for a max-pods CR apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 kind: KubeletConfig metadata: name: set-max-pods 1 spec: machineConfigPoolSelector: matchLabels: pools.operator.machineconfiguration.openshift.io/worker: "" 2 kubeletConfig: podsPerCore: 10 3 maxPods: 250 4 #... 1 Assign a name to CR. 2 Specify the label from the machine config pool. 3 Specify the number of pods the node can run based on the number of processor cores on the node. 4 Specify the number of pods the node can run to a fixed value, regardless of the properties of the node. Note Setting podsPerCore to 0 disables this limit. In the above example, the default value for podsPerCore is 10 and the default value for maxPods is 250 . This means that unless the node has 25 cores or more, by default, podsPerCore will be the limiting factor. Run the following command to create the CR: USD oc create -f <file_name>.yaml Verification List the MachineConfigPool CRDs to see if the change is applied. The UPDATING column reports True if the change is picked up by the Machine Config Controller: USD oc get machineconfigpools Example output NAME CONFIG UPDATED UPDATING DEGRADED master master-9cc2c72f205e103bb534 False False False worker worker-8cecd1236b33ee3f8a5e False True False Once the change is complete, the UPDATED column reports True . USD oc get machineconfigpools Example output NAME CONFIG UPDATED UPDATING DEGRADED master master-9cc2c72f205e103bb534 False True False worker worker-8cecd1236b33ee3f8a5e True False False 6.5. Using the Node Tuning Operator Learn about the Node Tuning Operator and how you can use it to manage node-level tuning by orchestrating the tuned daemon. Purpose The Node Tuning Operator helps you manage node-level tuning by orchestrating the TuneD daemon and achieves low latency performance by using the Performance Profile controller. The majority of high-performance applications require some level of kernel tuning. The Node Tuning Operator provides a unified management interface to users of node-level sysctls and more flexibility to add custom tuning specified by user needs. The Operator manages the containerized TuneD daemon for OpenShift Container Platform as a Kubernetes daemon set. It ensures the custom tuning specification is passed to all containerized TuneD daemons running in the cluster in the format that the daemons understand. The daemons run on all nodes in the cluster, one per node. Node-level settings applied by the containerized TuneD daemon are rolled back on an event that triggers a profile change or when the containerized TuneD daemon is terminated gracefully by receiving and handling a termination signal. The Node Tuning Operator uses the Performance Profile controller to implement automatic tuning to achieve low latency performance for OpenShift Container Platform applications. The cluster administrator configures a performance profile to define node-level settings such as the following: Updating the kernel to kernel-rt. Choosing CPUs for housekeeping. Choosing CPUs for running workloads. Note Currently, disabling CPU load balancing is not supported by cgroup v2. As a result, you might not get the desired behavior from performance profiles if you have cgroup v2 enabled. Enabling cgroup v2 is not recommended if you are using performance profiles. The Node Tuning Operator is part of a standard OpenShift Container Platform installation in version 4.1 and later. Note In earlier versions of OpenShift Container Platform, the Performance Addon Operator was used to implement automatic tuning to achieve low latency performance for OpenShift applications. In OpenShift Container Platform 4.11 and later, this functionality is part of the Node Tuning Operator. 6.5.1. Accessing an example Node Tuning Operator specification Use this process to access an example Node Tuning Operator specification. Procedure Run the following command to access an example Node Tuning Operator specification: oc get tuned.tuned.openshift.io/default -o yaml -n openshift-cluster-node-tuning-operator The default CR is meant for delivering standard node-level tuning for the OpenShift Container Platform platform and it can only be modified to set the Operator Management state. Any other custom changes to the default CR will be overwritten by the Operator. For custom tuning, create your own Tuned CRs. Newly created CRs will be combined with the default CR and custom tuning applied to OpenShift Container Platform nodes based on node or pod labels and profile priorities. Warning While in certain situations the support for pod labels can be a convenient way of automatically delivering required tuning, this practice is discouraged and strongly advised against, especially in large-scale clusters. The default Tuned CR ships without pod label matching. If a custom profile is created with pod label matching, then the functionality will be enabled at that time. The pod label functionality will be deprecated in future versions of the Node Tuning Operator. 6.5.2. Custom tuning specification The custom resource (CR) for the Operator has two major sections. The first section, profile: , is a list of TuneD profiles and their names. The second, recommend: , defines the profile selection logic. Multiple custom tuning specifications can co-exist as multiple CRs in the Operator's namespace. The existence of new CRs or the deletion of old CRs is detected by the Operator. All existing custom tuning specifications are merged and appropriate objects for the containerized TuneD daemons are updated. Management state The Operator Management state is set by adjusting the default Tuned CR. By default, the Operator is in the Managed state and the spec.managementState field is not present in the default Tuned CR. Valid values for the Operator Management state are as follows: Managed: the Operator will update its operands as configuration resources are updated Unmanaged: the Operator will ignore changes to the configuration resources Removed: the Operator will remove its operands and resources the Operator provisioned Profile data The profile: section lists TuneD profiles and their names. profile: - name: tuned_profile_1 data: | # TuneD profile specification [main] summary=Description of tuned_profile_1 profile [sysctl] net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 # ... other sysctl's or other TuneD daemon plugins supported by the containerized TuneD # ... - name: tuned_profile_n data: | # TuneD profile specification [main] summary=Description of tuned_profile_n profile # tuned_profile_n profile settings Recommended profiles The profile: selection logic is defined by the recommend: section of the CR. The recommend: section is a list of items to recommend the profiles based on a selection criteria. recommend: <recommend-item-1> # ... <recommend-item-n> The individual items of the list: - machineConfigLabels: 1 <mcLabels> 2 match: 3 <match> 4 priority: <priority> 5 profile: <tuned_profile_name> 6 operand: 7 debug: <bool> 8 tunedConfig: reapply_sysctl: <bool> 9 1 Optional. 2 A dictionary of key/value MachineConfig labels. The keys must be unique. 3 If omitted, profile match is assumed unless a profile with a higher priority matches first or machineConfigLabels is set. 4 An optional list. 5 Profile ordering priority. Lower numbers mean higher priority ( 0 is the highest priority). 6 A TuneD profile to apply on a match. For example tuned_profile_1 . 7 Optional operand configuration. 8 Turn debugging on or off for the TuneD daemon. Options are true for on or false for off. The default is false . 9 Turn reapply_sysctl functionality on or off for the TuneD daemon. Options are true for on and false for off. <match> is an optional list recursively defined as follows: - label: <label_name> 1 value: <label_value> 2 type: <label_type> 3 <match> 4 1 Node or pod label name. 2 Optional node or pod label value. If omitted, the presence of <label_name> is enough to match. 3 Optional object type ( node or pod ). If omitted, node is assumed. 4 An optional <match> list. If <match> is not omitted, all nested <match> sections must also evaluate to true . Otherwise, false is assumed and the profile with the respective <match> section will not be applied or recommended. Therefore, the nesting (child <match> sections) works as logical AND operator. Conversely, if any item of the <match> list matches, the entire <match> list evaluates to true . Therefore, the list acts as logical OR operator. If machineConfigLabels is defined, machine config pool based matching is turned on for the given recommend: list item. <mcLabels> specifies the labels for a machine config. The machine config is created automatically to apply host settings, such as kernel boot parameters, for the profile <tuned_profile_name> . This involves finding all machine config pools with machine config selector matching <mcLabels> and setting the profile <tuned_profile_name> on all nodes that are assigned the found machine config pools. To target nodes that have both master and worker roles, you must use the master role. The list items match and machineConfigLabels are connected by the logical OR operator. The match item is evaluated first in a short-circuit manner. Therefore, if it evaluates to true , the machineConfigLabels item is not considered. Important When using machine config pool based matching, it is advised to group nodes with the same hardware configuration into the same machine config pool. Not following this practice might result in TuneD operands calculating conflicting kernel parameters for two or more nodes sharing the same machine config pool. Example: Node or pod label based matching - match: - label: tuned.openshift.io/elasticsearch match: - label: node-role.kubernetes.io/master - label: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra type: pod priority: 10 profile: openshift-control-plane-es - match: - label: node-role.kubernetes.io/master - label: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra priority: 20 profile: openshift-control-plane - priority: 30 profile: openshift-node The CR above is translated for the containerized TuneD daemon into its recommend.conf file based on the profile priorities. The profile with the highest priority ( 10 ) is openshift-control-plane-es and, therefore, it is considered first. The containerized TuneD daemon running on a given node looks to see if there is a pod running on the same node with the tuned.openshift.io/elasticsearch label set. If not, the entire <match> section evaluates as false . If there is such a pod with the label, in order for the <match> section to evaluate to true , the node label also needs to be node-role.kubernetes.io/master or node-role.kubernetes.io/infra . If the labels for the profile with priority 10 matched, openshift-control-plane-es profile is applied and no other profile is considered. If the node/pod label combination did not match, the second highest priority profile ( openshift-control-plane ) is considered. This profile is applied if the containerized TuneD pod runs on a node with labels node-role.kubernetes.io/master or node-role.kubernetes.io/infra . Finally, the profile openshift-node has the lowest priority of 30 . It lacks the <match> section and, therefore, will always match. It acts as a profile catch-all to set openshift-node profile, if no other profile with higher priority matches on a given node. Example: Machine config pool based matching apiVersion: tuned.openshift.io/v1 kind: Tuned metadata: name: openshift-node-custom namespace: openshift-cluster-node-tuning-operator spec: profile: - data: | [main] summary=Custom OpenShift node profile with an additional kernel parameter include=openshift-node [bootloader] cmdline_openshift_node_custom=+skew_tick=1 name: openshift-node-custom recommend: - machineConfigLabels: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/role: "worker-custom" priority: 20 profile: openshift-node-custom To minimize node reboots, label the target nodes with a label the machine config pool's node selector will match, then create the Tuned CR above and finally create the custom machine config pool itself. Cloud provider-specific TuneD profiles With this functionality, all Cloud provider-specific nodes can conveniently be assigned a TuneD profile specifically tailored to a given Cloud provider on a OpenShift Container Platform cluster. This can be accomplished without adding additional node labels or grouping nodes into machine config pools. This functionality takes advantage of spec.providerID node object values in the form of <cloud-provider>://<cloud-provider-specific-id> and writes the file /var/lib/tuned/provider with the value <cloud-provider> in NTO operand containers. The content of this file is then used by TuneD to load provider-<cloud-provider> profile if such profile exists. The openshift profile that both openshift-control-plane and openshift-node profiles inherit settings from is now updated to use this functionality through the use of conditional profile loading. Neither NTO nor TuneD currently include any Cloud provider-specific profiles. However, it is possible to create a custom profile provider-<cloud-provider> that will be applied to all Cloud provider-specific cluster nodes. Example GCE Cloud provider profile apiVersion: tuned.openshift.io/v1 kind: Tuned metadata: name: provider-gce namespace: openshift-cluster-node-tuning-operator spec: profile: - data: | [main] summary=GCE Cloud provider-specific profile # Your tuning for GCE Cloud provider goes here. name: provider-gce Note Due to profile inheritance, any setting specified in the provider-<cloud-provider> profile will be overwritten by the openshift profile and its child profiles. 6.5.3. Default profiles set on a cluster The following are the default profiles set on a cluster. apiVersion: tuned.openshift.io/v1 kind: Tuned metadata: name: default namespace: openshift-cluster-node-tuning-operator spec: profile: - data: | [main] summary=Optimize systems running OpenShift (provider specific parent profile) include=-provider-USD{f:exec:cat:/var/lib/tuned/provider},openshift name: openshift recommend: - profile: openshift-control-plane priority: 30 match: - label: node-role.kubernetes.io/master - label: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra - profile: openshift-node priority: 40 Starting with OpenShift Container Platform 4.9, all OpenShift TuneD profiles are shipped with the TuneD package. You can use the oc exec command to view the contents of these profiles: USD oc exec USDtuned_pod -n openshift-cluster-node-tuning-operator -- find /usr/lib/tuned/openshift{,-control-plane,-node} -name tuned.conf -exec grep -H ^ {} \; 6.5.4. Supported TuneD daemon plugins Excluding the [main] section, the following TuneD plugins are supported when using custom profiles defined in the profile: section of the Tuned CR: audio cpu disk eeepc_she modules mounts net scheduler scsi_host selinux sysctl sysfs usb video vm bootloader There is some dynamic tuning functionality provided by some of these plugins that is not supported. The following TuneD plugins are currently not supported: script systemd Note The TuneD bootloader plugin only supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) worker nodes. Additional resources Available TuneD Plugins Getting Started with TuneD 6.6. Remediating, fencing, and maintaining nodes When node-level failures occur, such as the kernel hangs or network interface controllers (NICs) fail, the work required from the cluster does not decrease, and workloads from affected nodes need to be restarted somewhere. Failures affecting these workloads risk data loss, corruption, or both. It is important to isolate the node, known as fencing , before initiating recovery of the workload, known as remediation , and recovery of the node. For more information on remediation, fencing, and maintaining nodes, see the Workload Availability for Red Hat OpenShift documentation. 6.7. Understanding node rebooting To reboot a node without causing an outage for applications running on the platform, it is important to first evacuate the pods. For pods that are made highly available by the routing tier, nothing else needs to be done. For other pods needing storage, typically databases, it is critical to ensure that they can remain in operation with one pod temporarily going offline. While implementing resiliency for stateful pods is different for each application, in all cases it is important to configure the scheduler to use node anti-affinity to ensure that the pods are properly spread across available nodes. Another challenge is how to handle nodes that are running critical infrastructure such as the router or the registry. The same node evacuation process applies, though it is important to understand certain edge cases. 6.7.1. About rebooting nodes running critical infrastructure When rebooting nodes that host critical OpenShift Container Platform infrastructure components, such as router pods, registry pods, and monitoring pods, ensure that there are at least three nodes available to run these components. The following scenario demonstrates how service interruptions can occur with applications running on OpenShift Container Platform when only two nodes are available: Node A is marked unschedulable and all pods are evacuated. The registry pod running on that node is now redeployed on node B. Node B is now running both registry pods. Node B is now marked unschedulable and is evacuated. The service exposing the two pod endpoints on node B loses all endpoints, for a brief period of time, until they are redeployed to node A. When using three nodes for infrastructure components, this process does not result in a service disruption. However, due to pod scheduling, the last node that is evacuated and brought back into rotation does not have a registry pod. One of the other nodes has two registry pods. To schedule the third registry pod on the last node, use pod anti-affinity to prevent the scheduler from locating two registry pods on the same node. Additional information For more information on pod anti-affinity, see Placing pods relative to other pods using affinity and anti-affinity rules . 6.7.2. Rebooting a node using pod anti-affinity Pod anti-affinity is slightly different than node anti-affinity. Node anti-affinity can be violated if there are no other suitable locations to deploy a pod. Pod anti-affinity can be set to either required or preferred. With this in place, if only two infrastructure nodes are available and one is rebooted, the container image registry pod is prevented from running on the other node. oc get pods reports the pod as unready until a suitable node is available. Once a node is available and all pods are back in ready state, the node can be restarted. Procedure To reboot a node using pod anti-affinity: Edit the node specification to configure pod anti-affinity: apiVersion: v1 kind: Pod metadata: name: with-pod-antiaffinity spec: affinity: podAntiAffinity: 1 preferredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution: 2 - weight: 100 3 podAffinityTerm: labelSelector: matchExpressions: - key: registry 4 operator: In 5 values: - default topologyKey: kubernetes.io/hostname #... 1 Stanza to configure pod anti-affinity. 2 Defines a preferred rule. 3 Specifies a weight for a preferred rule. The node with the highest weight is preferred. 4 Description of the pod label that determines when the anti-affinity rule applies. Specify a key and value for the label. 5 The operator represents the relationship between the label on the existing pod and the set of values in the matchExpression parameters in the specification for the new pod. Can be In , NotIn , Exists , or DoesNotExist . This example assumes the container image registry pod has a label of registry=default . Pod anti-affinity can use any Kubernetes match expression. Enable the MatchInterPodAffinity scheduler predicate in the scheduling policy file. Perform a graceful restart of the node. 6.7.3. Understanding how to reboot nodes running routers In most cases, a pod running an OpenShift Container Platform router exposes a host port. The PodFitsPorts scheduler predicate ensures that no router pods using the same port can run on the same node, and pod anti-affinity is achieved. If the routers are relying on IP failover for high availability, there is nothing else that is needed. For router pods relying on an external service such as AWS Elastic Load Balancing for high availability, it is that service's responsibility to react to router pod restarts. In rare cases, a router pod may not have a host port configured. In those cases, it is important to follow the recommended restart process for infrastructure nodes. 6.7.4. Rebooting a node gracefully Before rebooting a node, it is recommended to backup etcd data to avoid any data loss on the node. Note For single-node OpenShift clusters that require users to perform the oc login command rather than having the certificates in kubeconfig file to manage the cluster, the oc adm commands might not be available after cordoning and draining the node. This is because the openshift-oauth-apiserver pod is not running due to the cordon. You can use SSH to access the nodes as indicated in the following procedure. In a single-node OpenShift cluster, pods cannot be rescheduled when cordoning and draining. However, doing so gives the pods, especially your workload pods, time to properly stop and release associated resources. Procedure To perform a graceful restart of a node: Mark the node as unschedulable: USD oc adm cordon <node1> Drain the node to remove all the running pods: USD oc adm drain <node1> --ignore-daemonsets --delete-emptydir-data --force You might receive errors that pods associated with custom pod disruption budgets (PDB) cannot be evicted. Example error error when evicting pods/"rails-postgresql-example-1-72v2w" -n "rails" (will retry after 5s): Cannot evict pod as it would violate the pod's disruption budget. In this case, run the drain command again, adding the disable-eviction flag, which bypasses the PDB checks: USD oc adm drain <node1> --ignore-daemonsets --delete-emptydir-data --force --disable-eviction Access the node in debug mode: USD oc debug node/<node1> Change your root directory to /host : USD chroot /host Restart the node: USD systemctl reboot In a moment, the node enters the NotReady state. Note With some single-node OpenShift clusters, the oc commands might not be available after you cordon and drain the node because the openshift-oauth-apiserver pod is not running. You can use SSH to connect to the node and perform the reboot. USD ssh core@<master-node>.<cluster_name>.<base_domain> USD sudo systemctl reboot After the reboot is complete, mark the node as schedulable by running the following command: USD oc adm uncordon <node1> Note With some single-node OpenShift clusters, the oc commands might not be available after you cordon and drain the node because the openshift-oauth-apiserver pod is not running. You can use SSH to connect to the node and uncordon it. USD ssh core@<target_node> USD sudo oc adm uncordon <node> --kubeconfig /etc/kubernetes/static-pod-resources/kube-apiserver-certs/secrets/node-kubeconfigs/localhost.kubeconfig Verify that the node is ready: USD oc get node <node1> Example output NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION <node1> Ready worker 6d22h v1.18.3+b0068a8 Additional information For information on etcd data backup, see Backing up etcd data . 6.8. Freeing node resources using garbage collection As an administrator, you can use OpenShift Container Platform to ensure that your nodes are running efficiently by freeing up resources through garbage collection. The OpenShift Container Platform node performs two types of garbage collection: Container garbage collection: Removes terminated containers. Image garbage collection: Removes images not referenced by any running pods. 6.8.1. Understanding how terminated containers are removed through garbage collection Container garbage collection removes terminated containers by using eviction thresholds. When eviction thresholds are set for garbage collection, the node tries to keep any container for any pod accessible from the API. If the pod has been deleted, the containers will be as well. Containers are preserved as long the pod is not deleted and the eviction threshold is not reached. If the node is under disk pressure, it will remove containers and their logs will no longer be accessible using oc logs . eviction-soft - A soft eviction threshold pairs an eviction threshold with a required administrator-specified grace period. eviction-hard - A hard eviction threshold has no grace period, and if observed, OpenShift Container Platform takes immediate action. The following table lists the eviction thresholds: Table 6.2. Variables for configuring container garbage collection Node condition Eviction signal Description MemoryPressure memory.available The available memory on the node. DiskPressure nodefs.available nodefs.inodesFree imagefs.available imagefs.inodesFree The available disk space or inodes on the node root file system, nodefs , or image file system, imagefs . Note For evictionHard you must specify all of these parameters. If you do not specify all parameters, only the specified parameters are applied and the garbage collection will not function properly. If a node is oscillating above and below a soft eviction threshold, but not exceeding its associated grace period, the corresponding node would constantly oscillate between true and false . As a consequence, the scheduler could make poor scheduling decisions. To protect against this oscillation, use the evictionpressure-transition-period flag to control how long OpenShift Container Platform must wait before transitioning out of a pressure condition. OpenShift Container Platform will not set an eviction threshold as being met for the specified pressure condition for the period specified before toggling the condition back to false. Note Setting the evictionPressureTransitionPeriod parameter to 0 configures the default value of 5 minutes. You cannot set an eviction pressure transition period to zero seconds. 6.8.2. Understanding how images are removed through garbage collection Image garbage collection removes images that are not referenced by any running pods. OpenShift Container Platform determines which images to remove from a node based on the disk usage that is reported by cAdvisor . The policy for image garbage collection is based on two conditions: The percent of disk usage (expressed as an integer) which triggers image garbage collection. The default is 85 . The percent of disk usage (expressed as an integer) to which image garbage collection attempts to free. Default is 80 . For image garbage collection, you can modify any of the following variables using a custom resource. Table 6.3. Variables for configuring image garbage collection Setting Description imageMinimumGCAge The minimum age for an unused image before the image is removed by garbage collection. The default is 2m . imageGCHighThresholdPercent The percent of disk usage, expressed as an integer, which triggers image garbage collection. The default is 85 . This value must be greater than the imageGCLowThresholdPercent value. imageGCLowThresholdPercent The percent of disk usage, expressed as an integer, to which image garbage collection attempts to free. The default is 80 . This value must be less than the imageGCHighThresholdPercent value. Two lists of images are retrieved in each garbage collector run: A list of images currently running in at least one pod. A list of images available on a host. As new containers are run, new images appear. All images are marked with a time stamp. If the image is running (the first list above) or is newly detected (the second list above), it is marked with the current time. The remaining images are already marked from the spins. All images are then sorted by the time stamp. Once the collection starts, the oldest images get deleted first until the stopping criterion is met. 6.8.3. Configuring garbage collection for containers and images As an administrator, you can configure how OpenShift Container Platform performs garbage collection by creating a kubeletConfig object for each machine config pool. Note OpenShift Container Platform supports only one kubeletConfig object for each machine config pool. You can configure any combination of the following: Soft eviction for containers Hard eviction for containers Eviction for images Container garbage collection removes terminated containers. Image garbage collection removes images that are not referenced by any running pods. Prerequisites Obtain the label associated with the static MachineConfigPool CRD for the type of node you want to configure by entering the following command: USD oc edit machineconfigpool <name> For example: USD oc edit machineconfigpool worker Example output apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 kind: MachineConfigPool metadata: creationTimestamp: "2022-11-16T15:34:25Z" generation: 4 labels: pools.operator.machineconfiguration.openshift.io/worker: "" 1 name: worker #... 1 The label appears under Labels. Tip If the label is not present, add a key/value pair such as: Procedure Create a custom resource (CR) for your configuration change. Important If there is one file system, or if /var/lib/kubelet and /var/lib/containers/ are in the same file system, the settings with the highest values trigger evictions, as those are met first. The file system triggers the eviction. Sample configuration for a container garbage collection CR: apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 kind: KubeletConfig metadata: name: worker-kubeconfig 1 spec: machineConfigPoolSelector: matchLabels: pools.operator.machineconfiguration.openshift.io/worker: "" 2 kubeletConfig: evictionSoft: 3 memory.available: "500Mi" 4 nodefs.available: "10%" nodefs.inodesFree: "5%" imagefs.available: "15%" imagefs.inodesFree: "10%" evictionSoftGracePeriod: 5 memory.available: "1m30s" nodefs.available: "1m30s" nodefs.inodesFree: "1m30s" imagefs.available: "1m30s" imagefs.inodesFree: "1m30s" evictionHard: 6 memory.available: "200Mi" nodefs.available: "5%" nodefs.inodesFree: "4%" imagefs.available: "10%" imagefs.inodesFree: "5%" evictionPressureTransitionPeriod: 3m 7 imageMinimumGCAge: 5m 8 imageGCHighThresholdPercent: 80 9 imageGCLowThresholdPercent: 75 10 #... 1 Name for the object. 2 Specify the label from the machine config pool. 3 For container garbage collection: Type of eviction: evictionSoft or evictionHard . 4 For container garbage collection: Eviction thresholds based on a specific eviction trigger signal. 5 For container garbage collection: Grace periods for the soft eviction. This parameter does not apply to eviction-hard . 6 For container garbage collection: Eviction thresholds based on a specific eviction trigger signal. For evictionHard you must specify all of these parameters. If you do not specify all parameters, only the specified parameters are applied and the garbage collection will not function properly. 7 For container garbage collection: The duration to wait before transitioning out of an eviction pressure condition. Setting the evictionPressureTransitionPeriod parameter to 0 configures the default value of 5 minutes. 8 For image garbage collection: The minimum age for an unused image before the image is removed by garbage collection. 9 For image garbage collection: Image garbage collection is triggered at the specified percent of disk usage (expressed as an integer). This value must be greater than the imageGCLowThresholdPercent value. 10 For image garbage collection: Image garbage collection attempts to free resources to the specified percent of disk usage (expressed as an integer). This value must be less than the imageGCHighThresholdPercent value. Run the following command to create the CR: USD oc create -f <file_name>.yaml For example: USD oc create -f gc-container.yaml Example output kubeletconfig.machineconfiguration.openshift.io/gc-container created Verification Verify that garbage collection is active by entering the following command. The Machine Config Pool you specified in the custom resource appears with UPDATING as 'true` until the change is fully implemented: USD oc get machineconfigpool Example output NAME CONFIG UPDATED UPDATING master rendered-master-546383f80705bd5aeaba93 True False worker rendered-worker-b4c51bb33ccaae6fc4a6a5 False True 6.9. Allocating resources for nodes in an OpenShift Container Platform cluster To provide more reliable scheduling and minimize node resource overcommitment, reserve a portion of the CPU and memory resources for use by the underlying node components, such as kubelet and kube-proxy , and the remaining system components, such as sshd and NetworkManager . By specifying the resources to reserve, you provide the scheduler with more information about the remaining CPU and memory resources that a node has available for use by pods. You can allow OpenShift Container Platform to automatically determine the optimal system-reserved CPU and memory resources for your nodes or you can manually determine and set the best resources for your nodes. Important To manually set resource values, you must use a kubelet config CR. You cannot use a machine config CR. 6.9.1. Understanding how to allocate resources for nodes CPU and memory resources reserved for node components in OpenShift Container Platform are based on two node settings: Setting Description kube-reserved This setting is not used with OpenShift Container Platform. Add the CPU and memory resources that you planned to reserve to the system-reserved setting. system-reserved This setting identifies the resources to reserve for the node components and system components, such as CRI-O and Kubelet. The default settings depend on the OpenShift Container Platform and Machine Config Operator versions. Confirm the default systemReserved parameter on the machine-config-operator repository. If a flag is not set, the defaults are used. If none of the flags are set, the allocated resource is set to the node's capacity as it was before the introduction of allocatable resources. Note Any CPUs specifically reserved using the reservedSystemCPUs parameter are not available for allocation using kube-reserved or system-reserved . 6.9.1.1. How OpenShift Container Platform computes allocated resources An allocated amount of a resource is computed based on the following formula: Note The withholding of Hard-Eviction-Thresholds from Allocatable improves system reliability because the value for Allocatable is enforced for pods at the node level. If Allocatable is negative, it is set to 0 . Each node reports the system resources that are used by the container runtime and kubelet. To simplify configuring the system-reserved parameter, view the resource use for the node by using the node summary API. The node summary is available at /api/v1/nodes/<node>/proxy/stats/summary . 6.9.1.2. How nodes enforce resource constraints The node is able to limit the total amount of resources that pods can consume based on the configured allocatable value. This feature significantly improves the reliability of the node by preventing pods from using CPU and memory resources that are needed by system services such as the container runtime and node agent. To improve node reliability, administrators should reserve resources based on a target for resource use. The node enforces resource constraints by using a new cgroup hierarchy that enforces quality of service. All pods are launched in a dedicated cgroup hierarchy that is separate from system daemons. Administrators should treat system daemons similar to pods that have a guaranteed quality of service. System daemons can burst within their bounding control groups and this behavior must be managed as part of cluster deployments. Reserve CPU and memory resources for system daemons by specifying the amount of CPU and memory resources in system-reserved . Enforcing system-reserved limits can prevent critical system services from receiving CPU and memory resources. As a result, a critical system service can be ended by the out-of-memory killer. The recommendation is to enforce system-reserved only if you have profiled the nodes exhaustively to determine precise estimates and you are confident that critical system services can recover if any process in that group is ended by the out-of-memory killer. 6.9.1.3. Understanding Eviction Thresholds If a node is under memory pressure, it can impact the entire node and all pods running on the node. For example, a system daemon that uses more than its reserved amount of memory can trigger an out-of-memory event. To avoid or reduce the probability of system out-of-memory events, the node provides out-of-resource handling. You can reserve some memory using the --eviction-hard flag. The node attempts to evict pods whenever memory availability on the node drops below the absolute value or percentage. If system daemons do not exist on a node, pods are limited to the memory capacity - eviction-hard . For this reason, resources set aside as a buffer for eviction before reaching out of memory conditions are not available for pods. The following is an example to illustrate the impact of node allocatable for memory: Node capacity is 32Gi --system-reserved is 3Gi --eviction-hard is set to 100Mi . For this node, the effective node allocatable value is 28.9Gi . If the node and system components use all their reservation, the memory available for pods is 28.9Gi , and kubelet evicts pods when it exceeds this threshold. If you enforce node allocatable, 28.9Gi , with top-level cgroups, then pods can never exceed 28.9Gi . Evictions are not performed unless system daemons consume more than 3.1Gi of memory. If system daemons do not use up all their reservation, with the above example, pods would face memcg OOM kills from their bounding cgroup before node evictions kick in. To better enforce QoS under this situation, the node applies the hard eviction thresholds to the top-level cgroup for all pods to be Node Allocatable + Eviction Hard Thresholds . If system daemons do not use up all their reservation, the node will evict pods whenever they consume more than 28.9Gi of memory. If eviction does not occur in time, a pod will be OOM killed if pods consume 29Gi of memory. 6.9.1.4. How the scheduler determines resource availability The scheduler uses the value of node.Status.Allocatable instead of node.Status.Capacity to decide if a node will become a candidate for pod scheduling. By default, the node will report its machine capacity as fully schedulable by the cluster. 6.9.2. Automatically allocating resources for nodes OpenShift Container Platform can automatically determine the optimal system-reserved CPU and memory resources for nodes associated with a specific machine config pool and update the nodes with those values when the nodes start. By default, the system-reserved CPU is 500m and system-reserved memory is 1Gi . To automatically determine and allocate the system-reserved resources on nodes, create a KubeletConfig custom resource (CR) to set the autoSizingReserved: true parameter. A script on each node calculates the optimal values for the respective reserved resources based on the installed CPU and memory capacity on each node. The script takes into account that increased capacity requires a corresponding increase in the reserved resources. Automatically determining the optimal system-reserved settings ensures that your cluster is running efficiently and prevents node failure due to resource starvation of system components, such as CRI-O and kubelet, without your needing to manually calculate and update the values. This feature is disabled by default. Prerequisites Obtain the label associated with the static MachineConfigPool object for the type of node you want to configure by entering the following command: USD oc edit machineconfigpool <name> For example: USD oc edit machineconfigpool worker Example output apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 kind: MachineConfigPool metadata: creationTimestamp: "2022-11-16T15:34:25Z" generation: 4 labels: pools.operator.machineconfiguration.openshift.io/worker: "" 1 name: worker #... 1 The label appears under Labels . Tip If an appropriate label is not present, add a key/value pair such as: Procedure Create a custom resource (CR) for your configuration change: Sample configuration for a resource allocation CR apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 kind: KubeletConfig metadata: name: dynamic-node 1 spec: autoSizingReserved: true 2 machineConfigPoolSelector: matchLabels: pools.operator.machineconfiguration.openshift.io/worker: "" 3 #... 1 Assign a name to CR. 2 Add the autoSizingReserved parameter set to true to allow OpenShift Container Platform to automatically determine and allocate the system-reserved resources on the nodes associated with the specified label. To disable automatic allocation on those nodes, set this parameter to false . 3 Specify the label from the machine config pool that you configured in the "Prerequisites" section. You can choose any desired labels for the machine config pool, such as custom-kubelet: small-pods , or the default label, pools.operator.machineconfiguration.openshift.io/worker: "" . The example enables automatic resource allocation on all worker nodes. OpenShift Container Platform drains the nodes, applies the kubelet config, and restarts the nodes. Create the CR by entering the following command: USD oc create -f <file_name>.yaml Verification Log in to a node you configured by entering the following command: USD oc debug node/<node_name> Set /host as the root directory within the debug shell: # chroot /host View the /etc/node-sizing.env file: Example output SYSTEM_RESERVED_MEMORY=3Gi SYSTEM_RESERVED_CPU=0.08 The kubelet uses the system-reserved values in the /etc/node-sizing.env file. In the example, the worker nodes are allocated 0.08 CPU and 3 Gi of memory. It can take several minutes for the optimal values to appear. 6.9.3. Manually allocating resources for nodes OpenShift Container Platform supports the CPU and memory resource types for allocation. The ephemeral-resource resource type is also supported. For the cpu type, you specify the resource quantity in units of cores, such as 200m , 0.5 , or 1 . For memory and ephemeral-storage , you specify the resource quantity in units of bytes, such as 200Ki , 50Mi , or 5Gi . By default, the system-reserved CPU is 500m and system-reserved memory is 1Gi . As an administrator, you can set these values by using a kubelet config custom resource (CR) through a set of <resource_type>=<resource_quantity> pairs (e.g., cpu=200m,memory=512Mi ). Important You must use a kubelet config CR to manually set resource values. You cannot use a machine config CR. For details on the recommended system-reserved values, refer to the recommended system-reserved values . Prerequisites Obtain the label associated with the static MachineConfigPool CRD for the type of node you want to configure by entering the following command: USD oc edit machineconfigpool <name> For example: USD oc edit machineconfigpool worker Example output apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 kind: MachineConfigPool metadata: creationTimestamp: "2022-11-16T15:34:25Z" generation: 4 labels: pools.operator.machineconfiguration.openshift.io/worker: "" 1 name: worker #... 1 The label appears under Labels. Tip If the label is not present, add a key/value pair such as: Procedure Create a custom resource (CR) for your configuration change. Sample configuration for a resource allocation CR apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 kind: KubeletConfig metadata: name: set-allocatable 1 spec: machineConfigPoolSelector: matchLabels: pools.operator.machineconfiguration.openshift.io/worker: "" 2 kubeletConfig: systemReserved: 3 cpu: 1000m memory: 1Gi #... 1 Assign a name to CR. 2 Specify the label from the machine config pool. 3 Specify the resources to reserve for the node components and system components. Run the following command to create the CR: USD oc create -f <file_name>.yaml 6.10. Allocating specific CPUs for nodes in a cluster When using the static CPU Manager policy , you can reserve specific CPUs for use by specific nodes in your cluster. For example, on a system with 24 CPUs, you could reserve CPUs numbered 0 - 3 for the control plane allowing the compute nodes to use CPUs 4 - 23. 6.10.1. Reserving CPUs for nodes To explicitly define a list of CPUs that are reserved for specific nodes, create a KubeletConfig custom resource (CR) to define the reservedSystemCPUs parameter. This list supersedes the CPUs that might be reserved using the systemReserved parameter. Procedure Obtain the label associated with the machine config pool (MCP) for the type of node you want to configure: USD oc describe machineconfigpool <name> For example: USD oc describe machineconfigpool worker Example output Name: worker Namespace: Labels: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/mco-built-in= pools.operator.machineconfiguration.openshift.io/worker= 1 Annotations: <none> API Version: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 Kind: MachineConfigPool #... 1 Get the MCP label. Create a YAML file for the KubeletConfig CR: apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 kind: KubeletConfig metadata: name: set-reserved-cpus 1 spec: kubeletConfig: reservedSystemCPUs: "0,1,2,3" 2 machineConfigPoolSelector: matchLabels: pools.operator.machineconfiguration.openshift.io/worker: "" 3 #... 1 Specify a name for the CR. 2 Specify the core IDs of the CPUs you want to reserve for the nodes associated with the MCP. 3 Specify the label from the MCP. Create the CR object: USD oc create -f <file_name>.yaml Additional resources For more information on the systemReserved parameter, see Allocating resources for nodes in an OpenShift Container Platform cluster . 6.11. Enabling TLS security profiles for the kubelet You can use a TLS (Transport Layer Security) security profile to define which TLS ciphers are required by the kubelet when it is acting as an HTTP server. The kubelet uses its HTTP/GRPC server to communicate with the Kubernetes API server, which sends commands to pods, gathers logs, and run exec commands on pods through the kubelet. A TLS security profile defines the TLS ciphers that the Kubernetes API server must use when connecting with the kubelet to protect communication between the kubelet and the Kubernetes API server. Note By default, when the kubelet acts as a client with the Kubernetes API server, it automatically negotiates the TLS parameters with the API server. 6.11.1. Understanding TLS security profiles You can use a TLS (Transport Layer Security) security profile to define which TLS ciphers are required by various OpenShift Container Platform components. The OpenShift Container Platform TLS security profiles are based on Mozilla recommended configurations . You can specify one of the following TLS security profiles for each component: Table 6.4. TLS security profiles Profile Description Old This profile is intended for use with legacy clients or libraries. The profile is based on the Old backward compatibility recommended configuration. The Old profile requires a minimum TLS version of 1.0. Note For the Ingress Controller, the minimum TLS version is converted from 1.0 to 1.1. Intermediate This profile is the recommended configuration for the majority of clients. It is the default TLS security profile for the Ingress Controller, kubelet, and control plane. The profile is based on the Intermediate compatibility recommended configuration. The Intermediate profile requires a minimum TLS version of 1.2. Modern This profile is intended for use with modern clients that have no need for backwards compatibility. This profile is based on the Modern compatibility recommended configuration. The Modern profile requires a minimum TLS version of 1.3. Custom This profile allows you to define the TLS version and ciphers to use. Warning Use caution when using a Custom profile, because invalid configurations can cause problems. Note When using one of the predefined profile types, the effective profile configuration is subject to change between releases. For example, given a specification to use the Intermediate profile deployed on release X.Y.Z, an upgrade to release X.Y.Z+1 might cause a new profile configuration to be applied, resulting in a rollout. 6.11.2. Configuring the TLS security profile for the kubelet To configure a TLS security profile for the kubelet when it is acting as an HTTP server, create a KubeletConfig custom resource (CR) to specify a predefined or custom TLS security profile for specific nodes. If a TLS security profile is not configured, the default TLS security profile is Intermediate . Sample KubeletConfig CR that configures the Old TLS security profile on worker nodes apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 kind: KubeletConfig # ... spec: tlsSecurityProfile: old: {} type: Old machineConfigPoolSelector: matchLabels: pools.operator.machineconfiguration.openshift.io/worker: "" # ... You can see the ciphers and the minimum TLS version of the configured TLS security profile in the kubelet.conf file on a configured node. Prerequisites You are logged in to OpenShift Container Platform as a user with the cluster-admin role. Procedure Create a KubeletConfig CR to configure the TLS security profile: Sample KubeletConfig CR for a Custom profile apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 kind: KubeletConfig metadata: name: set-kubelet-tls-security-profile spec: tlsSecurityProfile: type: Custom 1 custom: 2 ciphers: 3 - ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 - ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 - ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 - ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 minTLSVersion: VersionTLS11 machineConfigPoolSelector: matchLabels: pools.operator.machineconfiguration.openshift.io/worker: "" 4 #... 1 Specify the TLS security profile type ( Old , Intermediate , or Custom ). The default is Intermediate . 2 Specify the appropriate field for the selected type: old: {} intermediate: {} custom: 3 For the custom type, specify a list of TLS ciphers and minimum accepted TLS version. 4 Optional: Specify the machine config pool label for the nodes you want to apply the TLS security profile. Create the KubeletConfig object: USD oc create -f <filename> Depending on the number of worker nodes in the cluster, wait for the configured nodes to be rebooted one by one. Verification To verify that the profile is set, perform the following steps after the nodes are in the Ready state: Start a debug session for a configured node: USD oc debug node/<node_name> Set /host as the root directory within the debug shell: sh-4.4# chroot /host View the kubelet.conf file: sh-4.4# cat /etc/kubernetes/kubelet.conf Example output "kind": "KubeletConfiguration", "apiVersion": "kubelet.config.k8s.io/v1beta1", #... "tlsCipherSuites": [ "TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256", "TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256", "TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384", "TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384", "TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256", "TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256" ], "tlsMinVersion": "VersionTLS12", #... 6.12. Machine Config Daemon metrics The Machine Config Daemon is a part of the Machine Config Operator. It runs on every node in the cluster. The Machine Config Daemon manages configuration changes and updates on each of the nodes. 6.12.1. Machine Config Daemon metrics Beginning with OpenShift Container Platform 4.3, the Machine Config Daemon provides a set of metrics. These metrics can be accessed using the Prometheus Cluster Monitoring stack. The following table describes this set of metrics. Some entries contain commands for getting specific logs. However, the most comprehensive set of logs is available using the oc adm must-gather command. Note Metrics marked with * in the Name and Description columns represent serious errors that might cause performance problems. Such problems might prevent updates and upgrades from proceeding. Table 6.5. MCO metrics Name Format Description Notes mcd_host_os_and_version []string{"os", "version"} Shows the OS that MCD is running on, such as RHCOS or RHEL. In case of RHCOS, the version is provided. mcd_drain_err* Logs errors received during failed drain. * While drains might need multiple tries to succeed, terminal failed drains prevent updates from proceeding. The drain_time metric, which shows how much time the drain took, might help with troubleshooting. For further investigation, see the logs by running: USD oc logs -f -n openshift-machine-config-operator machine-config-daemon-<hash> -c machine-config-daemon mcd_pivot_err* []string{"err", "node", "pivot_target"} Logs errors encountered during pivot. * Pivot errors might prevent OS upgrades from proceeding. For further investigation, run this command to see the logs from the machine-config-daemon container: USD oc logs -f -n openshift-machine-config-operator machine-config-daemon-<hash> -c machine-config-daemon mcd_state []string{"state", "reason"} State of Machine Config Daemon for the indicated node. Possible states are "Done", "Working", and "Degraded". In case of "Degraded", the reason is included. For further investigation, see the logs by running: USD oc logs -f -n openshift-machine-config-operator machine-config-daemon-<hash> -c machine-config-daemon mcd_kubelet_state* Logs kubelet health failures. * This is expected to be empty, with failure count of 0. If failure count exceeds 2, the error indicating threshold is exceeded. This indicates a possible issue with the health of the kubelet. For further investigation, run this command to access the node and see all its logs: USD oc debug node/<node> - chroot /host journalctl -u kubelet mcd_reboot_err* []string{"message", "err", "node"} Logs the failed reboots and the corresponding errors. * This is expected to be empty, which indicates a successful reboot. For further investigation, see the logs by running: USD oc logs -f -n openshift-machine-config-operator machine-config-daemon-<hash> -c machine-config-daemon mcd_update_state []string{"config", "err"} Logs success or failure of configuration updates and the corresponding errors. The expected value is rendered-master/rendered-worker-XXXX . If the update fails, an error is present. For further investigation, see the logs by running: USD oc logs -f -n openshift-machine-config-operator machine-config-daemon-<hash> -c machine-config-daemon Additional resources About OpenShift Container Platform monitoring Gathering data about your cluster 6.13. Creating infrastructure nodes Important You can use the advanced machine management and scaling capabilities only in clusters where the Machine API is operational. Clusters with user-provisioned infrastructure require additional validation and configuration to use the Machine API. Clusters with the infrastructure platform type none cannot use the Machine API. This limitation applies even if the compute machines that are attached to the cluster are installed on a platform that supports the feature. This parameter cannot be changed after installation. To view the platform type for your cluster, run the following command: USD oc get infrastructure cluster -o jsonpath='{.status.platform}' You can use infrastructure machine sets to create machines that host only infrastructure components, such as the default router, the integrated container image registry, and the components for cluster metrics and monitoring. These infrastructure machines are not counted toward the total number of subscriptions that are required to run the environment. In a production deployment, it is recommended that you deploy at least three machine sets to hold infrastructure components. Both OpenShift Logging and Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh deploy Elasticsearch, which requires three instances to be installed on different nodes. Each of these nodes can be deployed to different availability zones for high availability. This configuration requires three different machine sets, one for each availability zone. In global Azure regions that do not have multiple availability zones, you can use availability sets to ensure high availability. Note After adding the NoSchedule taint on the infrastructure node, existing DNS pods running on that node are marked as misscheduled . You must either delete or add toleration on misscheduled DNS pods . 6.13.1. OpenShift Container Platform infrastructure components Each self-managed Red Hat OpenShift subscription includes entitlements for OpenShift Container Platform and other OpenShift-related components. These entitlements are included for running OpenShift Container Platform control plane and infrastructure workloads and do not need to be accounted for during sizing. To qualify as an infrastructure node and use the included entitlement, only components that are supporting the cluster, and not part of an end-user application, can run on those instances. Examples include the following components: Kubernetes and OpenShift Container Platform control plane services The default router The integrated container image registry The HAProxy-based Ingress Controller The cluster metrics collection, or monitoring service, including components for monitoring user-defined projects Cluster aggregated logging Red Hat Quay Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes Red Hat OpenShift GitOps Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh Any node that runs any other container, pod, or component is a worker node that your subscription must cover. For information about infrastructure nodes and which components can run on infrastructure nodes, see the "Red Hat OpenShift control plane and infrastructure nodes" section in the OpenShift sizing and subscription guide for enterprise Kubernetes document. To create an infrastructure node, you can use a machine set , label the node , or use a machine config pool . 6.13.1.1. Creating an infrastructure node Important See Creating infrastructure machine sets for installer-provisioned infrastructure environments or for any cluster where the control plane nodes are managed by the machine API. Requirements of the cluster dictate that infrastructure, also called infra nodes, be provisioned. The installer only provides provisions for control plane and worker nodes. Worker nodes can be designated as infrastructure nodes or application, also called app , nodes through labeling. Procedure Add a label to the worker node that you want to act as application node: USD oc label node <node-name> node-role.kubernetes.io/app="" Add a label to the worker nodes that you want to act as infrastructure nodes: USD oc label node <node-name> node-role.kubernetes.io/infra="" Check to see if applicable nodes now have the infra role and app roles: USD oc get nodes Create a default cluster-wide node selector. The default node selector is applied to pods created in all namespaces. This creates an intersection with any existing node selectors on a pod, which additionally constrains the pod's selector. Important If the default node selector key conflicts with the key of a pod's label, then the default node selector is not applied. However, do not set a default node selector that might cause a pod to become unschedulable. For example, setting the default node selector to a specific node role, such as node-role.kubernetes.io/infra="" , when a pod's label is set to a different node role, such as node-role.kubernetes.io/master="" , can cause the pod to become unschedulable. For this reason, use caution when setting the default node selector to specific node roles. You can alternatively use a project node selector to avoid cluster-wide node selector key conflicts. Edit the Scheduler object: USD oc edit scheduler cluster Add the defaultNodeSelector field with the appropriate node selector: apiVersion: config.openshift.io/v1 kind: Scheduler metadata: name: cluster spec: defaultNodeSelector: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra="" 1 # ... 1 This example node selector deploys pods on infrastructure nodes by default. Save the file to apply the changes. You can now move infrastructure resources to the newly labeled infra nodes. Additional resources Moving resources to infrastructure machine sets

Commands:
oc get nodes
oc get nodes
NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION master.example.com Ready master 7h v1.27.3 node1.example.com Ready worker 7h v1.27.3 node2.example.com Ready worker 7h v1.27.3
oc get nodes
NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION master.example.com Ready master 7h v1.27.3 node1.example.com NotReady,SchedulingDisabled worker 7h v1.27.3 node2.example.com Ready worker 7h v1.27.3
oc get nodes -o wide
NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION INTERNAL-IP EXTERNAL-IP OS-IMAGE KERNEL-VERSION CONTAINER-RUNTIME master.example.com Ready master 171m v1.27.3 10.0.129.108 <none> Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 48.83.202103210901-0 (Ootpa) 4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64 cri-o://1.27.3-30.rhaos4.10.gitf2f339d.el8-dev node1.example.com Ready worker 72m v1.27.3 10.0.129.222 <none> Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 48.83.202103210901-0 (Ootpa) 4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64 cri-o://1.27.3-30.rhaos4.10.gitf2f339d.el8-dev node2.example.com Ready worker 164m v1.27.3 10.0.142.150 <none> Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 48.83.202103210901-0 (Ootpa) 4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64 cri-o://1.27.3-30.rhaos4.10.gitf2f339d.el8-dev
oc get node <node>
oc get node node1.example.com
NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION node1.example.com Ready worker 7h v1.27.3
oc describe node <node>
oc describe node node1.example.com
Name: node1.example.com 1 Roles: worker 2 Labels: kubernetes.io/os=linux kubernetes.io/hostname=ip-10-0-131-14 kubernetes.io/arch=amd64 3 node-role.kubernetes.io/worker= node.kubernetes.io/instance-type=m4.large node.openshift.io/os_id=rhcos node.openshift.io/os_version=4.5 region=east topology.kubernetes.io/region=us-east-1 topology.kubernetes.io/zone=us-east-1a Annotations: cluster.k8s.io/machine: openshift-machine-api/ahardin-worker-us-east-2a-q5dzc 4 machineconfiguration.openshift.io/currentConfig: worker-309c228e8b3a92e2235edd544c62fea8 machineconfiguration.openshift.io/desiredConfig: worker-309c228e8b3a92e2235edd544c62fea8 machineconfiguration.openshift.io/state: Done volumes.kubernetes.io/controller-managed-attach-detach: true CreationTimestamp: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 11:05:57 -0500 Taints: <none> 5 Unschedulable: false Conditions: 6 Type Status LastHeartbeatTime LastTransitionTime Reason Message ---- ------ ----------------- ------------------ ------ ------- OutOfDisk False Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:09:42 -0500 Wed, 13 Feb 2019 11:05:57 -0500 KubeletHasSufficientDisk kubelet has sufficient disk space available MemoryPressure False Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:09:42 -0500 Wed, 13 Feb 2019 11:05:57 -0500 KubeletHasSufficientMemory kubelet has sufficient memory available DiskPressure False Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:09:42 -0500 Wed, 13 Feb 2019 11:05:57 -0500 KubeletHasNoDiskPressure kubelet has no disk pressure PIDPressure False Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:09:42 -0500 Wed, 13 Feb 2019 11:05:57 -0500 KubeletHasSufficientPID kubelet has sufficient PID available Ready True Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:09:42 -0500 Wed, 13 Feb 2019 11:07:09 -0500 KubeletReady kubelet is posting ready status Addresses: 7 InternalIP: 10.0.140.16 InternalDNS: ip-10-0-140-16.us-east-2.compute.internal Hostname: ip-10-0-140-16.us-east-2.compute.internal Capacity: 8 attachable-volumes-aws-ebs: 39 cpu: 2 hugepages-1Gi: 0 hugepages-2Mi: 0 memory: 8172516Ki pods: 250 Allocatable: attachable-volumes-aws-ebs: 39 cpu: 1500m hugepages-1Gi: 0 hugepages-2Mi: 0 memory: 7558116Ki pods: 250 System Info: 9 Machine ID: 63787c9534c24fde9a0cde35c13f1f66 System UUID: EC22BF97-A006-4A58-6AF8-0A38DEEA122A Boot ID: f24ad37d-2594-46b4-8830-7f7555918325 Kernel Version: 3.10.0-957.5.1.el7.x86_64 OS Image: Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 410.8.20190520.0 (Ootpa) Operating System: linux Architecture: amd64 Container Runtime Version: cri-o://1.27.3-0.6.dev.rhaos4.3.git9ad059b.el8-rc2 Kubelet Version: v1.27.3 Kube-Proxy Version: v1.27.3 PodCIDR: 10.128.4.0/24 ProviderID: aws:///us-east-2a/i-04e87b31dc6b3e171 Non-terminated Pods: (12 in total) 10 Namespace Name CPU Requests CPU Limits Memory Requests Memory Limits --------- ---- ------------ ---------- --------------- ------------- openshift-cluster-node-tuning-operator tuned-hdl5q 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) openshift-dns dns-default-l69zr 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) openshift-image-registry node-ca-9hmcg 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) openshift-ingress router-default-76455c45c-c5ptv 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) openshift-machine-config-operator machine-config-daemon-cvqw9 20m (1%) 0 (0%) 50Mi (0%) 0 (0%) openshift-marketplace community-operators-f67fh 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) openshift-monitoring alertmanager-main-0 50m (3%) 50m (3%) 210Mi (2%) 10Mi (0%) openshift-monitoring node-exporter-l7q8d 10m (0%) 20m (1%) 20Mi (0%) 40Mi (0%) openshift-monitoring prometheus-adapter-75d769c874-hvb85 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) openshift-multus multus-kw8w5 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) openshift-sdn ovs-t4dsn 100m (6%) 0 (0%) 300Mi (4%) 0 (0%) openshift-sdn sdn-g79hg 100m (6%) 0 (0%) 200Mi (2%) 0 (0%) Allocated resources: (Total limits may be over 100 percent, i.e., overcommitted.) Resource Requests Limits -------- -------- ------ cpu 380m (25%) 270m (18%) memory 880Mi (11%) 250Mi (3%) attachable-volumes-aws-ebs 0 0 Events: 11 Type Reason Age From Message ---- ------ ---- ---- ------- Normal NodeHasSufficientPID 6d (x5 over 6d) kubelet, m01.example.com Node m01.example.com status is now: NodeHasSufficientPID Normal NodeAllocatableEnforced 6d kubelet, m01.example.com Updated Node Allocatable limit across pods Normal NodeHasSufficientMemory 6d (x6 over 6d) kubelet, m01.example.com Node m01.example.com status is now: NodeHasSufficientMemory Normal NodeHasNoDiskPressure 6d (x6 over 6d) kubelet, m01.example.com Node m01.example.com status is now: NodeHasNoDiskPressure Normal NodeHasSufficientDisk 6d (x6 over 6d) kubelet, m01.example.com Node m01.example.com status is now: NodeHasSufficientDisk Normal NodeHasSufficientPID 6d kubelet, m01.example.com Node m01.example.com status is now: NodeHasSufficientPID Normal Starting 6d kubelet, m01.example.com Starting kubelet. #
oc get pod --selector=<nodeSelector>
oc get pod --selector=kubernetes.io/os
oc get pod -l=<nodeSelector>
oc get pod -l kubernetes.io/os=linux
oc get pod --all-namespaces --field-selector=spec.nodeName=<nodename>
oc adm top nodes
NAME CPU(cores) CPU% MEMORY(bytes) MEMORY% ip-10-0-12-143.ec2.compute.internal 1503m 100% 4533Mi 61% ip-10-0-132-16.ec2.compute.internal 76m 5% 1391Mi 18% ip-10-0-140-137.ec2.compute.internal 398m 26% 2473Mi 33% ip-10-0-142-44.ec2.compute.internal 656m 43% 6119Mi 82% ip-10-0-146-165.ec2.compute.internal 188m 12% 3367Mi 45% ip-10-0-19-62.ec2.compute.internal 896m 59% 5754Mi 77% ip-10-0-44-193.ec2.compute.internal 632m 42% 5349Mi 72%
oc adm top node --selector=''
oc adm cordon <node1>
node/<node1> cordoned
oc get node <node1>
NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION <node1> Ready,SchedulingDisabled worker 1d v1.27.3
oc adm drain <node1> <node2> [--pod-selector=<pod_selector>]
oc adm drain <node1> <node2> --force=true
oc adm drain <node1> <node2> --grace-period=-1
oc adm drain <node1> <node2> --ignore-daemonsets=true
oc adm drain <node1> <node2> --timeout=5s
oc adm drain <node1> <node2> --delete-emptydir-data=true
oc adm drain <node1> <node2> --dry-run=true
oc adm uncordon <node1>
oc label node <node> <key_1>=<value_1> ... <key_n>=<value_n>
oc label nodes webconsole-7f7f6 unhealthy=true
kind: Node apiVersion: v1 metadata: name: webconsole-7f7f6 labels: unhealthy: 'true' #
oc label pods --all <key_1>=<value_1>
oc label pods --all status=unhealthy
oc adm cordon <node>
oc adm cordon node1.example.com
node/node1.example.com cordoned NAME LABELS STATUS node1.example.com kubernetes.io/hostname=node1.example.com Ready,SchedulingDisabled
oc adm uncordon <node1>
oc delete pods --field-selector status.phase=Failed -n <POD_NAMESPACE>
oc get machinesets -n openshift-machine-api
oc scale --replicas=2 machineset <machine-set-name> -n openshift-machine-api
oc edit machineset <machine-set-name> -n openshift-machine-api
apiVersion: machine.openshift.io/v1beta1 kind: MachineSet metadata: # name: <machine-set-name> namespace: openshift-machine-api # spec: replicas: 2 1 #
oc adm cordon <node_name>
oc adm drain <node_name> --force=true
oc delete node <node_name>
oc get machineconfigpool --show-labels
NAME CONFIG UPDATED UPDATING DEGRADED LABELS master rendered-master-e05b81f5ca4db1d249a1bf32f9ec24fd True False False operator.machineconfiguration.openshift.io/required-for-upgrade= worker rendered-worker-f50e78e1bc06d8e82327763145bfcf62 True False False
oc label machineconfigpool worker custom-kubelet=enabled
apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 kind: KubeletConfig metadata: name: custom-config 1 spec: machineConfigPoolSelector: matchLabels: custom-kubelet: enabled 2 kubeletConfig: 3 podsPerCore: 10 maxPods: 250 systemReserved: cpu: 2000m memory: 1Gi #
oc create -f <file-name>
oc create -f master-kube-config.yaml
oc edit schedulers.config.openshift.io cluster
apiVersion: config.openshift.io/v1 kind: Scheduler metadata: creationTimestamp: "2019-09-10T03:04:05Z" generation: 1 name: cluster resourceVersion: "433" selfLink: /apis/config.openshift.io/v1/schedulers/cluster uid: a636d30a-d377-11e9-88d4-0a60097bee62 spec: mastersSchedulable: false 1 status: {} #
apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 kind: MachineConfig metadata: labels: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/role: worker name: 99-worker-setsebool spec: config: ignition: version: 3.2.0 systemd: units: - contents: | [Unit] Description=Set SELinux booleans Before=kubelet.service [Service] Type=oneshot ExecStart=/sbin/setsebool container_manage_cgroup=on RemainAfterExit=true [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target graphical.target enabled: true name: setsebool.service #
oc create -f 99-worker-setsebool.yaml
oc get MachineConfig
NAME GENERATEDBYCONTROLLER IGNITIONVERSION AGE 00-master 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m 00-worker 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m 01-master-container-runtime 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m 01-master-kubelet 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m 01-worker-container-runtime 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m 01-worker-kubelet 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m 99-master-generated-registries 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m 99-master-ssh 3.2.0 40m 99-worker-generated-registries 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m 99-worker-ssh 3.2.0 40m rendered-master-23e785de7587df95a4b517e0647e5ab7 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m rendered-worker-5d596d9293ca3ea80c896a1191735bb1 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m
apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 kind: MachineConfig metadata: labels: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/role: worker 1 name: 05-worker-kernelarg-selinuxpermissive 2 spec: kernelArguments: - enforcing=0 3
oc create -f 05-worker-kernelarg-selinuxpermissive.yaml
oc get MachineConfig
NAME GENERATEDBYCONTROLLER IGNITIONVERSION AGE 00-master 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m 00-worker 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m 01-master-container-runtime 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m 01-master-kubelet 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m 01-worker-container-runtime 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m 01-worker-kubelet 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m 05-worker-kernelarg-selinuxpermissive 3.2.0 105s 99-master-generated-registries 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m 99-master-ssh 3.2.0 40m 99-worker-generated-registries 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m 99-worker-ssh 3.2.0 40m rendered-master-23e785de7587df95a4b517e0647e5ab7 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m rendered-worker-5d596d9293ca3ea80c896a1191735bb1 52dd3ba6a9a527fc3ab42afac8d12b693534c8c9 3.2.0 33m
oc get nodes
NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION ip-10-0-136-161.ec2.internal Ready worker 28m v1.27.3 ip-10-0-136-243.ec2.internal Ready master 34m v1.27.3 ip-10-0-141-105.ec2.internal Ready,SchedulingDisabled worker 28m v1.27.3 ip-10-0-142-249.ec2.internal Ready master 34m v1.27.3 ip-10-0-153-11.ec2.internal Ready worker 28m v1.27.3 ip-10-0-153-150.ec2.internal Ready master 34m v1.27.3
oc debug node/ip-10-0-141-105.ec2.internal
Starting pod/ip-10-0-141-105ec2internal-debug To use host binaries, run `chroot /host` sh-4.2# cat /host/proc/cmdline BOOT_IMAGE=/ostree/rhcos-... console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8 rootflags=defaults,prjquota rw root=UUID=fd0... ostree=/ostree/boot.0/rhcos/16 coreos.oem.id=qemu coreos.oem.id=ec2 ignition.platform.id=ec2 enforcing=0 sh-4.2# exit
oc label machineconfigpool worker kubelet-swap=enabled
apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 kind: KubeletConfig metadata: name: swap-config spec: machineConfigPoolSelector: matchLabels: kubelet-swap: enabled kubeletConfig: failSwapOn: false 1 memorySwap: swapBehavior: LimitedSwap 2 #
#!/usr/bin/env bash set -Eeuo pipefail if [ USD# -lt 1 ]; then echo "Usage: 'USD0 node_name'" exit 64 fi Check for admin OpenStack credentials openstack server list --all-projects >/dev/null || { >&2 echo "The script needs OpenStack admin credentials. Exiting"; exit 77; } Check for admin OpenShift credentials adm top node >/dev/null || { >&2 echo "The script needs OpenShift admin credentials. Exiting"; exit 77; } set -x declare -r node_name="USD1" declare server_id server_id="USD(openstack server list --all-projects -f value -c ID -c Name | grep "USDnode_name" | cut -d' ' -f1)" readonly server_id Drain the node adm cordon "USDnode_name" adm drain "USDnode_name" --delete-emptydir-data --ignore-daemonsets --force Power off the server debug "node/USD{node_name}" -- chroot /host shutdown -h 1 Verify the server is shut off until openstack server show "USDserver_id" -f value -c status | grep -q 'SHUTOFF'; do sleep 5; done Migrate the node openstack server migrate --wait "USDserver_id" Resize the VM openstack server resize confirm "USDserver_id" Wait for the resize confirm to finish until openstack server show "USDserver_id" -f value -c status | grep -q 'SHUTOFF'; do sleep 5; done Restart the VM openstack server start "USDserver_id" Wait for the node to show up as Ready: until oc get node "USDnode_name" | grep -q "^USD{node_name}[[:space:]]\+Ready"; do sleep 5; done Uncordon the node adm uncordon "USDnode_name" Wait for cluster operators to stabilize until oc get co -o go-template='statuses: {{ range .items }}{{ range .status.conditions }}{{ if eq .type "Degraded" }}{{ if ne .status "False" }}DEGRADED{{ end }}{{ else if eq .type "Progressing"}}{{ if ne .status "False" }}PROGRESSING{{ end }}{{ else if eq .type "Available"}}{{ if ne .status "True" }}NOTAVAILABLE{{ end }}{{ end }}{{ end }}{{ end }}' | grep -qv '\(DEGRADED\|PROGRESSING\|NOTAVAILABLE\)'; do sleep 5; done
kubeletConfig: podsPerCore: 10
kubeletConfig: maxPods: 250
oc edit machineconfigpool <name>
oc edit machineconfigpool worker
apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 kind: MachineConfigPool metadata: creationTimestamp: "2022-11-16T15:34:25Z" generation: 4 labels: pools.operator.machineconfiguration.openshift.io/worker: "" 1 name: worker #
oc label machineconfigpool worker custom-kubelet=small-pods
apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 kind: KubeletConfig metadata: name: set-max-pods 1 spec: machineConfigPoolSelector: matchLabels: pools.operator.machineconfiguration.openshift.io/worker: "" 2 kubeletConfig: podsPerCore: 10 3 maxPods: 250 4 #
oc create -f <file_name>.yaml
oc get machineconfigpools
NAME CONFIG UPDATED UPDATING DEGRADED master master-9cc2c72f205e103bb534 False False False worker worker-8cecd1236b33ee3f8a5e False True False
oc get machineconfigpools
NAME CONFIG UPDATED UPDATING DEGRADED master master-9cc2c72f205e103bb534 False True False worker worker-8cecd1236b33ee3f8a5e True False False
get tuned.tuned.openshift.io/default -o yaml -n openshift-cluster-node-tuning-operator
profile: - name: tuned_profile_1 data: | # TuneD profile specification [main] summary=Description of tuned_profile_1 profile [sysctl] net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 # ... other sysctl's or other TuneD daemon plugins supported by the containerized TuneD - name: tuned_profile_n data: | # TuneD profile specification [main] summary=Description of tuned_profile_n profile # tuned_profile_n profile settings
recommend: <recommend-item-1> <recommend-item-n>
- machineConfigLabels: 1 <mcLabels> 2 match: 3 <match> 4 priority: <priority> 5 profile: <tuned_profile_name> 6 operand: 7 debug: <bool> 8 tunedConfig: reapply_sysctl: <bool> 9
- label: <label_name> 1 value: <label_value> 2 type: <label_type> 3 <match> 4
- match: - label: tuned.openshift.io/elasticsearch match: - label: node-role.kubernetes.io/master - label: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra type: pod priority: 10 profile: openshift-control-plane-es - match: - label: node-role.kubernetes.io/master - label: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra priority: 20 profile: openshift-control-plane - priority: 30 profile: openshift-node
apiVersion: tuned.openshift.io/v1 kind: Tuned metadata: name: openshift-node-custom namespace: openshift-cluster-node-tuning-operator spec: profile: - data: | [main] summary=Custom OpenShift node profile with an additional kernel parameter include=openshift-node [bootloader] cmdline_openshift_node_custom=+skew_tick=1 name: openshift-node-custom recommend: - machineConfigLabels: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/role: "worker-custom" priority: 20 profile: openshift-node-custom
apiVersion: tuned.openshift.io/v1 kind: Tuned metadata: name: provider-gce namespace: openshift-cluster-node-tuning-operator spec: profile: - data: | [main] summary=GCE Cloud provider-specific profile # Your tuning for GCE Cloud provider goes here. name: provider-gce
apiVersion: tuned.openshift.io/v1 kind: Tuned metadata: name: default namespace: openshift-cluster-node-tuning-operator spec: profile: - data: | [main] summary=Optimize systems running OpenShift (provider specific parent profile) include=-provider-USD{f:exec:cat:/var/lib/tuned/provider},openshift name: openshift recommend: - profile: openshift-control-plane priority: 30 match: - label: node-role.kubernetes.io/master - label: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra - profile: openshift-node priority: 40
oc exec USDtuned_pod -n openshift-cluster-node-tuning-operator -- find /usr/lib/tuned/openshift{,-control-plane,-node} -name tuned.conf -exec grep -H ^ {} \;
apiVersion: v1 kind: Pod metadata: name: with-pod-antiaffinity spec: affinity: podAntiAffinity: 1 preferredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution: 2 - weight: 100 3 podAffinityTerm: labelSelector: matchExpressions: - key: registry 4 operator: In 5 values: - default topologyKey: kubernetes.io/hostname #
oc adm cordon <node1>
oc adm drain <node1> --ignore-daemonsets --delete-emptydir-data --force
error when evicting pods/"rails-postgresql-example-1-72v2w" -n "rails" (will retry after 5s): Cannot evict pod as it would violate the pod's disruption budget.
oc adm drain <node1> --ignore-daemonsets --delete-emptydir-data --force --disable-eviction
oc debug node/<node1>
chroot /host
systemctl reboot
ssh core@<master-node>.<cluster_name>.<base_domain>
sudo systemctl reboot
oc adm uncordon <node1>
ssh core@<target_node>
sudo oc adm uncordon <node> --kubeconfig /etc/kubernetes/static-pod-resources/kube-apiserver-certs/secrets/node-kubeconfigs/localhost.kubeconfig
oc get node <node1>
NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION <node1> Ready worker 6d22h v1.18.3+b0068a8
oc edit machineconfigpool <name>
oc edit machineconfigpool worker
apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 kind: MachineConfigPool metadata: creationTimestamp: "2022-11-16T15:34:25Z" generation: 4 labels: pools.operator.machineconfiguration.openshift.io/worker: "" 1 name: worker #
oc label machineconfigpool worker custom-kubelet=small-pods
apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 kind: KubeletConfig metadata: name: worker-kubeconfig 1 spec: machineConfigPoolSelector: matchLabels: pools.operator.machineconfiguration.openshift.io/worker: "" 2 kubeletConfig: evictionSoft: 3 memory.available: "500Mi" 4 nodefs.available: "10%" nodefs.inodesFree: "5%" imagefs.available: "15%" imagefs.inodesFree: "10%" evictionSoftGracePeriod: 5 memory.available: "1m30s" nodefs.available: "1m30s" nodefs.inodesFree: "1m30s" imagefs.available: "1m30s" imagefs.inodesFree: "1m30s" evictionHard: 6 memory.available: "200Mi" nodefs.available: "5%" nodefs.inodesFree: "4%" imagefs.available: "10%" imagefs.inodesFree: "5%" evictionPressureTransitionPeriod: 3m 7 imageMinimumGCAge: 5m 8 imageGCHighThresholdPercent: 80 9 imageGCLowThresholdPercent: 75 10 #
oc create -f <file_name>.yaml
oc create -f gc-container.yaml
kubeletconfig.machineconfiguration.openshift.io/gc-container created
oc get machineconfigpool
NAME CONFIG UPDATED UPDATING master rendered-master-546383f80705bd5aeaba93 True False worker rendered-worker-b4c51bb33ccaae6fc4a6a5 False True
[Allocatable] = [Node Capacity] - [system-reserved] - [Hard-Eviction-Thresholds]
oc edit machineconfigpool <name>
oc edit machineconfigpool worker
apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 kind: MachineConfigPool metadata: creationTimestamp: "2022-11-16T15:34:25Z" generation: 4 labels: pools.operator.machineconfiguration.openshift.io/worker: "" 1 name: worker #
oc label machineconfigpool worker custom-kubelet=small-pods
apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 kind: KubeletConfig metadata: name: dynamic-node 1 spec: autoSizingReserved: true 2 machineConfigPoolSelector: matchLabels: pools.operator.machineconfiguration.openshift.io/worker: "" 3 #
oc create -f <file_name>.yaml
oc debug node/<node_name>
chroot /host
SYSTEM_RESERVED_MEMORY=3Gi SYSTEM_RESERVED_CPU=0.08
oc edit machineconfigpool <name>
oc edit machineconfigpool worker
apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 kind: MachineConfigPool metadata: creationTimestamp: "2022-11-16T15:34:25Z" generation: 4 labels: pools.operator.machineconfiguration.openshift.io/worker: "" 1 name: worker #
oc label machineconfigpool worker custom-kubelet=small-pods
apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 kind: KubeletConfig metadata: name: set-allocatable 1 spec: machineConfigPoolSelector: matchLabels: pools.operator.machineconfiguration.openshift.io/worker: "" 2 kubeletConfig: systemReserved: 3 cpu: 1000m memory: 1Gi #
oc create -f <file_name>.yaml
oc describe machineconfigpool <name>
oc describe machineconfigpool worker
Name: worker Namespace: Labels: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/mco-built-in= pools.operator.machineconfiguration.openshift.io/worker= 1 Annotations: <none> API Version: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 Kind: MachineConfigPool #
apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 kind: KubeletConfig metadata: name: set-reserved-cpus 1 spec: kubeletConfig: reservedSystemCPUs: "0,1,2,3" 2 machineConfigPoolSelector: matchLabels: pools.operator.machineconfiguration.openshift.io/worker: "" 3 #
oc create -f <file_name>.yaml
apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 kind: KubeletConfig spec: tlsSecurityProfile: old: {} type: Old machineConfigPoolSelector: matchLabels: pools.operator.machineconfiguration.openshift.io/worker: ""
apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 kind: KubeletConfig metadata: name: set-kubelet-tls-security-profile spec: tlsSecurityProfile: type: Custom 1 custom: 2 ciphers: 3 - ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 - ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 - ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 - ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 minTLSVersion: VersionTLS11 machineConfigPoolSelector: matchLabels: pools.operator.machineconfiguration.openshift.io/worker: "" 4 #
oc create -f <filename>
oc debug node/<node_name>
sh-4.4# chroot /host
sh-4.4# cat /etc/kubernetes/kubelet.conf
"kind": "KubeletConfiguration", "apiVersion": "kubelet.config.k8s.io/v1beta1", # "tlsCipherSuites": [ "TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256", "TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256", "TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384", "TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384", "TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256", "TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256" ], "tlsMinVersion": "VersionTLS12", #
oc get infrastructure cluster -o jsonpath='{.status.platform}'
oc label node <node-name> node-role.kubernetes.io/app=""
oc label node <node-name> node-role.kubernetes.io/infra=""
oc get nodes
oc edit scheduler cluster
apiVersion: config.openshift.io/v1 kind: Scheduler metadata: name: cluster spec: defaultNodeSelector: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra="" 1