Chapter 4. Configuring Ansible automation controller on OpenShift Container Platform During a Kubernetes upgrade, automation controller must be running. 4.1. Minimizing downtime during OpenShift Container Platform upgrade Make the following configuration changes in automation controller to minimize downtime during the upgrade. Prerequisites Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Ansible automation controller 4.4 OpenShift Container Platform > 4.10.42 > 4.11.16 > 4.12.0 High availability (HA) deployment of Postgres Multiple worker node that automation controller pods can be scheduled on Procedure Enable RECEPTOR_KUBE_SUPPORT_RECONNECT in AutomationController specification: apiVersion: automationcontroller.ansible.com/v1beta1 kind: AutomationController metadata: ... spec: ... ee_extra_env: | - name: RECEPTOR_KUBE_SUPPORT_RECONNECT value: enabled ``` Enable the graceful termination feature in AutomationController specification: termination_grace_period_seconds: <time to wait for job to finish> Configure podAntiAffinity for web and task pod to spread out the deployment in AutomationController specification: task_affinity: podAntiAffinity: preferredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution: - podAffinityTerm: labelSelector: matchExpressions: - key: app.kubernetes.io/name operator: In values: - awx-task topologyKey: topology.kubernetes.io/zone weight: 100 web_affinity: podAntiAffinity: preferredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution: - podAffinityTerm: labelSelector: matchExpressions: - key: app.kubernetes.io/name operator: In values: - awx-web topologyKey: topology.kubernetes.io/zone weight: 100 Configure PodDisruptionBudget in OpenShift Container Platform: --- apiVersion: policy/v1 kind: PodDisruptionBudget metadata: name: automationcontroller-job-pods spec: maxUnavailable: 0 selector: matchExpressions: - key: ansible-awx-job-id operator: Exists --- apiVersion: policy/v1 kind: PodDisruptionBudget metadata: name: automationcontroller-web-pods spec: minAvailable: 1 selector: matchExpressions: - key: app.kubernetes.io/name operator: In values: - <automationcontroller_instance_name>-web --- apiVersion: policy/v1 kind: PodDisruptionBudget metadata: name: automationcontroller-task-pods spec: minAvailable: 1 selector: matchExpressions: - key: app.kubernetes.io/name operator: In values: - <automationcontroller_instance_name>-task

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apiVersion: automationcontroller.ansible.com/v1beta1 kind: AutomationController metadata: spec: ee_extra_env: | - name: RECEPTOR_KUBE_SUPPORT_RECONNECT value: enabled ```
termination_grace_period_seconds: <time to wait for job to finish>
task_affinity: podAntiAffinity: preferredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution: - podAffinityTerm: labelSelector: matchExpressions: - key: app.kubernetes.io/name operator: In values: - awx-task topologyKey: topology.kubernetes.io/zone weight: 100 web_affinity: podAntiAffinity: preferredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution: - podAffinityTerm: labelSelector: matchExpressions: - key: app.kubernetes.io/name operator: In values: - awx-web topologyKey: topology.kubernetes.io/zone weight: 100
--- apiVersion: policy/v1 kind: PodDisruptionBudget metadata: name: automationcontroller-job-pods spec: maxUnavailable: 0 selector: matchExpressions: - key: ansible-awx-job-id operator: Exists --- apiVersion: policy/v1 kind: PodDisruptionBudget metadata: name: automationcontroller-web-pods spec: minAvailable: 1 selector: matchExpressions: - key: app.kubernetes.io/name operator: In values: - <automationcontroller_instance_name>-web --- apiVersion: policy/v1 kind: PodDisruptionBudget metadata: name: automationcontroller-task-pods spec: minAvailable: 1 selector: matchExpressions: - key: app.kubernetes.io/name operator: In values: - <automationcontroller_instance_name>-task