Chapter 21. Using Daemonsets
21.1. Overview
A daemonset can be used to run replicas of a pod on specific or all nodes in an OpenShift Container Platform cluster.
Use daemonsets to create shared storage, run a logging pod on every node in your cluster, or deploy a monitoring agent on every node.
For more information on daemonsets, see the Kubernetes documentation.
Daemonset scheduling is incompatible with project’s default node selector. If you fail to disable it, the daemonset gets restricted by merging with the default node selector. This results in frequent pod recreates on the nodes that got unselected by the merged node selector, which in turn puts unwanted load on the cluster.
Therefore,
Before you start using daemonsets, disable the default project-wide node selector in your namespace, by setting the namespace annotation
openshift.io/node-selectorto an empty string:# oc patch namespace myproject -p \ '{"metadata": {"annotations": {"openshift.io/node-selector": ""}}}'-
If you are creating a new project, overwrite the default node selector using
oc adm new-project --node-selector="".
21.2. Creating Daemonsets
Before creating daemonsets, ensure you have been given the required role by your OpenShift Container Platform administrator.
When creating daemonsets, the nodeSelector field is used to indicate the nodes on which the daemonset should deploy replicas.
Define the daemonset yaml file:
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1 kind: DaemonSet metadata: name: hello-daemonset spec: selector: matchLabels: name: hello-daemonset 1 template: metadata: labels: name: hello-daemonset 2 spec: nodeSelector: 3 type: infra containers: - image: openshift/hello-openshift imagePullPolicy: Always name: registry ports: - containerPort: 80 protocol: TCP resources: {} terminationMessagePath: /dev/termination-log serviceAccount: default terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 10Create the daemonset object:
oc create -f daemonset.yaml
To verify that the pods were created, and that each node has a pod replica:
Find the daemonset pods:
$ oc get pods hello-daemonset-cx6md 1/1 Running 0 2m hello-daemonset-e3md9 1/1 Running 0 2m
View the pods to verify the pod has been placed onto the node:
$ oc describe pod/hello-daemonset-cx6md|grep Node Node: openshift-node01.hostname.com/10.14.20.134 $ oc describe pod/hello-daemonset-e3md9|grep Node Node: openshift-node02.hostname.com/10.14.20.137
- If you update a DaemonSet’s pod template, the existing pod replicas are not affected.
- If you delete a DaemonSet and then create a new DaemonSet with a different template but the same label selector, it recognizes any existing pod replicas as having matching labels and thus does not update them or create new replicas despite a mismatch in the pod template.
- If you change node labels, the DaemonSet adds pods to nodes that match the new labels and deletes pods from nodes that do not match the new labels.
To update a DaemonSet, force new pod replicas to be created by deleting the old replicas or nodes.
