Chapter 8. Creating infrastructure machine sets
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:
$ 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. Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh deploys 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.
8.1. 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.
8.2. Creating infrastructure machine sets for production environments
In a production deployment, it is recommended that you deploy at least three compute machine sets to hold infrastructure components. Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh deploys 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. A configuration like this requires three different compute 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.
8.2.1. Creating infrastructure machine sets for different clouds
Use the sample compute machine set for your cloud.
8.2.1.1. Sample YAML for a compute machine set custom resource on AWS
The sample YAML defines a compute machine set that runs in the us-east-1a
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Local Zone and creates nodes that are labeled with node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: ""
.
In this sample, <infrastructure_id>
is the infrastructure ID label that is based on the cluster ID that you set when you provisioned the cluster, and <infra>
is the node label to add.
apiVersion: machine.openshift.io/v1beta1 kind: MachineSet metadata: labels: machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster: <infrastructure_id> 1 name: <infrastructure_id>-infra-<zone> 2 namespace: openshift-machine-api spec: replicas: 1 selector: matchLabels: machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster: <infrastructure_id> 3 machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machineset: <infrastructure_id>-infra-<zone> 4 template: metadata: labels: machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster: <infrastructure_id> 5 machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machine-role: infra 6 machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machine-type: infra 7 machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machineset: <infrastructure_id>-infra-<zone> 8 spec: metadata: labels: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: "" 9 providerSpec: value: ami: id: ami-046fe691f52a953f9 10 apiVersion: machine.openshift.io/v1beta1 blockDevices: - ebs: iops: 0 volumeSize: 120 volumeType: gp2 credentialsSecret: name: aws-cloud-credentials deviceIndex: 0 iamInstanceProfile: id: <infrastructure_id>-worker-profile 11 instanceType: m6i.large kind: AWSMachineProviderConfig placement: availabilityZone: <zone> 12 region: <region> 13 securityGroups: - filters: - name: tag:Name values: - <infrastructure_id>-worker-sg 14 subnet: filters: - name: tag:Name values: - <infrastructure_id>-private-<zone> 15 tags: - name: kubernetes.io/cluster/<infrastructure_id> 16 value: owned - name: <custom_tag_name> 17 value: <custom_tag_value> 18 userDataSecret: name: worker-user-data taints: 19 - key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra effect: NoSchedule
- 1 3 5 11 14 16
- Specify the infrastructure ID that is based on the cluster ID that you set when you provisioned the cluster. If you have the OpenShift CLI installed, you can obtain the infrastructure ID by running the following command:
$ oc get -o jsonpath='{.status.infrastructureName}{"\n"}' infrastructure cluster
- 2 4 8
- Specify the infrastructure ID,
infra
role node label, and zone. - 6 7 9
- Specify the
infra
role node label. - 10
- Specify a valid Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for your AWS zone for your OpenShift Container Platform nodes. If you want to use an AWS Marketplace image, you must complete the OpenShift Container Platform subscription from the AWS Marketplace to obtain an AMI ID for your region.
$ oc -n openshift-machine-api \ -o jsonpath='{.spec.template.spec.providerSpec.value.ami.id}{"\n"}' \ get machineset/<infrastructure_id>-<role>-<zone>
- 17 18
- Optional: Specify custom tag data for your cluster. For example, you might add an admin contact email address by specifying a
name:value
pair ofEmail:admin-email@example.com
.NoteCustom tags can also be specified during installation in the
install-config.yml
file. If theinstall-config.yml
file and the machine set include a tag with the samename
data, the value for the tag from the machine set takes priority over the value for the tag in theinstall-config.yml
file. - 12
- Specify the zone, for example,
us-east-1a
. - 13
- Specify the region, for example,
us-east-1
. - 15
- Specify the infrastructure ID and zone.
- 19
- Specify a taint to prevent user workloads from being scheduled on
infra
nodes.NoteAfter adding the
NoSchedule
taint on the infrastructure node, existing DNS pods running on that node are marked asmisscheduled
. You must either delete or add toleration onmisscheduled
DNS pods.
Machine sets running on AWS support non-guaranteed Spot Instances. You can save on costs by using Spot Instances at a lower price compared to On-Demand Instances on AWS. Configure Spot Instances by adding spotMarketOptions
to the MachineSet
YAML file.
8.2.1.2. Sample YAML for a compute machine set custom resource on Azure
This sample YAML defines a compute machine set that runs in the 1
Microsoft Azure zone in a region and creates nodes that are labeled with node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: ""
.
In this sample, <infrastructure_id>
is the infrastructure ID label that is based on the cluster ID that you set when you provisioned the cluster, and infra
is the node label to add.
apiVersion: machine.openshift.io/v1beta1 kind: MachineSet metadata: labels: machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster: <infrastructure_id> 1 machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machine-role: infra 2 machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machine-type: infra name: <infrastructure_id>-infra-<region> 3 namespace: openshift-machine-api spec: replicas: 1 selector: matchLabels: machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster: <infrastructure_id> machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machineset: <infrastructure_id>-infra-<region> template: metadata: creationTimestamp: null labels: machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster: <infrastructure_id> machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machine-role: infra machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machine-type: infra machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machineset: <infrastructure_id>-infra-<region> spec: metadata: creationTimestamp: null labels: machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machineset: <machineset_name> node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: "" providerSpec: value: apiVersion: azureproviderconfig.openshift.io/v1beta1 credentialsSecret: name: azure-cloud-credentials namespace: openshift-machine-api image: 4 offer: "" publisher: "" resourceID: /resourceGroups/<infrastructure_id>-rg/providers/Microsoft.Compute/galleries/gallery_<infrastructure_id>/images/<infrastructure_id>-gen2/versions/latest 5 sku: "" version: "" internalLoadBalancer: "" kind: AzureMachineProviderSpec location: <region> 6 managedIdentity: <infrastructure_id>-identity metadata: creationTimestamp: null natRule: null networkResourceGroup: "" osDisk: diskSizeGB: 128 managedDisk: storageAccountType: Premium_LRS osType: Linux publicIP: false publicLoadBalancer: "" resourceGroup: <infrastructure_id>-rg sshPrivateKey: "" sshPublicKey: "" tags: - name: <custom_tag_name> 7 value: <custom_tag_value> subnet: <infrastructure_id>-<role>-subnet userDataSecret: name: worker-user-data vmSize: Standard_D4s_v3 vnet: <infrastructure_id>-vnet zone: "1" 8 taints: 9 - key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra effect: NoSchedule
- 1
- Specify the infrastructure ID that is based on the cluster ID that you set when you provisioned the cluster. If you have the OpenShift CLI installed, you can obtain the infrastructure ID by running the following command:
$ oc get -o jsonpath='{.status.infrastructureName}{"\n"}' infrastructure cluster
You can obtain the subnet by running the following command:
$ oc -n openshift-machine-api \ -o jsonpath='{.spec.template.spec.providerSpec.value.subnet}{"\n"}' \ get machineset/<infrastructure_id>-worker-centralus1
You can obtain the vnet by running the following command:
$ oc -n openshift-machine-api \ -o jsonpath='{.spec.template.spec.providerSpec.value.vnet}{"\n"}' \ get machineset/<infrastructure_id>-worker-centralus1
- 2
- Specify the
infra
node label. - 3
- Specify the infrastructure ID,
infra
node label, and region. - 4
- Specify the image details for your compute machine set. If you want to use an Azure Marketplace image, see "Selecting an Azure Marketplace image".
- 5
- Specify an image that is compatible with your instance type. The Hyper-V generation V2 images created by the installation program have a
-gen2
suffix, while V1 images have the same name without the suffix. - 6
- Specify the region to place machines on.
- 7
- Optional: Specify custom tags in your machine set. Provide the tag name in
<custom_tag_name>
field and the corresponding tag value in<custom_tag_value>
field. - 8
- Specify the zone within your region to place machines on. Be sure that your region supports the zone that you specify.
- 9
- Specify a taint to prevent user workloads from being scheduled on infra nodes.Note
After adding the
NoSchedule
taint on the infrastructure node, existing DNS pods running on that node are marked asmisscheduled
. You must either delete or add toleration onmisscheduled
DNS pods.
Machine sets running on Azure support non-guaranteed Spot VMs. You can save on costs by using Spot VMs at a lower price compared to standard VMs on Azure. You can configure Spot VMs by adding spotVMOptions
to the MachineSet
YAML file.
Additional resources
8.2.1.3. Sample YAML for a compute machine set custom resource on Azure Stack Hub
This sample YAML defines a compute machine set that runs in the 1
Microsoft Azure zone in a region and creates nodes that are labeled with node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: ""
.
In this sample, <infrastructure_id>
is the infrastructure ID label that is based on the cluster ID that you set when you provisioned the cluster, and <infra>
is the node label to add.
apiVersion: machine.openshift.io/v1beta1 kind: MachineSet metadata: labels: machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster: <infrastructure_id> 1 machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machine-role: <infra> 2 machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machine-type: <infra> 3 name: <infrastructure_id>-infra-<region> 4 namespace: openshift-machine-api spec: replicas: 1 selector: matchLabels: machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster: <infrastructure_id> 5 machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machineset: <infrastructure_id>-infra-<region> 6 template: metadata: creationTimestamp: null labels: machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster: <infrastructure_id> 7 machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machine-role: <infra> 8 machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machine-type: <infra> 9 machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machineset: <infrastructure_id>-infra-<region> 10 spec: metadata: creationTimestamp: null labels: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: "" 11 taints: 12 - key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra effect: NoSchedule providerSpec: value: apiVersion: machine.openshift.io/v1beta1 availabilitySet: <availability_set> 13 credentialsSecret: name: azure-cloud-credentials namespace: openshift-machine-api image: offer: "" publisher: "" resourceID: /resourceGroups/<infrastructure_id>-rg/providers/Microsoft.Compute/images/<infrastructure_id> 14 sku: "" version: "" internalLoadBalancer: "" kind: AzureMachineProviderSpec location: <region> 15 managedIdentity: <infrastructure_id>-identity 16 metadata: creationTimestamp: null natRule: null networkResourceGroup: "" osDisk: diskSizeGB: 128 managedDisk: storageAccountType: Premium_LRS osType: Linux publicIP: false publicLoadBalancer: "" resourceGroup: <infrastructure_id>-rg 17 sshPrivateKey: "" sshPublicKey: "" subnet: <infrastructure_id>-<role>-subnet 18 19 userDataSecret: name: worker-user-data 20 vmSize: Standard_DS4_v2 vnet: <infrastructure_id>-vnet 21 zone: "1" 22
- 1 5 7 14 16 17 18 21
- Specify the infrastructure ID that is based on the cluster ID that you set when you provisioned the cluster. If you have the OpenShift CLI installed, you can obtain the infrastructure ID by running the following command:
$ oc get -o jsonpath='{.status.infrastructureName}{"\n"}' infrastructure cluster
You can obtain the subnet by running the following command:
$ oc -n openshift-machine-api \ -o jsonpath='{.spec.template.spec.providerSpec.value.subnet}{"\n"}' \ get machineset/<infrastructure_id>-worker-centralus1
You can obtain the vnet by running the following command:
$ oc -n openshift-machine-api \ -o jsonpath='{.spec.template.spec.providerSpec.value.vnet}{"\n"}' \ get machineset/<infrastructure_id>-worker-centralus1
- 2 3 8 9 11 19 20
- Specify the
<infra>
node label. - 4 6 10
- Specify the infrastructure ID,
<infra>
node label, and region. - 12
- Specify a taint to prevent user workloads from being scheduled on infra nodes.Note
After adding the
NoSchedule
taint on the infrastructure node, existing DNS pods running on that node are marked asmisscheduled
. You must either delete or add toleration onmisscheduled
DNS pods. - 15
- Specify the region to place machines on.
- 13
- Specify the availability set for the cluster.
- 22
- Specify the zone within your region to place machines on. Be sure that your region supports the zone that you specify.
Machine sets running on Azure Stack Hub do not support non-guaranteed Spot VMs.
8.2.1.4. Sample YAML for a compute machine set custom resource on IBM Cloud
This sample YAML defines a compute machine set that runs in a specified IBM Cloud® zone in a region and creates nodes that are labeled with node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: ""
.
In this sample, <infrastructure_id>
is the infrastructure ID label that is based on the cluster ID that you set when you provisioned the cluster, and <infra>
is the node label to add.
apiVersion: machine.openshift.io/v1beta1 kind: MachineSet metadata: labels: machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster: <infrastructure_id> 1 machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machine-role: <infra> 2 machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machine-type: <infra> 3 name: <infrastructure_id>-<infra>-<region> 4 namespace: openshift-machine-api spec: replicas: 1 selector: matchLabels: machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster: <infrastructure_id> 5 machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machineset: <infrastructure_id>-<infra>-<region> 6 template: metadata: labels: machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster: <infrastructure_id> 7 machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machine-role: <infra> 8 machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machine-type: <infra> 9 machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machineset: <infrastructure_id>-<infra>-<region> 10 spec: metadata: labels: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: "" providerSpec: value: apiVersion: ibmcloudproviderconfig.openshift.io/v1beta1 credentialsSecret: name: ibmcloud-credentials image: <infrastructure_id>-rhcos 11 kind: IBMCloudMachineProviderSpec primaryNetworkInterface: securityGroups: - <infrastructure_id>-sg-cluster-wide - <infrastructure_id>-sg-openshift-net subnet: <infrastructure_id>-subnet-compute-<zone> 12 profile: <instance_profile> 13 region: <region> 14 resourceGroup: <resource_group> 15 userDataSecret: name: <role>-user-data 16 vpc: <vpc_name> 17 zone: <zone> 18 taints: 19 - key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra effect: NoSchedule
- 1 5 7
- The infrastructure ID that is based on the cluster ID that you set when you provisioned the cluster. If you have the OpenShift CLI installed, you can obtain the infrastructure ID by running the following command:
$ oc get -o jsonpath='{.status.infrastructureName}{"\n"}' infrastructure cluster
- 2 3 8 9 16
- The
<infra>
node label. - 4 6 10
- The infrastructure ID,
<infra>
node label, and region. - 11
- The custom Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) image that was used for cluster installation.
- 12
- The infrastructure ID and zone within your region to place machines on. Be sure that your region supports the zone that you specify.
- 13
- Specify the IBM Cloud® instance profile.
- 14
- Specify the region to place machines on.
- 15
- The resource group that machine resources are placed in. This is either an existing resource group specified at installation time, or an installer-created resource group named based on the infrastructure ID.
- 17
- The VPC name.
- 18
- Specify the zone within your region to place machines on. Be sure that your region supports the zone that you specify.
- 19
- The taint to prevent user workloads from being scheduled on infra nodes.Note
After adding the
NoSchedule
taint on the infrastructure node, existing DNS pods running on that node are marked asmisscheduled
. You must either delete or add toleration onmisscheduled
DNS pods.
8.2.1.5. Sample YAML for a compute machine set custom resource on GCP
This sample YAML defines a compute machine set that runs in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and creates nodes that are labeled with node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: ""
, where infra
is the node label to add.
Values obtained by using the OpenShift CLI
In the following example, you can obtain some of the values for your cluster by using the OpenShift CLI.
- Infrastructure ID
The
<infrastructure_id>
string is the infrastructure ID that is based on the cluster ID that you set when you provisioned the cluster. If you have the OpenShift CLI installed, you can obtain the infrastructure ID by running the following command:$ oc get -o jsonpath='{.status.infrastructureName}{"\n"}' infrastructure cluster
- Image path
The
<path_to_image>
string is the path to the image that was used to create the disk. If you have the OpenShift CLI installed, you can obtain the path to the image by running the following command:$ oc -n openshift-machine-api \ -o jsonpath='{.spec.template.spec.providerSpec.value.disks[0].image}{"\n"}' \ get machineset/<infrastructure_id>-worker-a
Sample GCP MachineSet
values
apiVersion: machine.openshift.io/v1beta1 kind: MachineSet metadata: labels: machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster: <infrastructure_id> 1 name: <infrastructure_id>-w-a namespace: openshift-machine-api spec: replicas: 1 selector: matchLabels: machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster: <infrastructure_id> machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machineset: <infrastructure_id>-w-a template: metadata: creationTimestamp: null labels: machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster: <infrastructure_id> machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machine-role: <infra> 2 machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machine-type: <infra> machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machineset: <infrastructure_id>-w-a spec: metadata: labels: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: "" providerSpec: value: apiVersion: gcpprovider.openshift.io/v1beta1 canIPForward: false credentialsSecret: name: gcp-cloud-credentials deletionProtection: false disks: - autoDelete: true boot: true image: <path_to_image> 3 labels: null sizeGb: 128 type: pd-ssd gcpMetadata: 4 - key: <custom_metadata_key> value: <custom_metadata_value> kind: GCPMachineProviderSpec machineType: n1-standard-4 metadata: creationTimestamp: null networkInterfaces: - network: <infrastructure_id>-network subnetwork: <infrastructure_id>-worker-subnet projectID: <project_name> 5 region: us-central1 serviceAccounts: 6 - email: <infrastructure_id>-w@<project_name>.iam.gserviceaccount.com scopes: - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform tags: - <infrastructure_id>-worker userDataSecret: name: worker-user-data zone: us-central1-a taints: 7 - key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra effect: NoSchedule
- 1
- For
<infrastructure_id>
, specify the infrastructure ID that is based on the cluster ID that you set when you provisioned the cluster. - 2
- For
<infra>
, specify the<infra>
node label. - 3
- Specify the path to the image that is used in current compute machine sets.
To use a GCP Marketplace image, specify the offer to use:
-
OpenShift Container Platform:
https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/redhat-marketplace-public/global/images/redhat-coreos-ocp-413-x86-64-202305021736
-
OpenShift Platform Plus:
https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/redhat-marketplace-public/global/images/redhat-coreos-opp-413-x86-64-202305021736
-
OpenShift Kubernetes Engine:
https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/redhat-marketplace-public/global/images/redhat-coreos-oke-413-x86-64-202305021736
-
OpenShift Container Platform:
- 4
- Optional: Specify custom metadata in the form of a
key:value
pair. For example use cases, see the GCP documentation for setting custom metadata. - 5
- For
<project_name>
, specify the name of the GCP project that you use for your cluster. - 6
- Specifies a single service account. Multiple service accounts are not supported.
- 7
- Specify a taint to prevent user workloads from being scheduled on infra nodes.Note
After adding the
NoSchedule
taint on the infrastructure node, existing DNS pods running on that node are marked asmisscheduled
. You must either delete or add toleration onmisscheduled
DNS pods.
Machine sets running on GCP support non-guaranteed preemptible VM instances. You can save on costs by using preemptible VM instances at a lower price compared to normal instances on GCP. You can configure preemptible VM instances by adding preemptible
to the MachineSet
YAML file.
8.2.1.6. Sample YAML for a compute machine set custom resource on Nutanix
This sample YAML defines a Nutanix compute machine set that creates nodes that are labeled with node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: ""
.
In this sample, <infrastructure_id>
is the infrastructure ID label that is based on the cluster ID that you set when you provisioned the cluster, and <infra>
is the node label to add.
Values obtained by using the OpenShift CLI
In the following example, you can obtain some of the values for your cluster by using the OpenShift CLI (oc
).
- Infrastructure ID
The
<infrastructure_id>
string is the infrastructure ID that is based on the cluster ID that you set when you provisioned the cluster. If you have the OpenShift CLI installed, you can obtain the infrastructure ID by running the following command:$ oc get -o jsonpath='{.status.infrastructureName}{"\n"}' infrastructure cluster
apiVersion: machine.openshift.io/v1beta1 kind: MachineSet metadata: labels: machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster: <infrastructure_id> 1 machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machine-role: <infra> 2 machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machine-type: <infra> name: <infrastructure_id>-<infra>-<zone> 3 namespace: openshift-machine-api annotations: 4 machine.openshift.io/memoryMb: "16384" machine.openshift.io/vCPU: "4" spec: replicas: 3 selector: matchLabels: machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster: <infrastructure_id> machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machineset: <infrastructure_id>-<infra>-<zone> template: metadata: labels: machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster: <infrastructure_id> machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machine-role: <infra> machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machine-type: <infra> machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machineset: <infrastructure_id>-<infra>-<zone> spec: metadata: labels: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: "" providerSpec: value: apiVersion: machine.openshift.io/v1 bootType: "" 5 categories: 6 - key: <category_name> value: <category_value> cluster: 7 type: uuid uuid: <cluster_uuid> credentialsSecret: name: nutanix-credentials image: name: <infrastructure_id>-rhcos 8 type: name kind: NutanixMachineProviderConfig memorySize: 16Gi 9 project: 10 type: name name: <project_name> subnets: - type: uuid uuid: <subnet_uuid> systemDiskSize: 120Gi 11 userDataSecret: name: <user_data_secret> 12 vcpuSockets: 4 13 vcpusPerSocket: 1 14 taints: 15 - key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra effect: NoSchedule
- 1
- For
<infrastructure_id>
, specify the infrastructure ID that is based on the cluster ID that you set when you provisioned the cluster. - 2
- Specify the
<infra>
node label. - 3
- Specify the infrastructure ID,
<infra>
node label, and zone. - 4
- Annotations for the cluster autoscaler.
- 5
- Specifies the boot type that the compute machines use. For more information about boot types, see Understanding UEFI, Secure Boot, and TPM in the Virtualized Environment. Valid values are
Legacy
,SecureBoot
, orUEFI
. The default isLegacy
.NoteYou must use the
Legacy
boot type in OpenShift Container Platform 4.16. - 6
- Specify one or more Nutanix Prism categories to apply to compute machines. This stanza requires
key
andvalue
parameters for a category key-value pair that exists in Prism Central. For more information about categories, see Category management. - 7
- Specify a Nutanix Prism Element cluster configuration. In this example, the cluster type is
uuid
, so there is auuid
stanza. - 8
- Specify the image to use. Use an image from an existing default compute machine set for the cluster.
- 9
- Specify the amount of memory for the cluster in Gi.
- 10
- Specify the Nutanix project that you use for your cluster. In this example, the project type is
name
, so there is aname
stanza. - 11
- Specify the size of the system disk in Gi.
- 12
- Specify the name of the secret in the user data YAML file that is in the
openshift-machine-api
namespace. Use the value that installation program populates in the default compute machine set. - 13
- Specify the number of vCPU sockets.
- 14
- Specify the number of vCPUs per socket.
- 15
- Specify a taint to prevent user workloads from being scheduled on infra nodes.Note
After adding the
NoSchedule
taint on the infrastructure node, existing DNS pods running on that node are marked asmisscheduled
. You must either delete or add toleration onmisscheduled
DNS pods.
8.2.1.7. Sample YAML for a compute machine set custom resource on RHOSP
This sample YAML defines a compute machine set that runs on Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) and creates nodes that are labeled with node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: ""
.
In this sample, <infrastructure_id>
is the infrastructure ID label that is based on the cluster ID that you set when you provisioned the cluster, and <infra>
is the node label to add.
apiVersion: machine.openshift.io/v1beta1 kind: MachineSet metadata: labels: machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster: <infrastructure_id> 1 machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machine-role: <infra> 2 machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machine-type: <infra> 3 name: <infrastructure_id>-infra 4 namespace: openshift-machine-api spec: replicas: <number_of_replicas> selector: matchLabels: machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster: <infrastructure_id> 5 machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machineset: <infrastructure_id>-infra 6 template: metadata: labels: machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster: <infrastructure_id> 7 machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machine-role: <infra> 8 machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machine-type: <infra> 9 machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machineset: <infrastructure_id>-infra 10 spec: metadata: creationTimestamp: null labels: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: "" taints: 11 - key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra effect: NoSchedule providerSpec: value: apiVersion: machine.openshift.io/v1alpha1 cloudName: openstack cloudsSecret: name: openstack-cloud-credentials namespace: openshift-machine-api flavor: <nova_flavor> image: <glance_image_name_or_location> serverGroupID: <optional_UUID_of_server_group> 12 kind: OpenstackProviderSpec networks: 13 - filter: {} subnets: - filter: name: <subnet_name> tags: openshiftClusterID=<infrastructure_id> 14 primarySubnet: <rhosp_subnet_UUID> 15 securityGroups: - filter: {} name: <infrastructure_id>-worker 16 serverMetadata: Name: <infrastructure_id>-worker 17 openshiftClusterID: <infrastructure_id> 18 tags: - openshiftClusterID=<infrastructure_id> 19 trunk: true userDataSecret: name: worker-user-data 20 availabilityZone: <optional_openstack_availability_zone>
- 1 5 7 14 16 17 18 19
- Specify the infrastructure ID that is based on the cluster ID that you set when you provisioned the cluster. If you have the OpenShift CLI installed, you can obtain the infrastructure ID by running the following command:
$ oc get -o jsonpath='{.status.infrastructureName}{"\n"}' infrastructure cluster
- 2 3 8 9 20
- Specify the
<infra>
node label. - 4 6 10
- Specify the infrastructure ID and
<infra>
node label. - 11
- Specify a taint to prevent user workloads from being scheduled on infra nodes.Note
After adding the
NoSchedule
taint on the infrastructure node, existing DNS pods running on that node are marked asmisscheduled
. You must either delete or add toleration onmisscheduled
DNS pods. - 12
- To set a server group policy for the MachineSet, enter the value that is returned from creating a server group. For most deployments,
anti-affinity
orsoft-anti-affinity
policies are recommended. - 13
- Required for deployments to multiple networks. If deploying to multiple networks, this list must include the network that is used as the
primarySubnet
value. - 15
- Specify the RHOSP subnet that you want the endpoints of nodes to be published on. Usually, this is the same subnet that is used as the value of
machinesSubnet
in theinstall-config.yaml
file.
8.2.1.8. Sample YAML for a compute machine set custom resource on vSphere
This sample YAML defines a compute machine set that runs on VMware vSphere and creates nodes that are labeled with node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: ""
.
In this sample, <infrastructure_id>
is the infrastructure ID label that is based on the cluster ID that you set when you provisioned the cluster, and <infra>
is the node label to add.
apiVersion: machine.openshift.io/v1beta1 kind: MachineSet metadata: creationTimestamp: null labels: machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster: <infrastructure_id> 1 name: <infrastructure_id>-infra 2 namespace: openshift-machine-api spec: replicas: 1 selector: matchLabels: machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster: <infrastructure_id> 3 machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machineset: <infrastructure_id>-infra 4 template: metadata: creationTimestamp: null labels: machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster: <infrastructure_id> 5 machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machine-role: <infra> 6 machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machine-type: <infra> 7 machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machineset: <infrastructure_id>-infra 8 spec: metadata: creationTimestamp: null labels: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: "" 9 taints: 10 - key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra effect: NoSchedule providerSpec: value: apiVersion: vsphereprovider.openshift.io/v1beta1 credentialsSecret: name: vsphere-cloud-credentials diskGiB: 120 kind: VSphereMachineProviderSpec memoryMiB: 8192 metadata: creationTimestamp: null network: devices: - networkName: "<vm_network_name>" 11 numCPUs: 4 numCoresPerSocket: 1 snapshot: "" template: <vm_template_name> 12 userDataSecret: name: worker-user-data workspace: datacenter: <vcenter_data_center_name> 13 datastore: <vcenter_datastore_name> 14 folder: <vcenter_vm_folder_path> 15 resourcepool: <vsphere_resource_pool> 16 server: <vcenter_server_ip> 17
- 1 3 5
- Specify the infrastructure ID that is based on the cluster ID that you set when you provisioned the cluster. If you have the OpenShift CLI (
oc
) installed, you can obtain the infrastructure ID by running the following command:$ oc get -o jsonpath='{.status.infrastructureName}{"\n"}' infrastructure cluster
- 2 4 8
- Specify the infrastructure ID and
<infra>
node label. - 6 7 9
- Specify the
<infra>
node label. - 10
- Specify a taint to prevent user workloads from being scheduled on infra nodes.Note
After adding the
NoSchedule
taint on the infrastructure node, existing DNS pods running on that node are marked asmisscheduled
. You must either delete or add toleration onmisscheduled
DNS pods. - 11
- Specify the vSphere VM network to deploy the compute machine set to. This VM network must be where other compute machines reside in the cluster.
- 12
- Specify the vSphere VM template to use, such as
user-5ddjd-rhcos
. - 13
- Specify the vCenter data center to deploy the compute machine set on.
- 14
- Specify the vCenter datastore to deploy the compute machine set on.
- 15
- Specify the path to the vSphere VM folder in vCenter, such as
/dc1/vm/user-inst-5ddjd
. - 16
- Specify the vSphere resource pool for your VMs.
- 17
- Specify the vCenter server IP or fully qualified domain name.
8.2.2. Creating a compute machine set
In addition to the compute machine sets created by the installation program, you can create your own to dynamically manage the machine compute resources for specific workloads of your choice.
Prerequisites
- Deploy an OpenShift Container Platform cluster.
-
Install the OpenShift CLI (
oc
). -
Log in to
oc
as a user withcluster-admin
permission.
Procedure
Create a new YAML file that contains the compute machine set custom resource (CR) sample and is named
<file_name>.yaml
.Ensure that you set the
<clusterID>
and<role>
parameter values.Optional: If you are not sure which value to set for a specific field, you can check an existing compute machine set from your cluster.
To list the compute machine sets in your cluster, run the following command:
$ oc get machinesets -n openshift-machine-api
Example output
NAME DESIRED CURRENT READY AVAILABLE AGE agl030519-vplxk-worker-us-east-1a 1 1 1 1 55m agl030519-vplxk-worker-us-east-1b 1 1 1 1 55m agl030519-vplxk-worker-us-east-1c 1 1 1 1 55m agl030519-vplxk-worker-us-east-1d 0 0 55m agl030519-vplxk-worker-us-east-1e 0 0 55m agl030519-vplxk-worker-us-east-1f 0 0 55m
To view values of a specific compute machine set custom resource (CR), run the following command:
$ oc get machineset <machineset_name> \ -n openshift-machine-api -o yaml
Example output
apiVersion: machine.openshift.io/v1beta1 kind: MachineSet metadata: labels: machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster: <infrastructure_id> 1 name: <infrastructure_id>-<role> 2 namespace: openshift-machine-api spec: replicas: 1 selector: matchLabels: machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster: <infrastructure_id> machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machineset: <infrastructure_id>-<role> template: metadata: labels: machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster: <infrastructure_id> machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machine-role: <role> machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machine-type: <role> machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machineset: <infrastructure_id>-<role> spec: providerSpec: 3 ...
- 1
- The cluster infrastructure ID.
- 2
- A default node label.Note
For clusters that have user-provisioned infrastructure, a compute machine set can only create
worker
andinfra
type machines. - 3
- The values in the
<providerSpec>
section of the compute machine set CR are platform-specific. For more information about<providerSpec>
parameters in the CR, see the sample compute machine set CR configuration for your provider.
Create a
MachineSet
CR by running the following command:$ oc create -f <file_name>.yaml
Verification
View the list of compute machine sets by running the following command:
$ oc get machineset -n openshift-machine-api
Example output
NAME DESIRED CURRENT READY AVAILABLE AGE agl030519-vplxk-infra-us-east-1a 1 1 1 1 11m agl030519-vplxk-worker-us-east-1a 1 1 1 1 55m agl030519-vplxk-worker-us-east-1b 1 1 1 1 55m agl030519-vplxk-worker-us-east-1c 1 1 1 1 55m agl030519-vplxk-worker-us-east-1d 0 0 55m agl030519-vplxk-worker-us-east-1e 0 0 55m agl030519-vplxk-worker-us-east-1f 0 0 55m
When the new compute machine set is available, the
DESIRED
andCURRENT
values match. If the compute machine set is not available, wait a few minutes and run the command again.
8.2.3. Creating an infrastructure node
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:
$ 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:
$ oc label node <node-name> node-role.kubernetes.io/infra=""
Check to see if applicable nodes now have the
infra
role andapp
roles:$ 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.
ImportantIf 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 asnode-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:$ 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
8.2.4. Creating a machine config pool for infrastructure machines
If you need infrastructure machines to have dedicated configurations, you must create an infra pool.
Creating a custom machine configuration pool overrides default worker pool configurations if they refer to the same file or unit.
Procedure
Add a label to the node you want to assign as the infra node with a specific label:
$ oc label node <node_name> <label>
$ oc label node ci-ln-n8mqwr2-f76d1-xscn2-worker-c-6fmtx node-role.kubernetes.io/infra=
Create a machine config pool that contains both the worker role and your custom role as machine config selector:
$ cat infra.mcp.yaml
Example output
apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 kind: MachineConfigPool metadata: name: infra spec: machineConfigSelector: matchExpressions: - {key: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/role, operator: In, values: [worker,infra]} 1 nodeSelector: matchLabels: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: "" 2
NoteCustom machine config pools inherit machine configs from the worker pool. Custom pools use any machine config targeted for the worker pool, but add the ability to also deploy changes that are targeted at only the custom pool. Because a custom pool inherits resources from the worker pool, any change to the worker pool also affects the custom pool.
After you have the YAML file, you can create the machine config pool:
$ oc create -f infra.mcp.yaml
Check the machine configs to ensure that the infrastructure configuration rendered successfully:
$ oc get machineconfig
Example output
NAME GENERATEDBYCONTROLLER IGNITIONVERSION CREATED 00-master 365c1cfd14de5b0e3b85e0fc815b0060f36ab955 3.2.0 31d 00-worker 365c1cfd14de5b0e3b85e0fc815b0060f36ab955 3.2.0 31d 01-master-container-runtime 365c1cfd14de5b0e3b85e0fc815b0060f36ab955 3.2.0 31d 01-master-kubelet 365c1cfd14de5b0e3b85e0fc815b0060f36ab955 3.2.0 31d 01-worker-container-runtime 365c1cfd14de5b0e3b85e0fc815b0060f36ab955 3.2.0 31d 01-worker-kubelet 365c1cfd14de5b0e3b85e0fc815b0060f36ab955 3.2.0 31d 99-master-1ae2a1e0-a115-11e9-8f14-005056899d54-registries 365c1cfd14de5b0e3b85e0fc815b0060f36ab955 3.2.0 31d 99-master-ssh 3.2.0 31d 99-worker-1ae64748-a115-11e9-8f14-005056899d54-registries 365c1cfd14de5b0e3b85e0fc815b0060f36ab955 3.2.0 31d 99-worker-ssh 3.2.0 31d rendered-infra-4e48906dca84ee702959c71a53ee80e7 365c1cfd14de5b0e3b85e0fc815b0060f36ab955 3.2.0 23m rendered-master-072d4b2da7f88162636902b074e9e28e 5b6fb8349a29735e48446d435962dec4547d3090 3.2.0 31d rendered-master-3e88ec72aed3886dec061df60d16d1af 02c07496ba0417b3e12b78fb32baf6293d314f79 3.2.0 31d rendered-master-419bee7de96134963a15fdf9dd473b25 365c1cfd14de5b0e3b85e0fc815b0060f36ab955 3.2.0 17d rendered-master-53f5c91c7661708adce18739cc0f40fb 365c1cfd14de5b0e3b85e0fc815b0060f36ab955 3.2.0 13d rendered-master-a6a357ec18e5bce7f5ac426fc7c5ffcd 365c1cfd14de5b0e3b85e0fc815b0060f36ab955 3.2.0 7d3h rendered-master-dc7f874ec77fc4b969674204332da037 5b6fb8349a29735e48446d435962dec4547d3090 3.2.0 31d rendered-worker-1a75960c52ad18ff5dfa6674eb7e533d 5b6fb8349a29735e48446d435962dec4547d3090 3.2.0 31d rendered-worker-2640531be11ba43c61d72e82dc634ce6 5b6fb8349a29735e48446d435962dec4547d3090 3.2.0 31d rendered-worker-4e48906dca84ee702959c71a53ee80e7 365c1cfd14de5b0e3b85e0fc815b0060f36ab955 3.2.0 7d3h rendered-worker-4f110718fe88e5f349987854a1147755 365c1cfd14de5b0e3b85e0fc815b0060f36ab955 3.2.0 17d rendered-worker-afc758e194d6188677eb837842d3b379 02c07496ba0417b3e12b78fb32baf6293d314f79 3.2.0 31d rendered-worker-daa08cc1e8f5fcdeba24de60cd955cc3 365c1cfd14de5b0e3b85e0fc815b0060f36ab955 3.2.0 13d
You should see a new machine config, with the
rendered-infra-*
prefix.Optional: To deploy changes to a custom pool, create a machine config that uses the custom pool name as the label, such as
infra
. Note that this is not required and only shown for instructional purposes. In this manner, you can apply any custom configurations specific to only your infra nodes.NoteAfter you create the new machine config pool, the MCO generates a new rendered config for that pool, and associated nodes of that pool reboot to apply the new configuration.
Create a machine config:
$ cat infra.mc.yaml
Example output
apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 kind: MachineConfig metadata: name: 51-infra labels: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/role: infra 1 spec: config: ignition: version: 3.2.0 storage: files: - path: /etc/infratest mode: 0644 contents: source: data:,infra
- 1
- Add the label you added to the node as a
nodeSelector
.
Apply the machine config to the infra-labeled nodes:
$ oc create -f infra.mc.yaml
Confirm that your new machine config pool is available:
$ oc get mcp
Example output
NAME CONFIG UPDATED UPDATING DEGRADED MACHINECOUNT READYMACHINECOUNT UPDATEDMACHINECOUNT DEGRADEDMACHINECOUNT AGE infra rendered-infra-60e35c2e99f42d976e084fa94da4d0fc True False False 1 1 1 0 4m20s master rendered-master-9360fdb895d4c131c7c4bebbae099c90 True False False 3 3 3 0 91m worker rendered-worker-60e35c2e99f42d976e084fa94da4d0fc True False False 2 2 2 0 91m
In this example, a worker node was changed to an infra node.
Additional resources
- See Node configuration management with machine config pools for more information on grouping infra machines in a custom pool.
8.3. Assigning machine set resources to infrastructure nodes
After creating an infrastructure machine set, the worker
and infra
roles are applied to new infra nodes. Nodes with the infra
role applied are not counted toward the total number of subscriptions that are required to run the environment, even when the worker
role is also applied.
However, with an infra node being assigned as a worker, there is a chance user workloads could get inadvertently assigned to an infra node. To avoid this, you can apply a taint to the infra node and tolerations for the pods you want to control.
8.3.1. Binding infrastructure node workloads using taints and tolerations
If you have an infra node that has the infra
and worker
roles assigned, you must configure the node so that user workloads are not assigned to it.
It is recommended that you preserve the dual infra,worker
label that is created for infra nodes and use taints and tolerations to manage nodes that user workloads are scheduled on. If you remove the worker
label from the node, you must create a custom pool to manage it. A node with a label other than master
or worker
is not recognized by the MCO without a custom pool. Maintaining the worker
label allows the node to be managed by the default worker machine config pool, if no custom pools that select the custom label exists. The infra
label communicates to the cluster that it does not count toward the total number of subscriptions.
Prerequisites
-
Configure additional
MachineSet
objects in your OpenShift Container Platform cluster.
Procedure
Add a taint to the infra node to prevent scheduling user workloads on it:
Determine if the node has the taint:
$ oc describe nodes <node_name>
Sample output
oc describe node ci-ln-iyhx092-f76d1-nvdfm-worker-b-wln2l Name: ci-ln-iyhx092-f76d1-nvdfm-worker-b-wln2l Roles: worker ... Taints: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra:NoSchedule ...
This example shows that the node has a taint. You can proceed with adding a toleration to your pod in the next step.
If you have not configured a taint to prevent scheduling user workloads on it:
$ oc adm taint nodes <node_name> <key>=<value>:<effect>
For example:
$ oc adm taint nodes node1 node-role.kubernetes.io/infra=reserved:NoSchedule
TipYou can alternatively apply the following YAML to add the taint:
kind: Node apiVersion: v1 metadata: name: <node_name> labels: ... spec: taints: - key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra effect: NoSchedule value: reserved ...
This example places a taint on
node1
that has keynode-role.kubernetes.io/infra
and taint effectNoSchedule
. Nodes with theNoSchedule
effect schedule only pods that tolerate the taint, but allow existing pods to remain scheduled on the node.NoteIf a descheduler is used, pods violating node taints could be evicted from the cluster.
Add the taint with NoExecute Effect along with the above taint with NoSchedule Effect:
$ oc adm taint nodes <node_name> <key>=<value>:<effect>
For example:
$ oc adm taint nodes node1 node-role.kubernetes.io/infra=reserved:NoExecute
TipYou can alternatively apply the following YAML to add the taint:
kind: Node apiVersion: v1 metadata: name: <node_name> labels: ... spec: taints: - key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra effect: NoExecute value: reserved ...
This example places a taint on
node1
that has the keynode-role.kubernetes.io/infra
and taint effectNoExecute
. Nodes with theNoExecute
effect schedule only pods that tolerate the taint. The effect will remove any existing pods from the node that do not have a matching toleration.
Add tolerations for the pod configurations you want to schedule on the infra node, like router, registry, and monitoring workloads. Add the following code to the
Pod
object specification:tolerations: - effect: NoSchedule 1 key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra 2 value: reserved 3 - effect: NoExecute 4 key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra 5 operator: Exists 6 value: reserved 7
- 1
- Specify the effect that you added to the node.
- 2
- Specify the key that you added to the node.
- 3
- Specify the value of the key-value pair taint that you added to the node.
- 4
- Specify the effect that you added to the node.
- 5
- Specify the key that you added to the node.
- 6
- Specify the
Exists
Operator to require a taint with the keynode-role.kubernetes.io/infra
to be present on the node. - 7
- Specify the value of the key-value pair taint that you added to the node.
This toleration matches the taint created by the
oc adm taint
command. A pod with this toleration can be scheduled onto the infra node.NoteMoving pods for an Operator installed via OLM to an infra node is not always possible. The capability to move Operator pods depends on the configuration of each Operator.
- Schedule the pod to the infra node using a scheduler. See the documentation for Controlling pod placement onto nodes for details.
Additional resources
- See Controlling pod placement using the scheduler for general information on scheduling a pod to a node.
- See Moving resources to infrastructure machine sets for instructions on scheduling pods to infra nodes.
- See Understanding taints and tolerations for more details about different effects of taints.
8.4. Moving resources to infrastructure machine sets
Some of the infrastructure resources are deployed in your cluster by default. You can move them to the infrastructure machine sets that you created by adding the infrastructure node selector, as shown:
spec:
nodePlacement: 1
nodeSelector:
matchLabels:
node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: ""
tolerations:
- effect: NoSchedule
key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra
value: reserved
- effect: NoExecute
key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra
value: reserved
- 1
- Add a
nodeSelector
parameter with the appropriate value to the component you want to move. You can use anodeSelector
in the format shown or use<key>: <value>
pairs, based on the value specified for the node. If you added a taint to the infrasructure node, also add a matching toleration.
Applying a specific node selector to all infrastructure components causes OpenShift Container Platform to schedule those workloads on nodes with that label.
8.4.1. Moving the router
You can deploy the router pod to a different compute machine set. By default, the pod is deployed to a worker node.
Prerequisites
- Configure additional compute machine sets in your OpenShift Container Platform cluster.
Procedure
View the
IngressController
custom resource for the router Operator:$ oc get ingresscontroller default -n openshift-ingress-operator -o yaml
The command output resembles the following text:
apiVersion: operator.openshift.io/v1 kind: IngressController metadata: creationTimestamp: 2019-04-18T12:35:39Z finalizers: - ingresscontroller.operator.openshift.io/finalizer-ingresscontroller generation: 1 name: default namespace: openshift-ingress-operator resourceVersion: "11341" selfLink: /apis/operator.openshift.io/v1/namespaces/openshift-ingress-operator/ingresscontrollers/default uid: 79509e05-61d6-11e9-bc55-02ce4781844a spec: {} status: availableReplicas: 2 conditions: - lastTransitionTime: 2019-04-18T12:36:15Z status: "True" type: Available domain: apps.<cluster>.example.com endpointPublishingStrategy: type: LoadBalancerService selector: ingresscontroller.operator.openshift.io/deployment-ingresscontroller=default
Edit the
ingresscontroller
resource and change thenodeSelector
to use theinfra
label:$ oc edit ingresscontroller default -n openshift-ingress-operator
spec: nodePlacement: nodeSelector: 1 matchLabels: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: "" tolerations: - effect: NoSchedule key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra value: reserved - effect: NoExecute key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra value: reserved
- 1
- Add a
nodeSelector
parameter with the appropriate value to the component you want to move. You can use anodeSelector
in the format shown or use<key>: <value>
pairs, based on the value specified for the node. If you added a taint to the infrastructure node, also add a matching toleration.
Confirm that the router pod is running on the
infra
node.View the list of router pods and note the node name of the running pod:
$ oc get pod -n openshift-ingress -o wide
Example output
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE IP NODE NOMINATED NODE READINESS GATES router-default-86798b4b5d-bdlvd 1/1 Running 0 28s 10.130.2.4 ip-10-0-217-226.ec2.internal <none> <none> router-default-955d875f4-255g8 0/1 Terminating 0 19h 10.129.2.4 ip-10-0-148-172.ec2.internal <none> <none>
In this example, the running pod is on the
ip-10-0-217-226.ec2.internal
node.View the node status of the running pod:
$ oc get node <node_name> 1
- 1
- Specify the
<node_name>
that you obtained from the pod list.
Example output
NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION ip-10-0-217-226.ec2.internal Ready infra,worker 17h v1.29.4
Because the role list includes
infra
, the pod is running on the correct node.
8.4.2. Moving the default registry
You configure the registry Operator to deploy its pods to different nodes.
Prerequisites
- Configure additional compute machine sets in your OpenShift Container Platform cluster.
Procedure
View the
config/instance
object:$ oc get configs.imageregistry.operator.openshift.io/cluster -o yaml
Example output
apiVersion: imageregistry.operator.openshift.io/v1 kind: Config metadata: creationTimestamp: 2019-02-05T13:52:05Z finalizers: - imageregistry.operator.openshift.io/finalizer generation: 1 name: cluster resourceVersion: "56174" selfLink: /apis/imageregistry.operator.openshift.io/v1/configs/cluster uid: 36fd3724-294d-11e9-a524-12ffeee2931b spec: httpSecret: d9a012ccd117b1e6616ceccb2c3bb66a5fed1b5e481623 logging: 2 managementState: Managed proxy: {} replicas: 1 requests: read: {} write: {} storage: s3: bucket: image-registry-us-east-1-c92e88cad85b48ec8b312344dff03c82-392c region: us-east-1 status: ...
Edit the
config/instance
object:$ oc edit configs.imageregistry.operator.openshift.io/cluster
spec: affinity: podAntiAffinity: preferredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution: - podAffinityTerm: namespaces: - openshift-image-registry topologyKey: kubernetes.io/hostname weight: 100 logLevel: Normal managementState: Managed nodeSelector: 1 node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: "" tolerations: - effect: NoSchedule key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra value: reserved - effect: NoExecute key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra value: reserved
- 1
- Add a
nodeSelector
parameter with the appropriate value to the component you want to move. You can use anodeSelector
in the format shown or use<key>: <value>
pairs, based on the value specified for the node. If you added a taint to the infrasructure node, also add a matching toleration.
Verify the registry pod has been moved to the infrastructure node.
Run the following command to identify the node where the registry pod is located:
$ oc get pods -o wide -n openshift-image-registry
Confirm the node has the label you specified:
$ oc describe node <node_name>
Review the command output and confirm that
node-role.kubernetes.io/infra
is in theLABELS
list.
8.4.3. Moving the monitoring solution
The monitoring stack includes multiple components, including Prometheus, Thanos Querier, and Alertmanager. The Cluster Monitoring Operator manages this stack. To redeploy the monitoring stack to infrastructure nodes, you can create and apply a custom config map.
Procedure
Edit the
cluster-monitoring-config
config map and change thenodeSelector
to use theinfra
label:$ oc edit configmap cluster-monitoring-config -n openshift-monitoring
apiVersion: v1 kind: ConfigMap metadata: name: cluster-monitoring-config namespace: openshift-monitoring data: config.yaml: |+ alertmanagerMain: nodeSelector: 1 node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: "" tolerations: - key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra value: reserved effect: NoSchedule - key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra value: reserved effect: NoExecute prometheusK8s: nodeSelector: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: "" tolerations: - key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra value: reserved effect: NoSchedule - key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra value: reserved effect: NoExecute prometheusOperator: nodeSelector: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: "" tolerations: - key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra value: reserved effect: NoSchedule - key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra value: reserved effect: NoExecute metricsServer: nodeSelector: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: "" tolerations: - key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra value: reserved effect: NoSchedule - key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra value: reserved effect: NoExecute kubeStateMetrics: nodeSelector: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: "" tolerations: - key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra value: reserved effect: NoSchedule - key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra value: reserved effect: NoExecute telemeterClient: nodeSelector: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: "" tolerations: - key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra value: reserved effect: NoSchedule - key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra value: reserved effect: NoExecute openshiftStateMetrics: nodeSelector: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: "" tolerations: - key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra value: reserved effect: NoSchedule - key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra value: reserved effect: NoExecute thanosQuerier: nodeSelector: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: "" tolerations: - key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra value: reserved effect: NoSchedule - key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra value: reserved effect: NoExecute monitoringPlugin: nodeSelector: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: "" tolerations: - key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra value: reserved effect: NoSchedule - key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra value: reserved effect: NoExecute
- 1
- Add a
nodeSelector
parameter with the appropriate value to the component you want to move. You can use anodeSelector
in the format shown or use<key>: <value>
pairs, based on the value specified for the node. If you added a taint to the infrastructure node, also add a matching toleration.
Watch the monitoring pods move to the new machines:
$ watch 'oc get pod -n openshift-monitoring -o wide'
If a component has not moved to the
infra
node, delete the pod with this component:$ oc delete pod -n openshift-monitoring <pod>
The component from the deleted pod is re-created on the
infra
node.
8.4.4. Moving the Vertical Pod Autoscaler Operator components
The Vertical Pod Autoscaler Operator (VPA) consists of three components: the recommender, updater, and admission controller. The Operator and each component has its own pod in the VPA namespace on the control plane nodes. You can move the VPA Operator and component pods to infrastructure nodes by adding a node selector to the VPA subscription and the VerticalPodAutoscalerController
CR.
The following example shows the default deployment of the VPA pods to the control plane nodes.
Example output
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE IP NODE NOMINATED NODE READINESS GATES vertical-pod-autoscaler-operator-6c75fcc9cd-5pb6z 1/1 Running 0 7m59s 10.128.2.24 c416-tfsbj-master-1 <none> <none> vpa-admission-plugin-default-6cb78d6f8b-rpcrj 1/1 Running 0 5m37s 10.129.2.22 c416-tfsbj-master-1 <none> <none> vpa-recommender-default-66846bd94c-dsmpp 1/1 Running 0 5m37s 10.129.2.20 c416-tfsbj-master-0 <none> <none> vpa-updater-default-db8b58df-2nkvf 1/1 Running 0 5m37s 10.129.2.21 c416-tfsbj-master-1 <none> <none>
Procedure
Move the VPA Operator pod by adding a node selector to the
Subscription
custom resource (CR) for the VPA Operator:Edit the CR:
$ oc edit Subscription vertical-pod-autoscaler -n openshift-vertical-pod-autoscaler
Add a node selector to match the node role label on the infra node:
apiVersion: operators.coreos.com/v1alpha1 kind: Subscription metadata: labels: operators.coreos.com/vertical-pod-autoscaler.openshift-vertical-pod-autoscaler: "" name: vertical-pod-autoscaler # ... spec: config: nodeSelector: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: "" 1
- 1
- Specifies the node role of an infra node.
NoteIf the infra node uses taints, you need to add a toleration to the
Subscription
CR.For example:
apiVersion: operators.coreos.com/v1alpha1 kind: Subscription metadata: labels: operators.coreos.com/vertical-pod-autoscaler.openshift-vertical-pod-autoscaler: "" name: vertical-pod-autoscaler # ... spec: config: nodeSelector: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: "" tolerations: 1 - key: "node-role.kubernetes.io/infra" operator: "Exists" effect: "NoSchedule"
- 1
- Specifies a toleration for a taint on the infra node.
Move each VPA component by adding node selectors to the
VerticalPodAutoscaler
custom resource (CR):Edit the CR:
$ oc edit VerticalPodAutoscalerController default -n openshift-vertical-pod-autoscaler
Add node selectors to match the node role label on the infra node:
apiVersion: autoscaling.openshift.io/v1 kind: VerticalPodAutoscalerController metadata: name: default namespace: openshift-vertical-pod-autoscaler # ... spec: deploymentOverrides: admission: container: resources: {} nodeSelector: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: "" 1 recommender: container: resources: {} nodeSelector: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: "" 2 updater: container: resources: {} nodeSelector: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: "" 3
NoteIf a target node uses taints, you need to add a toleration to the
VerticalPodAutoscalerController
CR.For example:
apiVersion: autoscaling.openshift.io/v1 kind: VerticalPodAutoscalerController metadata: name: default namespace: openshift-vertical-pod-autoscaler # ... spec: deploymentOverrides: admission: container: resources: {} nodeSelector: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: "" tolerations: 1 - key: "my-example-node-taint-key" operator: "Exists" effect: "NoSchedule" recommender: container: resources: {} nodeSelector: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: "" tolerations: 2 - key: "my-example-node-taint-key" operator: "Exists" effect: "NoSchedule" updater: container: resources: {} nodeSelector: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: "" tolerations: 3 - key: "my-example-node-taint-key" operator: "Exists" effect: "NoSchedule"
Verification
You can verify the pods have moved by using the following command:
$ oc get pods -n openshift-vertical-pod-autoscaler -o wide
The pods are no longer deployed to the control plane nodes.
Example output
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE IP NODE NOMINATED NODE READINESS GATES vertical-pod-autoscaler-operator-6c75fcc9cd-5pb6z 1/1 Running 0 7m59s 10.128.2.24 c416-tfsbj-infra-eastus3-2bndt <none> <none> vpa-admission-plugin-default-6cb78d6f8b-rpcrj 1/1 Running 0 5m37s 10.129.2.22 c416-tfsbj-infra-eastus1-lrgj8 <none> <none> vpa-recommender-default-66846bd94c-dsmpp 1/1 Running 0 5m37s 10.129.2.20 c416-tfsbj-infra-eastus1-lrgj8 <none> <none> vpa-updater-default-db8b58df-2nkvf 1/1 Running 0 5m37s 10.129.2.21 c416-tfsbj-infra-eastus1-lrgj8 <none> <none>