Scheduling a Cluster using Labels and LabelConstraints

Goal: Explore the labels mechanisms and schedule a Cluster based on labels and label constraints.

Introduction

Note

Refer to the Label constraints for useful information about label constraints.

Krake allows the user to define a label constraint and restrict the deployment of Cluster resources only to cloud backends that match all defined labels.

Preparation

Please go through the Preparation as well as through the Register an existing infrastructure provider to Krake and register an infrastructure provider. Validate the infrastructure provider registration as follows:

rok infra provider list
+-------------+--------------+--------+---------------------+---------------------+---------+------+-----------------------+
|    name     |  namespace   | labels |       created       |      modified       | deleted | type |          url          |
+=============+==============+========+=====================+=====================+=========+======+=======================+
| im-provider | system:admin | None   | 2000-01-01 08:00:00 | 2000-01-01 08:00:00 | None    | im   | http://localhost:8800 |
+-------------+--------------+--------+---------------------+---------------------+---------+------+-----------------------+

Register os-cloud-1 and os-cloud-2 Clouds, and associate the location Label. Each label always has a key and a value. We follow the same specifications as the Kubernetes project.

Note

Refer to the Register an existing OpenStack based cloud to Krake for useful information about Cloud attributes.

rok infra cloud register -l location=DE --type openstack --url <os-auth-url> --project <os-project-name> --username <os-username> --password <os-password> --infra-provider im-provider os-cloud-1
rok infra cloud register -l location=SK --type openstack --url <os-auth-url> --project <os-project-name> --username <os-username> --password <os-password> --infra-provider im-provider os-cloud-2

Tip

You do not need access to the two OpenStack projects for os-cloud-1 and os-cloud-2 registration. It is possible to register one OpenStack project two times in Krake with different labels. Do not use this setup in the production environment!

Scheduling of a Cluster

Create my-cluster cluster with a location LabelConstraints, and observe where it is spawned.

rok kube cluster create -f git/krake/rak/functionals/im-cluster.yaml my-cluster -L location=SK
rok kube cluster get my-cluster -o json | jq .status.running_on  # Cluster is running on "os-cloud-2"

Note

You can observe the scheduler logs in DEBUG mode to gather additional understanding of the scheduling mechanism.

Cleanup

Delete the Cluster, both Clouds and the IM InfrastructureProvider.

rok kube cluster delete my-cluster
rok infra cloud delete os-cloud-1
rok infra cloud delete os-cloud-2
rok infra provider delete im-provider