Kubernetes Cluster Upgrade / Mercari Meetup for Microservices Platform

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2018/07/19 Mercari Meetup for Microservices Platform @dtan4 Kubernetes Cluster Upgrade

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2 About me @dtan4 (Daisuke Fujita) SRE @ Mercari, Inc.
Microservices Platform Team

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3 Topics • Why we have to upgrade Kubernetes cluster?
• How to upgrade Kubernetes cluster safely? • Case: Upgrade GKE clusters in Mercari

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Why we have to upgrade Kubernetes cluster?

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5 Kubernetes Release Versioning • Minor releases happens approximately every
3 months v1.11.0 2018-06-28 05:06:28 +0900 JST v1.10.0 2018-03-27 01:41:58 +0900 JST v1.9.0 2017-12-16 05:53:13 +0900 JST v1.8.0 2017-09-29 07:13:57 +0900 JST v1.7.0 2017-06-30 07:53:16 +0900 JST https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/6e31a546a50f6f57f3e9e1422ade0599f5e3e77d/contributors/design-proposals/release/versioning.md#supported-releases-and-component-skew

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6 Kubernetes Release Versioning • 3 minor versions are supported
v1.11.0 2018-06-28 05:06:28 +0900 JST v1.10.0 2018-03-27 01:41:58 +0900 JST v1.9.0 2017-12-16 05:53:13 +0900 JST v1.8.0 2017-09-29 07:13:57 +0900 JST v1.7.0 2017-06-30 07:53:16 +0900 JST https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/6e31a546a50f6f57f3e9e1422ade0599f5e3e77d/contributors/design-proposals/release/versioning.md#supported-releases-and-component-skew

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7 Security fixes

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8 Kubernetes new features • Pod priority and preemption •
CRD versioning • HPA with custom metrics • ...

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9 3rd party integrations

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How to upgrade Kubernetes cluster safely?

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11 kubectl cordon <NODE> • Mark node as Pod-unschedulable ◦
e.g., kubectl cordon node-02 node-01 Pod Pod Pod node-02 Pod Pod new Pod ❌ node-03 Pod Pod SchedulingDisabled

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12 kubectl drain <NODE> • kubectl cordon + Evict Pods
on the node gracefully ◦ e.g., kubectl drain node-02 node-01 Pod Pod Pod node-02 Pod Pod new Pod ❌ node-03 Pod Pod Pod Pod SchedulingDisabled

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13 Availability? • All ‘C’ Pods are running on the
same node node-01 A A B node-02 node-03 B A C C C

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14 Availability? • kubectl drain node-02 ◦ All ‘C’ Pods
will be terminated simultaneously node-01 A A B node-02 C C node-03 B A C C SchedulingDisabled C C

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15 PodDisruptionBudget • PodDisruptionBudget (PDB) limits the number of Pods
of a replicated application that are down simultaneously from voluntary disruptions (e.g., drain, autoscaling) • work well with Deployment or Replicaset • Specify minAvailable or maxAvailable by the number of Pods or percentage • Application must be running on multiple Pods https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/disruptions/

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16 PodDisruptionBudget example apiVersion: policy/v1beta1 kind: PodDisruptionBudget metadata: name: app-c
namespace: app-c-dev spec: minAvailable: 50% selector: matchLabels: app: c

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17 PDB + kubectl drain • PDB for C: minAvailable:
50% (ALLOWED DISRUPTIONS: 1) node-01 A A B node-02 node-03 B A C C C

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18 PDB + kubectl drain • PDB for C: minAvailable:
50% (ALLOWED DISRUPTIONS: 1) • kubectl drain node-02 keeps at least two ‘C’ Pods available node-01 A A B node-02 C node-03 B A C SchedulingDisabled C C

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19 PDB + kubectl drain node-01 A A B node-02
C node-03 B A C C SchedulingDisabled C • PDB for C: minAvailable: 50% (ALLOWED DISRUPTIONS: 1) • kubectl drain node-02 keeps at least two ‘C’ Pods available

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20 PDB + kubectl drain node-01 A A B node-02
node-03 B A C C SchedulingDisabled C C • PDB for C: minAvailable: 50% (ALLOWED DISRUPTIONS: 1) • kubectl drain node-02 keeps at least two ‘C’ Pods available

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21 GKE cluster upgrade 1. Upgrade GKE master 2. Upgrade
GKE nodes ◦ Rolling update existing nodes ◦ Node pools migration

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22 Upgrade GKE master • Zonal (single master) cluster causes
control plane downtime ◦ ~ 2 minutes ◦ kubectl stops working ◦ CronJob will not be kicked • Regional (HA masters) cluster can be upgrade with zero-downtime ◦ Existing zonal -> regional migration is not supported...

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23 GKE node upgrade: rolling update • Upgrade existing nodes
one by one • Behavior of “Automatic node upgrades” • Make sure that cluster capacity is enough even 1 node is down node-01 v1.10 node-02 v1.10 node-03 v1.10 node-01 v1.11 node-02 v1.10 node-03 v1.10

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24 GKE node upgrade: node pools migration • Create new
node pools with new Kubernetes version • Migrate all Pods on old nodes to new nodes ◦ kubectl cordon ◦ kubectl drain • Delete old node pools • Make sure that enough GCP resource capacity is prepared https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/06/Kubernetes-best-practices-upgrading-your-clusters-with-zero-downtime.html

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25 nodepool-1-10 v1.10 GKE node upgrade: node pools migration node-1-10-a
v1.10 node-1-10-b v1.10 node-1-10-c v1.10

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v1.10 node-1-10-b v1.10 node-1-10-c v1.10 nodepool-1-11 v1.11 node-1-11-a v1.11 node-1-11-b v1.11 node-1-11-c v1.11

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v1.10 node-1-10-b v1.10 node-1-10-c v1.10 nodepool-1-11 v1.11 node-1-11-a v1.11 node-1-11-b v1.11 node-1-11-c v1.11 SchedulingDisabled SchedulingDisabled SchedulingDisabled

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30 GKE node upgrade: node pools migration nodepool-1-11 v1.11 node-1-11-a
v1.11 node-1-11-b v1.11 node-1-11-c v1.11

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Case: GKE cluster upgrade in Mercari

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32 Case: GKE cluster upgrade in Mercari 1. Codenize GKE
resources 2. Create PDBs for all microservices 3. Upgrade! a. Upgrade GKE master (Terraform) b. Create GKE node pools (Terraform) c. Migrate all Pods (script) d. Delete old GKE node pools (Terraform)

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33 Codenize GKE resources • Existing GKE clusters were created
by gcloud command • We want to manage GKE (and all other cloud) resources on GitHub! ◦ git log as operation history ◦ review changes by other team members ◦ modify resources from CI without manual operation

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34 Codenize GKE resources • Codenize GKE resources by dtan4/terraforming-gke

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35 Create PDBs for all microservices • Most of our
microservices didn’t have PDBs • Define default minAvailable by SREs • Confirm microservices’ availability with developers

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36 Upgrade GKE master • Modify Terraform code • Review
by team members • Apply on CircleCI

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37 Upgrade GKE master

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38 Create & Delete GKE node pools • Copy-and-paste &
modify Terraform code • Review by team members • Apply on CircleCI

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39 Future work • Enable “Automatic node upgrades” ◦ ensure
all microservices are resilient towards disruptions ◦ reduce upgrade steps • Create PDB by microservice developers themselves

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Kubernetes Cluster Upgrade / Mercari Meetup for Microservices Platform

Kubernetes Cluster Upgrade / Mercari Meetup for Microservices Platform

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