This is an alternative implementation of https://github.com/kubernetes/contrib/pull/1982
Notable differences from the original PR are:
* A new flag named `--node-group-auto-discovery` is introduced for opting in to enable the auto-discovery feature.
* For example, specifying `--cloud-provider aws --node-group-auto-discovery asg:tag=k8s.io/cluster-autoscaler/enabled` instructs CA to auto-discover ASGs tagged with `k8s.io/cluster-autoscaler/enabled` to be used as target node groups
* The new code path introduced by this PR is executed only when `node-group-auto-discovery` is specified. There is relatively less chance to break existing features by introducing this change
Resolves https://github.com/kubernetes/contrib/issues/1956
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Other notes:
* We rely mainly on the `DescribeTags` API rather than `DescribeAutoScalingGroups` so that AWS can filter out unnecessary ASGs which doesn't belong to the k8s cluster, for us.
* If we relied on `DescribeAutoScalingGroups` here, as it doesn't support `Filter`ing, we'd need to iterate over ALL the ASGs available in an AWS account, which isn't desirable due to unnecessary excessive API calls and network usages
* Update cloudprovider/aws/README for the new configuration
* Warn abount invalid combination of flags
according to the review comment https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/pull/11#discussion_r113713138
* Emit a validation error when both --nodes and --node-group-auto-discovery are specified
according to the review comment https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/pull/11#discussion_r113958080
TODO/Possible future improvements before recommending this to everyone:
* Cache the result of an auto-discovery for a configurable period, so that we won't invoke DescribeTags and DescribeAutoScalingGroup APIs too many times
Adds a new optional flag named `configmap` to specify the name of a configmap containing node group specs.
The configmap is polled every `scan-interval` seconds to reconfigure cluster-autoscaler dynamically at runtime.
Example usage:
```
./cluster-autoscaler --v=4 --cloud-provider=aws --skip-nodes-with-local-storage=false --logtostderr --leader-elect=false --configmap=cluster-autoscaler --logtostderr
```
The configmap would look like:
```yaml
kind: ConfigMap
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
name: cluster-autoscaler
namespace: kube-system
data:
settings: |-
{
"nodeGroups": [
{
"minSize": 1,
"maxSize": 2,
"name": "kubeawstest-nodepool1-AutoScaleWorker-1VWD4GAVG35L5"
}
]
}
```
Other notes:
* Make namespace defaults to "kube-system"
according to https://github.com/kubernetes/contrib/pull/2226#discussion_r94144267
* Trigger a full-recreate on a configuration change
according to https://github.com/kubernetes/contrib/pull/2226#issuecomment-269617410
* Introduced `autoscaler/` and moved all the dynamic/recreatable-at-runtime parts of autoscaler into there (Update: the package is now named `core` according to https://github.com/kubernetes/contrib/pull/2226#issuecomment-273071663)
* Extracted the core of CA(=`func Run()` in `main.go`) into `Autoscaler`
* `DynamicAutoscaler` is a wrapper around `Autoscaler` which achieves reconfiguration of CA by recreating an `Autoscaler` instance on a configmap change.
* Moved `scale_down*.go`, `scale_up*.go` and `utils*.go` into the `autoscaler` package accordingly because they seemed to be meant to be collocated in the same package as the core of CA (which is now implemented as `Autoscaler`)
* Moved the `createEventRecorder` func from the `main` package to the `utils/kubernetes` package to make it importable from both `main` and `autoscaler`
Aleksandra Malinowska
Maciej Pytel
Yusuke Kuoka
Marcin Wielgus