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Cluster Autoscaler for Rancher with RKE2

This cluster autoscaler for Rancher scales nodes in clusters which use RKE2 provisioning (Rancher v2.6+). It uses a combination of the Rancher API and the underlying cluster-api types of RKE2.

Configuration

The cluster-autoscaler for Rancher needs a configuration file to work by using --cloud-config parameter. An up-to-date example can be found in examples/config.yaml.

Permissions

The Rancher server account provided in the cloud-config requires the following permissions on the Rancher server:

Get/Update of the clusters.provisioning.cattle.io resource to autoscale
List of machines.cluster.x-k8s.io in the namespace of the cluster resource

Running the Autoscaler

The cluster-autoscaler can be run inside the RKE2 cluster, on the Rancher server cluster or on a completely separate machine. To run it outside the RKE2 cluster, make sure to provide a kubeconfig with --kubeconfig.

To start the autoscaler with the Rancher provider, the cloud provider needs to be specified:

cluster-autoscaler --cloud-provider=rancher --cloud-config=config.yaml

Enabling Autoscaling

In order for the autoscaler to function, the RKE2 cluster needs to be configured accordingly. The autoscaler works by adjusting the quantity of a machinePool dynamically. For the autoscaler to know the min/max size of a machinePool we need to set a few annotations using the machineDeploymentAnnotations field. That field has been chosen because updating it does not trigger a full rollout of a machinePool.

apiVersion: provisioning.cattle.io/v1
kind: Cluster
spec:
  rkeConfig:
    machinePools:
    - name: pool-1
      quantity: 1
      workerRole: true
      machineDeploymentAnnotations:
        cluster.provisioning.cattle.io/autoscaler-min-size: "1"
        cluster.provisioning.cattle.io/autoscaler-max-size: "3"

Optionally in order to enable scaling a machinePool from and to 0 nodes, we need to add a few more annotations to let the autoscaler know, which resources a single node in a pool provides:

apiVersion: provisioning.cattle.io/v1
kind: Cluster
spec:
  rkeConfig:
    machinePools:
    - name: pool-1
      machineDeploymentAnnotations:
        cluster.provisioning.cattle.io/autoscaler-min-size: "0"
        cluster.provisioning.cattle.io/autoscaler-max-size: "3"
        cluster.provisioning.cattle.io/autoscaler-resource-cpu: "1"
        cluster.provisioning.cattle.io/autoscaler-resource-ephemeral-storage: 50Gi
        cluster.provisioning.cattle.io/autoscaler-resource-memory: 4Gi

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