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Enhance Generate PodGroup OwnerReferences for Normal Pod
Background
Volcano scheduler can schedule normal workload such as single Pod, Deployment, CronJob, Statefulset etc., and other CRD workflow. For these normal pod, volcano controller will create a podgroup for these workload. When it is a single Pod, controller will set podgroup ownerReferences points to this pod, otherwise controller will use podownerReferences as the podgroup's.
For issue 2143 when deployment update, it will create new replicaset and volcano controller will create new podgroup for replicaset. After several times update, the Deployment has many Inqueue podgroups. For example, it is not reasonable for one Deployment has four podgourps(three podgroups is in Inqueue and one in Running status) which consume resources in overcommit plugin.
| Deployment | ReplicaSet | PodGroup |
|---|---|---|
| deploy-with-volcano | deploy-with-volcano-7bd985746b | podgroup-4f5210d9-3cba-4a59-b61c-1b243f464708 |
| deploy-with-volcano-7f95dd7984 | podgroup-17fec14a-232c-4e1c-942e-e4d1289fc60b | |
| deploy-with-volcano-fd9dd69b6 | podgroup-5edaeb31-f16e-49c4-ac81-4aa331ea8f19 | |
| deploy-with-volcano-995f85c44 | podgroup-0296521d-9dad-4d68-8abf-2d4b32f3bfbc |
Let review volcano controller create podgroup process:
Solution
Some workload control pod directly such as Job, SparkApplication etc. For these workload, we can use the pod's ownerReferences as podgroup's ownerReferences. Some workload will control pod by other resources such as Deployment controls pod by Replicaset or Workflow controls pod by other resources.
Volcano controller will introduce a configmap which stores (apiversion/kind/adjust-level) array. apiversion and kind can consist of GVK. adjust-level is integer which is used for workflow cases.
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
name: volcano-controller-configmap
namespace: volcano-system
data:
volcano-controller.conf: |
podgroup-level-rules:
- apiversion: apps/v1
kind: deployment
adjust-level: 0
- apiversion: batch/v1
kind: job
adjust-level: 0
- apiversion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
kind: workflow
adjust-level: -1
In workflow case, one workflow consists of many different resources (job/application) and job/application consists of pods. So the podgroup should match with job/application level instead of workflow level. We can use workflow GVK and adjust-level: -1 to achieve this purpose. "-1" means podgroup should just one level below this GVK.
When controller need create a podgroup, it will check the pod ownerReferences apiversion and kind if match one of the configmap rule. If yes, will use this ownerReferences as podgroup's ownerReferences; if not, controller will use dynamicClient to check parent resource ownerReferences recursively until get the one match the configmap rule or the root ownerReferences.
DiscoveryClient & DynamicClient
From the ownerReferences, we can get or create a GVK and owner resource name.
Discovery client is focused on the k8s resources, it can get GVR from GVK. When get GVR and owner resource name, we can use Dynamic client to get the owner resource's ownerReferences.
RBAC
User Cases
Configmap:
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
name: volcano-controller-configmap
namespace: volcano-system
data:
volcano-controller.conf: |
podgroupLevel:
- apiversion: apps/v1
kind: deployment
adjust-level: 0
- apiversion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
kind: workflow
adjust-level: -1
1. Single pod workload with scheduling.k8s.io/group-name annotation
Pod has scheduling.k8s.io/group-name annotation, controller will not create pg for it.
2. Single pod workload without scheduling.k8s.io/group-name annotation
Pod does not have owner reference, controller will create pg and set this pod as pg's owner reference.
3. Argo k8s job workflow
Consider argo workflow such as:
apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
kind: Workflow
metadata:
generateName: k8s-jobs-
spec:
entrypoint: pi-tmpl
templates:
- name: pi-tmpl
resource:
action: create
successCondition: status.succeeded > 0
failureCondition: status.failed > 3
manifest: |
apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: Job
metadata:
generateName: pi-job-
spec:
template:
metadata:
name: pi
spec:
containers:
- name: pi
image: perl
command: ["perl", "-Mbignum=bpi", "-wle", "print bpi(2000)"]
restartPolicy: Never
backoffLimit: 4
Workflow create a Job and Pod's owner reference points to a Job. Because the configmap does not contain any information about workflow and job, finally controller will create a pg and use pod's owner reference (Job) information as pg's owner reference.
4. Deployment workload
Pod's owner reference points to a ReplicaSet and ReplicaSet's owner reference points to Deployment. Controller will search owner reference recursively, finally find the ReplicaSet's owner reference (Deployment) match one of the configmap rule. Controller will use this Deployment pg's owner reference.

