Currently, PouchContainer has lots of advantages over other container runtimes, such as:
- resource review isolation via lxcfs
- runtime choosing for runc-based container or runv-based containers
- and so on
While actually in kubernetes, there is no related API to support these feature.
While for these extended features in Kubernetes, Kubernetes has a hiden way to support this: make user-defined parameters in annotations field in pod's definition. When CRI manager deals the annotation details, it could pass these parameters to container manager, and container manager definitely implement these features very well.
So, we need to accomplish the following things:
- define the specific naming in annotations for each feature;
- implement the transformation in CRI manager and pass them to container manager.
Requirement | Field definition | Supported Kubernetes Version | Pull Request |
---|---|---|---|
make runtime choosing supported | KubernetesRuntime = "io.kubernetes.runtime" | V1.6 + | AliyunContainerService#1593 |
make lxcfs configurable supported | LxcfsEnabled = "io.kubernetes.lxcfs.enabled" | V1.10 + | AliyunContainerService#2210 |
NOTES: The way to specify runtime using KubernetesRuntime annotation is Deprecated. It is recommended to use RuntimeClass which is an alpha feature for selecting the container runtime configuration to use to run a pod’s containers.
- Support choosing the runtime for a container by making runtime choosing supported.
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Prerequisites Installation, the runtime binaries you will use is necessary.
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You should start pouchd with the configuration like this:
pouchd --enable-cri --cri-version v1alpha2 --add-runtime runv=runv >pouchd.log 2>&1 &
- After setting up your kubernetes cluster, you can create a deployment like this :
# cat pouch-runtime.yaml
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: pouch-runtime
labels:
pouch: pouch-runtime
spec:
selector:
matchLabels:
pouch: pouch-runtime
template:
metadata:
labels:
pouch: pouch-runtime
annotations:
io.kubernetes.runtime: runv
spec:
containers:
- name: pouch-runtime
image: docker.io/library/nginx:latest
ports:
- containerPort: 80
# kubectl create -f pouch-runtime.yaml
- Use command
pouch ps
to observe the runtime of the container and use commanduname -a
to view the system info.
# pouch ps
Name ID Status Created Image Runtime
k8s_pouch-runtime_pouch-runtime-76c8d4d79b-6l5w7_default_47e8f918-b7c8-11e8-b238-42010a8c0004_0 59ce1d Up 8 seconds 9 seconds ago docker.io/library/nginx:latest runv
k8s_POD_pouch-runtime-76c8d4d79b-6l5w7_default_47e8f918-b7c8-11e8-b238-42010a8c0004_0 9492db Up 21 seconds 29 seconds ago registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/google-containers/pause-amd64:3.0 runv
// the system info for host
# uname -a
Linux k8s 4.15.0-1019-gcp #20~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 30 11:52:19 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
// the system info for the pod with runv
# kubectl exec -it pouch-runtime-76c8d4d79b-6l5w7 -- bash
$ uname -a
Linux pouch-runtime-76c8d4d79b-6l5w7 4.12.4-hyper #18 SMP Mon Sep 4 15:10:13 CST 2017 x86_64 GNU/Linux
- Support resource review isolation via lxcfs in CRI Manager by making lxcfs configurable supported.
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Prerequisites Installation and make sure your lxcfs service is running.
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Enable pouchd lxcfs (with --enable-lxcfs flag).
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After setting up your kubernetes cluster, you can create a deployment like this :
# cat pouch-lxcfs.yaml
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: pouch-lxcfs
labels:
pouch: pouch-lxcfs
spec:
selector:
matchLabels:
pouch: pouch-lxcfs
template:
metadata:
labels:
pouch: pouch-lxcfs
annotations:
io.kubernetes.lxcfs.enabled: "true"
spec:
containers:
- name: pouch-lxcfs
image: docker.io/library/busybox:latest
command:
- top
resources:
requests:
memory: "256Mi"
limits:
memory: "256Mi"
# kubectl create -f pouch-lxcfs.yaml
- View the results.
# pouch ps
Name ID Status Created Image Runtime
k8s_pouch_pouch-5ddd8fc467-rmtcw_default_bc4b7972-b181-11e8-adae-42010a8c0003_0 5391a9 Up 8 hours 8 hours ago docker.io/library/busybox:latest runc
k8s_POD_pouch-5ddd8fc467-rmtcw_default_bc4b7972-b181-11e8-adae-42010a8c0003_0 60a833 Up 8 hours 8 hours ago registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/google-containers/pause-amd64:3.0 runc
# pouch exec k8s_pouch_pouch-5ddd8fc467-rmtcw_default_bc4b7972-b181-11e8-adae-42010a8c0003_0 cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 262144 kB
MemFree: 261368 kB
MemAvailable: 261368 kB
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