Manage Pulsar Cluster Lifecycles with Kubernetes Operators - Pulsar Summit NA 2021
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This document discusses how Pulsar operators can be used to automate lifecycle management of Pulsar clusters on Kubernetes. It describes how operators use custom resource definitions and controllers to reconcile the actual cluster state with the desired state. Specific examples are provided for how operators can perform controlled cluster upgrades, scale bookies, and clean up after cluster deletion. The integration of operators with Helm charts is also covered.
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Manage Pulsar Cluster Lifecycles with Kubernetes Operators - Pulsar Summit NA 2021
- 1. Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021 Manage Pulsar Cluster Lifecycles with Kubernetes Operators Yang Yang @ StreamNative
- 2. Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021 About Me ● Software Engineer in StreamNative Cloud ● Open Source Contributor ○ Apache Pulsar ○ Apache BookKeeper ● Alibaba -> Elastic -> StreamNative
- 3. Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021 StreamNative Founded by the creators of Apache Pulsar, StreamNative provides a cloud-native, unified messaging and streaming platform powered by Apache Pulsar to support multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud strategies
- 4. Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021 Apache Pulsar ● Apache Pulsar is a cloud-native, distributed messaging and streaming platform ○ Fast ○ Highly scalable ○ Lots of powerful features ● Deployment ○ Kubernetes
- 5. Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021 Deploy Pulsar Clusters on K8s ● Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. ○ Consistent, repeatable, reliable deployments on a wide variety of systems ○ Extensible control plane ● Lots of details, hard to be managed directly ○ Hundreds of lines of manifests
- 6. Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021 Deploy Pulsar Clusters on K8s ● Helm is a tool for managing Kubernetes packages ○ Chart ■ Pulsar ○ Config ○ Release ● Works for day-1 operations ○ What about days after?
- 7. Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021 Operations After “Day-1” ● It’s difficult to manage the entire lifecycle of Pulsar Clusters with Helm charts automatically ○ Upgrades ○ Scale up/down ○ Failover ○ Fine-grained, complex workflows ● Requires some program to perform these operations based on the state of Pulsar clusters continuously
- 8. Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021 Pulsar Operators ● StreamNative developed a set of Pulsar operators to automate common operational activities ○ Put operational knowledges of Pulsar clusters in softwares ○ Let software manage softwares ● Fundamental elements ○ CRDs ○ Controllers
- 9. Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021 Pulsar Operators: CRDs ● CRD: Custom Resource Definition ● Declarative APIs ○ Different CRDs for different component clusters ■ ZooKeeper ■ BookKeeper ■ PulsarBroker ■ PulsarProxy ○ Treat a cluster as a single object rather than a set of primitives directly(like Pod, StatefulSet, Service, etc.) ■ Metadata ■ Spec ● Defines the desired state ■ Status ● Exposes the actual state
- 10. Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021 Example
- 11. Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021 Enable Advanced Features
- 12. Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021 Pulsar Operators ● Controllers: encode operational knowledges into programs ○ Reconcile the actual state towards the desired state continuously ■ Resilient: level-based reconciliations ■ Eventually consistent ○ Triggered by events ■ Changes of resources ■ Timer ■ Custom event source ● Allow customized management workflow on resources flexibly
- 13. Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021 Pulsar Operators
- 14. Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021 Controlled Cluster Upgrades ● Upgrade clusters smoothly in a controlled manner ○ Maintain cluster availability ○ Avoid data-loss ○ Minimum impacts ● Rolling upgrade in K8s? ○ Not good enough for stateful workloads ■ BookKeeper ● Data re-replication during upgrades ■ ZooKeeper ● Leader restart could cause system to be unavailable for a few seconds
- 15. Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021 ZooKeeper Upgrades ● Use `OnDelete` update strategy to control the sequence of upgrades ● Collect membership information via Rest APIs ● Upgrade ZooKeeper Leader node after follower nodes to reduce impacts
- 16. Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021 BookKeeper Upgrades ● Turn off auto-recovery during upgrades to avoid unnecessary data re-replication ● Turn on auto-recovery after upgrades automatically
- 17. Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021 Decommission Bookies ● Decommissioning bookies from a BookKeeper cluster is a complex and error-prone operation ○ Admin has to perform the following steps for each bookie to decommission ■ Run $ bin/bookkeeper shell listunderreplicated to see if there is under replicated ledgers ■ Stop the bookie if there is no under-replicated ledgers ■ Run $ bin/bookkeeper shell decommissionbookie -bookieid <target bookieid> to decommission the target bookie ● Replicate under-replicated ledgers ● Remove bookie metadata
- 18. Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021 Decommission Bookies by Operator ● Operator is able to decommission bookies automatically ○ The administrator just need to update the value of replicas to the desired number, operator then take care of the decommission workflow ● How it works ○ Add a finalizer to each bookie pod for pre-deletion hook ○ Create a job to decommission the bookie on pod deletion ○ Remove the finalizer on the pod to after decommission
- 19. Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021 Decommission Bookies by Operator
- 20. Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021 Scale Down Bookies by Operator ● Scale down from 6 -> 3 ○ Operator controlled decommissioning by one bookie pod at a time
- 21. Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021 Scale Down Bookies by Operator ● Create a job to decommission the bookie
- 22. Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021 Scale Down Bookies by Operator ● Remove the finalizer on the pod when the decommissioning job completes successfully ○ The job will be garbage collected
- 23. Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021 Scale Down Bookies by Operator ● Keep decommissioning until the number of replicas reaches the expected value
- 24. Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021 Cleanup After Cluster Deletion ● Sometimes the metadata and the data of a broker cluster need to be deleted explicitly after the deletion of the cluster ○ A shared storage architecture
- 25. Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021 Cleanup After Cluster Deletion
- 26. Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021 Helm Chart Integration ● StreamNative platform provides a Helm chart for managing pulsar clusters with operators ○ Use cases ■ Deploy a new pulsar cluster mostly just like using the open-source Helm chart ■ Help users to migrate existing pulsar clusters from Helm charts to operators ○ Map the configuration of helm releases to definitions of operator CRDs ○ Operators control the clusters under the hood
- 27. Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021 Upgrade from Helm Chart
- 28. Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021 Upgrade from Helm Chart
- 29. Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021 Upgrade from Helm Chart
- 30. Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021 Upgrade from Helm Chart
- 31. Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021 Conclusion ● Operators are powerful tools for managing lifecycles of pulsar clusters in production on Kubernetes ○ Especially for operations after “Day-1” ● It evolves with Pulsar and will be made it better and better ○ Built-in structured configurations ○ Fine-grained automatic cluster management ● Want to try it out? ○ StreamNative Platform ○ StreamNative Cloud
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- 35. Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021 Thanks!