Now that kubelet has switched to incremental updates, it has complete
information of the pod update type (create, update, sync). This change pipes
this information to pod workers so that they don't have to derive the type
again.
Currently, whenever there is any update, kubelet would force all pod workers to
sync again, causing resource contention and hence performance degradation.
This commit flips kubelet to use incremental updates (as opposed to snapshots).
This allows us to know what pods have changed and send updates to those pod
workers only. The `SyncPods` function has been replaced with individual
handlers, each handling an operation (ADD, REMOVE, UPDATE). Pod workers are
still triggered periodically, and kubelet performs periodic cleanup as well.
This commit also spawns a new goroutine solely responsible for killing pods.
This is necessary because pod killing could hold up the sync loop for
indefinitely long amount of time now user can define the graceful termination
period in the container spec.
Currently, API server is not aware of the static pods (manifests from
sources other than the API server, e.g. file and http) at all. This is
inconvenient since users cannot check the static pods through kubectl.
It is also sub-optimal because scheduler is unaware of the resource
consumption by these static pods on the node.
This change syncs the information back to the API server by creating a
mirror pod via API server for each static pod.
- Kubelet creates containers for the static pod, as it would do
normally.
- If a mirror pod gets deleted, Kubelet will re-create one. The
containers are sync'd to the static pods, so they will not be
affected.
- If a static pod gets removed from the source (e.g. manifest file
removed from the directory), the orphaned mirror pod will be deleted.
Note that because events are associated with UID, and the mirror pod has
a different UID than the original static pod, the events will not be
shown for the mirror pod when running `kubectl describe pod
<mirror_pod>`.
Yu-Ju Hong