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WIP: blog: node: kubelet podresources API GA in 1.28
I'm intentionally covering multiple related enhancements with a single blog post. Enhancements: - kubernetes/enhancements#606 - kubernetes/enhancements#2403 - kubernetes/enhancements#3743 Signed-off-by: Francesco Romani <[email protected]>
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| title: 'Kubernetes v1.28: Kubelet podresources API GA' | ||
| date: 2023-MM-DD | ||
| slug: kubelet-podresources-api-GA | ||
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| **Author:** | ||
| Francesco Romani (Red Hat) | ||
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| The podresources API is an API served by the kubelet locally on the node, which exposes the compute resources exclusively | ||
| allocated to containers. In Kubernetes 1.28 the API is now Generally Available. | ||
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| ## What problem does it solve? | ||
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| The kubelet can allocate exclusive resources to containers, like | ||
| [CPUs, granting exclusive access to full cores](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-node/3570-cpumanager) | ||
| or [memory, either regions or hugepages](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-node/1769-memory-manager). | ||
| Workloads which require high performance, or low latency (or both) leverage these features. | ||
| The kubelet also can assign [devices to containers](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-node/3573-device-plugin) | ||
| Collectively, these features which enable exclusive assignments are known as "resource managers". | ||
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| The podresources API was [initially proposed to enable device monitoring](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-node/606-compute-device-assignment#motivation). | ||
| In order to enable monitoring agents, a key prerequisite is to enable introspection of device assignment, which is performed by the kubelet. | ||
| Serving this purpose was the initial goal of the API. The API was initially extremely simple, with just a single function implemented, `List`, | ||
| to return information about the assignment of devices to containers. | ||
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| Without an API like podresources, the only possible option to learn about resource assignment was to read the state files the | ||
| resource managers use. While done out of necessity, the problem with this approach is the path and the format of these file are | ||
| both internal implementation details. Albeit very stable, the project reserves the chance to change them freely. | ||
| Consuming the content of the state files is thus fragile and unsupported, and projects doing this are recommended to consider | ||
| moving to podresources API or to other supported APIs. | ||
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| Since its inception, the podresources API increased its scope to cover other resource managers than device manager. | ||
| In Kubernetes 1.20, the `List` API reports also CPU cores and memory regions (including hugepages); the API also | ||
| reports the NUMA locality of the devices, while the locality of CPUs and memory can be inferred from the system. | ||
| In kubernetes 1.21, [the API gained the `GetAllocatableResources` function](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/blob/master/keps/sig-node/2403-pod-resources-allocatable-resources/README.md). | ||
| This new API complements the existing `List` API and enables monitoring agents to determine the unallocated resources, | ||
| thus enabling new features built on top of the podresources API like a | ||
| [NUMA-aware scheduler plugin](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/scheduler-plugins/blob/master/pkg/noderesourcetopology/README.md). | ||
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| ## Consuming the API | ||
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| TBD | ||
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| ## Future enhancements | ||
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| For historical reasons, the podresources API has a less precise specification with respect to the other kubernetes API. | ||
| This leads to unspecified behavior in corner cases. | ||
| [An effort is ongoing](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/119423) to rectify this state and to have a more precise specification. | ||
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| The [Dynamic Resource Allocation - DRA infrastructure](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-node/3063-dynamic-resource-allocation) | ||
| is a major overhaul of the resource management. | ||
| [Integration with the podresources API](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-node/3695-pod-resources-for-dra) | ||
| is already ongoing. | ||
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| ## Getting involved | ||
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| This feature is driven by the [SIG Node](https://github.com/Kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-node/README.md) community. | ||
| Please join us to connect with the community and share your ideas and feedback around the above feature and | ||
| beyond. We look forward to hearing from you! |