Problem: memory requests and limits has been set for `master` process in
PR #1631. It does not follow best practices for setting those values,
but the intention was provide default values for a wide variety of
clusters, including small ones.
Solution: provide solid documentation about the problems that might
happen in production environments when
`resource.memory.requests << resource.memory.limits`. Add a link to
relevant external sources, which includes the advise from Tim Hockin:
> Always set memory limit == request
Signed-off-by: cmontemuino <1761056+cmontemuino@users.noreply.github.com>
Plan the removal of the -crd-controller flag along with the gRPC API.
This flag does not make much sense after that as all communication with
nfd-worker is based on CRDs - with the CRD controller disabled
nfd-master is virtually a functionless stub.
Drop the deprecated and broken sample overlay. This was an example for
enabling TLS with cert-manager. However, the overlay has been broken
(and useless) since NodeFeature API was enabled by default - and gRPC
disabled - in v0.14.
This patch adds a post-delete hook to the Helm chart that runs
"nfd-master --prune" in the cluster. This cleans up the node of labels,
annotations, taints and extended resources that were created by NFD.
Extend the format of feature matcher terms (the elements of the
arrayspecified under under matchFeatures field) with new matchName
field. The value of this field is an expression that is evaluated
against the names of feature elements instead of their values (values
are matched with the matchExpressions field, instead).
The matchName field is useful e.g. in template rules for creating
per-feature-element labels based on feature names (instead of values)
and in non-template rules for checking if (at least) one of certain
feature element names are present.
If both matchExpressions and matchName for certain feature matcher term
is specified, they both must match in order to get an overall match.
Also, in this case the list of matched features (used in templating) is
the union of the results from matchExpressions and matchName.
An example of creating an "avx512" label if any AVX512* CPUID feature is
present:
- name: "avx wildcard rule"
labels:
avx512: "true"
matchFeatures:
- feature: cpu.cpuid
matchName: {op: InRegexp, value: ["^AVX512"]}
An example of a template rule creating a dynamic set of labels based on
the existence of certain kconfig options.
- name: "kconfig template rule"
labelsTemplate: |
{{ range .kernel.config }}kconfig-{{ .Name }}={{ .Value }}
{{ end }}
matchFeatures:
- feature: kernel.config
matchName: {op: In, value: ["SWAP", "X86", "ARM"]}
NOTE: this patch changes the corner case of nil/null match expressions
with instance features (i.e. "matchExpressions: null"). Previously, we
returned all instances for templating but now a nil match expression is
not evaluated and no instances for templating are returned.
The "combined" overlay, deploying nfd-master and nfd-worker in the same
pod (with a daemonset) doesn't make sense anymore as we have enabled
NodeFeature API. There is no direct communication between nfd-master and
nfd-worker anymore, Moreover, the combined deployment can be seen as
broken as there is one NodeFeature controller (i.e. nfd-master) on each
node, causing them to race against each other, all processing all
NodeFeature objects.
