Instead of blindly waiting long enough for a disruptive change to
have been observed by the old leader and followers, we instead rely
on the approximation that checkOnlyLeaderCanWrite provides - i.e.
only a single actor believes they are the leader. This does not
account for clients that were in the followers list before and after
the disruptive change, but it serves as a reasonable approximation.
Signed-off-by: Monis Khan <mok@vmware.com>
OpenShift has good defaults for these duration fields that we can
use instead of coming up with them ourselves:
e14e06ba8d/pkg/config/leaderelection/leaderelection.go (L87-L109)
Copied here for easy future reference:
// We want to be able to tolerate 60s of kube-apiserver disruption without causing pod restarts.
// We want the graceful lease re-acquisition fairly quick to avoid waits on new deployments and other rollouts.
// We want a single set of guidance for nearly every lease in openshift. If you're special, we'll let you know.
// 1. clock skew tolerance is leaseDuration-renewDeadline == 30s
// 2. kube-apiserver downtime tolerance is == 78s
// lastRetry=floor(renewDeadline/retryPeriod)*retryPeriod == 104
// downtimeTolerance = lastRetry-retryPeriod == 78s
// 3. worst non-graceful lease acquisition is leaseDuration+retryPeriod == 163s
// 4. worst graceful lease acquisition is retryPeriod == 26s
if ret.LeaseDuration.Duration == 0 {
ret.LeaseDuration.Duration = 137 * time.Second
}
if ret.RenewDeadline.Duration == 0 {
// this gives 107/26=4 retries and allows for 137-107=30 seconds of clock skew
// if the kube-apiserver is unavailable for 60s starting just before t=26 (the first renew),
// then we will retry on 26s intervals until t=104 (kube-apiserver came back up at 86), and there will
// be 33 seconds of extra time before the lease is lost.
ret.RenewDeadline.Duration = 107 * time.Second
}
if ret.RetryPeriod.Duration == 0 {
ret.RetryPeriod.Duration = 26 * time.Second
}
Signed-off-by: Monis Khan <mok@vmware.com>
This change fixes a small race condition that occurred when the
current leader failed to renew its lease. Before this change, the
leader would first release the lease via the Kube API and then would
update its in-memory status to reflect that change. Now those
events occur in the reverse (i.e. correct) order.
Signed-off-by: Monis Khan <mok@vmware.com>
Even though a client may hold the leader election lock in the Kube
lease API, that does not mean it has had a chance to update its
internal state to reflect that. Thus we retry the checks in
checkOnlyLeaderCanWrite a few times to allow the client to catch up.
Signed-off-by: Monis Khan <mok@vmware.com>