Crane-scheduler

Overview

Crane-scheduler is a collection of scheduler plugins based on scheduler framework, including:

• Dynamic scheduler: a load-aware scheduler plugin

Get Started

1. Install Prometheus

Make sure your kubernetes cluster has Prometheus installed. If not, please refer to Install Prometheus.

2. Configure Prometheus Rules

Configure the rules of Prometheus to get expected aggregated data:

apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
kind: PrometheusRule
metadata:
    name: example-record
    labels:
        prometheus: k8s
        role: alert-rules
spec:
    groups:
    - name: cpu_mem_usage_active
      interval: 30s
      rules:
      - record: cpu_usage_active
        expr: 100 - (avg by (instance) (irate(node_cpu_seconds_total{mode="idle"}[30s])) * 100)
      - record: mem_usage_active
        expr: 100*(1-node_memory_MemAvailable_bytes/node_memory_MemTotal_bytes)
    - name: cpu-usage-5m
      interval: 5m
      rules:
      - record: cpu_usage_max_avg_1h
        expr: max_over_time(cpu_usage_avg_5m[1h])
      - record: cpu_usage_max_avg_1d
        expr: max_over_time(cpu_usage_avg_5m[1d])
    - name: cpu-usage-1m
      interval: 1m
      rules:
      - record: cpu_usage_avg_5m
        expr: avg_over_time(cpu_usage_active[5m])
    - name: mem-usage-5m
      interval: 5m
      rules:
      - record: mem_usage_max_avg_1h
        expr: max_over_time(mem_usage_avg_5m[1h])
      - record: mem_usage_max_avg_1d
        expr: max_over_time(mem_usage_avg_5m[1d])
    - name: mem-usage-1m
      interval: 1m
      rules:
      - record: mem_usage_avg_5m
        expr: avg_over_time(mem_usage_active[5m])

⚠️Troubleshooting: The sampling interval of Prometheus must be less than 30 seconds, otherwise the above rules(such as cpu_usage_active) may not take effect.

3. Install Crane-scheduler

There are two options:

1. Install Crane-scheduler as a second scheduler:

   helm repo add crane https://gocrane.github.io/helm-charts
   helm install scheduler -n crane-system --create-namespace --set global.prometheusAddr="REPLACE_ME_WITH_PROMETHEUS_ADDR" crane/scheduler

2. Replace native Kube-scheduler with Crane-scheduler:
   1. Backup /etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-scheduler.yaml

   cp /etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-scheduler.yaml /etc/kubernetes/

   2. Modify configfile of kube-scheduler(scheduler-config.yaml) to enable Dynamic scheduler plugin and configure plugin args:

   apiVersion: kubescheduler.config.k8s.io/v1beta2
   kind: KubeSchedulerConfiguration
   ...
   profiles:
   - schedulerName: default-scheduler
     plugins:
       filter:
         enabled:
         - name: Dynamic
       score:
         enabled:
         - name: Dynamic
           weight: 3
     pluginConfig:
     - name: Dynamic
        args:
         policyConfigPath: /etc/kubernetes/policy.yaml
   ...

   3. Create /etc/kubernetes/policy.yaml, using as scheduler policy of Dynamic plugin:

    apiVersion: scheduler.policy.crane.io/v1alpha1
    kind: DynamicSchedulerPolicy
    spec:
      syncPolicy:
        ##cpu usage
        - name: cpu_usage_avg_5m
          period: 3m
        - name: cpu_usage_max_avg_1h
          period: 15m
        - name: cpu_usage_max_avg_1d
          period: 3h
        ##memory usage
        - name: mem_usage_avg_5m
          period: 3m
        - name: mem_usage_max_avg_1h
          period: 15m
        - name: mem_usage_max_avg_1d
          period: 3h
   
      predicate:
        ##cpu usage
        - name: cpu_usage_avg_5m
          maxLimitPecent: 0.65
        - name: cpu_usage_max_avg_1h
          maxLimitPecent: 0.75
        ##memory usage
        - name: mem_usage_avg_5m
          maxLimitPecent: 0.65
        - name: mem_usage_max_avg_1h
          maxLimitPecent: 0.75
   
      priority:
        ##cpu usage
        - name: cpu_usage_avg_5m
          weight: 0.2
        - name: cpu_usage_max_avg_1h
          weight: 0.3
        - name: cpu_usage_max_avg_1d
          weight: 0.5
        ##memory usage
        - name: mem_usage_avg_5m
          weight: 0.2
        - name: mem_usage_max_avg_1h
          weight: 0.3
        - name: mem_usage_max_avg_1d
          weight: 0.5
   
      hotValue:
        - timeRange: 5m
          count: 5
        - timeRange: 1m
          count: 2

   4. Modify kube-scheduler.yaml and replace kube-scheduler image with Crane-scheduler：

   ...
    image: docker.io/gocrane/crane-scheduler:0.0.23
   ...

   1. Install crane-scheduler-controller:

   kubectl apply ./deploy/controller/rbac.yaml && kubectl apply -f ./deploy/controller/deployment.yaml

4. Schedule Pods With Crane-scheduler

Test Crane-scheduler with following example:

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: cpu-stress
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: cpu-stress
  replicas: 1
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: cpu-stress
    spec:
      schedulerName: crane-scheduler
      hostNetwork: true
      tolerations:
      - key: node.kubernetes.io/network-unavailable
        operator: Exists
        effect: NoSchedule
      containers:
      - name: stress
        image: docker.io/gocrane/stress:latest
        command: ["stress", "-c", "1"]
        resources:
          requests:
            memory: "1Gi"
            cpu: "1"
          limits:
            memory: "1Gi"
            cpu: "1"

Note: Change crane-scheduler to default-scheduler if crane-scheduler is used as default.

There will be the following event if the test pod is successfully scheduled:

Type    Reason     Age   From             Message
----    ------     ----  ----             -------
Normal  Scheduled  28s   crane-scheduler  Successfully assigned default/cpu-stress-7669499b57-zmrgb to vm-162-247-ubuntu

Compatibility Matrix

Scheduler Image Version	Supported Kubernetes Version
0.0.23	>=1.22.0
0.0.20	>=1.18.0

The default scheudler image version is 0.0.23, and you can run the following command for quick replacement:

 KUBE_EDITOR="sed -i 's/v1beta2/v1beta1/g'" kubectl edit cm scheduler-config -n crane-system && KUBE_EDITOR="sed -i 's/0.0.23/0.0.20/g'" kubectl edit deploy crane-scheduler -n crane-system