Deploy Rok Scheduler

This guide will walk you through deploying the Rok Scheduler, along with the Rok Scheduler Webhook.

Note

As of Kubernetes 1.21, the upstream kube-scheduler supports capacity tracking, so that it takes into consideration the available free storage capacity when scheduling a Pod that requests PVCs. However, the feature is in beta version, and it comes with important limitations that need to be addressed.

To overcome these limitations Rok ships with its own custom scheduler, which supports storage capacity tracking for Kubernetes 1.19, 1.20, and 1.21. In order for a Pod to be scheduled using the Rok Scheduler, the .spec.schedulerName field of the Pod must be set to rok-scheduler. We have automated this process by deploying the Rok Scheduler Webhook, which watches for new Pods in specific namespaces and mutates them by adding the aforementioned field.

Fast Forward

If you have already deployed the Rok Scheduler and the Rok Scheduler Webhook, expand this box to fast-forward.

  1. Proceed to the Verify section.

Choose one of the following options to deploy the Rok Scheduler, along with the Rok Scheduler Webhook:

Option 1: Deploy Rok Scheduler Automatically (preferred)

Deploy the Rok Scheduler, along with the Rok Scheduler Webhook, by following the on-screen instructions on the rok-deploy user interface.

If rok-deploy is not already running, start it with:

root@rok-tools:~# rok-deploy --run-from rok-scheduler
../_images/rok-scheduler.png

Proceed to the Summary section.

Option 2: Deploy Rok Scheduler Manually

If you want to deploy the Rok Scheduler and the Rok Scheduler Webhook manually, follow the instructions below.

Procedure

  1. Go to your GitOps repository, inside your rok-tools management environment:

    root@rok-tools:~# cd ~/ops/deployments

  2. Add the Rok Scheduler overlay that corresponds to your Kubernetes version. Choose one of the following options, based on your Kubernetes version:

    Kubernetes 1.21

    Kubernetes 1.20

    Kubernetes 1.19

    1. Edit rok/rok-scheduler/overlays/deploy/kustomization.yaml and use k8s-1.21 instead of base as the base overlay:

      resources: #- ../../base #- ../k8s-1.19 #- ../k8s-1.20 - ../k8s-1.21

    1. Edit rok/rok-scheduler/overlays/deploy/kustomization.yaml and use k8s-1.20 instead of base as the base overlay:

      resources: #- ../../base #- ../k8s-1.19 - ../k8s-1.20 #- ../k8s-1.21

    1. Edit rok/rok-scheduler/overlays/deploy/kustomization.yaml and use k8s-1.19 instead of base as the base overlay:

      resources: #- ../../base - ../k8s-1.19 #- ../k8s-1.20 #- ../k8s-1.21

  3. Commit your changes:

    root@rok-tools:~/ops/deployments# git commit -am "Deploy Rok Scheduler"

  4. Mark your progress:

    root@rok-tools:~/ops/deployments# export DATE=$(date -u "+%Y-%m-%dT%H.%M.%SZ")
    root@rok-tools:~/ops/deployments# git tag \ > -a deploy/${DATE?}/release-1.5/rok-scheduler \ > -m "Deploy Rok Scheduler"

  5. Deploy the Rok Scheduler:

    root@rok-tools:~/ops/deployments# rok-deploy --apply rok/rok-scheduler/overlays/deploy

  6. Deploy the Rok Scheduler Webhook:

    root@rok-tools:~/ops/deployments# rok-deploy --apply rok/rok-scheduler-webhook/overlays/deploy

Verify

  1. Verify that the Rok Scheduler is up and running. Verify that field READY is 1/1:

    root@rok-tools:~# kubectl get deploy -n rok-system rok-scheduler NAME READY AGE rok-scheduler 1/1 1m

  2. Verify that the Rok Scheduler Webhook is up and running. Verify that field READY is 1/1:

    root@rok-tools:~# kubectl get deploy -n rok-system rok-scheduler-webhook NAME READY AGE rok-scheduler-webhook 1/1 1m

Summary

You have successfully deployed the Rok Scheduler and the Rok Scheduler Webhook.

What’s Next

The next step is to deploy Kubeflow.