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I’m trying to manage the bunch of Raspberry Pi 4B cluster nodes using the Zabbix Monitoring Tool. Please refer to my previous blog post on how to install and configure Zabbix containers here.
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In my previous blog, I’ve showed the installation of Kubernetes cluster using Raspberry Pi’s. It was working very well until recently, when one of the SD cards failed. This is due to heavy R/W’s on the disks thanks to etcd and logging.
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Out-of-Band Monitoring using Zabbix is a solution that provides a secure dedicated alternate access method into an IT infrastructure
You’ve created a Rancher K3S cluster and for some reason your ingress URL are not working with the flood of errors “Nameserver limits exceeded”.
Below errors are logged in syslog pi-wrkr01 k3s[354088]: I0612 12:04:55.339233 354088 pod_container_deletor.go:79] "Container not found in pod's containers" containerID="a19e2669d074f2faa869ec29f9ced0656c3dbd80cb65f0ae6ed4dafb2f60f9fb" Jun 12 11:43:23 k3s-pi-wrkr01 k3s[34016]: E0612 11:43:23.391005 34016 dns.go:136] "Nameserver limits exceeded" err="Nameserver limits were exceeded, some nameservers have been omitted, the applied nameserver line is: 192.168.15.1 4.2.2.2 8.8.8.8" Jun 12 11:43:55 k3s-pi-wrkr01 k3s[34016]: E0612 11:43:55.391080 34016 dns.go:136] "Nameserver limits exceeded" err="Nameserver limits were exceeded, some nameservers have been omitted, the applied nameserver line is: 192.168.15.1 4.2.2.2 8.8.8.8" Jun 12 11:44:47 k3s-pi-wrkr01 k3s[34016]: E0612 11:44:47.390679 34016 dns.go:136] "Nameserver limits exceeded" err="Nameserver limits were exceeded, some nameservers have been omitted, the applied nameserver line is: 192.168.15.1 4.2.2.2 8.8.8.8" Jun 12 11:44:58 k3s-pi-wrkr01 k3s[34016]: E0612 11:44:58.391809 34016 dns.go:136] "Nameserver limits exceeded" err="Nameserver limits were exceeded, some nameservers have been omitted, the applied nameserver line is: 192.168.15.1 4.2.2.2 8.8.8.8" Jun 12 11:45:19 k3s-pi-wrkr01 k3s[34016]: W0612 11:45:19.016239 34016 sysinfo.go:203] Nodes topology is not available, providing CPU topology Jun 12 11:45:53 k3s-pi-wrkr01 k3s[34016]: E0612 11:45:53.390227 34016 dns.go:136] "Nameserver limits exceeded" err="Nameserver limits were exceeded, some nameservers have been omitted, the applied nameserver line is: 192.168.15.1 4.2.2.2 8.8.8.8" Jun 12 11:46:02 k3s-pi-wrkr01 k3s[34016]: E0612 11:46:02.391550 34016 dns.go:136] "Nameserver limits exceeded" err="Nameserver limits were exceeded, some nameservers have been omitted, the applied nameserver line is: 192.168.15.1 4.2.2.2 8.8.8.8" Jun 12 11:47:03 k3s-pi-wrkr01 k3s[34016]: E0612 11:47:03.391764 34016 dns.go:136] "Nameserver limits exceeded" err="Nameserver limits were exceeded, some nameservers have been omitted, the applied nameserver line is: 192.168.15.1 4.2.2.2 8.8.8.8" Jun 12 11:47:22 k3s-pi-wrkr01 k3s[34016]: E0612 11:47:22.391179 34016 dns.go:136] "Nameserver limits exceeded" err="Nameserver limits were exceeded, some nameservers have been omitted, the applied nameserver line is: 192.168.15.1 4.2.2.2 8.8.8.8"
Fix:
Do not have DNS nameservers more than 3 lines. This is due to the Kubernetes CoreDNS restrictions
A sample working DNS configuration file showing entries for 3 nameservers
# This file is managed by man:systemd-resolved(8). Do not edit.
#
# This is a dynamic resolv.conf file for connecting local clients directly to
# all known uplink DNS servers. This file lists all configured search domains.
#
# Third party programs should typically not access this file directly, but only
# through the symlink at /etc/resolv.conf. To manage man:resolv.conf(5) in a
# different way, replace this symlink by a static file or a different symlink.
#
# See man:systemd-resolved.service(8) for details about the supported modes of
# operation for /etc/resolv.conf.
nameserver 192.168.15.1
nameserver 4.2.2.2
nameserver 8.8.8.8
search .
Please refer the code for more information
Note to myself for future use. Did this while troubleshooting Solarwinds IPAM IP reservation automation.
import orionsdk
import requests
from requests.adapters import HTTPAdapter
from requests.packages.urllib3.util.retry import Retry
from pprint import pprint
def retry_session(retries=3,
backoff_factor=0.3,
status_forcelist=(500, 502, 504)):
session = requests.Session()
retry = Retry(
total=retries,
read=retries,
connect=retries,
backoff_factor=backoff_factor,
status_forcelist=status_forcelist)
adapter = HTTPAdapter(max_retries=retry)
session.mount('http://', adapter)
session.mount('https://', adapter)
return session
class VPNSolarWinds():
def __init__(self,**kwargs):
try:
self.swis = orionsdk.SwisClient(kwargs["host"],
kwargs["user"],
kwargs["password"],
session=retry_session()) #verify="server.pem",
except Exception as e:
print("connectionError: {}".format(e))
obj = VPNSolarWinds(user="admin",password="password@123",host="10.10.10.10") #sample lab solarwinds ipam tool
query = """ SELECT
ipn.subnetid,
ipn.IPAddress,
ipn.Status,
ipn.Alias,
ipn.MAC,
ipn.DnsBackward,
ipn.DhcpClientName,
ipn.SysName,
ipn.Description,
ipn.Contact,
ipn.Location,
ipn.SysObjectID,
ipn.Vendor,
ipn.VendorIcon,
ipn.MachineType,
ipn.Comments,
ipn.ResponseTime,
ipn.LastBoot,
ipn.LastSync,
ipn.LastCredential,
ipn.AllocPolicy,
ipn.SkipScan,
ipn.LeaseExpires,
ipn.DnsBy,
ipn.MacBy,
ipn.StatusBy,
ipn.SystemDataBy,
ipn.Uri
FROM IPAM.IPNode ipn JOIN IPAM.Subnet sbn
ON ipn.subnetid=sbn.subnetid
WHERE sbn.DisplayName='{subnet_name}' AND ipn.IPAddress='{ip}'""".format(subnet_name="some-subnet",ip="10.20.20.20")
# Added "Uri" to the above column names
output = obj.swis.query(query)
uri = (output['results'][0]['Uri'])
# obj.swis.update(uri, Status='Reserved')
obj.swis.update(uri, Status='Used')
output_after = obj.swis.query(query)
status = (output['results'][0]['Status'])
print("Status:", status)
# pprint(results)
Reference: https://github.com/solarwinds/OrionSDK/wiki/IPAM-4.5.x-API#crud-operations-for-ip-address
#IPAM IP RESERVATION STATUS.
#Value Name
#0 Unknown
#1 Used
#2 Available
#4 Reserved
#8 Transient
#16 Blocked
Don’t type, Use Template
Have you ever thought about automation of K8S manifest files (YAML) to simplify building DEV, TEST, PROD environments?
Even though modern day tools does the heavy lifting by automagically building desired infrastructure in minutes compared to days, weeks, or even months. However, the human factor of committing errors while writing these manifests/YAML files can still exists!
During my Storage Admin days, we used to write/copy-paste variables based on the requirements from the requestor or platform teams into an excel file. Using excel formulae and “drag” magic, commands were made available to execute on the enterprise class storage arrays. I was thinking how to apply the similar wisdom into SRE world…
Jinja2 is a modern day templating language for Python developers. It was made after Django’s template. It is used to create HTML, XML or other markup formats that are returned to the user via an HTTP request. However Jinja2 templates can be used for various use cases. In this blog, jinja2 template with python used to build manifests/YAML files.
Installing Jinja2 is pretty easy using pip or easy_install
pip install jinja2 easy_install jinja2
Jinja2 template contain variables which are replaced by the values. These values are passed to the template file using template rendering method. These variables can be strings, dictionaries or even values inside loops like if, for etc..
{%....%} are for statements
{{....}} are expressions used to print to template output
{#....#} are for comments which are not included in the template output
#....## are used as line statements
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
name: {{ pv.name }}
labels:
type: {{ pv.type }}
spec:
storageClassName: {{ pv.class }}
capacity:
storage: {{ pv.capacity }}
accessModes:
- {{ pv.mode }}
hostPath:
path: {{ pv.path }}
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
namespace: bitwarden
name: bitwarden
spec:
storageClassName: manual
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
resources:
requests:
storage: 800Mi
---
In the above manifest/YAML file (pv_pvc.yml), first half is about Persistent Volume where the values are template values which begins with ‘pv.<variable name>’
name,type,class,capacity,mode,path,environment
bitwarden.sample,local,manual,800Mi,ReadWriteOnce,'/mnt/sample/bitwarden', sample
bitwarden.pre,local,manual,1000Mi,ReadWriteOnce,'/mnt/pre/bitwarden', pre
bitwarden.prd,local,nfs,2000Mi,ReadWriteOnce,'/mnt/prd/bitwarden', prd
bitwarden.dev,local,manual,800Mi,ReadWriteOnce,'/mnt/dev/bitwarden', dev
In the above properties.csv file, first line is a header, followed by sample value. Next 3 lines are meant for DEV, TEST and PROD.
from os import pread
from jinja2 import Environment, FileSystemLoader
import csv
csvfile = open('properties.csv')
lists = []
for index,line in enumerate(csvfile):
if not index == 0 and not index == 1:
data_line = line.rstrip().split(',')
lists.append(data_line)
print(lists)
file_loader = FileSystemLoader("templates")
env = Environment(loader=file_loader)
template = env.get_template("pv_pvc.yml")
dev = ["bitwarden.dev","local","manual","800Mi","ReadWriteOnce","'/mnt/dev/bitwarden'", "dev"]
uat = ["bitwarden.pre","local","manual","1000Mi","ReadWriteOnce","'/mnt/pre/bitwarden'", "pre"]
prod = ["bitwarden.prd","local","nfs","2000Mi","ReadWriteOnce","'/mnt/prd/bitwarden'", "prd"]
pv = {}
# lists = [dev, uat, prod]
for index,element in enumerate(lists):
# print(element[0])
pv["name"] = element[0]
pv["type"] = element[1]
pv["class"] = element[2]
pv["capacity"] = element[3]
pv["mode"] = element[4]
pv["path"] = element[5]
# template.render will replace the jinja template variables with list values
output = template.render(pv=pv)
# print(output)
# Create manifests/YAML files from the about output variable
try:
with open(f"{element[-1]}.yml", "w+") as yml_file:
yml_file.write(output)
yml_file.close()
except Exception as Error:
print(f"Unable to open the file, {yml_file} due to the error {Error}")
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
name: bitwarden.dev
labels:
type: local
spec:
storageClassName: manual
capacity:
storage: 800Mi
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
hostPath:
path: '/mnt/dev/bitwarden'
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
namespace: bitwarden
name: bitwarden
spec:
storageClassName: manual
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
resources:
requests:
storage: 800Mi
---
dev.yml (DEV)
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
name: bitwarden.pre
labels:
type: local
spec:
storageClassName: manual
capacity:
storage: 1000Mi
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
hostPath:
path: '/mnt/pre/bitwarden'
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
namespace: bitwarden
name: bitwarden
spec:
storageClassName: manual
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
resources:
requests:
storage: 800Mi
---
pre.yml (TEST)
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
name: bitwarden.prd
labels:
type: local
spec:
storageClassName: nfs
capacity:
storage: 2000Mi
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
hostPath:
path: '/mnt/prd/bitwarden'
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
namespace: bitwarden
name: bitwarden
spec:
storageClassName: manual
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
resources:
requests:
storage: 800Mi
---
prd.yml (PROD)
Three files generated based on the values provided in the properties.csv file. In the example code above, I’ve hard-coded the values for simplicity and to easily understand the code. This can be improved and can be applied complex manifests/yamls like configmaps, deployments, DS, RS etc…
I’d like to thank Gangireddy who came up with this idea to automate manifests to automate SRE/DEVOPS engineers BAU stuff!
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