Rollout

Rollout

This section will introduce how to use Rollout Trait to perform a rolling update on Component.

The component supported for rollout is:

webservice
worker

Before using this trait you must enable the rollout addon by this command.

vela addon enable rollout

Apply the Application YAML below which includes a webservice-type workload with Rollout Trait, and control version of component name to be express-server-v1.

cat <<EOF | vela up -f -
apiVersion: core.oam.dev/v1beta1
kind: Application
metadata:
  name: rollout-trait-test
spec:
  components:
    - name: express-server
      type: webservice
      externalRevision: express-server-v1
      properties:
        image: stefanprodan/podinfo:4.0.3
      traits:
        - type: rollout
          properties:
            targetSize: 5
            rolloutBatches:
              - replicas: 2
              - replicas: 3
EOF

This Rollout Trait has target size of 5 and two rollout batches. The first batch has 2 replicas and second batch has 3. Only after all replicas in the first batch are ready, it will start to rollout the second batch.

Check the Application status whether the rollout is successful:

$ vela status rollout-trait-test
About:
  Name:         rollout-trait-test
  Namespace:    default
  Created at:   2022-01-12 20:29:50 +0800 CST
  Status:       running
Workflow:
  mode: DAG
  finished: true
  Suspend: false
  Terminated: false
  Steps
  - id:6pnibgonga
    name:express-server
    type:apply-component
    phase:succeeded
    message:
Services:
  - Name: express-server  Env:
    Type: webservice
    healthy Ready:5/5
    Traits:
      - ✅ rollout: rolloutSucceed

Check the status of Rollout Trait. The rollout is successful only if ROLLING-STATE equals rolloutSucceed, and all replicas are ready only if BATCH-STATE equals batchReady. TARGET, UPGRADED and READY indicates target size of replicas is 5, updated number of replicas is 5 and all 5 replicas are ready.

$ kubectl get rollout express-server
NAME             TARGET   UPGRADED   READY   BATCH-STATE   ROLLING-STATE    AGE
express-server   5        5          5       batchReady    rolloutSucceed   2d20h

Check Workload Status (Underlying resource behind the workload is deployment)

$ kubectl get deploy -l app.oam.dev/component=express-server
NAME                READY   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
express-server-v1   5/5     5            5           2d20h

Apply the YAML below to modify the image of the container. It will generate a new ControllerRevision.

cat <<EOF | vela up -f -
apiVersion: core.oam.dev/v1beta1
kind: Application
metadata:
  name: rollout-trait-test
spec:
  components:
    - name: express-server
      type: webservice
      externalRevision: express-server-v2
      properties:
        image: stefanprodan/podinfo:5.0.2
      traits:
        - type: rollout
          properties:
            targetSize: 5
            batchPartition: 0
            rolloutBatches:
              - replicas: 2
              - replicas: 3
EOF

This Rollout Trait represents the target size of replicas is 5 and update will be performed in 2 batches. The first batch will update 2 replicas and the second batch will update 3 replicas. Only 2 replicas in first batch will be updated by setting batchPartition to 0.

Check controllerRevision and there is a new controllerRevision express-server-v2.

$ kubectl get controllerRevision -l controller.oam.dev/component=express-server
NAME                CONTROLLER                                    REVISION   AGE
express-server-v1   application.core.oam.dev/rollout-trait-test   1          2d22h
express-server-v2   application.core.oam.dev/rollout-trait-test   2          1m

Check the status of Rollout Trait after a while when first batch has been upgraded successfully. TARGET, UPGREADED and READY indicates the target size of replicas for this revision is 5, there are 2 replicas sucessfully upgraded and they are ready. batchReady means replicas in the first rolloutBatch are all ready, rollingInBatches means there are batches still yet to be upgraded.

$ kubectl get rollout express-server
NAME             TARGET   UPGRADED   READY   BATCH-STATE   ROLLING-STATE    AGE
express-server   5        2          2       batchReady   rollingInBatches  2d20h

Check Workload status to verify, we can see there are 2 replicas of new Workload express-server-v2 have been upgraded and old version of Workload express-server-v1 still has 3 replicas.

$ kubectl get deploy -l app.oam.dev/component=express-server
NAME                READY   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
express-server-v1   3/3     3            3           2d20h
express-server-v2   2/2     2            2           1m

Apply the YAML below without batchPartition field in Rollout Trait to upgrade all replicas to latest revision.

cat <<EOF | vela up -f -
apiVersion: core.oam.dev/v1beta1
kind: Application
metadata:
  name: rollout-trait-test
spec:
  components:
    - name: express-server
      type: webservice
      externalRevision: express-server-v2
      properties:
        image: stefanprodan/podinfo:5.0.2
      traits:
        - type: rollout
          properties:
            targetSize: 5
            rolloutBatches:
              - replicas: 2
              - replicas: 3
EOF

Check Rollout Trait, we can see rollout is succeed.

$ kubectl get rollout express-server
NAME             TARGET   UPGRADED   READY   BATCH-STATE   ROLLING-STATE    AGE
express-server   5        5           5       batchReady   rolloutSucceed  2d20h

Check Workload status, all replicas of Workload has been upgraded to a new revision and old workload has been deleted.

$ kubectl get deploy -l app.oam.dev/component=express-server
NAME                READY   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
express-server-v2   5/5     5            5           1m

Apply the YAML below to make controllerRevision roll back to express-server-v1 by assigning targetRevision field to express-server-v1 in Rollout Trait.

cat <<EOF | vela up -f -
apiVersion: core.oam.dev/v1beta1
kind: Application
metadata:
  name: rollout-trait-test
spec:
  components:
    - name: express-server
      type: webservice
      externalRevision: express-server-v2
      properties:
        image: stefanprodan/podinfo:5.0.2
      traits:
        - type: rollout
          properties:
            targetRevision: express-server-v1
            targetSize: 5
            rolloutBatches:
              - replicas: 2
              - replicas: 3
EOF

Check Rollout Trait status after rollback has been succeed.

$ kubectl get rollout express-server
NAME             TARGET   UPGRADED   READY   BATCH-STATE   ROLLING-STATE    AGE
express-server   5        5          5       batchReady    rolloutSucceed  2d20h

Check Workload status, we can see Workload has rolled back to express-server-v1.

$ kubectl get deploy -l app.oam.dev/component=express-server
NAME                READY   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
express-server-v1   5/5     5            5           15s

Rollout Trait also be able to scale up a Workload, apply the YAML below to modify the targetSize, in order to increase the number of replicas from 5 to 7.

cat <<EOF | vela up -f -
apiVersion: core.oam.dev/v1beta1
kind: Application
metadata:
  name: rollout-trait-test
spec:
  components:
    - name: express-server
      type: webservice
      externalRevision: express-server-v2
      properties:
        image: stefanprodan/podinfo:5.0.2
      traits:
        - type: rollout
          properties:
            targetRevision: express-server-v1
            targetSize: 7
EOF

This Rollout Trait represents it will scale workload up to 7. You also can set every batch’s number by setting rolloutBatches.

danger

A known issue exists if you scale up/down the workload twice or more times by not setting the rolloutBatches.So please set the rolloutBatches when scale up/down.

Check the status after expansion has been succeed.

$ kubectl get rollout express-server
NAME             TARGET   UPGRADED   READY   BATCH-STATE   ROLLING-STATE    AGE
express-server   7        7          7       batchReady    rolloutSucceed   2d20h
$ kubectl get deploy -l app.oam.dev/component=express-server
NAME                READY   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
express-server-v1   7/7     7            7           2m

Apply the YAML below to scale down the size of replicas from 7 to 3.

cat <<EOF | vela up -f -
apiVersion: core.oam.dev/v1beta1
kind: Application
metadata:
  name: rollout-trait-test
spec:
  components:
    - name: express-server
      type: webservice
      externalRevision: express-server-v2
      properties:
        image: stefanprodan/podinfo:5.0.2
      traits:
        - type: rollout
          properties:
            targetRevision: express-server-v1
            targetSize: 5
EOF

This Rollout Trait scale workload down to 5.

Check the status after scale up has been succeed.

$ kubectl get rollout express-server
NAME             TARGET   UPGRADED   READY   BATCH-STATE   ROLLING-STATE    AGE
express-server   5        5          5       batchReady    rolloutSucceed   2d20h
$ kubectl get deploy -l app.oam.dev/component=express-server
NAME                READY   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
express-server-v1   5/5     5            5           5m

You need to enable kruise addon。

$ vela addon enable kruise

Check types of components.

$ vela components
NAME                NAMESPACE        WORKLOAD                        DESCRIPTION
cloneset           vela-system     clonesets.apps.kruise.io

Apply the YAML below to create an Application, this Application includes a Workload of type cloneset with a Rollout Trait.

cat <<EOF | vela up -f -
apiVersion: core.oam.dev/v1beta1
kind: Application
metadata:
  name: rollout-trait-test-cloneset
spec:
  components:
    - name: cloneset-server
      type: cloneset
      externalRevision: cloneset-server-v1
      properties:
        image: stefanprodan/podinfo:4.0.3
      traits:
        - type: rollout
          properties:
            targetSize: 5
            rolloutBatches:
              - replicas: 2
              - replicas: 3
EOF

Check the status of related resources.

$ kubectl get app rollout-trait-test-cloneset
NAME                              COMPONENT         TYPE               PHASE      HEALTHY   STATUS     AGE
rollout-trait-test-cloneset        cloneset   clonesetservice          running      true               4m18s
$ kubectl get controllerRevision  -l controller.oam.dev/component=cloneset-server
NAME                CONTROLLER                                           REVISION   AGE
cloneset-server-v1   application.core.oam.dev/rollout-trait-test-cloneset   1          4m45s
$ kubectl get rollout cloneset-server
NAME             TARGET   UPGRADED   READY   BATCH-STATE   ROLLING-STATE    AGE
cloneset-server   5        5          5       batchReady    rolloutSucceed   5m10s

Check the status of Workload. As cloneset Workload supports in-place upgrade, the most noticeable difference between it and webservice/worker is that the name of underlying Workload’s name is exactly the component’s name.

$ kubectl get cloneset -l app.oam.dev/component=cloneset-server
NAME             DESIRED   UPDATED   UPDATED_READY   READY   TOTAL   AGE
cloneset-server   5         5         5               5       5       7m3s

Check the image.

$ kubectl get cloneset cloneset-server -o=jsonpath='{.spec.template.spec.containers[0].image}'
stefanprodan/podinfo:4.0.3

Apply the YAML below to upgrade the image.

cat <<EOF | vela up -f -
apiVersion: core.oam.dev/v1beta1
kind: Application
metadata:
  name: rollout-trait-test-cloneset
spec:
  components:
    - name: cloneset-server
      type: cloneset
      externalRevision: cloneset-server-v2
      properties:
        image: stefanprodan/podinfo:5.0.2
      traits:
        - type: rollout
          properties:
            targetSize: 5
            rolloutBatches:
              - replicas: 2
              - replicas: 3
EOF

Check the status of related resources after upgrade has been succeed.

$ kubectl get controllerRevision  -l controller.oam.dev/component=cloneset-server
NAME                CONTROLLER                                             REVISION    AGE
cloneset-server-v1   application.core.oam.dev/rollout-trait-test-cloneset    1          6m43s
cloneset-server-v2   application.core.oam.dev/rollout-trait-test-clonesett   2          108s
$ kubectl get rollout cloneset-server
NAME             TARGET   UPGRADED   READY   BATCH-STATE   ROLLING-STATE    AGE
cloneset-server  5        5          5       batchReady    rolloutSucceed   6m10s

Check the status of the Workload, we can see the name after upgrade is still cloneset-server.

$ kubectl get cloneset -l app.oam.dev/component=cloneset-server
NAME             DESIRED   UPDATED   UPDATED_READY   READY   TOTAL   AGE
cloneset-server   5         5         5               5       5       7m3s

Verify the rollout by checking the image.

$ kubectl get cloneset cloneset-server -o=jsonpath='{.spec.template.spec.containers[0].image}'
stefanprodan/podinfo:5.0.2

Other operations such as Scale up, Scale down, Rollback are the same as the operations on webservice/worker.

Rollout Trait supports following workload types: webservice,worker and cloneset.

When using webservice/worker as Workload type with Rollout Trait, Workload’s name will be controllerRevision’s name. And when Workload’s type is cloneset, because of clonset support in-place update Workload’s name will always be component’s name.

Last updated on Aug 4, 2023 by Daniel Higuero