aws-rolling-node-operator

Operator for rolling nodes

The aws-rolling-node-operator reconciles on AWSCluster, AWSControlplane and AWSMachineDeployment Custom Resources to trigger an EC2 instance refresh on the given Auto Scaling groups. After a Auto scaling group got refreshed the operator won't allow allow to refresh instances again within 30 minutes.

Setting the annotation alpha.giantswarm.io/instance-refresh: true will refresh (terminate and start new EC2 instances) EC2 instances based on the Custom Reource:

• AWSCluster CR - Refreshes all EC2 instances for the Control Plane and node pools.
• AWSControlplane CR - Refreshes all EC2 instances for the Control Plane.
• AWSMachineDeployment CR - Refreshes all EC2 instances for a specific node pool.

Once the EC2 instance refresh is finished, the aws-rolling-node-operator will remove the annotation from Custom Resource and will send a Kubernetes Event on the Custom Resource, e.g.:

Events:
  Type    Reason              Age                     From                                           Message
  ----    ------              ----                    ----                                           -------
  Normal  InstancesRefreshed  10m                     aws-machinedeployment-node-rolling-controller  Refreshed all worker instances.

Additionally annotations which can be set:

alpha.giantswarm.io/instance-refresh-min-healhty-percentage - Sets the amount of capacity which must remain healthy inside the Auto Scaling group. The value is expressed as a percentage of the desired capacity of the Auto Scaling group (rounded up to the nearest integer). The default is 90. Setting the minimum healthy percentage to 100 percent limits the rate of replacement to one instance at a time. In contrast, setting it to 0 percent has the effect of replacing all instances at the same time.

alpha.giantswarm.io/cancel-instance-refresh - This will immediately cancel the current instance refresh. It stops replacing nodes which haven’t been rolled so far.