exoscale

Cluster Autoscaler for Exoscale

The Cluster Autoscaler (CA) for Exoscale scales worker nodes running in Exoscale SKS Nodepools or Instance Pools.

Configuration

Note: the following guide assumes you have the permissions to create resources in the kube-system namespace of the target Kubernetes cluster.

In order to interact with the Exoscale API, the Exoscale CA must be configured with API credentials. This can be achieved using Kubernetes Secrets, by exposing those as container environment variables.

We provide a convenience script that generates and applies a k8s manifest declaring Exoscale API credentials as a k8s Secret in your cluster from your local shell environment variables: once created, this Secret can be used in the CA Deployment.

First, start by exporting the Exoscale API credentials (we recommend that you create dedicated API credentials using the Exoscale IAM service) to provide to the CA in your shell, as well as the zone the target Kubernetes cluster is located in:

export EXOSCALE_API_KEY="EXOxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
export EXOSCALE_API_SECRET="xxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
export EXOSCALE_ZONE="ch-gva-2"

Next, run the following command from the same shell:

./examples/generate-secret.sh

Next, ensure that the exoscale-api-credentials Secret has been created successfully by running the following command:

kubectl get secret --namespace kube-system exoscale-api-credentials

Finally, a EXOSCALE_ZONE variable must be set to the target Kubernetes cluster zone along with the API credentials in the CA Deployment shell environment.

You can restrict API operation your IAM key can perform:

• When deploying the Cluster Autoscaler in SKS, your can restrict your IAM access key to these API operations :

evict-sks-nodepool-members
get-instance
get-instance-pool
get-operation
get-quota
list-sks-clusters
scale-sks-nodepool

• When deploying the Cluster Autoscaler in an unmanaged cluster, the cluster needs to have nodes belonging to at least an instance-pool. In this case, you can rather restrict your IAM key to these API operations:

evict-instance-pool-members
get-instance
get-instance-pool
get-operation
get-quota
scale-instance-pool

Deploying the Cluster Autoscaler

To deploy the CA on your Kubernetes cluster, you can use the manifest provided as example:

kubectl apply -f ./examples/cluster-autoscaler-run-on-control-plane.yaml

This manifest contains a deployment which is designed to schedule the CA Pod on control-plane nodes. If you want to deploy the CA Pod on regular Nodes (not on the control-plane) or in SKS, you can use this manifest instead:

kubectl apply -f ./examples/cluster-autoscaler.yaml

⚠️ Important Notes

• The minimum node group size is 1
• The maximum node group size is computed based on the current Compute instances limit of the Exoscale account the Cluster Autoscaler is running in.
• The Instance Pool candidate for scaling is determined based on the Compute instance the Kubernetes node is running on, depending on cluster resource constraining events emitted by the Kubernetes scheduler.