containergroup

Customize Pod Specification for Execution Environment

You can customize the specification of the Pod of the Execution Environment using Container Group.

In this example, we make the Execution Environment to work with the Pod with following specification.

• Run in a different namespace ee-demo instead of default one
• Have an additional label app: ee-demo-pod
• Have requests and limits for CPU and Memory resources
• Mount PVC as /etc/demo
• Run on the node with the label awx-node-type: demo using nodeSelector
• Have custom environment variable MY_CUSTOM_ENV
• Use custom DNS server 192.168.0.100 in addition to the default DNS servers

Table of Contents

• Procedure
  • Prepare host and kubernetes
  • Create Container Group
• Quick Testing

Procedure

Prepare host and kubernetes

Prepare directories for Persistent Volumes defined in containergroup/pv.yaml.

sudo mkdir -p /data/demo

Create Namespace, PV, and PVC.

kubectl apply -k containergroup

Add label to the node.

$ kubectl label node kuro-awx01.kuro.lab awx-node-type=demo

$ kubectl get node --show-labels
NAME                  STATUS   ROLES                  AGE    VERSION        LABELS
kuro-awx01.kuro.lab   Ready    control-plane,master   3d7h   v1.21.2+k3s1   awx-node-type=demo,...

Copy awx role and awx rolebinding to new ee-demo, to assign awx role on ee-demo to awx serviceaccount on awx namespace.

$ kubectl -n awx get role awx -o json | jq '.metadata.namespace="ee-demo" | del(.metadata.ownerReferences)' | kubectl create -f -

$ kubectl -n ee-demo get role
NAME   CREATED AT
awx    2021-07-21T15:59:45Z

$ kubectl -n awx get rolebinding awx -o json | jq '.metadata.namespace="ee-demo" | del(.metadata.ownerReferences) | .subjects[0].namespace="awx"' | kubectl create -f -

$ kubectl -n ee-demo describe rolebinding awx
Name:         awx
Labels:       <none>
Annotations:  <none>
Role:
  Kind:  Role
  Name:  awx
Subjects:
  Kind            Name  Namespace
  ----            ----  ---------
  ServiceAccount  awx   awx

Note that this is a little tricky but super useful way to duplicate resource between namespace. jq command is required.

Create Container Group

You can create new Container Group by Administration > Instance Group > Add.

Enable Customize pod specification and define specification as following.

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  namespace: ee-demo
  labels:
    app: ee-demo-pod
spec:
  serviceAccountName: default
  automountServiceAccountToken: false
  containers:
    - image: 'quay.io/ansible/awx-ee:latest'
      name: worker
      args:
        - ansible-runner
        - worker
        - '--private-data-dir=/runner'
      env:
        - name: MY_CUSTOM_ENV
          value: 'This is my custom environment variable'
      resources:
        requests:
          cpu: 500m
          memory: 100Mi
        limits:
          cpu: 1000m
          memory: 200Mi
      volumeMounts:
        - name: demo-volume
          mountPath: /etc/demo
  nodeSelector:
    awx-node-type: demo
  dnsConfig:
    nameservers:
      - 192.168.0.100
  volumes:
    - name: demo-volume
      persistentVolumeClaim:
        claimName: demo-claim

This is the customized manifest to achieve;

• Running in a different namespace ee-demo instead of default one
• Having an additional label app: ee-demo-pod
• Having requests and limits for CPU and Memory resources
• Mounting PVC as /etc/demo
• Running on the node with the label awx-node-type: demo using nodeSelector
• Having custom environment variable MY_CUSTOM_ENV
• Using custom DNS server 192.168.0.100 in addition to the default DNS servers

You can also change image, but it will be overridden by specifying Execution Environment for the Job Template, Project Default, or Global Default.

Quick Testing

The Container Group that to be used can be specified as Instance Groups in the Job Template. After specifying and running the Job, you can see the result as follows.

The Pod for the Job is running in ee-demo namespace.

$ kubectl -n ee-demo get pod
NAME                      READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
automation-job-50-qsjbp   1/1     Running   0          17s

The Pod has your own specification as defined above. Note that the image in example output below has been overridden by the Execution Environment which defined in Job Template.

$ kubectl -n ee-demo get pod automation-job-50-qsjbp -o yaml
...
metadata:
  ...
  labels:
    ...
    app: ee-demo-pod
...
spec:
  containers:
    ...
    env:
    - name: MY_CUSTOM_ENV
      value: This is my custom environment variable
    image: registry.example.com/ansible/ee:2.12-custom
    ...
    resources:
      limits:
        cpu: "1"
        memory: 200Mi
      requests:
        cpu: 500m
        memory: 100Mi
    ...
    volumeMounts:
    - mountPath: /etc/demo
      name: demo-volume
    ...
  dnsConfig:
    nameservers:
    - 192.168.0.100
  nodeSelector:
    awx-node-type: demo
  ...
  volumes:
  - name: demo-volume
    persistentVolumeClaim:
      claimName: demo-claim
  ...