Clusters

Devtron allows you to manage your Kubernetes cluster by:
Browsing information of cluster and its resources.
Managing the added resources to meet the requirements for high speed and storage capacity.
Managing Cluster resources with Kubernetes requests and limits and also individual containers.
Debugging a pod or node by connecting to a terminal.
On the left navigation of Devtron, select Clusters. You will find the list of clusters in this section which you have added under Global Configurations > Clusters & Environments.
You can also search the cluster in the Search Clusters bar.
Fields
Description
Cluster
User-defined name for the cluster in Devtron. E.g. default-cluster
Connection Status
Status of the cluster. The status can be either Successful or Failed.
Nodes
Shows the number of nodes in a cluster.
Node Errors
Shows the error in nodes.
K8s Version
Shows the version of Kubernetes cluster.
CPU Capacity
Shows the CPU capacity in your cluster in milicore. E.g., 8000m where 1000 milicore equals to 1 core.
Memory Capacity
Shows the memory capacity in your cluster in mebibytes.
To see the details of resource allocation and usage of the cluster, click the particular cluster.
Resources
On the Resource allocation and usage, you can see the details of compute resources or resources.
CPU resources
Memory resources
If you specify a request and limits in the container resource manifest file, then the respective values will appear on the Resource allocation and usage section.
Nodes
You can see the list of nodes available in your cluster. Typically you have several nodes in a cluster; in a learning or resource-limited environment, you might have only one node.
The components on a typical node include the kubelet, a container runtime, and the kube-proxy.
If you have multiple nodes, you can search a node by name or label in the search bar.
Fields
Description
Node
User-defined name for the node in Devtron. E.g. demo-new.
Note: Two nodes cannot have the same name at the same time.

Status
Status of a node. It can be either Ready or Not Ready.
Roles
Shows the roles of a node.
Errors
Shows the error in nodes.
K8s Version
Shows the version of Kubernetes cluster.
No. of Pods
Shows the number of namespaces or pods in a node.
CPU Usage
Shows the CPU consumption in a node.
Mem Usage
Shows the memory consumption in a node
Age
Shows the time that the pod has been running since the last restart.
To display a parameter of a node, use the Columns on the right side, select the parameter you want to display from the drop-down list and click Apply.
Manage Nodes
Your applications run on pods, and pods run on Nodes. But sometimes, Kubernetes scheduler cannot deploy a pod on a Node for several reasons. As an example, node is not ready, node is not reachable, network is unavailable etc.
Using the Devtron UI, you will be able to:
​Debug a node​
​Cordon a node​
​Drain a node​
​Taint a node​
​Edit a node config​
​Delete a node​
To see the summary of a node, click the specific node.
Debug a Node
You can debug a node via Terminal by selecting your namespace and image from the list that has all CLI utilities like kubectl, helm, netshoot etc. or can use a custom image, which is publicly available.
Go to the Clusters section from the left navigation pane.
Select your cluster.
Search a node by name or label in the search bar.
On the node, click the ellipsis button and then click Terminal.
Debug a node by selecting the terminal shell bash or sh.
Cordon a Node
Cordoning a node means making the node unschedulable. After cordoning a node, new Pods cannot be scheduled on this node.
On the node, click the ellipsis button and then click Cordon.
A dialog box with message Cordoning this node will mark this node as unschedulable. By cordoning a node, you can be sure that no new pods will be scheduled on this node is displayed.
The status of the node shows SchedulingDisabled with Unschedulable parameter set as true.
Similarly, you can uncordon a node by clicking Uncordon. After a node is uncordoned, new Pods can be scheduled on the node.
Drain a Node
Before performing maintenance on a node, draining a node evicts all of your pods safely from a node. Safe evictions allow the pod’s containers to gracefully terminate and honour the PodDisruptionBudgets you have specified (if relevant).
After the node is drained, all Pods (including those managed by DaemonSets) in the node will be automatically drained to other nodes in the cluster, and the drained node will be set to cordoned status.
On the node, click the ellipsis button and then click Drain.
A dialog box with message Drain will cordon off the node and evict all pods of the node is displayed.
Click Drain Node.
You can also select from the following conditions before draining a node:
Name
Usage
Grace Period
Period of time in seconds given to each pod to terminate gracefully. If negative, the default value specified in the pod will be used.
Delete empty directory data
Enabling this field will delete the pods using empty directory data when the node is drained.
Disable eviction (use with caution
Enabling this field will force drain to use delete, even if eviction is supported. This will bypass checking PodDisruptionBudgets.
Note: Make sure to use with caution.

Force drain
Enabling this field will force drain a node even if there are pods that do not declare a controller.
Ignore DaemonSets
Enabling this field will ignore DaemonSet-managed pods.
Taint a Node
Taints are key:value pairs associated with effect. After you add taints to nodes, you can set tolerations on a pod to allow the pod to be scheduled to nodes with certain taints. When you taint a node, it will repel all the pods except those that have a toleration for that taint. A node can have one or many taints associated with it.
Note: Make sure to check taint validations before you add a taint.
On the node, click the ellipsis button and then click Edit taints.
Click Add taint.
On the Key and Value fields, enter the key:value pairs and select the taint effect from the drop-down list.
Click Save.
You can also delete the added taint by clicking delete button.
Taint Effects
A taint can produce three possible effects:
Effect
Description
NoSchedule
The Kubernetes scheduler will only allow scheduling pods that have tolerations for the tainted nodes.
PreferNoSchedule
The Kubernetes scheduler will try to avoid scheduling pods that do not have tolerations for the tainted nodes.
NoExecute
Kubernetes will evict the running pods from the nodes if the pods do not have tolerations for the tainted nodes.
Edit a Node Config
Edit node config allows you to directly edit any node. It will open the editor which contains all the configuration settings in which the default format is YAML. You can edit multiple objects, although changes are applied one at a time.
You can edit or modify the parameters or values of a node by clicking Edit node config.
Click Review Changes to compare the changes in the YAML file.
Click Update Node.
Delete a Node
Search a node by name or label in the search bar.
On the node, click the ellipsis button and then click Delete.
The node will be deleted from the cluster.
Access Cluster via Terminal for Troubleshooting
User with Super admins access can now troubleshoot cluster issues by accessing the cluster terminal from Devtron. You can select an image from the list that has all CLI utilities like kubectl, helm, netshoot etc. or can use a custom image, which is publicly available.
To troubleshoot a cluster or a specific node in a cluster, click the terminal symbol on the right side.
You will see the user-defined name for the cluster in Devtron. E.g. default-cluster.
In the Nodes field, select the node from the drop-down list you want to troubleshoot. E.g. demo-new.
Select the namespace from the drop-down list which you have added in the Environment section.
Select the image from the drop-down list which includes all CLI utilities or you can use a custom image, which is publicly available.
Select the terminal shell from the drop-down list (e.g. sh, bash) to troubleshoot a node.
One of the Use Cases: Debug Pod
You can also create pod for debugging which will connect to pod terminal. To find out why the particular pod is not running, you can check Pod Events and Pod Manifest for details.
Check the current state of the Pod and recent events with the following command:
kubectl get pods
To know more information about each of these pods and to debug a pod depending on the state of the pods, run the following command:
kubectl describe pod <podname>
If the pod status shows Pending, it means that it cannot be scheduled onto a node. Generally this is because there are insufficient resources of one type or another that prevent scheduling.
If the pod is stuck in the Waiting state, then it has been scheduled to a worker node, but it cannot run on that machine. One of the most common reason of Waiting pods is a failure to pull the container image.
If the pod status shows CrashLoopBackOff, it may because some of the containers inside a pod are not operating on the default access token when trying to interact with API.
Here, you can see configuration information about the container(s) and Pod (labels, resource requirements, etc.), as well as status information about the container(s) and Pod (state, readiness, restart count, events, etc.).
Note: A container can have no or multiple shells running in it. If you are not able to create a successfull connection, try changing the shell, as the container may not have that shell running.

Fields	Description
Cluster	User-defined name for the cluster in Devtron. E.g. `default-cluster`
Connection Status	Status of the cluster. The status can be either `Successful` or `Failed`.
Nodes	Shows the number of nodes in a cluster.
Node Errors	Shows the error in nodes.
K8s Version	Shows the version of Kubernetes cluster.
CPU Capacity	Shows the CPU capacity in your cluster in milicore. E.g., 8000m where 1000 milicore equals to 1 core.
Memory Capacity	Shows the memory capacity in your cluster in mebibytes.

Fields	Description
Node	User-defined name for the node in Devtron. E.g. `demo-new`. Note: Two nodes cannot have the same name at the same time.
Status	Status of a node. It can be either `Ready` or `Not Ready`.
Roles	Shows the roles of a node.
Errors	Shows the error in nodes.
K8s Version	Shows the version of Kubernetes cluster.
No. of Pods	Shows the number of namespaces or pods in a node.
CPU Usage	Shows the CPU consumption in a node.
Mem Usage	Shows the memory consumption in a node
Age	Shows the time that the pod has been running since the last restart.

Name	Usage
Grace Period	Period of time in seconds given to each pod to terminate gracefully. If negative, the default value specified in the pod will be used.
Delete empty directory data	Enabling this field will delete the pods using empty directory data when the node is drained.
Disable eviction (use with caution	Enabling this field will force drain to use delete, even if eviction is supported. This will bypass checking `PodDisruptionBudgets`. Note: Make sure to use with caution.
Force drain	Enabling this field will force drain a node even if there are pods that do not declare a controller.
Ignore DaemonSets	Enabling this field will ignore DaemonSet-managed pods.

Effect	Description
NoSchedule	The Kubernetes scheduler will only allow scheduling pods that have tolerations for the tainted nodes.
PreferNoSchedule	The Kubernetes scheduler will try to avoid scheduling pods that do not have tolerations for the tainted nodes.
NoExecute	Kubernetes will evict the running pods from the nodes if the pods do not have tolerations for the tainted nodes.

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