Allow configuring nginx worker reload behaviour, to prevent multiple concurrent worker reloads which can lead to high resource usage and OOMKill (#10884)

* feat: allow configuring nginx worker reload behaviour, to prevent multiple concurrent worker reloads

Signed-off-by: Rafael da Fonseca <rafael.fonseca@wildlifestudios.com>

* appease linter, remove unnecessary log line

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* Flip to using a positive behaviour flag instead of negative

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* Update helm-docs

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* Avoid calling GetBackendConfiguration() twice, use clearer name for helm chart option

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* Fix helm-docs ordering

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Signed-off-by: Rafael da Fonseca <rafael.fonseca@wildlifestudios.com>
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7 changed files with 69 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -301,6 +301,7 @@ As of version `1.26.0` of this chart, by simply not providing any clusterIP valu
| controller.enableAnnotationValidations | bool | `false` | |
| controller.enableMimalloc | bool | `true` | Enable mimalloc as a drop-in replacement for malloc. # ref: https://github.com/microsoft/mimalloc # |
| controller.enableTopologyAwareRouting | bool | `false` | This configuration enables Topology Aware Routing feature, used together with service annotation service.kubernetes.io/topology-mode="auto" Defaults to false |
| controller.enableWorkerSerialReloads | bool | `false` | This configuration defines if NGINX workers should reload serially instead of concurrently when multiple changes that require reloads are queued |
| controller.existingPsp | string | `""` | Use an existing PSP instead of creating one |
| controller.extraArgs | object | `{}` | Additional command line arguments to pass to Ingress-Nginx Controller E.g. to specify the default SSL certificate you can use |
| controller.extraContainers | list | `[]` | Additional containers to be added to the controller pod. See https://github.com/lemonldap-ng-controller/lemonldap-ng-controller as example. |

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@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ metadata:
namespace: {{ include "ingress-nginx.namespace" . }}
data:
allow-snippet-annotations: "{{ .Values.controller.allowSnippetAnnotations }}"
enable-serial-reloads: "{{ .Values.controller.enableWorkerSerialReloads }}"
{{- if .Values.controller.addHeaders }}
add-headers: {{ include "ingress-nginx.namespace" . }}/{{ include "ingress-nginx.fullname" . }}-custom-add-headers
{{- end }}

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@ -93,6 +93,8 @@ controller:
# when users add those annotations.
# Global snippets in ConfigMap are still respected
allowSnippetAnnotations: false
# -- This configuration defines if NGINX workers should reload serially instead of concurrently when multiple changes that require reloads are queued
enableWorkerSerialReloads: false
# -- Required for use with CNI based kubernetes installations (such as ones set up by kubeadm),
# since CNI and hostport don't mix yet. Can be deprecated once https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/23920
# is merged

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@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ The following table shows a configuration option's name, type, and the default v
|[worker-processes](#worker-processes)| string | `<Number of CPUs>` ||
|[worker-cpu-affinity](#worker-cpu-affinity)| string | "" ||
|[worker-shutdown-timeout](#worker-shutdown-timeout)| string | "240s" ||
|[enable-serial-reloads](#enable-serial-reloads)|bool|"false"||
|[load-balance](#load-balance)| string | "round_robin" ||
|[variables-hash-bucket-size](#variables-hash-bucket-size)| int | 128 ||
|[variables-hash-max-size](#variables-hash-max-size)| int | 2048 ||

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@ -477,6 +477,13 @@ type Configuration struct {
// http://nginx.org/en/docs/ngx_core_module.html#worker_processes
WorkerProcesses string `json:"worker-processes,omitempty"`
// Defines whether multiple concurrent reloads of worker processes should occur.
// Set this to false to prevent more than n x 2 workers to exist at any time, to avoid potential OOM situations and high CPU load
// With this setting on false, configuration changes in the queue will be re-queued with an exponential backoff, until the number of worker process is the expected value.
// By default new worker processes are spawned every time there's a change that cannot be applied dynamically with no upper limit to the number of running workers
// http://nginx.org/en/docs/ngx_core_module.html#worker_processes
WorkerSerialReloads bool `json:"enable-serial-reloads,omitempty"`
// Defines a timeout for a graceful shutdown of worker processes
// http://nginx.org/en/docs/ngx_core_module.html#worker_shutdown_timeout
WorkerShutdownTimeout string `json:"worker-shutdown-timeout,omitempty"`
@ -851,6 +858,7 @@ func NewDefault() Configuration {
UseGeoIP2: false,
GeoIP2AutoReloadMinutes: 0,
WorkerProcesses: strconv.Itoa(runtime.NumCPU()),
WorkerSerialReloads: false,
WorkerShutdownTimeout: "240s",
VariablesHashBucketSize: 256,
VariablesHashMaxSize: 2048,

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@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ import (
"syscall"
"text/template"
"time"
"unicode"
proxyproto "github.com/armon/go-proxyproto"
"github.com/eapache/channels"
@ -90,6 +91,7 @@ func NewNGINXController(config *Configuration, mc metric.Collector) *NGINXContro
resolver: h,
cfg: config,
syncRateLimiter: flowcontrol.NewTokenBucketRateLimiter(config.SyncRateLimit, 1),
workersReloading: false,
recorder: eventBroadcaster.NewRecorder(scheme.Scheme, apiv1.EventSource{
Component: "nginx-ingress-controller",
@ -229,6 +231,8 @@ type NGINXController struct {
syncRateLimiter flowcontrol.RateLimiter
workersReloading bool
// stopLock is used to enforce that only a single call to Stop send at
// a given time. We allow stopping through an HTTP endpoint and
// allowing concurrent stoppers leads to stack traces.
@ -676,6 +680,11 @@ func (n *NGINXController) OnUpdate(ingressCfg ingress.Configuration) error {
cfg := n.store.GetBackendConfiguration()
cfg.Resolver = n.resolver
workerSerialReloads := cfg.WorkerSerialReloads
if workerSerialReloads && n.workersReloading {
return errors.New("worker reload already in progress, requeuing reload")
}
content, err := n.generateTemplate(cfg, ingressCfg)
if err != nil {
return err
@ -738,9 +747,41 @@ func (n *NGINXController) OnUpdate(ingressCfg ingress.Configuration) error {
return fmt.Errorf("%v\n%v", err, string(o))
}
// Reload status checking runs in a separate goroutine to avoid blocking the sync queue
if workerSerialReloads {
go n.awaitWorkersReload()
}
return nil
}
// awaitWorkersReload checks if the number of workers has returned to the expected count
func (n *NGINXController) awaitWorkersReload() {
n.workersReloading = true
defer func() { n.workersReloading = false }()
expectedWorkers := n.store.GetBackendConfiguration().WorkerProcesses
var numWorkers string
klog.V(3).Infof("waiting for worker count to be equal to %s", expectedWorkers)
for numWorkers != expectedWorkers {
time.Sleep(time.Second)
o, err := exec.Command("/bin/sh", "-c", "pgrep worker | wc -l").Output()
if err != nil {
klog.ErrorS(err, numWorkers)
return
}
// cleanup any non-printable chars from shell output
numWorkers = strings.Map(func(r rune) rune {
if unicode.IsPrint(r) {
return r
}
return -1
}, string(o))
klog.V(3).Infof("Currently running nginx worker processes: %s, expected %s", numWorkers, expectedWorkers)
}
}
// nginxHashBucketSize computes the correct NGINX hash_bucket_size for a hash
// with the given longest key.
func nginxHashBucketSize(longestString int) int {

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@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ const (
luaSharedDictsKey = "lua-shared-dicts"
plugins = "plugins"
debugConnections = "debug-connections"
workerSerialReloads = "enable-serial-reloads"
)
var (
@ -404,6 +405,17 @@ func ReadConfig(src map[string]string) config.Configuration {
delete(conf, workerProcesses)
}
if val, ok := conf[workerSerialReloads]; ok {
boolVal, err := strconv.ParseBool(val)
if err != nil {
to.WorkerSerialReloads = false
klog.Warningf("failed to parse enable-serial-reloads setting, valid values are true or false, found %s", val)
} else {
to.WorkerSerialReloads = boolVal
}
delete(conf, workerSerialReloads)
}
if val, ok := conf[plugins]; ok {
to.Plugins = splitAndTrimSpace(val, ",")
delete(conf, plugins)