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Storage Autoscaling of a SingleStore Cluster
This guide will show you how to use KubeDB to autoscale the storage of a SingleStore cluster.
Before You Begin
At first, you need to have a Kubernetes cluster, and the
kubectlcommand-line tool must be configured to communicate with your cluster.Install
KubeDBProvisioner, Ops-manager and Autoscaler operator in your cluster following the steps here.Install
Metrics Serverfrom hereInstall Prometheus from here
You must have a
StorageClassthat supports volume expansion.You should be familiar with the following
KubeDBconcepts:
To keep everything isolated, we are going to use a separate namespace called demo throughout this tutorial.
$ kubectl create ns demo
namespace/demo created
Note: YAML files used in this tutorial are stored in docs/examples/singlestore directory of kubedb/docs repository.
Storage Autoscaling of SingleStore Cluster
At first verify that your cluster has a storage class, that supports volume expansion. Let’s check,
$ kubectl get storageclass
NAME PROVISIONER RECLAIMPOLICY VOLUMEBINDINGMODE ALLOWVOLUMEEXPANSION AGE
standard (default) kubernetes.io/gce-pd Delete Immediate true 2m49s
Create SingleStore License Secret
We need SingleStore License to create SingleStore Database. So, Ensure that you have acquired a license and then simply pass the license by secret.
$ kubectl create secret generic -n demo license-secret \
--from-literal=username=license \
--from-literal=password='your-license-set-here'
secret/license-secret created
Deploy SingleStore Cluster
In this section, we are going to deploy a SingleStore with version 8.7.10. Then, in the next section we will set up autoscaling for this database using SingleStoreAutoscaler CRD. Below is the YAML of the SingleStore CR that we are going to create,
apiVersion: kubedb.com/v1alpha2
kind: Singlestore
metadata:
name: sdb-sample
namespace: demo
spec:
version: 8.7.10
topology:
aggregator:
replicas: 2
podTemplate:
spec:
containers:
- name: singlestore
resources:
limits:
memory: "2Gi"
cpu: "0.7"
requests:
memory: "2Gi"
cpu: "0.7"
storage:
storageClassName: "standard"
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
resources:
requests:
storage: 1Gi
leaf:
replicas: 3
podTemplate:
spec:
containers:
- name: singlestore
resources:
limits:
memory: "2Gi"
cpu: "0.7"
requests:
memory: "2Gi"
cpu: "0.7"
storage:
storageClassName: "standard"
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
resources:
requests:
storage: 10Gi
licenseSecret:
name: license-secret
storageType: Durable
deletionPolicy: WipeOut
Let’s create the SingleStore CRO we have shown above,
$ kubectl create -f https://github.com/kubedb/docs/raw/v2024.12.18/docs/examples/singlestore/autoscaling/storage/sdb-cluster.yaml
singlestore.kubedb.com/sdb-cluster created
Now, wait until sdb-sample has status Ready. i.e,
NAME TYPE VERSION STATUS AGE
singlestore.kubedb.com/sdb-sample kubedb.com/v1alpha2 8.7.10 Ready 4m35s
Note: You can manage storage autoscale for aggregator and leaf nodes separately. Here, we will focus on leaf nodes.
Let’s check volume size from petset, and from the persistent volume,
$ kubectl get petset -n demo sdb-sample-leaf -o json | jq '.spec.volumeClaimTemplates[].spec.resources.requests.storage'
"10Gi"
$ kubectl get pv -n demo | grep 'leaf'
pvc-5cf8638e365544dd 10Gi RWO Retain Bound demo/data-sdb-sample-leaf-0 linode-block-storage-retain <unset> 50s
pvc-a99e7adb282a4f9c 10Gi RWO Retain Bound demo/data-sdb-sample-leaf-2 linode-block-storage-retain <unset> 60s
pvc-da8e9e5162a748df 10Gi RWO Retain Bound demo/data-sdb-sample-leaf-1 linode-block-storage-retain <unset> 70s
You can see the petset of leaf has 10GB storage, and the capacity of all the persistent volume is also 10GB.
We are now ready to apply the SingleStoreAutoscaler CRO to set up storage autoscaling for this cluster.
Storage Autoscaling
Here, we are going to set up storage autoscaling using a SingleStoreAutoscaler Object.
Create SingleStoreAutoscaler Object
In order to set up vertical autoscaling for this singlestore cluster, we have to create a SinglestoreAutoscaler CRO with our desired configuration. Below is the YAML of the SinglestoreAutoscaler object that we are going to create,
apiVersion: autoscaling.kubedb.com/v1alpha1
kind: SinglestoreAutoscaler
metadata:
name: sdb-cluster-autoscaler
namespace: demo
spec:
databaseRef:
name: sdb-sample
storage:
leaf:
trigger: "On"
usageThreshold: 30
scalingThreshold: 50
expansionMode: "Online"
upperBound: "100Gi"
Here,
spec.databaseRef.namespecifies that we are performing vertical scaling operation onsdb-samplecluster.spec.storage.leaf.triggerspecifies that storage autoscaling is enabled for leaf nodes on this cluster.spec.storage.leaf.usageThresholdspecifies storage usage threshold, if storage usage exceeds30%then storage autoscaling will be triggered.spec.storage.leaf.scalingThresholdspecifies the scaling threshold. Storage will be scaled to50%of the current amount.- It has another field
spec.storage.leaf.expansionModeto set the opsRequest volumeExpansionMode, which support two values:Online&Offline. Default value isOnline.
Let’s create the SinglestoreAutoscaler CR we have shown above,
$ kubectl apply -f https://github.com/kubedb/docs/raw/v2024.12.18/docs/examples/singlestore/autoscaling/storage/sdb-storage-autoscaler.yaml
singlestoreautoscaler.autoscaling.kubedb.com/sdb-storage-autoscaler created
Storage Autoscaling is set up successfully
Let’s check that the singlestoreautoscaler resource is created successfully,
$ kubectl get singlestoreautoscaler -n demo
NAME AGE
sdb-cluster-autoscaler 2m5s
$ kubectl describe singlestoreautoscaler -n demo sdb-cluster-autoscaler
Name: sdb-cluster-autoscaler
Namespace: demo
Labels: <none>
Annotations: <none>
API Version: autoscaling.kubedb.com/v1alpha1
Kind: SinglestoreAutoscaler
Metadata:
Creation Timestamp: 2024-09-11T07:05:11Z
Generation: 1
Owner References:
API Version: kubedb.com/v1alpha2
Block Owner Deletion: true
Controller: true
Kind: Singlestore
Name: sdb-sample
UID: e08e1f37-d869-437d-9b15-14c6aef3f406
Resource Version: 4904325
UID: 471afa65-6d12-4e7d-a2a6-6d28ce440c4d
Spec:
Database Ref:
Name: sdb-sample
Ops Request Options:
Apply: IfReady
Storage:
Leaf:
Expansion Mode: Online
Scaling Rules:
Applies Upto:
Threshold: 50pc
Scaling Threshold: 50
Trigger: On
Upper Bound: 100Gi
Usage Threshold: 30
Events: <none>
So, the singlestoreautoscaler resource is created successfully.
Now, for this demo, we are going to manually fill up the persistent volume to exceed the usageThreshold creating new database with partitions 6 to see if storage autoscaling is working or not.
Let’s exec into the cluster pod and fill the cluster volume using the following commands:
$ kubectl exec -it -n demo sdb-sample-leaf-0 -- bash
Defaulted container "singlestore" out of: singlestore, singlestore-coordinator, singlestore-init (init)
[memsql@sdb-sample-leaf-0 /]$ df -h var/lib/memsql
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0Linode_Volume_pvcc50e0d73d07349f9 9.8G 1.4G 8.4G 15% /var/lib/memsql
$ kubectl exec -it -n demo sdb-sample-aggregator-0 -- bash
Defaulted container "singlestore" out of: singlestore, singlestore-coordinator, singlestore-init (init)
[memsql@sdb-sample-aggregator-0 /]$ memsql -uroot -p$ROOT_PASSWORD
singlestore-client: [Warning] Using a password on the command line interface can be insecure.
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 113
Server version: 5.7.32 SingleStoreDB source distribution (compatible; MySQL Enterprise & MySQL Commercial)
Copyright (c) 2000, 2022, Oracle and/or its affiliates.
Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.
singlestore> create database demo partitions 6;
Query OK, 1 row affected (3.78 sec)
$ kubectl exec -it -n demo sdb-sample-leaf-0 -- bash
Defaulted container "singlestore" out of: singlestore, singlestore-coordinator, singlestore-init (init)
[memsql@sdb-sample-leaf-0 /]$ df -h var/lib/memsql
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0Linode_Volume_pvcc50e0d73d07349f9 9.8G 3.2G 6.7G 33% /var/lib/memsql
So, from the above output we can see that the storage usage is 33%, which exceeded the usageThreshold 30%.
Let’s watch the singlestoreopsrequest in the demo namespace to see if any singlestoreopsrequest object is created. After some time you’ll see that a singlestoreopsrequest of type VolumeExpansion will be created based on the scalingThreshold.
$ watch kubectl get singlestoreopsrequest -n demo
Every 2.0s: kubectl get singlestoreopsrequest -n demo ashraful: Wed Sep 11 13:39:25 2024
NAME TYPE STATUS AGE
sdbops-sdb-sample-th2r62 VolumeExpansion Progressing 10s
Let’s wait for the ops request to become successful.
$ watch kubectl get singlestoreopsrequest -n demo
Every 2.0s: kubectl get singlestoreopsrequest -n demo ashraful: Wed Sep 11 13:41:12 2024
NAME TYPE STATUS AGE
sdbops-sdb-sample-th2r62 VolumeExpansion Successful 2m31s
We can see from the above output that the SinglestoreOpsRequest has succeeded. If we describe the SinglestoreOpsRequest we will get an overview of the steps that were followed to expand the volume of the cluster.
$ kubectl describe singlestoreopsrequest -n demo sdbops-sdb-sample-th2r62
Name: sdbops-sdb-sample-th2r62
Namespace: demo
Labels: app.kubernetes.io/component=database
app.kubernetes.io/instance=sdb-sample
app.kubernetes.io/managed-by=kubedb.com
app.kubernetes.io/name=singlestores.kubedb.com
Annotations: <none>
API Version: ops.kubedb.com/v1alpha1
Kind: SinglestoreOpsRequest
Metadata:
Creation Timestamp: 2024-09-11T07:36:42Z
Generation: 1
Owner References:
API Version: autoscaling.kubedb.com/v1alpha1
Block Owner Deletion: true
Controller: true
Kind: SinglestoreAutoscaler
Name: sdb-cluster-autoscaler
UID: 471afa65-6d12-4e7d-a2a6-6d28ce440c4d
Resource Version: 4909632
UID: 3dce68d0-b5ee-4ad6-bd1f-f712bae39630
Spec:
Apply: IfReady
Database Ref:
Name: sdb-sample
Type: VolumeExpansion
Volume Expansion:
Leaf: 15696033792
Mode: Online
Status:
Conditions:
Last Transition Time: 2024-09-11T07:36:42Z
Message: Singlestore ops-request has started to expand volume of singlestore nodes.
Observed Generation: 1
Reason: VolumeExpansion
Status: True
Type: VolumeExpansion
Last Transition Time: 2024-09-11T07:36:45Z
Message: Successfully paused database
Observed Generation: 1
Reason: DatabasePauseSucceeded
Status: True
Type: DatabasePauseSucceeded
Last Transition Time: 2024-09-11T07:37:00Z
Message: successfully deleted the petSets with orphan propagation policy
Observed Generation: 1
Reason: OrphanPetSetPods
Status: True
Type: OrphanPetSetPods
Last Transition Time: 2024-09-11T07:36:50Z
Message: get pet set; ConditionStatus:True
Observed Generation: 1
Status: True
Type: GetPetSet
Last Transition Time: 2024-09-11T07:36:50Z
Message: delete pet set; ConditionStatus:True
Observed Generation: 1
Status: True
Type: DeletePetSet
Last Transition Time: 2024-09-11T07:37:40Z
Message: successfully updated Leaf node PVC sizes
Observed Generation: 1
Reason: UpdateLeafNodePVCs
Status: True
Type: UpdateLeafNodePVCs
Last Transition Time: 2024-09-11T07:37:05Z
Message: get pvc; ConditionStatus:True
Observed Generation: 1
Status: True
Type: GetPvc
Last Transition Time: 2024-09-11T07:37:06Z
Message: is pvc patched; ConditionStatus:True
Observed Generation: 1
Status: True
Type: IsPvcPatched
Last Transition Time: 2024-09-11T07:37:15Z
Message: compare storage; ConditionStatus:True
Observed Generation: 1
Status: True
Type: CompareStorage
Last Transition Time: 2024-09-11T07:37:46Z
Message: successfully reconciled the Singlestore resources
Observed Generation: 1
Reason: UpdatePetSets
Status: True
Type: UpdatePetSets
Last Transition Time: 2024-09-11T07:37:51Z
Message: PetSet is recreated
Observed Generation: 1
Reason: ReadyPetSets
Status: True
Type: ReadyPetSets
Last Transition Time: 2024-09-11T07:38:19Z
Message: Successfully completed volumeExpansion for Singlestore
Observed Generation: 1
Reason: Successful
Status: True
Type: Successful
Observed Generation: 1
Phase: Successful
Events:
Type Reason Age From Message
---- ------ ---- ---- -------
Normal Starting 6m4s KubeDB Ops-manager Operator Start processing for SinglestoreOpsRequest: demo/sdbops-sdb-sample-th2r62
Normal Starting 6m4s KubeDB Ops-manager Operator Pausing Singlestore database: demo/sdb-sample
Normal Successful 6m4s KubeDB Ops-manager Operator Successfully paused Singlestore database: demo/sdb-sample for SinglestoreOpsRequest: sdbops-sdb-sample-th2r62
Warning get pet set; ConditionStatus:True 5m56s KubeDB Ops-manager Operator get pet set; ConditionStatus:True
Warning delete pet set; ConditionStatus:True 5m56s KubeDB Ops-manager Operator delete pet set; ConditionStatus:True
Warning get pet set; ConditionStatus:True 5m51s KubeDB Ops-manager Operator get pet set; ConditionStatus:True
Normal OrphanPetSetPods 5m46s KubeDB Ops-manager Operator successfully deleted the petSets with orphan propagation policy
Warning get pvc; ConditionStatus:True 5m41s KubeDB Ops-manager Operator get pvc; ConditionStatus:True
Warning is pvc patched; ConditionStatus:True 5m40s KubeDB Ops-manager Operator is pvc patched; ConditionStatus:True
Warning get pvc; ConditionStatus:True 5m36s KubeDB Ops-manager Operator get pvc; ConditionStatus:True
Warning compare storage; ConditionStatus:False 5m36s KubeDB Ops-manager Operator compare storage; ConditionStatus:False
Warning get pvc; ConditionStatus:True 5m31s KubeDB Ops-manager Operator get pvc; ConditionStatus:True
Warning compare storage; ConditionStatus:True 5m31s KubeDB Ops-manager Operator compare storage; ConditionStatus:True
Warning get pvc; ConditionStatus:True 5m26s KubeDB Ops-manager Operator get pvc; ConditionStatus:True
Warning is pvc patched; ConditionStatus:True 5m26s KubeDB Ops-manager Operator is pvc patched; ConditionStatus:True
Warning get pvc; ConditionStatus:True 5m21s KubeDB Ops-manager Operator get pvc; ConditionStatus:True
Warning compare storage; ConditionStatus:True 5m21s KubeDB Ops-manager Operator compare storage; ConditionStatus:True
Warning get pvc; ConditionStatus:True 5m16s KubeDB Ops-manager Operator get pvc; ConditionStatus:True
Warning is pvc patched; ConditionStatus:True 5m16s KubeDB Ops-manager Operator is pvc patched; ConditionStatus:True
Warning get pvc; ConditionStatus:True 5m11s KubeDB Ops-manager Operator get pvc; ConditionStatus:True
Warning compare storage; ConditionStatus:True 5m11s KubeDB Ops-manager Operator compare storage; ConditionStatus:True
Normal UpdateLeafNodePVCs 5m6s KubeDB Ops-manager Operator successfully updated Leaf node PVC sizes
Normal UpdatePetSets 5m KubeDB Ops-manager Operator successfully reconciled the Singlestore resources
Warning get pet set; ConditionStatus:True 4m55s KubeDB Ops-manager Operator get pet set; ConditionStatus:True
Normal ReadyPetSets 4m55s KubeDB Ops-manager Operator PetSet is recreated
Normal Starting 4m27s KubeDB Ops-manager Operator Resuming Singlestore database: demo/sdb-sample
Normal Successful 4m27s KubeDB Ops-manager Operator Successfully resumed Singlestore database: demo/sdb-sample for SinglestoreOpsRequest: sdbops-sdb-sample-th2r62
Now, we are going to verify from the Petset, and the Persistent Volume whether the volume of the combined cluster has expanded to meet the desired state, Let’s check,
kubectl get petset -n demo sdb-sample-leaf -o json | jq '.spec.volumeClaimTemplates[].spec.resources.requests.storage'
"15696033792"
~ $ kubectl get pv -n demo | grep 'leaf'
pvc-8df67f3178964106 15328158Ki RWO Retain Bound demo/data-sdb-sample-leaf-2 linode-block-storage-retain <unset> 42m
pvc-c50e0d73d07349f9 15328158Ki RWO Retain Bound demo/data-sdb-sample-leaf-0 linode-block-storage-retain <unset> 43m
pvc-f8b95ff9a9bd4fa2 15328158Ki RWO Retain Bound demo/data-sdb-sample-leaf-1 linode-block-storage-retain <unset> 42m
The above output verifies that we have successfully autoscaled the volume of the SingleStore cluster.
Cleaning Up
To clean up the Kubernetes resources created by this tutorial, run:
kubectl delete singlestoreopsrequests -n demo sdbops-sdb-sample-th2r62
kubectl delete singlestoreautoscaler -n demo sdb-storage-autoscaler
kubectl delete sdb -n demo sdb-sample
Next Steps
- Detail concepts of SingleStore object.
- Different SingleStore clustering modes here.
- Monitor your SingleStore database with KubeDB using out-of-the-box Prometheus operator.
- Monitor your SingleStore database with KubeDB using out-of-the-box builtin-Prometheus
- Want to hack on KubeDB? Check our contribution guidelines.