Basic Usage Guide

This docs focuses on how to make Kruise Rollout effective and how to make a complete release, and answer some questions about usages.

A Complete Release Process

Step 0: Requirements

• Install Kruise Rollouts.

• Assume that you already have a Deployment in your Kubernetes cluster as follows:

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: workload-demo
  namespace: default
spec:
  replicas: 10
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: demo
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: demo
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: busybox
        image: busybox:latest
        command: ["/bin/sh", "-c", "sleep 100d"]
        env:
        - name: VERSION
          value: "version-1"

Step 1: Prepare and apply Rollout configuration

Assume that you want to use multi-batch update strategy to upgrade your Deployment from "version-1" to "version-2":

• In the 1-st batch: Only 1 Pod should be upgraded;
• In the 2-nd batch: 50% Pods should be upgraded, i.e., 5 updated Pods;
• In the 3-rd batch: 100% Pods should be upgradedm i.e., 10 updated Pods.

$ kubectl apply -f - <<EOF
apiVersion: rollouts.kruise.io/v1alpha1
kind: Rollout
metadata:
  name: rollouts-demo
  namespace: default
  annotations:
    rollouts.kruise.io/rolling-style: partition
spec:
  objectRef:
    workloadRef:
      apiVersion: apps/v1
      kind: Deployment
      name: workload-demo
  strategy:
    canary:
      steps:
      - replicas: 1
      - replicas: 50%
      - replicas: 100%
EOF

Step 2: Upgrade Deployment to "version-2" and release the 1-st batch

$ kubectl patch deployment workload-demo -p \
'{"spec":{"template":{"spec":{"containers":[{"name":"busybox", "env":[{"name":"VERSION", "value":"version-2"}]}]}}}}'

Wait a while, we will see the Deployment status show Only 1 Pod is upgraded.

Step 3: Continue to release the 2-nd batch

$ kubectl-kruise rollout approve rollout/rollouts-demo -n default

Note: kubectl-kruise is also provided by OpenKruise community.

Wait a while, we will see the Deployment status show 5 Pod is upgraded.

Step 4: Continue to release the 3-rd batch

$ kubectl-kruise rollout approve rollout/rollouts-demo -n default

Wait a while, we will see the Deployment status show all 10 Pod is upgraded.

How to continue the next step manually?

Currently, there are two methods. For example, if you have completed the first batch and want to send the second batch:

• Method one: You can set the pause.duration field of the first batch to duration:0, which will automatically enter the next batch.
• Method two: You can update the rollout.status.canaryStatus.currentStepState field to "StepReady", which will also automatically enter the next batch.

Each method has its own advantages and disadvantages:

• For method one, it can ensure the idempotence of your operation, but you need to reset the strategy of the rollout back to its original state (e.g., reset the duration field to nil) before the next release.

kind: Rollout
spec:
  strategy:
    canary:
      steps:
      - replicas: 1
        pause: 
          duration: 0 
      - ... ...

• For method two, you don't need to change anything before the next release. However, before confirming, you need to check the status of Rollout and use the update interface instead of the patch interface of Kubernetes client, or use our kubectl-kruise tools.

$ kubectl-kruise rollout approve rollout/<your-rollout-name> -n <your-rollout-namespace>

How to know current step is Ready?

All status information about current step is recorded in status.canaryStatus field of Rollout:

• if status.canaryStatus.CurrentStepIndex does not equal to your expected step index, the current step is NOT ready.
• if status.canaryStatus.CurrentStepState does not equal to "StepReady" or "Complete", the current step is NOT ready.

func IsRolloutCurrentStepReady(rollout *rolloutsv1alpha1.Rollout, stepIndex int32) bool {
    if rollout.Status.CanaryStatus != nil {
        if rollout.Status.CanaryStatus.CurrentStepIndex != stepIndex {
            return false
        }
        switch rollout.Status.CanaryStatus.CurrentSetpState {
        case "StepReady", "Complete":
            return true
        }
    }
    return false
}

But in some automatic scenes(e.g. PaaS platform), before judging whether current step is ready, we should know whether the canaryStatus is corresponding to the current rollout processes (Maybe it corresponds to the last rollout process). We can use rollout-id mechanism to solve this problem.

func IsRolloutCurrentStepReady(workload appsv1.Deployment, rollout *rolloutsv1alpha1.Rollout, stepIndex int32) bool {
    if rollout.Status.CanaryStatus != nil {
        rolloutId := workload.Labels["rollouts.kruise.io/rollout-id"]
        if rolloutId != rollout.Status.CanaryStatus.ObservedRolloutID {
            return false
        }
        if rollout.Status.CanaryStatus.CurrentStepIndex != stepIndex {
            return false
        }
        switch rollout.Status.CanaryStatus.CurrentSetpState {
        case "StepReady", "Complete":
            return true
        }
    }
    return false
}

How to do rollback?

In fact, Kruise Rollout DOES NOT provide the ability to rollback directly. Kruise Rollout prefers that users can rollback workload spec directly to rollback their application. When users need to rollback from “version-2” to ”version-1“, Kruise Rollout will use the native rolling upgrade strategy to quickly rollback, instead of following the multi-batch checkpoint strategy.

Other Statements

• Continuous Release: Assume that Rollout is progressing from "version-1" to "version-2"(uncompleted). Now, workload is modified to "version-3", Rollout will start to progress from beginning step (1-st step).
• HPA compatible: Assume that you config HPA to your workload and use multi-batch update strategy, we suggest to use "Percent" to specify "steps[x].replicas". If replicas is scaled up/down during rollout progressing, the old and new version replicas will be scaled according the "Percent" configuration.