Etcd Administration Tasks

    etcd-manager uses many of the same ideas as the existing etcd implementation built into kOps, but it addresses some limitations also:

    • separate from kOps - can be used by other projects
    • allows etcd2 -> etcd3 upgrade (along with minor upgrades)
    • allows cluster resizing (e.g. going from 1 to 3 nodes)

    When using kubernetes >= 1.12 etcd-manager will be used by default. See etcd3-migration.md for upgrades from older clusters.

    Backups and restores of etcd on kOps are covered in

    It’s not typically necessary to view or manipulate the data inside of etcd directly with etcdctl, because all operations usually go through kubectl commands. However, it can be informative during troubleshooting, or just to understand kubernetes better. Here are the steps to accomplish that on kOps.

    1. Connect to an etcd-manager pod

    2. Determine which version of etcd is running

    1. echo $DIRNAME
    1. ETCDCTL_API=3 $DIRNAME/etcdctl --cacert=/rootfs/etc/kubernetes/pki/kube-apiserver/etcd-ca.crt --cert=/rootfs/etc/kubernetes/pki/kube-apiserver/etcd-client.crt --key=/rootfs/etc/kubernetes/pki/kube-apiserver/etcd-client.key --endpoints=https://127.0.0.1:4001 get --prefix / | tee output.txt

    The contents of etcd are now in output.txt.

    You may run any other etcdctl commands by replacing the “get —prefix /“ with a different command.

    The contents of the etcd dump are often garbled. See the next section for a better way to view the results.

    Openshift’s etcdhelper is a good way of exporting the contents of etcd in a readable format. Here are the steps.

    1. SSH into a master node

    You can view the IP addresses of the nodes

    1. ssh admin@<IP-of-master-node>

    2. Install golang

    in whatever manner you prefer. Here is one example.

    1. cd /usr/local
    3. sudo tar -xvf go1.13.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz
    4. cat <<EOT >> $HOME/.profile
    5. export GOPATH=\$HOME/go
    7. EOT
    8. source $HOME/.profile
    9. which go

    3. Install etcdhelper

    4. Run etcdhelper

    1. sudo etcdhelper -key /etc/kubernetes/pki/kube-apiserver/etcd-client.key -cert /etc/kubernetes/pki/kube-apiserver/etcd-client.crt  -cacert /etc/kubernetes/pki/kube-apiserver/etcd-ca.crt -endpoint https://127.0.0.1:4001 dump | tee output.txt

    The output of the command is now available in output.txt

    Other etcdhelper commands are possible, like “ls”: