Joining your Nodes to the Controller

How to join your Anka Build Virtualization Nodes to the Anka Build Cloud Controller

Prerequisites

Joining to your Anka Build Cloud Controller

Be sure to run ankacluster as root

DO NOT use underscores in your CNAME/URLs

❯ sudo ankacluster join http://anka.controller:8090
Testing connection to the controller...: Ok
Testing connection to the registry...: Ok
Success!
Anka Cloud Cluster join success

You can join a Node to multiple controllers by comma separating them: sudo ankacluster join http://anka.controller1:8090,http://anka.controller2:8090

❯ ankacluster join --help
Joins the current Node to your Anka Cloud Cluster

Usage:
  ankacluster join [controller_address] [flags]

Flags:
  -c, --cacert string               Specify the path to your Root CA Certificate (PEM/X509)
  -M, --capacity-mode string        Set the capacity mode (resource or number) the Node will use when pulling jobs from the Anka Cloud Cluster queue. 'resource' will look at available resources (see --vcp-override and --ram-override) / 'number' will only accept if --max-vm-count isn't already met (default "number")
  -C, --cert string                 Specify the path to the Node's certificate file (PEM/X509)
  -K, --cert-key string             Specify the path to the Node's certificate key file (PEM/X509)
      --enable-vm-monitor           Enabled unresponsive VM monitoring. This will throw a failure when the VM becomes unresponsive for longer than the --vm-stuck-timeout
  -f, --force-no-sudo               Force the anka_agent to start without sudo
  -g, --global                      DEPRECATED! Install agent into system domain
  -G, --groups string               Specify group name (or multiple names sepearated by ',') to add the current Node to
      --heartbeat duration          Set the duration between status updates the Node sends to the Anka Cloud Cluster (default: 5 seconds)
  -h, --help                        help for join
  -H, --host string                 Set the address (IP or Hostname) of the Node that the Anka Cloud Cluster will use when communicating with CI tools/plugins. This is useful when your CI tool cannot connect to the Node's local IP address (the default value of --host), but does have access to an external IP or hostname for it (proxy, load balancer, etc).
  -k, --keystore string             Specify the path to your certificate keystore (PEM/PKCS12)
  -p, --keystore-pass string        Specify the password for your certificate keystore
  -m, --max-vm-count int            Set the maximum number of VMs this Node is allowed to run (default: 2) (default 2)
  -n, --name string                 Set a custom Node name (default: hostname)
      --no-central-logging          Disable sending logs to central logging location
  -R, --ram-override int            Set the the max RAM (in GB) that this Node can handle (default: {total ram} - 2GB)
      --reserve-space string        Set the space the Node will reserve when it receives a job and pulls the Template/Tag. This is useful if you want to ensure there is always enough space for other application/disk usage. (Format: 1024B, 10KB, 140MB, 45GB, etc)
  -r, --root-cert string            Identical to --cacert
      --skip-tests                  Disable testing the connection before starting the agent
      --skip-tls-verification       Skip TLS verification
  -t, --tls                         Enable TLS for communicating with the Anka Cloud Cluster
  -V, --vcpu-override int           Set the max vcpus that this Node can handle. (default: {current physical cpu count} * 2)
      --vm-stuck-delay duration     The time between unresponsive VM checks (default: 30s - Duration examples: 3500s, 20m, 5h)
      --vm-stuck-timeout duration   The time to wait until the VM is considered unresponsive (default: 10s - Duration examples: 3500s, 20m, 5h)

The Anka agent is listening on a socket to provide status information at runtime. You can override the path of the socket by setting the ANKA_AGENT_SOCKET env var.

Disjoining

You don't need to disjoin nodes to upgrade the Anka Virtualization package

❯ sudo ankacluster disjoin
Disjoined from the Anka Cloud Cluster

Status

You can check the status of the Anka agent using the ankacluster status command.

❯ ankacluster status
status: running
config:
  vm_limit: 2
  optimization_threshold: 5
  num_workers: 2
  controller_addresses:
  - http://anka.controller.dev
  version: 1.13.0-6cd34a2c
  capacity_mode: number
  heartbeat: 5s
  node_name: MyMacMiniNode
  vm_stuck_check_delay: 30s
  vm_stuck_check_timeout: 10s

For infomation check out ankacluster status --help

❯ sudo ankacluster status --help
Returns the status of the Anka Node Agent

Usage:
  ankacluster status [flags]

Flags:
  -h, --help               help for status
  -m, --machine-readable   Output the response in json format

The Anka agent is listening on a socket to provide the information at runtime. In case the agent is configured to listen on a custom socket, you can use the ANKA_AGENT_SOCKET env var to override it.

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions

The Controller will be checking disk space on every pull/preparation of a VM. If not enough disk space is available, it will automatically delete VM Templates/tags from the Node based on which has the oldest last used timestamp until there is enough space for the VM Template/Tag. This cannot be disabled at the moment.
The registry External URL is used by the Nodes to pull down templates and tags. Be sure to set this URL properly in your Build Cloud Configuration and ensure firewalls allow communication.

Node-side Load Balancing

The complete guide for letting your node handle load balancing requests to the Controller

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Last modified March 11, 2021 : last used (9baef6f) by Nathan Pierce