/containerdns

a full cache DNS for kubernetes

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ContainerDNS

Introduction

ContainerDNS is used as internal DNS server for k8s cluster, and use DNS library : https://github.com/miekg/dns. containerdns-kubeapi will monitor the services in k8s cluster,when the service is created and has been assigned with external ips, the user(docker)in cluster can access the service with the domain. When the domain has multiple ips, the containerdns will choose one actived for the user randomly, it seems like a load balancer. Also the containerdns offer "session persistence", that means we query one domain from one user ip, then the user access the domain later, the user will get the same service ip.

Components

  • containerdns: the main service to offer DNS query.
  • containerdns-kubeapi: monitor the changes of k8s services, and record the change in the etcd. It offered the original data for containerdns, meanwhille containerdns-kubeapi offers the RESTful api for users to maintain domain records.
  • containerdns-apicmd: it is a shell cmd for user to query\update domain record, it is based on containerdns-kubeapi.
  • etcd: used to store DNS information, etcd v3 api is used.

Feature:

  • a full cached DNS records
  • backend ip automatic removed when it not avaliable
  • support multiple domain suffix
  • better performance and less jitter

Design Architecture

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Setup / Install

Then get and compile ContainerDNS:

    mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/tiglabs
    cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/tiglabs
    git clone https://github.com/tiglabs/containerdns
    cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/tiglabs/containerdns
    make

Configuration

containerdns

  • config-file: read configs from the file, default "/etc/containerdns/containerdns.conf".

the config file like this:

    [Dns]
    dns-domain = containerdns.local.
    dns-addr   = 0.0.0.0:53
    nameservers = ""
    subDomainServers = ""
    cacheSize   = 100000
    ip-monitor-path = /containerdns/monitor/status/
    
    [Log]
    log-dir    = /export/log/containerdns
    log-level  = 2
    log-to-stdio = true
    
    [Etcd]
    etcd-servers = http://127.0.0.1:2379
    etcd-certfile = ""
    etcd-keyfile = ""
    etcd-cafile = ""
    
    [Fun]
    random-one = false
    hone-one  = false
    
    [Stats]
    
    statsServer = 127.0.0.1:9600
    statsServerAuthToken = @containerdns.com

containerdns-kubeapi

  • config-file: read configs from the file, default "/etc/containerdns/containerdns.conf".

the config file like this:

    [General]
    domain=containerdns.local
    host = 192.168.169.41
    etcd-server = http://127.0.0.1:2379
    ip-monitor-path = /containerdns/monitor/status
    log-dir    = /export/log/containerdns
    log-level  = 2
    log-to-stdio = false
    
    [Kube2DNS]
    kube-enable = NO
    
    [DNSApi]
    api-enable = YES
    api-address = 127.0.0.1:9003
    containerdns-auth  = 123456789
    

containerdns-scanner

  • config-file: read configs from the file, default "/etc/containerdns/containerdns-scanner.conf".

the config file like this:

    [General]
    core = 0
    enable-check = true
    hostname = hostname1
    log-dir = /export/log/containerdns
    log-level = 100
    heartbeat-interval = 30
    [Check]
    check-timeout = 2
    check-interval = 10
    scann-ports = 22, 80, 8080
    enable-icmp = true
    ping-timeout = 1000
    ping-count = 2
    [Etcd]
    etcd-machine = http://127.0.0.1:2379
    tls-key =
    tls-pem =
    ca-cert =
    status-path = /containerdns/monitor/status
    report-path = /containerdns/monitor/report
    heart-path = /containerdns/monitor/heart
    

containerdns-schedule

  • config-file: read configs from the file, default "/etc/containerdns/containerdns-schedule.conf".

the config file like this:

    [General]
    schedule-interval = 60
    agent-downtime = 60
    log-dir = /export/log/containerdns
    log-level = 100
    hostname = hostname1
    force-lock-time = 1800
    
    [Etcd]
    etcd-machine = http://127.0.0.1:2379
    status-path = /containerdns/monitor/status
    report-path = /containerdns/monitor/report
    heart-path = /containerdns/monitor/heart
    lock-path = /containerdns/monitor/lock

Testing

containerdns-kubeapi

    we use curl to test the user api.

typeA

    % curl -H "Content-Type:application/json;charset=UTF-8"  -X POST -d '{"type":"A","ips":["192.168.10.1","192.168.10.2","192.168.10.3"]}'  http://127.0.0.1:9001/containerdns/api/cctv2?token="123456789"      
    OK

typeCname

    % curl -H "Content-Type:application/json;charset=UTF-8"   -X POST -d '{"type":"cname","alias":"tv1"}' http://127.0.0.1:9001/containerdns/api/cctv2.containerdns.local?token="123456789"  
   OK

containerdns

typeA

    % nslookup qiyf-nginx-5.default.svc.containerdns.local 127.0.0.1
    Server:         127.0.0.1
    Address:        127.0.0.1#53

    Name:   qiyf-nginx-5.default.svc.containerdns.local
    Address: 192.168.19.113

    if the domain have more than one ip, containerdns will return a radom one.

    % nslookup cctv2.containerdns.local 127.0.0.1
    Server:         127.0.0.1
    Address:        127.0.0.1#53

    Name:   cctv2.containerdns.local
    Address: 192.168.10.3

typeCname

    % nslookup tv1.containerdns.local 127.0.0.1
    Server:         127.0.0.1
    Address:        127.0.0.1#53

    tv1.containerdns.local    canonical name = cctv2.containerdns.local.
    Name:   cctv2.containerdns.local
    Address: 192.168.10.3

monitor

     If the domain may have multiple ips, then dns-scanner is used to monitor the ips behand the domain. 
     When the service is not reachable, dns-scanner will change the status of the ip. And the containerdns will monitor the ip status, 
     when it comes down, containerdns will choose a good one.
     
     cctv2.containerdns.local    ips[192.168.10.1,192.168.10.2,192.168.10.3]
     
    % nslookup cctv2.containerdns.local 127.0.0.1
    Server:         127.0.0.1
    Address:        127.0.0.1#53

    Name:   cctv2.containerdns.local
    Address: 192.168.10.3
    
    % etcdctl get /containerdns/monitor/status/192.168.10.3
    {"status":"DOWN"}

    % nslookup cctv2.containerdns.local 127.0.0.1
    Server:         127.0.0.1
    Address:        127.0.0.1#53

    Name:   cctv2.containerdns.local
    Address: 192.168.10.1
    
    we query the domain cctv2.containerdns.local form containerdns we get the ip 192.168.10.3, then we shut down the service, we query the domain again
    we get the ip 192.168.10.1.

Performance Test

Testing Conditions

Physical hardware

    NIC: gigabit ethernet card
    CPUs: 32
    RAM: 32G
    OS: CentOS-7.2

Testing Software

    queryperf

Test result

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Future

improve the performance of UDP packets (DNS use UDP)

    Help ContainerDNS (DNS) services improve throughput performace with DPDK technology