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Monitoring virtual machine health

Use this procedure to create liveness and readiness probes to monitor virtual machine health.

About liveness and readiness probes

When a VirtualMachineInstance (VMI) fails, liveness probes stop the VMI. Controllers such as VirtualMachine then spawn other VMIs, restoring virtual machine responsiveness.

Readiness probes tell services and endpoints that the VirtualMachineInstance is ready to receive traffic from services. If readiness probes fail, the VirtualMachineInstance is removed from applicable endpoints until the probe recovers.

Define an HTTP liveness probe

This procedure provides an example configuration file for defining HTTP liveness probes.

Procedure

  1. Customize a YAML configuration file to create an HTTP liveness probe, using the following code block as an example. In this example:

    • You configure a probe using spec.livenessProbe.httpGet, which queries port 1500 of the virtual machine instance, after an initial delay of 120 seconds.

    • The virtual machine instance installs and runs a minimal HTTP server on port 1500 using cloud-init.

    The timeoutSeconds value must be lower than the periodSeconds value. The timeoutSeconds default value is 1. The periodSeconds default value is 10.

    		 
    apiVersion: kubevirt.io/v1alpha3
kind: VirtualMachineInstance
metadata:
  labels:
    special: vmi-fedora
  name: vmi-fedora
spec:
  domain:
    devices:
      disks:
      - disk:
          bus: virtio
        name: containerdisk
      - disk:
          bus: virtio
        name: cloudinitdisk
    resources:
      requests:
        memory: 1024M
  livenessProbe:
    initialDelaySeconds: 120
    periodSeconds: 20
    httpGet:
      port: 1500
    timeoutSeconds: 10
  terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 0
  volumes:
  - name: containerdisk
    registryDisk:
      image: kubevirt/fedora-cloud-registry-disk-demo
  - cloudInitNoCloud:
      userData: |-
        #cloud-config
        password: fedora
        chpasswd: { expire: False }
        bootcmd:
          - setenforce 0
          - dnf install -y nmap-ncat
          - systemd-run --unit=httpserver nc -klp 1500 -e '/usr/bin/echo -e HTTP/1.1 200 OK\\n\\nHello World!'
    name: cloudinitdisk

  2. Create the VirtualMachineInstance by running the following command:

    $ oc create -f <file name>.yaml

Define a TCP liveness probe

This procedure provides an example configuration file for defining TCP liveness probes.

Procedure

  1. Customize a YAML configuration file to create an TCP liveness probe, using this code block as an example. In this example:

    • You configure a probe using spec.livenessProbe.tcpSocket, which queries port 1500 of the virtual machine instance, after an initial delay of 120 seconds.

    • The virtual machine instance installs and runs a minimal HTTP server on port 1500 using cloud-init.

    The timeoutSeconds value must be lower than the periodSeconds value. The timeoutSeconds default value is 1. The periodSeconds default value is 10.

    		 
    apiVersion: kubevirt.io/v1alpha3
kind: VirtualMachineInstance
metadata:
  labels:
    special: vmi-fedora
  name: vmi-fedora
spec:
  domain:
    devices:
      disks:
      - disk:
          bus: virtio
        name: containerdisk
      - disk:
          bus: virtio
        name: cloudinitdisk
    resources:
      requests:
        memory: 1024M
  livenessProbe:
    initialDelaySeconds: 120
    periodSeconds: 20
    tcpSocket:
      port: 1500
    timeoutSeconds: 10
  terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 0
  volumes:
  - name: containerdisk
    registryDisk:
      image: kubevirt/fedora-cloud-registry-disk-demo
  - cloudInitNoCloud:
      userData: |-
        #cloud-config
        password: fedora
        chpasswd: { expire: False }
        bootcmd:
          - setenforce 0
          - dnf install -y nmap-ncat
          - systemd-run --unit=httpserver nc -klp 1500 -e '/usr/bin/echo -e HTTP/1.1 200 OK\\n\\nHello World!'
    name: cloudinitdisk

  2. Create the VirtualMachineInstance by running the following command:

    $ oc create -f <file name>.yaml

Define a readiness probe

This procedure provides an example configuration file for defining readiness probes.

Procedure

  1. Customize a YAML configuration file to create a readiness probe. Readiness probes are configured in a similar manner to liveness probes. However, note the following differences in this example:

    • Readiness probes are saved using a different spec name. For example, you create a readiness probe as spec.readinessProbe instead of as spec.livenessProbe.<type-of-probe>.

    • When creating a readiness probe, you optionally set a failureThreshold and a successThreshold to switch between ready and non-ready states, should the probe succeed or fail multiple times.

    The timeoutSeconds value must be lower than the periodSeconds value. The timeoutSeconds default value is 1. The periodSeconds default value is 10.

    		 
    apiVersion: kubevirt.io/v1alpha3
kind: VirtualMachineInstance
metadata:
  labels:
    special: vmi-fedora
  name: vmi-fedora
spec:
  domain:
    devices:
      disks:
      - disk:
          bus: virtio
        name: containerdisk
      - disk:
          bus: virtio
        name: cloudinitdisk
    resources:
      requests:
        memory: 1024M
  readinessProbe:
    httpGet:
      port: 1500
    initialDelaySeconds: 120
    periodSeconds: 20
    timeoutSeconds: 10
    failureThreshold: 3
    successThreshold: 3
  terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 0
  volumes:
  - name: containerdisk
    registryDisk:
      image: kubevirt/fedora-cloud-registry-disk-demo
  - cloudInitNoCloud:
      userData: |-
        #cloud-config
        password: fedora
        chpasswd: { expire: False }
        bootcmd:
          - setenforce 0
          - dnf install -y nmap-ncat
          - systemd-run --unit=httpserver nc -klp 1500 -e '/usr/bin/echo -e HTTP/1.1 200 OK\\n\\nHello World!'
    name: cloudinitdisk

  2. Create the VirtualMachineInstance by running the following command:

    $ oc create -f <file name>.yaml