enhance(kubernetes): fetch job pod copies from the runner over the pod network (#1354)

The Kubernetes backend copies actions and workspaces into job containers with `tar` over `pods/exec`, so every byte goes through the API server. On managed clusters that often sits in other zones than the nodes, so each byte can cross zones twice, and the copies load the API server.

With `kubernetes.transfer.mode: auto` or `direct`, an init container copies `gitea-runner` into the job pod, and the job container fetches directories and copies of 64 KiB or more gzipped from the runner over the pod network. `auto` falls back to the API server for a job pod that cannot reach the runner, `direct` fails the job.

Copies can hold secrets, so each is served once, over TLS 1.3 pinned to a certificate the runner generates, only to the job pod's IPs.

Copying setup-go@v5, cache@v4, setup-java@v4 and build-push-action@v6 sends 11.6 MB through the API server on main and 532 B with this PR.

Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1354
Reviewed-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Lunny Xiao <[email protected]>
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@@ -10,10 +10,12 @@ import (
"compress/gzip"
"context"
"crypto/rand"
"encoding/json"
"errors"
"fmt"
"io"
"maps"
"net"
"net/http"
"net/url"
"os"
@@ -24,6 +26,7 @@ import (
"time"
"gitea.com/gitea/runner/act/common"
"gitea.com/gitea/runner/act/common/logging"
"github.com/kballard/go-shellquote"
"github.com/spf13/pflag"
@@ -37,6 +40,7 @@ type KubernetesOptions struct {
MaxLifetime time.Duration
ForcePull bool
RunnerUUID string
Transfer *KubernetesTransfer
}
// KubernetesPod runs a job container and its service containers as one pod.
@@ -47,6 +51,10 @@ type KubernetesPod struct {
job *kubernetesContainer
services []*kubernetesContainer
arch, path string
ips []net.IP
transfer *transferServer
transferImage string
transferHelper string // empty when copies go through the API server
}
type kubernetesContainer struct {
@@ -76,6 +84,7 @@ type podStatus struct {
Spec struct{ Containers []struct{} }
Status struct {
Phase, Reason, Message string
PodIPs []struct{ IP string }
Conditions []struct{ Type, Status, Message string }
InitContainerStatuses, ContainerStatuses []containerStatus
}
@@ -131,14 +140,24 @@ func (p *KubernetesPod) create(ctx context.Context) error {
labels[runnerUUIDLabel] = p.options.RunnerUUID
}
metadata := map[string]any{"name": name, "labels": labels}
var runnerImage string
if hostname, err := os.Hostname(); p.client.inCluster && err == nil {
var runner struct{ Metadata struct{ Name, UID string } }
var runner struct {
Metadata struct{ Name, UID string }
Spec struct{ Containers []struct{ Image string } }
}
if err := p.client.do(ctx, http.MethodGet, p.client.path("pods/"+hostname), nil, &runner); err == nil {
metadata["ownerReferences"] = []any{map[string]any{"apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Pod", "name": runner.Metadata.Name, "uid": runner.Metadata.UID}}
if len(runner.Spec.Containers) == 1 {
runnerImage = runner.Spec.Containers[0].Image
}
} else {
common.Logger(ctx).Debugf("The runner is not pod %s, job pods get no owner: %v", hostname, err)
}
}
if err := p.setupTransfer(runnerImage); err != nil {
return err
}
secretData := map[string]string{}
manifest, err := p.manifest(name, secretData, metadata)
if err != nil {
@@ -207,6 +226,18 @@ func (p *KubernetesPod) manifest(secret string, secretData map[string]string, me
}
}
spec := map[string]any{"restartPolicy": "Never", "containers": containers, "volumes": volumes}
if p.transferHelper != "" {
transfer := map[string]any{
"name": "gitea-runner-transfer", "image": p.transferImage, "terminationMessagePolicy": "FallbackToLogsOnError",
"command": []string{"gitea-runner", KubernetesTransferCommand, "install", p.transferHelper},
"volumeMounts": []any{map[string]any{"name": "act", "mountPath": p.job.GetActPath()}},
"securityContext": map[string]any{"allowPrivilegeEscalation": false, "capabilities": map[string]any{"drop": []string{"ALL"}}},
}
if p.options.ForcePull {
transfer["imagePullPolicy"] = "Always"
}
spec["initContainers"] = []any{transfer}
}
if len(hostnames) > 0 {
spec["hostAliases"] = []any{map[string]any{"ip": "127.0.0.1", "hostnames": hostnames}}
}
@@ -343,7 +374,13 @@ func (p *KubernetesPod) waitStarted(ctx context.Context) error {
return err
}
if pod.Status.Phase == "Failed" {
return fmt.Errorf("pod %s failed: %s", p.name, cmp.Or(pod.Status.Message, pod.Status.Reason))
reason := cmp.Or(pod.Status.Message, pod.Status.Reason)
for _, status := range append(pod.Status.InitContainerStatuses, pod.Status.ContainerStatuses...) {
if terminated := status.State.Terminated; reason == "" && terminated != nil && terminated.ExitCode != 0 {
reason = fmt.Sprintf("container %s exited with %d: %s", status.Name, terminated.ExitCode, strings.TrimSpace(terminated.Message))
}
}
return fmt.Errorf("pod %s failed: %s", p.name, reason)
}
started := len(pod.Status.ContainerStatuses) == len(pod.Spec.Containers)
for _, status := range append(pod.Status.InitContainerStatuses, pod.Status.ContainerStatuses...) {
@@ -356,6 +393,9 @@ func (p *KubernetesPod) waitStarted(ctx context.Context) error {
}
}
if started {
for _, ip := range pod.Status.PodIPs {
p.ips = append(p.ips, net.ParseIP(ip.IP))
}
return nil
}
for _, condition := range pod.Status.Conditions {
@@ -457,22 +497,35 @@ func (c *kubernetesContainer) Exec(command []string, env map[string]string, _, w
}
}
// compressCopyMin is the size from which Copy compresses: below it gzip saves next to nothing on the wire and costs a process in the pod.
// compressCopyMin is the size from which Copy compresses and uses the transfer helper: below it that saves next to nothing on the wire and costs a process in the pod.
const compressCopyMin = 64 << 10
// extract streams the tar write produces into destPath over exec, which goes through the API server.
// With compress it is gzipped on the way, as copied actions shrink about fivefold and API server traffic often crosses zones.
// extract streams the tar write produces into destPath, gzipped with compress, as copied actions shrink about fivefold and API server traffic often crosses zones.
func (c *kubernetesContainer) extract(ctx context.Context, destPath string, compress bool, write func(io.Writer) error) error {
if compress && c.pod.transferHelper != "" {
request, done := c.pod.transfer.offer(c.pod.ips, write)
stdin, _ := json.Marshal(request)
var stderr bytes.Buffer
err := c.pod.client.exec(ctx, c.pod.name, c.name, []string{c.pod.transferHelper, KubernetesTransferCommand, "fetch", destPath}, bytes.NewReader(stdin), io.Discard, &stderr)
taken, writeErr := done()
if err == nil || ctx.Err() != nil {
return err
}
if taken || !c.pod.options.Transfer.Fallback {
return fmt.Errorf("copy to %s over the pod network: %w: %s", destPath, errors.Join(writeErr, err), strings.TrimSpace(stderr.String()))
}
c.pod.transferHelper = "" // a pod that cannot reach the runner once will not later
logging.Warnf("Copying into pod %s over the pod network failed, copying through the API server instead: %v: %s", c.pod.name, err, strings.TrimSpace(stderr.String()))
}
compress = compress && c.gzip
reader, writer := io.Pipe()
defer reader.Close()
go func() {
if !compress {
if compress {
writer.CloseWithError(writeGzip(writer, write))
} else {
writer.CloseWithError(write(writer))
return
}
compressed, _ := gzip.NewWriterLevel(writer, gzip.BestSpeed) // fast enough to not slow copies down, nearly as small as the default level
writer.CloseWithError(errors.Join(write(compressed), compressed.Close()))
}()
script := `mkdir -p "$1" && tar -xf - -C "$1"`
if compress {
@@ -485,6 +538,12 @@ func (c *kubernetesContainer) extract(ctx context.Context, destPath string, comp
return nil
}
// writeGzip gzips what write produces into w, at a level fast enough to not slow copies down and nearly as small as the default.
func writeGzip(w io.Writer, write func(io.Writer) error) error {
compressed, _ := gzip.NewWriterLevel(w, gzip.BestSpeed)
return errors.Join(write(compressed), compressed.Close())
}
func (c *kubernetesContainer) Copy(destPath string, files ...*FileEntry) common.Executor {
return func(ctx context.Context) error {
size := 0