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Version: 1.8

Deployment Manager configuration

Deployment Manager deploys scenarios from the Designer to the engine on which scenarios are processed. Check configuration areas to understand where Deployment Manager configuration should be placed in Nussknacker configuration.

Below you can find a snippet of Deployment Manager configuration.

deploymentConfig {     
  type: "flinkStreaming"
  restUrl: "http://localhost:8081"
  
  # additional configuration goes here
}

type parameter determines engine to which the scenario is deployed.The type parameter is set in both the minimal working configuration file (Docker image and binary distribution) and Helm chart - you will not need to set it on your own.

Kubernetes native Lite engine configuration​

Please note, that K8s Deployment Manager has to be run with properly configured K8s access. If you install the Designer in K8s cluster (e.g. via Helm chart) this comes out of the box. If you want to run the Designer outside the cluster, you have to configure .kube/config properly.

Except the servicePort configuration option, all remaining configuration options apply to both streaming and request-response processing modes.

The table below contains configuration options for the Lite engine. If you install Designer with Helm, you can customize the Helm chart to use different values for those options. If you install Designer outside the K8s cluster then the required changes should be applied under the deploymentConfig key as any other Nussknacker non K8s configuration.

ParameterTypeDefault valueDescription
modestringEither streaming or request-response
dockerImageNamestringtouk/nussknacker-lite-runtime-appRuntime image (please note that it's not touk/nussknacker - which is designer image)
dockerImageTagstringcurrent nussknacker version
scalingConfig{fixedReplicasCount: int} or {tasksPerReplica: int}{ tasksPerReplica: 4 }see below
configExecutionOverridesconfig{}see below
k8sDeploymentConfigconfig{}see below
nussknackerInstanceNamestring{?NUSSKNACKER_INSTANCE_NAME}see below
logbackConfigPathstring{}see below
commonConfigMapForLogbackstring{}see below
ingressconfig{enabled: false}(Request-Response only) see below
servicePortint80(Request-Response only) Port of service exposed

Customizing K8s deployment resource definition​

By default, each scenario creates K8s Deployment. By default, Nussknacker will create following deployment:

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  annotations:
    nussknacker.io/scenarioVersion: |-
      {
        "versionId" : 2,
        "processName" : "DetectLargeTransactions",
        "processId" : 7,
        "user" : "jdoe@sample.pl",
        "modelVersion" : 2
      }
  labels:
    nussknacker.io/nussknackerInstanceName: "helm-release-name"
    nussknacker.io/scenarioId: "7"
    nussknacker.io/scenarioName: detectlargetransactions-080df2c5a7
    nussknacker.io/scenarioVersion: "2"
spec:
  minReadySeconds: 10
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      nussknacker.io/scenarioId: "7"
  strategy:
    type: Recreate
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        nussknacker.io/scenarioId: "7"
        nussknacker.io/scenarioName: detectlargetransactions-080df2c5a7
        nussknacker.io/scenarioVersion: "2"
      name: scenario-7-detectlargetransactions
    spec:
      containers:
        - env:
            - name: SCENARIO_FILE
              value: /data/scenario.json
            - name: CONFIG_FILE
              value: /opt/nussknacker/conf/application.conf,/runtime-config/runtimeConfig.conf
            - name: DEPLOYMENT_CONFIG_FILE
              value: /data/deploymentConfig.conf
            - name: LOGBACK_FILE
              value: /data/logback.xml
            - name: POD_NAME
              valueFrom:
                fieldRef:
                  apiVersion: v1
                  fieldPath: metadata.name
          image: touk/nussknacker-lite-runtime-app:1.3.0 # filled with dockerImageName/dockerImageTag 
          livenessProbe:
            httpGet:
              path: /alive
              port: 8080
              scheme: HTTP
          name: runtime
          readinessProbe:
            failureThreshold: 60
            httpGet:
              path: /ready
              port: 8080
              scheme: HTTP
            periodSeconds: 1
          volumeMounts:
            - mountPath: /data
              name: configmap
      volumes:
        - configMap:
            defaultMode: 420
            name: scenario-7-detectlargetransactions-ad0834f298
          name: configmap

You can customize it adding e.g. own volumes, deployment strategy etc. with k8sDeploymentConfig settings, e.g. add additional custom label environment variable to the container, add custom sidecar container:

spec {
  metadata: {
    labels: {
      myCustomLabel: addMeToDeployment
    }
  }
  containers: [
    {
      #`runtime` is default container executing scenario 
      name: runtime
      env: [
        CUSTOM_VAR: CUSTOM_VALUE
      ]
    },
    {
      name: sidecar-log-collector
      image: sidecar-log-collector:latest
      command: ["command-to-upload", "/remote/path/of/flink-logs/"]
    }
  ]
}

This config will be merged into the final K8s deployment resource definition. Please note that you cannot override names or labels configured by Nussknacker.

Overriding configuration passed to runtime.​

In most cases, the model configuration values passed to the Lite Engine runtime are the ones from the modelConfig section of main configuration file. However, there are two exception to this rule:

  • there is application.conf file in the runtime image, which is used as additional source of certain defaults.
  • you can override the configuration coming from the main configuration file. The paragraph below describes how to use this mechanism.

In some circumstances you want to have different configuration values used by the Designer, and different used by the runtime. E.g. different accounts/credentials should be used in Designer (for schema discovery, tests from file) and in Runtime ( for the production use). For those cases you can use configExecutionOverrides setting:

deploymentConfig {
  configExecutionOverrides {
    special_password: "sfd2323afdf" # this will be used in the Runtime
  }
}
modelConfig {
  special_password: "aaqwmpor909232" # this will be used in the Designer
}

Configuring replicas count​

​In the Request-Response processing mode you can affect the count of scenario pods (replicas) by setting fixedReplicasCount configuration key; its default value is 2:

{ fixedReplicasCount: x }.

​In the Streaming processing mode the scenario parallelism is set in the scenario properties; it determines the minimal number of tasks used to process events. The count of replicas, scenario parallelism and number of tasks per replica are connected with a simple formula:

scenarioParallelism = replicasCount * tasksPerReplica

If you do not change any settings, the number of replicas in the K8s deployment will be set to the ceiling ( scenarioParallelism / tasksPerReplica); the default value of 4 will be used for tasksPerReplica. Alternatively, you can affect the number of replicas in the following ways:

  • modify the default value of tasksPerReplica by setting { tasksPerReplica: y }; the number of replicas will be computed as before as ceiling (scenarioParallelism / tasksPerReplica)
  • set fixedReplicasCount directly. The number of tasksPerReplica will be set to the ceiling (scenarioParallelism / fixedReplicaCounts. You cannot use this setting together with tasksPerReplica setting.

Due to rounding, the number of tasks may be different from scenario parallelism (e.g. for fixedReplicasCount = 3, scenario parallelism = 5, there will be 2 tasks per replica, total tasks = 6)

Nussknacker instance name​

Value of nussknackerInstanceName will be passed to scenario runtime pods as a nussknacker.io/nussknackerInstanceName Kubernetes label. In a standard scenario, its value is taken from Nussknacker's pod app.kubernetes.io/instance label which, when installed using helm should be set to helm release name.

It can be used to identify scenario deployments and its resources bound to a specific Nussknacker helm release.

Configuring runtime logging​

With logbackConfigPath you can provide path to your own logback config file, which will be used by runtime containers. This configuration is optional, if skipped default logging configuration will be used. Please mind, that apart whether you will provide your own logging configuration or use default, you can still modify it in runtime (for each scenario deployment separately*) as described here

*By default, every scenario runtime has its own separate configMap with logback configuration. By setting commonConfigMapForLogback you can enforce usage of single configMap (with such name as configured) with logback.xml for all your runtime containers. Take into account, that DeploymentManager relinquishes control over lifecycle of this ConfigMap (with one exception - it will create it, if not exist).

Configuring runtime ingress​

In Request-Response processing mode additional ingress resource can be created when enabled flag is turned on. For now only nginx based K8s ingress controller is supported. It can be configured with following options.

ParameterTypeDefault valueDescription
enabledbooleanfalseEither streaming or request-response
hoststringName of the ingress host
rootPathstring"/"Root path for the ingress path, by default ingress path is rootPath + slug
configconfig{}Additional ingress config customization

Configuring Prometheus metrics​

Just like in Designer installation, you can attach JMX Exporter for Prometheus to your runtime pods. Pass PROMETHEUS_METRICS_PORT environment variable to enable agent, and simultaneously define port on which metrics will be exposed. By default, agent is configured to expose basic jvm metrics, but you can provide your own configuration file by setting PROMETHEUS_AGENT_CONFIG_FILE environment, which has to point to it.

Embedded Lite engine​

Deployment Manager of type lite-embedded has the following configuration options:

ParameterTypeDefault valueDescription
modestringEither streaming or request-response
http.interfacestring0.0.0.0(Request-Response only) Interface on which REST API of scenarios will be exposed
http.portint8181(Request-Response only) Port on which REST API of scenarios will be exposed
request-response.definitionMetadata.serversstring[{"url": "./"}](Request-Response only) Configuration of exposed servers in scenario's OpenAPI definition. When not configured, will be used server with ./ relative url
request-response.definitionMetadata.servers[].urlstring(Request-Response only) Url of server in scenario's OpenAPI definition
request-response.definitionMetadata.servers[].descriptionstring(Request-Response only) (Optional) description of server in scenario's OpenAPI definition
request-response.security.basicAuth.userstring(Request-Response only) (Optional) Basic auth user
request-response.security.basicAuth.passwordstring(Request-Response only) (Optional) Basic auth password

Deployment Manager of type flinkStreaming has the following configuration options:

ParameterTypeDefault valueDescription
restUrlstringThe only required parameter, REST API endpoint of the Flink cluster
jobManagerTimeoutduration1 minuteTimeout for communication with FLink cluster. Consider extending if e.g. you have long savepoint times etc.
shouldVerifyBeforeDeploybooleantrueBy default, before redeployment of scenario with state from savepoint, verification of savepoint compatibility is performed. There are some cases when it can be too time consuming or not possible. Use this flag to disable it.
shouldCheckAvailableSlotsbooleantrueWhen set to true, Nussknacker checks if there are free slots to run new job. This check should be disabled on Flink Kubernetes Native deployments, where Taskmanager is started on demand.