cluster-api-janitor-openstack

cluster-api-janitor-openstack is a Kubernetes operator that cleans up resources created in OpenStack by the OpenStack Cloud Controller Manager (OCCM) and Cinder CSI plugin for Kubernetes clusters created using the Cluster API OpenStack infrastrucutre provider.

Installation

cluster-api-janitor-openstack can be installed using Helm:

helm repo add \
  cluster-api-janitor-openstack \
  https://azimuth-cloud.github.io/cluster-api-janitor-openstack

# Use the latest version from the main branch
helm upgrade \
  cluster-api-janitor-openstack \
  cluster-api-janitor-openstack/cluster-api-janitor-openstack \
  --install

Configuration

cluster-api-janitor-openstack will always clean up Octavia loadbalancers, and associated floating IPs, that are created by the OCCM for LoadBalancer services on Cluster API clusters.

By default, Cinder volumes created by the Cinder CSI plugin for PersistentVolumeClaims are also cleaned up. However this behaviour carries a risk of deleting important data, so can be customised in two ways.

The operator default can be changed to keep, meaning that volumes provisioned by the Cinder CSI plugin will be kept unless overridden by the cluster:

helm upgrade ... --set defaultVolumesPolicy=keep

Regardless of the operator default, individual OpenStackClusters can also be annotated to indicate whether volumes for that cluster should be kept or removed:

apiVersion: infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1alpha7
kind: OpenStackCluster
metadata:
  name: my-cluster
  annotations:
    janitor.capi.stackhpc.com/volumes-policy: "keep|delete"

NOTE: Any value other than delete means volumes will be kept.

How it works

cluster-api-janitor-openstack watches for OpenStackClusters being created and adds its own finalizer to them. This prevents the OpenStackCluster, and hence the corresponding Cluster API Cluster, from being removed until the finalizer is removed.

cluster-api-janitor-openstack then waits for the OpenStackCluster to be deleted (specifically, it waits for the deletionTimestamp to be set, indicating that a deletion has been requested), at which point it uses the credential from OpenStackCluster.spec.identityRef to remove any dangling resources that were created by the OCCM or Cinder CSI with the same cluster name as the cluster being deleted. Once all the resources have been deleted, the finalizer is removed.

WARNING

The cluster name of the OCCM and Cinder CSI must be set to the metadata.name of the OpenStackCluster resource.

For instance, the openstack-cluster chart from the capi-helm-charts ensures that this happens automatically.

The advantage of this approach vs. a task that runs before the cluster deletion is started is that the external resource deletion happens after all the machines have been deleted, meaning that there is no chance of racing with the OCCM and/or Cinder CSI still running on the cluster that may continue to try and replace resources that are cleaned up.

It is not possible to run this cleanup as a post cluster deletion task, because some of the resources created by the OCCM may actually block cluster deletion completely. For example, a load-balancer created by the OCCM for a LoadBalancer service maintains a port on the cluster network, meaning that the network cannot be cleaned up by the Cluster API OpenStack provider and preventing deletion of the cluster.