Reconfigure kubelet eviction thresholds and reserved memory

What does this MR do and why?

Reconfigure kubelet eviction threshold as we've observed that our system was not behaving properly under memory pressure

We've measured that system cgroup was usually using a bit more that 1Gi of memory, whereas we were setting the evictionHard memory threshold at 1Gi

Previously we were setting evictionHard thresholds in sylva-capi-cluster (via kubelet-extra-args), this is removed in sylva-projects/sylva-elements/helm-charts/sylva-capi-cluster!1132 (merged)

Current proposal is to reserve 1Gb for system and set evictionHard threshold at 500Mb, which will reduce the overall allocatable space by 500Mb only, and add an evictionSoft memory threshold at 1Gi

Built on top of !9578 (merged) to measure the effects of these changes.

Relates to #4811

Test coverage

CI configuration

Below you can choose test deployment variants to run in this MR's CI.

Click to open to CI configuration

Legend:

Icon Meaning Available values
☁️ Infra Provider capd, capo, capm3
🚀 Bootstrap Provider kubeadm (alias kadm), rke2, okd, ck8s
🐧 Node OS ubuntu, suse, na, leapmicro
🛠️ Deployment Options Deployment option list and description
🎬 Pipeline Scenarios Available scenario list and description
🟢 Enabled units Any available units name, by default apply to management and workload cluster. Can be prefixed by mgmt: or wkld: to be applied only to a specific cluster type
🔴 Disabled units Any available units name, by default apply to management and workload cluster. Can be prefixed by mgmt: or wkld: to be applied only to a specific cluster type
🏗️ Target platform Can be used to select specific deployment environment Available platform list and description
⚡ Pipeline control autorun, manual or blocking. Can be used to override global config and start a deployment pipeline the required way
  • 🎬 preview ☁️ capd 🚀 kadm 🐧 ubuntu

  • 🎬 preview ☁️ capo 🚀 rke2 🐧 suse

  • 🎬 preview ☁️ capm3 🚀 rke2 🐧 ubuntu

  • ☁️ capd 🚀 kadm 🛠️ light-deploy 🐧 ubuntu

  • ☁️ capd 🚀 rke2 🛠️ light-deploy 🐧 suse

  • ☁️ capo 🚀 rke2 🐧 suse

  • ☁️ capo 🚀 rke2 🐧 leapmicro

  • ☁️ capo 🚀 kadm 🐧 ubuntu

  • ☁️ capo 🚀 kadm 🐧 ubuntu 🟢 neuvector,mgmt:harbor

  • ☁️ capo 🚀 rke2 🎬 rolling-update 🛠️ ha 🐧 ubuntu

  • ☁️ capo 🚀 kadm 🎬 wkld-k8s-upgrade 🐧 ubuntu

  • ☁️ capo 🚀 rke2 🎬 rolling-update-no-wkld 🛠️ ha 🐧 suse

  • ☁️ capo 🚀 rke2 🎬 sylva-upgrade 🛠️ ha 🐧 ubuntu

  • ☁️ capo 🚀 rke2 🎬 sylva-upgrade-from-1.6.x 🛠️ ha,misc 🐧 ubuntu

  • ☁️ capo 🚀 rke2 🛠️ ha,misc 🐧 ubuntu

  • ☁️ capo 🚀 rke2|okd 🎬 no-update 🐧 ubuntu|na

  • ☁️ capo 🚀 rke2 🛠️ misc 🐧 ubuntu 🟢 mgmt:harbor 🔴 neuvector

  • ☁️ capo 🚀 rke2 🛠️ ha,misc,openbao 🐧 suse

  • ☁️ capo 🚀 rke2 🐧 suse 🎬 upgrade-from-prev-tag

  • ☁️ capm3 🚀 rke2 🐧 suse 🎬 no-wkld

  • ☁️ capm3 🚀 kadm 🐧 ubuntu 🎬 no-wkld

  • ☁️ capm3 🚀 rke2 🛠️ external-openbao-no-tls 🐧 ubuntu

  • ☁️ capm3 🚀 rke2 🛠️ external-openbao 🐧 suse

  • ☁️ capm3 🚀 kadm 🛠️ external-openbao,openbao-namespace 🐧 ubuntu

  • ☁️ capm3 🚀 ck8s 🐧 ubuntu

  • ☁️ capm3 🚀 kadm 🎬 rolling-update-no-wkld 🛠️ ha,misc 🐧 ubuntu

  • ☁️ capm3 🚀 rke2 🎬 wkld-k8s-upgrade 🛠️ ha 🐧 suse

  • ☁️ capm3 🚀 kadm 🎬 rolling-update 🛠️ ha 🐧 ubuntu

  • ☁️ capm3 🚀 rke2 🎬 upgrade-from-prev-release-branch 🛠️ ha 🐧 suse

  • ☁️ capm3 🚀 rke2 🛠️ misc,ha 🐧 suse

  • ☁️ capm3 🚀 rke2 🎬 sylva-upgrade 🛠️ ha,misc 🐧 suse

  • ☁️ capm3 🚀 kadm 🎬 rolling-update 🛠️ ha 🐧 suse

  • ☁️ capm3 🚀 ck8s 🎬 rolling-update 🛠️ ha 🐧 ubuntu

  • ☁️ capm3 🚀 rke2|okd 🎬 no-update 🐧 ubuntu|na

  • ☁️ capm3 🚀 rke2 🐧 suse 🎬 upgrade-from-release-1.5

  • ☁️ capm3 🚀 rke2 🐧 suse 🎬 upgrade-to-main

Global config for deployment pipelines

  • autorun pipelines
  • allow failure on pipelines
  • record sylvactl events

Notes:

  • Enabling autorun will make deployment pipelines to be run automatically without human interaction
  • Disabling allow failure will make deployment pipelines mandatory for pipeline success.
  • if both autorun and allow failure are disabled, deployment pipelines will need manual triggering but will be blocking the pipeline

Be aware: after configuration change, pipeline is not triggered automatically. Please run it manually (by clicking the run pipeline button in Pipelines tab) or push new code.

Edited by Francois Eleouet

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