fix scaling out and helm failure

deploy/aws/README.md

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 * [awscli](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-install.html) >= 1.16.73
 * [kubectl](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-kubectl/#install-kubectl) >= 1.11
 * [helm](https://github.com/helm/helm/blob/master/docs/install.md#installing-the-helm-client) >= 2.9.0
+* [jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/download/)
 * [aws-iam-authenticator](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-iam-authenticator#4-set-up-kubectl-to-use-authentication-tokens-provided-by-aws-iam-authenticator-for-kubernetes)
 
 ## Configure awscli
@@ -75,7 +76,3 @@ Currently, the instance type of TiDB cluster component is not configurable becau
 
 - [ ] auto-scaling group policy
 - [ ] Allow create a minimal TiDB cluster
-
-## Known issues
-
-There is possibility the helm install release fails the first time, but running `terraform apply` again will install tidb-operator and tidb-cluster release successfully.

deploy/aws/data.tf

@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@
 data "aws_availability_zones" "available" {}
 
+data "aws_ami" "amazon-linux-2" {
+ most_recent = true
+
+ owners = ["amazon"]
+
+ filter {
+   name   = "name"
+   values = ["amzn2-ami-hvm-*-x86_64-gp2"]
+ }
+}
+
 data "template_file" "tidb_cluster_values" {
   template = "${file("${path.module}/templates/tidb-cluster-values.yaml.tpl")}"
   vars  {
@@ -10,18 +21,32 @@ data "template_file" "tidb_cluster_values" {
   }
 }
 
-data "kubernetes_service" "tidb" {
-  depends_on = ["helm_release.tidb-cluster"]
-  metadata {
-    name = "tidb-cluster-tidb"
-    namespace = "tidb"
-  }
+# kubernetes provider can't use computed config_path right now, see issue:
+# https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-kubernetes/issues/142
+# so we don't use kubernetes provider to retrieve tidb and monitor connection info,
+# instead we use external data source.
+# data "kubernetes_service" "tidb" {
+#   depends_on = ["helm_release.tidb-cluster"]
+#   metadata {
+#     name = "tidb-cluster-tidb"
+#     namespace = "tidb"
+#   }
+# }
+
+# data "kubernetes_service" "monitor" {
+#   depends_on = ["helm_release.tidb-cluster"]
+#   metadata {
+#     name = "tidb-cluster-grafana"
+#     namespace = "tidb"
+#   }
+# }
+
+data "external" "tidb_service" {
+  depends_on = ["null_resource.wait-tidb-ready"]
+  program = ["bash", "-c", "kubectl --kubeconfig credentials/kubeconfig_${var.cluster_name} get svc -n tidb tidb-cluster-tidb -ojson | jq '.status.loadBalancer.ingress[0]'"]
 }
 
-data "kubernetes_service" "monitor" {
-  depends_on = ["helm_release.tidb-cluster"]
-  metadata {
-    name = "tidb-cluster-grafana"
-    namespace = "tidb"
-  }
+data "external" "monitor_service" {
+  depends_on = ["null_resource.wait-tidb-ready"]
+  program = ["bash", "-c", "kubectl --kubeconfig credentials/kubeconfig_${var.cluster_name} get svc -n tidb tidb-cluster-grafana -ojson | jq '.status.loadBalancer.ingress[0]'"]
 }

deploy/aws/main.tf

@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ module "ec2" {
   version = "1.21.0"
   name = "${var.cluster_name}-bastion"
   instance_count = "${var.create_bastion ? 1:0}"
-  ami = "${var.bastion_ami}"
+  ami = "${data.aws_ami.amazon-linux-2.id}"
   instance_type = "${var.bastion_instance_type}"
   key_name = "${module.key-pair.key_name}"
   associate_public_ip_address = true
@@ -77,13 +77,15 @@ module "ec2" {
 }
 
 module "eks" {
-  source = "terraform-aws-modules/eks/aws"
-  version = "2.3.1"
+  # source = "terraform-aws-modules/eks/aws"
+  # version = "2.3.1"
+  # We can not use cluster autoscaler for pod with local PV due to the limitations listed here:
+  # https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/master/cluster-autoscaler/FAQ.md#i-have-a-couple-of-pending-pods-but-there-was-no-scale-up
+  # so we scale out by updating auto-scaling-group desired_capacity directly via the patched version of aws eks module
+  source = "github.com/tennix/terraform-aws-eks?ref=v2.3.1-patch"
   cluster_name = "${var.cluster_name}"
   cluster_version = "${var.k8s_version}"
-  # The output config can not be used by kubernetes and helm provider directly
-  # so using local_file resource to force kubernetes and helm provider to rely on
-  # config_output_path = "credentials/"
+  config_output_path = "credentials/"
   subnets = "${split(",", var.create_vpc ? join(",", module.vpc.private_subnets) : join(",", var.subnets))}"
   vpc_id = "${var.create_vpc ? module.vpc.vpc_id : var.vpc_id}"
 
@@ -159,9 +161,13 @@ resource "local_file" "kubeconfig" {
   filename = "${path.module}/credentials/kubeconfig_${var.cluster_name}"
 }
 
-provider "kubernetes" {
-  config_path = "${local_file.kubeconfig.filename}"
-}
+# kubernetes provider can't use computed config_path right now, see issue:
+# https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-kubernetes/issues/142
+# so we don't use kubernetes provider to retrieve tidb and monitor connection info,
+# instead we use external data source.
+# provider "kubernetes" {
+#   config_path = "${local_file.kubeconfig.filename}"
+# }
 
 provider "helm" {
   insecure = true
@@ -210,3 +216,27 @@ resource "helm_release" "tidb-cluster" {
     "${data.template_file.tidb_cluster_values.rendered}"
   ]
 }
+
+resource "null_resource" "wait-tidb-ready" {
+  depends_on = ["helm_release.tidb-cluster"]
+
+  provisioner "local-exec" {
+    command = <<EOS
+until kubectl get po -n tidb -lapp.kubernetes.io/component=tidb | grep Running; do
+  echo "Wait TiDB pod running"
+  sleep 5
+done
+until kubectl get svc -n tidb tidb-cluster-tidb | grep elb; do
+  echo "Wait TiDB service ready"
+  sleep 5
+done
+until kubectl get svc -n tidb tidb-cluster-grafana | grep elb; do
+  echo "Wait monitor service ready"
+  sleep 5
+done
+EOS
+    environment = {
+      KUBECONFIG = "${local_file.kubeconfig.filename}"
+    }
+  }
+}

deploy/aws/outputs.tf

@@ -18,19 +18,29 @@ output "eks_endpoint" {
   value = "${module.eks.cluster_endpoint}"
 }
 
+#output "tidb_dns" {
+#  description = "tidb service dns name"
+#  value = "${data.kubernetes_service.tidb.load_balancer_ingress.0.hostname}"
+#}
+
 output "tidb_dns" {
   description = "tidb service dns name"
-  value = "${data.kubernetes_service.tidb.load_balancer_ingress.0.hostname}"
+  value = "${data.external.tidb_service.result["hostname"]}"
 }
 
 output "tidb_port" {
   description = "tidb service port"
   value = "4000"
 }
 
+#output "monitor_endpoint" {
+#  description = "monitor service endpoint"
+#  value = "http://${data.kubernetes_service.monitor.load_balancer_ingress.0.hostname}:3000"
+#}
+
 output "monitor_endpoint" {
   description = "monitor service endpoint"
-  value = "http://${data.kubernetes_service.monitor.load_balancer_ingress.0.hostname}:3000"
+  value = "http://${data.external.monitor_service.result["hostname"]}:3000"
 }
 
 output "bastion_ip" {