Updated on 2024-01-04 GMT+08:00

Managing Node Labels

You can add different labels to nodes and define different attributes for labels. By using these node labels, you can quickly understand the characteristics of each node.

Node Label Usage Scenario

Node labels are mainly used in the following scenarios:

  • Node management: Node labels are used to classify nodes.
  • Affinity and anti-affinity between a workload and node:
    • Different workloads have different resource requirements such as CPU, memory, and I/O. If a workload consumes too many resources in a cluster, other workloads in the same cluster may fail to run properly. In this case, you are advised to add different labels to nodes. When deploying a workload, you can select nodes with specified labels for affinity deployment to ensure the normal operation of the system. Otherwise, node anti-affinity deployment can be used.
    • A system can be divided into multiple modules. Each module consists of multiple microservices. To ensure efficient O&M, you can add a module label to each node so that each module can be deployed on the corresponding node. In this way, modules do not interfere with each other and microservices can be easily maintained on their nodes.

Inherent Label of a Node

After a node is created, some fixed labels exist and cannot be deleted. For details about these labels, see Table 1.

Do not manually change the inherent labels that are automatically added to a node. If the manually changed value conflicts with the system value, the system value is used.

Table 1 Inherent labels of a node

Key

Description

New: topology.kubernetes.io/region

Old: failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/region

Region where the node is located

New: topology.kubernetes.io/zone

Old: failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/zone

AZ where the node is located

New: node.kubernetes.io/baremetal

Old: failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/is-baremetal

Whether the node is a bare metal node

false indicates that the node is not a bare metal node.

node.kubernetes.io/instance-type

Node specifications

kubernetes.io/arch

Node processor architecture

kubernetes.io/hostname

Node name

kubernetes.io/os

Node OS type

node.kubernetes.io/subnetid

ID of the subnet where the node is located.

os.architecture

Node processor architecture

For example, amd64 indicates a AMD64-bit processor.

os.name

Node OS name

os.version

Node OS kernel version

node.kubernetes.io/container-engine

Container engine used by the node.

accelerator/huawei-npu

NPU node labels.

accelerator

GPU node labels.

cce.cloud.com/cce-nodepool

The dedicated label of a node in a node pool.

Adding or Deleting a Node Label

  1. Log in to the CCE console and click the cluster name to access the cluster console.
  2. In the navigation pane, choose Nodes. On the displayed page, click the Nodes tab, select the target node and click Labels and Taints in the upper left corner.
  3. In the displayed dialog box, click Add batch operations under Batch Operation, and then choose Add/Update or Delete.

    Enter the key and value of the label to be added or deleted, and click OK.

    For example, the key is deploy_qa and the value is true, indicating that the node is used to deploy the QA (test) environment.

  4. After the label is added, check the added label in node data.