Adding Nodes for Management

Scenario

In CCE, you can create a node (Creating a Node) or add existing nodes (ECSs or) to your cluster.

• While an ECS is being accepted into a cluster, the operating system of the ECS will be reset to the standard OS image provided by CCE to ensure node stability. The CCE console prompts you to select the operating system and the login mode during the reset.
• LVM information, including volume groups (VGs), logical volumes (LVs), and physical volumes (PVs), will be deleted from the system disks and data disks attached to the selected ECSs during management. Ensure that the information has been backed up.
• While an ECS is being accepted into a cluster, do not perform any operation on the ECS through the ECS console.

Constraints

• The cluster version must be 1.15 or later.
• If a password or key has been set when the original VM node was created, reset the password or key during management. The original password or key will become invalid.
• Data disks that have been partitioned will be ignored during node management. Ensure that there is at least one unpartitioned data disk meeting the specifications is attached to the node.

Prerequisites

A cloud server that meets the following conditions can be accepted:

• The node to be accepted must be in the Running state and not used by other clusters. In addition, the node to be accepted does not carry the CCE-Dynamic-Provisioning-Node tag.
• The node to be accepted and the cluster must be in the same VPC. (If the cluster version is earlier than v1.13.10, the node to be accepted and the CCE cluster must be in the same subnet.)
• Data disks must be attached to the nodes to be managed. A local disk (disk-intensive disk) or a data disk of at least 20 GiB can be attached to the node, and any data disks already attached cannot be smaller than 10 GiB.
• The node to be accepted has 2-core or higher CPU, 4 GiB or larger memory, and only one NIC.
• If an enterprise project is used, the node to be accepted and the cluster must be in the same enterprise project. Otherwise, resources cannot be identified during management. As a result, the node cannot be accepted.
• Only cloud servers with the same specifications, AZ, and data disk configuration can be added in batches.

Procedure

1. Log in to the CCE console and go to the cluster where the node to be accepted resides.
2. In the navigation pane, choose Nodes. On the displayed page, click Accept Node in the upper right corner.
3. Specify node parameters.

   Compute Settings

   Table 1 Configuration parameters

   Parameter	Description
   Specifications	Click Select Cloud Server and select the servers to be accepted. You can select multiple cloud servers for batch management. However, only the cloud servers with the same specifications, AZ, and data disk configuration can be added in batches. If a cloud server contains multiple data disks, select one of them for the container runtime and kubelet.
   Container Engine	CCE clusters support Docker and containerd in some scenarios. VPC network clusters of v1.23 and later versions support containerd. Tunnel network clusters of v1.23.2-r0 and later versions support containerd. For a CCE Turbo cluster, both Docker and containerd are supported.
   OS	Public image: Select an OS for the node.
   Login Mode	Key Pair Select the key pair used to log in to the node. You can select a shared key. A key pair is used for identity authentication when you remotely log in to a node. If no key pair is available, click Create Key Pair.

   Storage Settings

   Configure storage resources on a node for the containers running on it.

   Table 2 Configuration parameters

   Parameter	Description
   System Disk	Directly use the system disk of the cloud server.
   Data Disk	At least one data disk is required for the container runtime and kubelet. The data disk cannot be deleted or uninstalled. Otherwise, the node will be unavailable. Click Expand and select Allocate Disk Space to define the disk space occupied by the container runtime to store the working directories, container image data, and image metadata. For details about how to allocate data disk space, see Data Disk Space Allocation. For other data disks, a raw disk is created without any processing by default. You can also click Expand and select Mount Disk to mount the data disk to a specified directory.

   Advanced Settings

   Table 3 Advanced configuration parameters

   Parameter	Description
   Kubernetes Label	Click Add to set the key-value pair attached to the Kubernetes objects (such as pods). A maximum of 20 labels can be added. Labels can be used to distinguish nodes. With workload affinity settings, container pods can be scheduled to a specified node. For more information, see Labels and Selectors.
   Taint	This field is left blank by default. You can add taints to configure anti-affinity for the node. A maximum of 20 taints are allowed for each node. Each taint contains the following parameters: Key: A key must contain 1 to 63 characters, starting with a letter or digit. Only letters, digits, hyphens (-), underscores (_), and periods (.) are allowed. A DNS subdomain name can be used as the prefix of a key. Value: A value must start with a letter or digit and can contain a maximum of 63 characters, including letters, digits, hyphens (-), underscores (_), and periods (.). Effect: Available options are NoSchedule, PreferNoSchedule, and NoExecute. NOTICE: If taints are used, you must configure tolerations in the YAML files of pods. Otherwise, scale-up may fail or pods cannot be scheduled onto the added nodes. After a node pool is created, you can click Edit to modify its configuration. The modification will be synchronized to all nodes in the node pool.
   Max. Pods	Maximum number of pods that can run on the node, including the default system pods. This limit prevents the node from being overloaded with pods.
   Pre-installation Command	Enter commands. A maximum of 1,000 characters are allowed. The script will be executed before Kubernetes software is installed. Note that if the script is incorrect, Kubernetes software may fail to be installed.
   Post-installation Command	Enter commands. A maximum of 1,000 characters are allowed. The script will be executed after Kubernetes software is installed and will not affect the installation.

4. Click Next: Confirm. Click Submit.