High-Risk Operations

During service deployment or running, you may trigger high-risk operations at different levels, causing service faults or interruption. To help you better estimate and avoid operation risks, this section introduces the consequences and solutions of high-risk operations from multiple dimensions, such as clusters, nodes, networking, load balancing, logs, and EVS disks.

Clusters and Nodes

**Table 1** High-risk operations and solutions
Category	Operation	Impact	Solution
Master node	Modifying the security group of a node in a cluster NOTE: Naming rule of a security group: Cluster name-cce-control-Random digits	The master node may be unavailable.	Restore the security group by referring to "Creating a Cluster" and allow traffic from the security group to pass through.
	Letting the node expire or destroying the node	The master node will be unavailable.	This operation cannot be undone.
	Reinstalling the OS	Components on the master node will be deleted.	This operation cannot be undone.
	Upgrading components on the master or etcd node	The cluster may be unavailable.	Roll back to the original version.
	Deleting or formatting core directory data such as /etc/kubernetes on the node	The master node will be unavailable.	This operation cannot be undone.
	Changing the node IP address	The master node will be unavailable.	Change the IP address back to the original one.
	Modifying parameters of core components (such as etcd, kube-apiserver, and docker)	The master node may be unavailable.	Restore the parameter settings to the recommended values. For details, see Modifying Cluster Configurations.
	Replacing the master or etcd certificate	The cluster may be unavailable.	This operation cannot be undone.
Worker node	Modifying the security group of a node in a cluster NOTE: Naming rule of a security group: Cluster name-cce-node-Random digits	The node may be unavailable.	Restore the security group and allow traffic from the security group to pass through.
	Modifying the DNS configuration (/etc/resolv.conf) of a node	Internal domain names cannot be accessed, which may lead to errors in functions such as add-on errors or errors in in-place node upgrade. NOTE: If your service needs to use an on-premises DNS, configure the DNS in the workload. Do not change node's DNS address. For details, see DNS Configuration.	Restore the DNS configuration based on the DNS configuration of a new node.
	Deleting the node	The node will become unavailable.	This operation cannot be undone.
	Reinstalling the OS	Node components are deleted, and the node becomes unavailable.	Reset the node. For details, see Resetting a Node.
	Upgrading the kernel or components on which the container platform depends (such as Open vSwitch, IPVLAN, Docker, and containerd)	The node may be unavailable or the network may be abnormal. NOTE: Node running depends on the system kernel version. Do not use the yum update command to update or reinstall the operating system kernel of a node unless necessary. (Reinstalling the operating system kernel using the original image or other images is a risky operation.)	For details, see Resetting a Node.
	Changing the node IP address	The node will become unavailable.	Change the IP address back to the original one.
	Modifying parameters of core components (such as kubelet and kube-proxy)	The node may become unavailable, and components may be insecure if security-related configurations are modified.	Restore the parameter settings to the recommended values. For details, see Modifying Node Pool Configurations.
	Modifying OS configuration	The node may be unavailable.	Restore the configuration items or reset the node. For details, see Resetting a Node.
	Deleting or modifying the /opt/cloud/cce and /var/paas directories, and deleting the data disk	The node will become unavailable.	Reset the node. For details, see Resetting a Node.
	Modifying the node directory permission and the container directory permission	The permissions will be abnormal.	Do not modify the permissions. Restore the permissions if they have been modified.
	Formatting or partitioning system disks, Docker disks, and kubelet disks on nodes.	The node may be unavailable.	Reset the node. For details, see Resetting a Node.
	Installing other software on nodes	This may cause exceptions on Kubernetes components installed on the node, and make the node unavailable.	Uninstall the software that has been installed and restore or reset the node. For details, see Resetting a Node.
	Modifying NetworkManager configurations	The node will become unavailable.	Reset the node. For details, see Resetting a Node.
	Deleting system images such as cce-pause from the node	Containers cannot be created and system images cannot be pulled.	Copy the image from a functional node for restoration.
	Changing the flavor of a node in a node pool on the ECS console	If a node flavor is different from the flavor specified in the node pool where the node resides, the increased number of nodes in a node pool scale-out is different from the expected number.	Change the node flavor to the one specified in the node pool, or delete the node and perform a node pool scale-out again.

Network

**Table 2** Network
Operation	Impact	Solution
Changing the value of the kernel parameter net.ipv4.ip_forward to 0	The network becomes inaccessible.	Change the value to 1.
Changing the value of the kernel parameter net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle to 1	The NAT service becomes abnormal.	Change the value to 0.
Changing the value of the kernel parameter net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse to 1	The network becomes abnormal.	Change the value to 0.
Not configuring the node security group to allow UDP packets to pass through port 53 of the container CIDR block	The DNS in the cluster cannot work properly.	Restore the security group by referring to Buying a CCE Standard Cluster and allow traffic from the security group to pass through.
Deleting CRD resources of network-attachment-definitions of default-network	The container network is disconnected, or the cluster fails to be deleted.	If the resources are deleted by mistake, use the correct configurations to create the default-network resources.
Enabling the iptables firewall	By default, the iptables firewall is disabled on CCE. Enabling the firewall can leave the network inaccessible. NOTE: Do not enable the iptables firewall. If the iptables firewall must be enabled, check whether the rules configured in /etc/sysconfig/iptables and /etc/sysconfig/ip6tables in the test environment will affect the network.	Disable the iptables firewall and check the rules configured in /etc/sysconfig/iptables and /etc/sysconfig/ip6tables.

Load Balancing

**Table 3** Service ELB
Operation	Impact	Solution
Deleting a load balancer that has been bound to a CCE cluster on the ELB console	Accessing the target Service or ingress will fail.	Do not delete such a load balancer.
Disabling a load balancer that has been bound to a CCE cluster on the ELB console	Accessing the target Service or ingress will fail.	Do not disable such a load balancer. If a load balancer has been disabled, enable it.
Changing the private IPv4 address of a load balancer on the ELB console	The network traffic forwarded using the private IPv4 addresses will be interrupted. The IP addresses in the status field of Service or ingress YAML files will be changed.	Do not change private IPv4 addresses of load balancers. Change them back if they have been changed.
Unbinding the IPv4 EIP from a load balancer on the ELB console	After the EIP is unbound from the load balancer, the load balancer will not be able to forward Internet traffic.	Restore the EIP binding.
Creating a custom listener on the ELB console for the load balancer managed by CCE	If a load balancer is automatically created when a Service or an ingress is created, the custom listener of the load balancer cannot be deleted when the Service or ingress is deleted. In this case, the load balancer cannot be automatically deleted.	Use the listener automatically created when a Service or an ingress is created. If a custom listener is used, manually delete the target load balancer.
Deleting a listener automatically created by CCE on the ELB console	Accessing the target Service or ingress will fail. After master nodes are restarted, for example, due to a cluster upgrade, all your modifications will be reset by CCE.	Re-create or update the Service or ingress.
Modifying the basic configurations such as the name, access control, timeout, or description of a listener created by CCE on the ELB console	After master nodes are restarted, for example, due to a cluster upgrade, all your modifications will be reset by CCE if the listener is deleted.	Do not modify the basic configurations of the listener created by CCE. Restore the configurations if they have been modified.
Modifying the backend server group of a listener created by CCE on the ELB console, including adding or deleting backend servers to or from the server group	Accessing the target Service or ingress will fail. After master nodes are restarted, for example, due to a cluster upgrade, all your modifications will be reset by CCE. Deleted backend servers will be restored. Added backend servers will be removed.	Re-create or update the Service or ingress.
Replacing the backend server group of a listener created by CCE on the ELB console	Accessing the target Service or ingress will fail. After master nodes are restarted, for example, due to a cluster upgrade, all servers in the backend server group will be reset by CCE.	Re-create or update the Service or ingress.
Modifying the forwarding policy of a listener created by CCE on the ELB console, including adding or deleting forwarding rules	Accessing the target Service or ingress will fail. After master nodes are restarted, for example, due to a cluster upgrade, all your modifications will be reset by CCE if the forwarding rules are added using an ingress.	Do not modify the forwarding policy of such a listener. Restore the configurations if they have been modified.
Changing the ELB certificate on the ELB console for a load balancer managed by CCE	After master nodes are restarted, for example, due to a cluster upgrade, all servers in the backend server group will be reset by CCE.	Use the YAML file of the ingress to automatically manage certificates.

Logs

**Table 4** High-risk operations and solutions
Operation	Impact	Solution
Deleting the /tmp/ccs-log-collector/pos directory on the host machine	Logs are collected repeatedly.	None
Deleting the /tmp/ccs-log-collector/buffer directory on the host machine	Logs are lost.	None

EVS Disks

**Table 5** High-risk operations and solutions
Operation	Impact	Solution	Remarks
Manually unmounting an EVS disk on the console	An I/O error occurs when data is written into a pod.	Delete the mount path from the node and schedule the pod again.	The file in the pod records the location where files are to be collected.
Unmounting the disk mount path on the node	Pod data is written into a local disk.	Remount the corresponding path to the pod.	The buffer contains log cache files to be consumed.
Operating EVS disks on the node	Pod data is written into a local disk.	None	None

Add-ons

**Table 6** Add-ons
Operation	Impact	Solution
Modifying add-on resources on the backend	The add-on becomes malfunctional or other unexpected issues occur.	Perform operations on the add-on configuration page or using open add-on management APIs.