WoW, it’s been quite a long time since last time I wrote something in here. I will try to write more often.

This past week I was involved in a project working with DC/OS. The problem was that after the cluster was scaled up or down some services would not be able to connect to each other using the L4LB/VIP (Layer 4 loadbalancer). After scratching my head a bit I found out that the problem was caused by zombie entries of the old service IP in the IPVS table (this is a known issue see: DCOS-617 & DCOS_OSS-871). Now cleaning up is not really rocket science but it becomes time consuming when you have to do that on 20+ CoreOS servers as they don’t have ipvsadm or any tool installed and we all know how “trivial” is to install new packages on CoreOS. I know they have the toolbox script which would basically spin up a Fedora container and then you can install whatever tool you need and do your troubleshooting but if you have to go manually trough all the servers and do this will take you most of the day and by now we all know how lazy I am and how much I like my reddit time . While the fix for this issue is to upgrade DC/OS to 1.9.1 or higher this is not always an option. Bellow you can find the steps to identify the issue and apply the workaround in a semiautomated way

Step 1 :

Identify the zombie IP by login on one of the nodes and run: /usr/bin/toolbox then run dnf install -y ipvsadm Now we run ipvsadm -ln to list all the entries in IPVS table, you will see something like this:

TCP 11.178.204.183:5672 wlc -> 10.10.172.229:5672 Masq 1 0 0 -> 10.10.175.81:5672 Masq 1 0 0

For this exercise will use 11.178.204.183:5672 as the VIP and 10.10.175.81:5672 as the zombie node. Now you would ask how do we know that 10.10.175.81:5672 is the zombie? Well, simple..that IP/VM doesn’t exists anymore

Step 2 :

Now that we know the offender we need to clear the mnesia database, restart dcos-navstar service and then remove the zombie IP. If you don’t clear the mnesia database the zombie will come back and I’m sure you don’t want that Clearing the mnesia database is as simple as: sudo rm -rf /var/lib/dcos/navstar/mnesia/* and restarting the service: sudo systemctl restart dcos-navstar Removing the zombie IP again is fairly easy and all we need to do is run: ipvsadm -dt 11.178.204.183:5672 -r 10.10.175.81:5672

And tadaa, your services are back up and reachable.

While this two steps are easy and not time consuming to be done when you have 1 - 2 servers this will become a pain when you have to do it on multiple servers. I semiautomated the task of removing the offender so you don’t have to do it

Clearing and restarting mnesia database and service:

--- - hosts : ec2 tasks : - name : delete mnesia database shell : /bin/rm -rf /var/lib/dcos/navstar/mnesia/* become : true - name : restart navstar service : name=dcos-navstar state=restarted enabled=yes become : true

Removing the zombie IP script:

#!/bin/bash echo "Usage: ./ssh_ipvsadm.sh <env octet (10,11,12)> <virtual ip with port> <real ip with port>" test_remote (){ ssh -n -o "StrictHostKeyChecking=no" core@ $1 docker run --rm --net = host --privileged mariusv/ipvsadm -ln | grep -C 2 -e $2 -e $3 } run_remote (){ ssh -n -o "StrictHostKeyChecking=no" core@ $1 docker run --rm --net = host --privileged mariusv/ipvsadm -d -t $2 -r $3 } grep -e 10. $1 inventory | while read line do test_remote $line $2 $3 run_remote $line $2 $3 done