Minimize cluster disruption during temporary planned downtime of a single tablet server
If a single tablet server is brought down temporarily in a healthy cluster, all tablets
will remain available and clients will function as normal, after potential short delays due to
leader elections. However, if the downtime lasts for more than --follower_unavailable_considered_failed_sec (default
300) seconds, the tablet replicas on the down tablet server will be replaced by new replicas on
available tablet servers. This will cause stress on the cluster as tablets re-replicate and, if
the downtime lasts long enough, significant reduction in the number of replicas on the down
tablet server, which may require the rebalancer to fix.
To work
around this, in Kudu versions 1.11 onward, the kudu CLI contains a tool to
put tablet servers into maintenance mode. While in this state, the tablet server’s replicas
are not re-replicated due to its downtime alone, though re-replication may still occur in the
event that the server in maintenance suffers from a disk failure or if a follower replica on
the tablet server falls too far behind its leader replica. Upon exiting maintenance,
re-replication is triggered for any remaining under-replicated tablets.
kudu tserver state enter_maintenance and kudu tserver state
exit_maintenance tools are added to orchestrate tablet server maintenance. The
following can be run from a tablet server to put it into
maintenance:$ TS_UUID=$(sudo -u kudu kudu fs dump uuid --fs_wal_dir=<wal_dir> --fs_data_dirs=<data_dirs>)
$ sudo -u kudu kudu tserver state enter_maintenance <master_addresses> "$TS_UUID"kudu cluster ksck. To exit maintenance
mode, run the following
command:sudo -u kudu kudu tserver state exit_maintenance <master_addresses> "$TS_UUID"