Prepare Linux using a multi-node cluster (preview)

This article describes how to prepare Linux using a multi-node cluster, and assumes you fulfilled the prerequisites.

Prepare Linux with AKS enabled by Azure Arc

Install and configure Open Service Mesh (OSM) using the following commands:

az k8s-extension create --resource-group "YOUR_RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME" --cluster-name "YOUR_CLUSTER_NAME" --cluster-type connectedClusters --extension-type Microsoft.openservicemesh --scope cluster --name osm
kubectl patch meshconfig osm-mesh-config -n "arc-osm-system" -p '{"spec":{"featureFlags":{"enableWASMStats": false }, "traffic":{"outboundPortExclusionList":[443,2379,2380], "inboundPortExclusionList":[443,2379,2380]}}}' --type=merge

Prepare Linux with AKS Edge Essentials

This section describes how to prepare Linux with AKS Edge Essentials if you run a multi-node cluster.

  1. On each node in your cluster, set the number of HugePages to 512 using the following command:

    Invoke-AksEdgeNodeCommand -NodeType "Linux" -Command 'echo 512 | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/node/node0/hugepages/hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages'
    Invoke-AksEdgeNodeCommand -NodeType "Linux" -Command 'echo "vm.nr_hugepages=512" | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/99-hugepages.conf'
    
  2. On each node in your cluster, install the specific kernel using:

    Invoke-AksEdgeNodeCommand -NodeType "Linux" -Command 'sudo apt install linux-modules-extra-`uname -r`'
    

    Note

    The minimum supported version is 5.1. At this time, there are known issues with 6.4 and 6.2.

  3. On each node in your cluster, increase the maximum number of files using the following command:

    Invoke-AksEdgeNodeCommand -NodeType "Linux" -Command 'echo -e "LimitNOFILE=1048576" | sudo tee -a /etc/systemd/system/containerd.service.d/override.conf'
    
  4. Install and configure Open Service Mesh (OSM) using the following commands:

    az k8s-extension create --resource-group "YOUR_RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME" --cluster-name "YOUR_CLUSTER_NAME" --cluster-type connectedClusters --extension-type Microsoft.openservicemesh --scope cluster --name osm
    kubectl patch meshconfig osm-mesh-config -n "arc-osm-system" -p '{"spec":{"featureFlags":{"enableWASMStats": false }, "traffic":{"outboundPortExclusionList":[443,2379,2380], "inboundPortExclusionList":[443,2379,2380]}}}' --type=merge
    
  5. Create a file named config.json with the following contents:

    {
        "acstor.capacityProvisioner.tempDiskMountPoint": /var
    }
    

    Note

    The location/path of this file is referenced later, when installing the Edge Storage Accelerator Arc extension.

Prepare Linux with Ubuntu

This section describes how to prepare Linux with Ubuntu if you run a multi-node cluster.

  1. Install and configure Open Service Mesh (OSM) using the following command:

    az k8s-extension create --resource-group "YOUR_RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME" --cluster-name "YOUR_CLUSTER_NAME" --cluster-type connectedClusters --extension-type Microsoft.openservicemesh --scope cluster --name osm
    kubectl patch meshconfig osm-mesh-config -n "arc-osm-system" -p '{"spec":{"featureFlags":{"enableWASMStats": false }, "traffic":{"outboundPortExclusionList":[443,2379,2380], "inboundPortExclusionList":[443,2379,2380]}}}' --type=merge
    
  2. Run the following command to determine if you set fs.inotify.max_user_instances to 1024:

    sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_instances
    

    After you run this command, if it outputs less than 1024, run the following command to increase the maximum number of files and reload the sysctl settings:

    echo 'fs.inotify.max_user_instances = 1024' | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf
    sudo sysctl -p
    
  3. Install the specific kernel using:

    sudo apt install linux-modules-extra-`uname -r`
    

    Note

    The minimum supported version is 5.1. At this time, there are known issues with 6.4 and 6.2.

  4. On each node in your cluster, set the number of HugePages to 512 using the following command:

    HUGEPAGES_NR=512
    echo $HUGEPAGES_NR | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/node/node0/hugepages/hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages
    echo "vm.nr_hugepages=$HUGEPAGES_NR" | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/99-hugepages.conf
    

Next steps

Install Edge Storage Accelerator