kubelet failed with kubelet cgroup driver: "cgroupfs" is different from docker cgroup driver: "systemd"

Question

Configuration for cgroup driver is right in /etc/systemd/system/kubelet.service.d/10-kubeadm.conf

Environment="KUBELET_CGROUP_ARGS=--cgroup-driver=systemd"

I also checked the Environment with cli

$ systemctl show --property=Environment kubelet | cat
Environment=KUBELET_KUBECONFIG_ARGS=--kubeconfig=/etc/kubernetes/kubelet.conf\x20--require-kubeconfig=true KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS=--pod-manifest-path=/etc/kubernetes/manifests\x20--allow-privileged=true KUBELET_NETWORK_ARGS=--network-plugin=cni\x20--cni-conf-dir=/etc/cni/net.d\x20--cni-bin-dir=/opt/cni/bin KUBELET_DNS_ARGS=--cluster-dns=10.96.0.10\x20--cluster-domain=cluster.local KUBELET_AUTHZ_ARGS=--authorization-mode=Webhook\x20--client-ca-file=/etc/kubernetes/pki/ca.crt KUBELET_CADVISOR_ARGS=--cadvisor-port=0 KUBELET_CGROUP_ARGS=--cgroup-driver=systemd

KUBELET_CGROUP_ARGS=--cgroup-driver=systemd

How to reproduce it:

• yum install -y docker-1.12.6
• systemctl enable docker && systemctl start docker
• setenforce 0
• yum install -y kubelet kubeadm
• systemctl enable kubelet && systemctl start kubelet
• systemctl daemon-reload
• systemctl restart kubelet
• kubelet log

Environment:

• Kubernetes version (use kubectl version): 1.7.3
• Cloud provider or hardware configuration**: 4 core 16G RAM
• OS (e.g. from /etc/os-release): CentOS Linux 7 (Core)
• Kernel (e.g. uname -a): Linux 10-8-108-92 3.10.0-327.22.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jun 23 17:05:11 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
• Install tools: kubeadm

Solution 1

On my environment it only worked the other way around. Setting systemd results always in an error. Here is my current setup

OS: CentOS 7.6.1810 
Minikube Version v1.0.0
Docker Version  18.06.2-ce

The solution for me was: Check /etc/docker/daemon.json and change systemd to cgroupfs

{
  "exec-opts": ["native.cgroupdriver=cgroupfs"],
  "log-driver": "json-file",
  "log-opts": {
    "max-size": "100m"
  },
  "storage-driver": "overlay2",
  "storage-opts": [
    "overlay2.override_kernel_check=true"
  ]
}

Then reload systemctl systemctl daemon-reload Kill the previous minikub config minikube delete and start the minikube again minikube start --vm-driver=none

Now check the command line the output should find cgroupfs in both outputs

docker info | grep -i cgroup
cat /etc/systemd/system/kubelet.service.d/10-kubeadm.conf

In the end you should see

   kubectl is now configured to use "minikube"
=   Done! Thank you for using minikube!

Simple solution: Start your minikube with the Extra config parameter

--extra-config=kubelet.cgroup-driver=systemd

The complete command to start up minikube is the next line

minikube start --vm-driver=none --extra-config=kubelet.cgroup-driver=systemd

All the best and have fun

Solution 2

Possible cause

kubelet 1.7.3 not reading config file /etc/systemd/system/kubelet.service.d/10-kubeadm.conf #50748

Solution

Troubleshooting kubeadm

If you are using CentOS and encounter difficulty while setting up the master node， verify that your Docker cgroup driver matches the kubelet config:

docker info | grep -i cgroup
cat /etc/systemd/system/kubelet.service.d/10-kubeadm.conf

If the Docker cgroup driver and the kubelet config don’t match, change the kubelet config to match the Docker cgroup driver. The flag you need to change is --cgroup-driver. If it’s already set, you can update like so:

sed -i "s/cgroup-driver=systemd/cgroup-driver=cgroupfs/g /etc/systemd/system/kubelet.service.d/10-kubeadm.conf

This can be replaced with:

CG=$(sudo docker info 2>/dev/null | sed -n 's/Cgroup Driver: \(.*\)/\1/p')
sed -i "s/cgroup-driver=systemd/cgroup-driver=$CG/g" /etc/systemd/system/kubelet.service.d/10-kubeadm.conf

Solution 3

This is caused by miscofiguration during the initial startup. For example forgeting to change docker cgroup driver before executing kubeadm init command.

To remedy this under CentOS, open /usr/lib/systemd/system/kubelet.service.d/10-kubeadm.conf or locate the file under your operating system. Locate the entry with EnvironmentFile=-/var/lib/kubelet/kubeadm-flags.env. Open this file and change the value of --cgroup-driver to systemd or to be the same as docker cgroup driver. Old Content:

KUBELET_KUBEADM_ARGS=--cgroup-driver=cgroupfs --network-plugin=cni --pod-infra-container-image=k8s.gcr.io/pause:3.1

New Content:

KUBELET_KUBEADM_ARGS=--cgroup-driver=systemd --network-plugin=cni --pod-infra-container-image=k8s.gcr.io/pause:3.1

Solution 4

To get minicube running on a CentOS 7, I need to start it with a --extra-config=kubelet.cgroup-driver=systemd as suggested in https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/2192.

Solution 5

It may be better to do the reverse and make kubelet to use systemd

In Kubernetes site, they recommend using systemd https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/production-environment/container-runtimes/ More details here

And you can change kubelet to use systemd by following https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/production-environment/tools/kubeadm/install-kubeadm/ adding this to /etc/sysconfig/kubelet

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cat /etc/sysconfig/kubelet 
KUBELET_EXTRA_ARGS=--cgroup-driver=systemd

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