Describe Kubelet Service Parameters on Azure Windows node

Query Kubelet service

Managed by nssm

C:\k>sc qc kubelet
[SC] QueryServiceConfig SUCCESS

SERVICE_NAME: kubelet
        TYPE               : 10  WIN32_OWN_PROCESS
        START_TYPE         : 2   AUTO_START
        ERROR_CONTROL      : 1   NORMAL
        BINARY_PATH_NAME   : C:\k\nssm.exe
        LOAD_ORDER_GROUP   :
        TAG                : 0
        DISPLAY_NAME       : Kubelet
        DEPENDENCIES       : docker
        SERVICE_START_NAME : LocalSystem

Query kubelet AppParameters by nssm

C:\k>nssm get kubelet Application
C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe

C:\k>nssm get kubelet AppParameters
c:\k\kubeletstart.ps1

Powershell scripts to start kubelet

$global:MasterIP = "q1game-q1game-6adca6-e3314a8c.hcp.westus2.azmk8s.io"
$global:KubeDnsSearchPath = "svc.cluster.local"
$global:KubeDnsServiceIp = "10.0.0.10"
$global:MasterSubnet = "10.240.0.0/16"
$global:KubeClusterCIDR = "10.240.0.0/16"
$global:KubeServiceCIDR = "10.0.0.0/16"
$global:KubeBinariesVersion = "1.17.3"
$global:CNIPath = "c:\k\cni"
$global:NetworkMode = "L2Bridge"
$global:ExternalNetwork = "ext"
$global:CNIConfig = "c:\k\cni\config\$global:NetworkMode.conf"
$global:HNSModule = "c:\k\hns.psm1"
$global:VolumePluginDir = "c:\k\volumeplugins"
$global:NetworkPlugin="azure"
$global:KubeletNodeLabels="kubernetes.azure.com/role=agent,agentpool=q1win,storageprofile=managed,storagetier=Premium_LRS,kubernetes.azure.com/cluster=MC_q1game_q1game_westus2"
Write-Host "NetworkPlugin azure, starting kubelet."

# Turn off Firewall to enable pods to talk to service endpoints. (Kubelet should eventually do this)
netsh advfirewall set allprofiles state off
# startup the service

# Find if network created by CNI exists, if yes, remove it
# This is required to keep the network non-persistent behavior
# Going forward, this would be done by HNS automatically during restart of the node

$hnsNetwork = Get-HnsNetwork | ? Name -EQ azure
if ($hnsNetwork)
{
    # Cleanup all containers
    docker ps -q | foreach {docker rm $_ -f}

    Write-Host "Cleaning up old HNS network found"
    Remove-HnsNetwork $hnsNetwork
    # Kill all cni instances & stale data left by cni
    # Cleanup all files related to cni
    taskkill /IM azure-vnet.exe /f
    taskkill /IM azure-vnet-ipam.exe /f
    $cnijson = [io.path]::Combine("c:\k", "azure-vnet-ipam.json")
    if ((Test-Path $cnijson))
    {
        Remove-Item $cnijson
    }
    $cnilock = [io.path]::Combine("c:\k", "azure-vnet-ipam.json.lock")
    if ((Test-Path $cnilock))
    {
        Remove-Item $cnilock
    }

    $cnijson = [io.path]::Combine("c:\k", "azure-vnet.json")
    if ((Test-Path $cnijson))
    {
        Remove-Item $cnijson
    }
    $cnilock = [io.path]::Combine("c:\k", "azure-vnet.json.lock")
    if ((Test-Path $cnilock))
    {
        Remove-Item $cnilock
    }
}

# Restart Kubeproxy, which would wait, until the network is created
# This was fixed in 1.15, workaround still needed for 1.14 https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78612
Restart-Service Kubeproxy

$env:AZURE_ENVIRONMENT_FILEPATH="c:\k\azurestackcloud.json"

c:\k\kubelet.exe --address=0.0.0.0 --anonymous-auth=false --authentication-token-webhook=true --authorization-mode=Webhook --azure-container-registry-config=c:\k\azure.json --cgroups-per-qos=false --client-ca-file=c:\k\ca.crt --cloud-config=c:\k\azure.json --cloud-provider=azure --cluster-dns=10.0.0.10 --cluster-domain=cluster.local --dynamic-config-dir=/var/lib/kubelet --enforce-node-allocatable="" --event-qps=0 --eviction-hard="" --feature-gates=RotateKubeletServerCertificate=true --hairpin-mode=promiscuous-bridge --image-gc-high-threshold=85 --image-gc-low-threshold=80 --image-pull-progress-deadline=20m --keep-terminated-pod-volumes=false --kube-reserved=cpu=100m,memory=1843Mi --kubeconfig=c:\k\config --max-pods=30 --network-plugin=cni --node-status-update-frequency=10s --non-masquerade-cidr=0.0.0.0/0 --pod-infra-container-image=kubletwin/pause --pod-max-pids=-1 --protect-kernel-defaults=true --read-only-port=0 --resolv-conf="" --rotate-certificates=false --streaming-connection-idle-timeout=4h --system-reserved=memory=2Gi --tls-cipher-suites=TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 --node-labels=$global:KubeletNodeLabels --volume-plugin-dir=$global:VolumePluginDir --cni-bin-dir=c:\k\azurecni\bin --cni-conf-dir=c:\k\azurecni\netconf

Enable Hyper-V Isolation by modify kubelet parameters

1. Modify c:\k\kubeletstart.ps1 to add parameter to kubelet

--feature-gates="XXX=true,HyperVContainer=true"

2. Restart kubelet
C:\k>nssm restart kubelet
Kubelet: STOP: A stop control has been sent to a service that other running services are dependent on.

C:\k>sc queryex kubelet

SERVICE_NAME: kubelet
        TYPE               : 10  WIN32_OWN_PROCESS
        STATE              : 4  RUNNING
                                (STOPPABLE, PAUSABLE, ACCEPTS_SHUTDOWN)
        WIN32_EXIT_CODE    : 0  (0x0)
        SERVICE_EXIT_CODE  : 0  (0x0)
        CHECKPOINT         : 0x0
        WAIT_HINT          : 0x0
        PID                : 4044
        FLAGS              :

C:\k>taskkill /PID 4044 /F

C:\k>sc start kubelet

Restart the Windows node if necessary

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