【博客606】k8s如何查看pod崩溃前的日志及其原理

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k8s如何查看pod崩溃前的日志及其原理

场景

当pod处于crash状态的时候容器不断重启此时用kubelet logs可能出现一直捕捉不到日志

解决方法

kubelet previous参数作用

If true, print the logs for the previous instance of the container in a pod if it exists. 

单容器pod

kubectl logs pod-name --previous

多容器pod

kubectl logs pod-name --previous -c container-name

示例

NAME                              READY       STATUS             RESTARTS   AGE
nginx-7d8b49557c-c2lx9            2/2        Running            5   

kubectl logs nginx-7d8b49557c-c2lx9 --previous
Error: xxxxxxxxxxx

原理

kubelet会保持pod的前几个失败的容器这个是查看的前提条件

核心原理

kubelet实现previous的原理将pod的日志存放在/var/log/pods/podname并且是链接文件链接到docker的容器的日志文件同时kubelet还会保留上一个容器同时有一个链接文件链接到pod上一个崩溃的容器的日志文件使用previous就是查看的这个文件

实践

查看一个pod

ubuntu@~$ kubelet get pod
NAME                     READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
busybox                  1/1     Running   2394       99d
nginx-deployment-6wlhd   1/1     Running   0          79d
redis                    1/1     Running   0          49d

到pod所在node查看kubelet放的两个日志文件

 ls /var/log/pods/default_busybox_f72ab71a-5b3b-4ecf-940d-28a5c3b30683/busybox
2393.log  2394.log

数字的含义

2393证明是第2393次重启后的日志2394代表是第2394次重启后的日志

实际这两个日志文件是链接文件指向了docker的日志文件

/busybox# stat 2393.log
  File: 2393.log -> /data/kubernetes/docker/containers/68a5b32c9fdb1ad011b32e6252f9cdb759f69d7850e6b7b8591cb4c2bf00bcca/68a5b32c9fdb1ad011b32e6252f9cdb759f69d7850e6b7b8591cb4c2bf00bcca-json.log
  Size: 173           Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   symbolic link
Device: fc02h/64514d    Inode: 529958      Links: 1
Access: (0777/lrwxrwxrwx)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2023-01-31 13:32:03.751514283 +0800
Modify: 2023-01-31 13:32:03.039526838 +0800
Change: 2023-01-31 13:32:03.039526838 +0800
 Birth: -
 
 /busybox# stat 2394.log
  File: 2394.log -> /data/kubernetes/docker/containers/2ed9ebf0585215602874b076783e12191dbb010116038b8eb4646273ebfe195c/2ed9ebf0585215602874b076783e12191dbb010116038b8eb4646273ebfe195c-json.log
  Size: 173           Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   symbolic link
Device: fc02h/64514d    Inode: 529955      Links: 1
Access: (0777/lrwxrwxrwx)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2023-01-31 14:32:03.991106950 +0800
Modify: 2023-01-31 14:32:03.183119308 +0800
Change: 2023-01-31 14:32:03.183119308 +0800
 Birth: -

看到分别指向了这两个容器的日志文件一个是当前pod里在跑的容器一个是pod上次跑的容器现在已经退出了

docker ps -a
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                  COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS                      PORTS               NAMES
2ed9ebf05852        ff4a8eb070e1           "sleep 3600"             24 minutes ago      Up 24 minutes                                   k8s_busybox_busybox_default_f72ab71a-5b3b-4ecf-940d-28a5c3b30683_2394
68a5b32c9fdb        ff4a8eb070e1           "sleep 3600"             About an hour ago   Exited (0) 24 minutes ago                       k8s_busybox_busybox_default_f72ab71a-5b3b-4ecf-940d-28a5c3b30683_2393

原理实际使用logs的时候读的是当前容器那个文件使用–previous的时候读的是上次退出的容器的日志文件由于kubelet为pod保留了上次退出的容器

验证我们手动编辑这两个文件的内容看kubelet是否读的是这两个文件

/busybox# cat 2393.log
{"log":"last crash logs\n","stream":"stderr","time":"2022-11-05T08:11:27.31523845Z"}

/busybox# cat 2394.log
{"log":"now pod log\n","stream":"stderr","time":"2022-11-05T08:11:27.31523845Z"}

ubuntu@10-234-32-51:~$ k logs busybox --previous
last crash logs
ubuntu@10-234-32-51:~$ k logs busybox
now pod log

由于是链接文件那么可能实际是从别的地方读的或者说直接读容器目录下的由于链接文件我们改了后容器目录下的日志文件也跟着改了我们直接创建两个文件来做验证

ubuntu@10-234-32-51:~$ k get pod
NAME                     READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
busybox                  1/1     Running   2395       99d
nginx-deployment-6wlhd   1/1     Running   0          79d
redis                    1/1     Running   0          49d

/busybox# ls
2394.log  2395.log

/busybox# rm 2394.log  2395.log

我们删除然后自己创建这时是regular file而不是链接文件了
/busybox# ls
2394.log  2395.log

/busybox# stat 2394.log
  File: 2394.log
  Size: 100           Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: fc02h/64514d    Inode: 529965      Links: 1
Access: (0640/-rw-r-----)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2023-01-31 15:42:11.307170422 +0800
Modify: 2023-01-31 15:42:07.711225229 +0800
Change: 2023-01-31 15:42:07.711225229 +0800
 Birth: -

/busybox# stat 2395.log
  File: 2395.log
  Size: 86            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: fc02h/64514d    Inode: 529967      Links: 1
Access: (0640/-rw-r-----)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2023-01-31 15:41:17.539989934 +0800
Modify: 2023-01-31 15:41:14.348038586 +0800
Change: 2023-01-31 15:41:14.352038525 +0800
 Birth: -
 
/busybox# cat 2394.log
{"log":"previous logs create by myself\n","stream":"stderr","time":"2022-11-05T08:11:27.31523845Z"}
/busybox# cat 2395.log
{"log":"create by myself\n","stream":"stderr","time":"2022-11-05T08:11:27.31523845Z"}

ubuntu@10-234-32-51:~$ k logs busybox
create by myself
ubuntu@10-234-32-51:~$ k logs busybox --previous
previous logs create by myself

得出结论

kubelet读的是/var/log/pods/下的日志文件–previous读的也是/var/log/pods/下的日志文件且专门有个链接文件来指向上一个退出容器的日志文件以此来获取容器崩溃前的日志

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