Overview

This analysis is to see the possibility of scaling the CPS-NCMP component horizontally to respond well to increased load.

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Scenario

Load scenario: (model)sync 10,000 cm handles with the same schema-set: imagine this is done by firing 1000 requests of (batches of) 10 cm handles registration to a pool of cps-ncmp instances

CPS Deployment in ONAP

Currently, CPS in ONAP deployment has the following configuration shown in the table below.

**Resources listed below is only relevant for this study

Resource name	Description	Notes
cps-and-ncmp deployment	creates instances of pods (set of containers) that run cps application default pod replica count is set to 1 (i.e. creates 1 pod) has 3 associated volumes	replica count can be changed to the number of pods desired to be added through values.yaml file of the cps-core component the value 'replicaCount' is used by the deployment object configured in the manifest deployment.yaml deployment.yaml apiVersion: apps/v1 kind: Deployment metadata: {{- include "common.resourceMetadata" . \| nindent 2 }} spec: replicas: {{ .Values.replicaCount }} . . . if the replica count is 2, the deployment object will create and k8s controller ensures that the number of running pods is always 2, the load is also distributed among the replicas this method has been tested to create 3 instances of cps-ncmp by specifying replicaCount in values.yaml values.yaml . . . # Resource Limit flavor -By Default using small flavor: small # default number of instances replicaCount: 3 # Segregation for Different environment (Small and Large) resources: . . .
postgres deployment	creates instances of pods that run Postgres default Kubernetes pod replica count is set to 1 (i.e. creates 1 pod) utilizes persistent volumes
cps-core service	enables network access to pods running cps application uses the default service type 'ClusterIP' which exposes CPS's multiple ports to allow only internal access to pods this service is also exposed by an Ingress which exposes HTTP and HTTPS routes from outside operates with an Ingress resource wherein the traffic rules are stated allows the service to be reachable via URL allows multiple services to be mapped to a single port	Other service types are NodePort, LoadBalancer, and ExternalName 'ClusterIp' service type uses round-robin/random to load balance i.e. increasing the number of pods results in the request being sent to a random pod
postgres Service	uses the default service type ClusterIP ingress is not enabled for this service therefore it is only accessible within the Kubernetes cluster

Vertical Scaling

In the case, that for one instance of the service and it's seen that bottleneck comes from the connection pool size, this can be configured to change from the default size of 10.

CPS application runs with Spring Boot and by default, the DataSource implementation that comes with this, and on CPS, is HikariCP. Therefore, to modify the maximum pool size from 10 ,the yaml file 'application.yaml' in cps-application folder can be updated to add maximum pool size definition.

Example:

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spring:

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datasource:
url: jdbc:postgresql://${DB_HOST}:1234/cpsdb
username: ${DB_USERNAME}
password: ${DB_PASSWORD}
driverClassName: org.postgresql.Driver
initialization-mode: always

hikari:

maximum-pool-size: 20

**The following change on the example above has been tested and passes all CSIT tests and is deployable.

Load Balancing Options

Load balancing option	Description	Issues	Possible solution
Increasing pod/replica count via deployment object This method has been tested on minikube to create 3 instances of cps-ncmp Each pod were monitored through logs one specific pod accomodated majority of the requests one pod did not accept requests at all as client, received correct responses	Replica count is changed from the default number to the number of pods desired to be added through values.yaml file Defined in the manifest deployment.yaml which means the deployment object created will own and manage the replicaSet this is the recommended way to use replicaSets	Burst propagation eviction of one replica results in the load being redirected to another replica CPU in the node can be/will be fully used up	adding a Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA)
		Database Bottleneck	**can be a different study on how to scale Postgres horizontally Vertical Scaling more resources such as CPU and memory are added Postgres horizontal scaling (Sharding) Slices tables into multiple smaller tables (shards) wherein each will be in run on different database *Feedback from Renu Kumari Based on the reasons below, Bell decided not to work on scaling the database at the moment: Postgres charts used by CPS uses 'deployments' instead of 'stateful' sets Complex task Changing the current Postgres charts will impact other components ONAP also have an initiative to separate services from the storage.
Using Horizontal Pod Autoscaling	allows the automatic deployment of pods to satisfy the stated configuration wherein the number of pods depends on the load i.e. the workload resource will be scaled back down if the load decreases and the number of pods are above the configured minimum. HPA can be defined with multiple and custom metrics. metrics can be customized so that HPA only scales on HTTP requests metrics can be customized so that HPA only scales on Ingress requests per second	HPA scales up and distributes workload efficiently over the replicas with the linearly increasing workload but takes time to scale up or down with bursty workloads	Configure sync period the default interval is 15 seconds
Using Horizontal Pod Autoscaling		Would require changes/updates to the current CPS deployment resources	Remove 'replica' variable in cps-and-ncmp deployment manifest deployment.yaml apiVersion: apps/v1 kind: Deployment metadata: {{- include "common.resourceMetadata" . \| nindent 2 }} spec: replicas: {{ .Values.replicaCount }} . . . Add a manifest to create a HorizontalPodAutoscaler object sample HPA manifest apiVersion: autoscaling/v2 kind: HorizontalPodAutoscaler metadata: name: cps-and-ncmp spec: scaleTargetRef: apiVersion: apps/v1 kind: Deployment name: cps-and-ncmp minReplicas: 1 maxReplicas: 10 metrics: - type: Object object: metric: name: requests-per-second describedObject: apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1beta1 kind: Ingress name: cps-core-ingress target: type: Value value: 100 .... Might need to add a separate service to support monitoring metrics service needs to implement custom.metrics.k8s.io or external.metrics.k8s.io