Docker Kubernetes (Mac) - Autoscaler unable to find metrics

Question

I have installed a local instance of Kubernetes via Docker on my Mac.

Following the walkthrough on how to activate autoscaling on a deployment I have experienced an issue. The autoscaler can't read the metrics.

When I am running kubectl describe hpa the current cpu usage comes back as unknown / 50% with the warnings:

Warning FailedGetResourceMetric: horizontal-pod-autoscaler unable to get metrics for resource cpu: unable to fetch metrics from API: the server could not find the requested resource (get pods.metrics.k8s.io)

Warning FailedComputeMetricsReplicas horizontal-pod-autoscaler failed to get cpu utilization: unable to get metrics for resource cpu: unable to fetch metrics from API: the server could not find the requested resource (get pods.metrics.k8s.io)

I have installed the metrics-server via git clone https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/metrics-server.gitand installed it with kubectl create -f deploy/1.8+

Answer 1

I finally got it working.. Here are the full steps I took to get things working:

1. Have Kubernetes running within Docker

2. Delete any previous instance of metrics-server from your Kubernetes instance with kubectl delete -n kube-system deployments.apps metrics-server

3. Clone metrics-server with git clone https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/metrics-server.git

4. Edit the file deploy/1.8+/metrics-server-deployment.yaml to override the default command by adding a command section that didn't exist before. The new section will instruct metrics-server to allow for an insecure communications session (don't verify the certs involved). Do this only for Docker, and not for production deployments of metrics-server:

   containers:
   - name: metrics-server
       image: k8s.gcr.io/metrics-server-amd64:v0.3.1
       command:
         - /metrics-server
         - --kubelet-insecure-tls
   

5. Add metrics-server to your Kubernetes instance with kubectl create -f deploy/1.8+ (if errors with the .yaml, write this instead: kubectl apply -f deploy/1.8+)

6. Remove and add the autoscaler to your deployment again. It should now show the current cpu usage.

EDIT July 2020:

Most of the above steps hold true except the metrics-server has changed and that file does not exist anymore.

The repo now recommends installing it like this:

apply -f https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/metrics-server/releases/download/v0.3.6/components.yaml

So we can now download this file,

curl -L https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/metrics-server/releases/download/v0.3.6/components.yaml --output components.yaml

add --kubelet-insecure-tls under args (L88) to the metrics-server deployment and run

kubectl apply -f components.yaml

Answer 2

For who are use Internal-IP here may work for you. Follow @Mr.Turtle above at step 4. add more one command.

  containers:
  - name: metrics-server
    image: k8s.gcr.io/metrics-server-amd64:v0.3.3
    command:
      - /metrics-server
      - --kubelet-insecure-tls
      - --kubelet-preferred-address-types=InternalIP

Answer 3

We upgraded to AWS EKS version 1.13.7 and that's when we started having problems with HPA, It turns out on my deployment I had to specified a value for resources.requests.cpu=200m and the HPA started working for me.