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Placement

Placement API is used to select a set of managed clusters in one or multiple ManagedClusterSets so that the user’s workloads can be deployed to these clusters.

Bind ManagedClusterSet to a namespace

Before creating a Placement, you need to create a ManagedClusterSetBinding in a namespace to bind to a ManagedClusterSet. Then you can create a Placement in the same namespace to select the clusters in this ManagedClusterSet. Assume a ManagedClusterSet is created on the hub cluster as seen in the following examples.

apiVersion: cluster.open-cluster-management.io/v1alpha1
kind: ManagedClusterSet
metadata:
  name: prod

You can create a ManagedClusterSetBinding as follows to bind the ManagedClusterSet to the default namespace.

apiVersion: cluster.open-cluster-management.io/v1alpha1
kind: ManagedClusterSetBinding
metadata:
  name: prod
  namespace: default
spec:
  clusterSet: prod

You must have the create permission on resource managedclusterset/bind to bind the ManagedClusterSet to a namespace.

Select clusters in ManagedClusterSet

After ManagedClusterSetBinding is created in a namespace, you can create a placement in the namespace to define what clusters should be selected in the bound ManagedClusterSet. You can select clusters by labels or clusterClaims. For instance, you can select 3 clusters with labels purpose=test and clusterClaim platform.open-cluster-management.io=aws as seen in the following examples.

apiVersion: cluster.open-cluster-management.io/v1alpha1
kind: Placement
metadata:
  name: placement1
  namespace: default
spec:
  numberOfClusters: 3
  clusterSets:
    - prod
  predicates:
    - requiredClusterSelector:
        labelSelector:
          matchLabels:
            purpose: test
        claimSelector:
          matchExpressions:
            - key: platform.open-cluster-management.io
              operator: In
              values:
                - aws

PlacementDecision will be created by the placement controller in the same namespace, each with a label of open-cluster-management.io/placement=placement1. PlacementDecision contains the results of the cluster selection as seen in the following examples.

apiVersion: cluster.open-cluster-management.io/v1alpha1
kind: PlacementDecision
metadata:
  labels:
    placement.open-cluster-management.io: placement1
  name: placement1-decision-1
  namespace: default
spec:
  decisions:
    - clusterName: cluster1
    - clusterName: cluster2
    - clusterName: cluster3

PlacementDecision can be consumed by another operand to decide how the workload should be placed in multiple clusters.

Future work

In addition to selecting cluster by predicates, we are still working on other advanced features including