Fix UDP outbound and clock sync timeouts on Azure workers

* Add "lb" outbound rule for worker TCP _and_ UDP traffic
* Fix Azure worker nodes clock synchronization being inactive
due to timeouts reaching the CoreOS / Flatcar NTP pool
* Fix Azure worker nodes not providing outbount UDP connectivity

Background:

Azure provides VMs outbound connectivity either by having a public
IP or via an SNAT masquerade feature bundled with their virtual
load balancing abstraction (in contrast with, say, a NAT gateway).

Azure worker nodes have only a private IP, but are associated with
the cluster load balancer's backend pool and ingress frontend IP.
Outbound traffic uses SNAT with this frontend IP. A subtle detail
with Azure SNAT seems to be that since both inbound lb_rule's are
TCP only, outbound UDP traffic isn't SNAT'd (highlights the reasons
Azure shouldn't have conflated inbound load balancing with outbound
SNAT concepts). However, adding a separate outbound rule and
disabling outbound SNAT on our ingress lb_rule's we can tell Azure
to continue load balancing as before, and support outbound SNAT for
worker traffic of both the TCP and UDP protocol.

Fixes clock synchronization timeouts:

```
systemd-timesyncd[786]: Timed out waiting for reply from
45.79.36.123:123 (3.flatcar.pool.ntp.org)
```

Azure controller nodes have their own public IP, so controllers (and
etcd) nodes have not had clock synchronization or outbound UDP issues
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Dalton Hubble 2020-03-31 20:28:27 -07:00
parent 135c6182b8
commit bbbaf949f9
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@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ Notable changes between versions.
* Rename Container Linux `clc_snippets` (bare-metal) to `snippets` for consistency
* Fix bootstrap when `networking` mode `flannel` (non-default) is chosen ([#689](https://github.com/poseidon/typhoon/pull/689))
* Regressed in v1.18.0 changes for Calico ([#675](https://github.com/poseidon/typhoon/pull/675))
* Fix Azure worker UDP outbound connections ([#691](https://github.com/poseidon/typhoon/pull/691))
* Fix Azure worker clock sync timeouts
## v1.18.0

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@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ resource "azurerm_lb_rule" "ingress-http" {
name = "ingress-http"
loadbalancer_id = azurerm_lb.cluster.id
frontend_ip_configuration_name = "ingress"
disable_outbound_snat = true
protocol = "Tcp"
frontend_port = 80
@ -86,6 +87,7 @@ resource "azurerm_lb_rule" "ingress-https" {
name = "ingress-https"
loadbalancer_id = azurerm_lb.cluster.id
frontend_ip_configuration_name = "ingress"
disable_outbound_snat = true
protocol = "Tcp"
frontend_port = 443
@ -94,6 +96,20 @@ resource "azurerm_lb_rule" "ingress-https" {
probe_id = azurerm_lb_probe.ingress.id
}
# Worker outbound TCP/UDP SNAT
resource "azurerm_lb_outbound_rule" "worker-outbound" {
resource_group_name = azurerm_resource_group.cluster.name
name = "worker"
loadbalancer_id = azurerm_lb.cluster.id
frontend_ip_configuration {
name = "ingress"
}
protocol = "All"
backend_address_pool_id = azurerm_lb_backend_address_pool.worker.id
}
# Address pool of controllers
resource "azurerm_lb_backend_address_pool" "controller" {
resource_group_name = azurerm_resource_group.cluster.name