kannon

Kannon is a wrapper for the gokart library that allows gokart tasks to be easily executed in a distributed and parallel manner on multiple kubernetes jobs.

Install

Kannon can be installed via pip.

pip install kannon

Quick Starter

An easy and self-contained tutorial can be found in here!

Usage

It is required for users to prepare following two scripts and copy them into a docker container:

• A script to start task pipeline on master job.
• A script for child jobs to run assigned tasks.

Easy and self-contained quick starter will be available soon!

Give custom permissions to the service account

If you have a service account my-batch within a namespace mynamespace, the following permissions on jobs and jobs/status should be added.

# role.yaml
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: Role
metadata:
  namespace: mynamespace
  name: job-admin
rules:
  - apiGroups: ["batch"]
    resources: ["jobs"]
    verbs: ["get", "list", "watch", "create", "update", "patch", "delete"]
  - apiGroups: ["batch"]
    resources: ["jobs/status"]
    verbs: ["get", "list", "watch"]

---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: RoleBinding
metadata:
  name: job-admin-binding
  namespace: mynamespace
roleRef:
  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
  kind: Role
  name: job-admin
subjects:
  - namespace: mynamespace
    kind: ServiceAccount
    name: my-batch

How to define tasks

The way to define tasks is almost the same as for gokart. All you have to do is replace the parent class of the task class you want to distribute with kannon.TaskOnBullet from gokart.TaskOnKart.

To get detailed explanations on how to define a gokart.TaskOnKart, please refer to gokart docs.

Here is an example to define the following task pipeline with gokart and kannon.

Two parts (Task B0 + Task C0) and (Task B1 + Task C1) can be run in a distributed and parallel manner.

import gokart
import luigi
import kannon


class TaskA(gokart.TaskOnKart):
    param = luigi.Parameter()

    def run(self):
        self.dump("A")

# TODO: Change gokart.TaskOnKart -> kannon.TaskOnBullet
class TaskB(kannon.TaskOnBullet):
    param = luigi.Parameter()
    parent = gokart.TaskInstanceParameter()
    
    def requires(self):
        return {"parent": self.parent}

    def run(self):
        self.dump("B")

# TODO: Change gokart.TaskOnKart -> kannon.TaskOnBullet
class TaskC(kannon.TaskOnBullet):
    param = luigi.Parameter()
    parent = gokart.TaskInstanceParameter()
    
    def requires(self):
        return {"parent": self.parent}

    def run(self):
        self.dump("C")


class TaskD(gokart.TaskOnKart):
    param = luigi.Parameter()
    parent_0 = gokart.TaskInstanceParameter()
    parent_1 = gokart.TaskInstanceParameter()
    parent_2 = gokart.TaskInstanceParameter()
    
    def requires(self):
        return {"parent_0": self.parent_0, "parent_1": self.parent_1, "parent_2": self.parent_2}

    def run(self):
        self.dump("D")

task_a = TaskA(param="a")
# b0 and b1 are executed in parallel
task_b0 = TaskB(param="b0", parent=task_a)
task_b1 = TaskB(param="b1", parent=task_a)
# c0 and c1 are executed in parallel
task_c0 = TaskC(param="c0", parent=task_b0)
task_c1 = TaskC(param="c1", parent=task_b1)
task_d = TaskD(param="d", parent_0=task_c0, parent_1=task_c1, parent_2=task_a)

A script to run job on master job

Steps:

1. Import module where gokart.TaskOnKart and kannon.TaskOnBullet classes are defined.
2. Load luigi and k8s configs.
3. Create a task instance.
4. Create a template job for child jobs.
5. Run Kannon.build.

""" This script runs on master job. """
import logging

import gokart
import luigi
from kubernetes import config, client
import fire

# TODO: Import task definition here!
import example_tasks
from kannon import Kannon

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)


def main(
    container_name: str,
    image_name: str,
):
    # TODO: Load luigi config here!
    luigi.configuration.LuigiConfigParser.add_config_path("./conf/base.ini")

    # TODO: Load kube config here!
    config.load_incluster_config()
    v1 = client.BatchV1Api()
    # TODO: Create task instance here!
    task_root = [CREATE TASK INSTANCE HERE]
    
    # TODO: create a template for child job from yaml file or using k8s API.
    template_job = utils.create_from_yaml(v1, PATH_TO_CHILD_JOB_YAML)
    # TODO: Run Kannon.build!
    Kannon(
        api_instance=v1,
        template_job=template_job,
        job_prefix="template-child-job",
        path_child_script="./run_child.py",
    ).build(task_root)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    Fire.fire(main)

Note that job.spec.template.containers[i].command and job.metadata.name are replaced within Kannon.build.

A script for child jobs to run assigned tasks

For now, it is required for users to prepare the following script. In the future release, it will not be required.

Steps:

1. Import module where gokart.TaskOnKart and kannon.TaskOnBullet classes are defined.
2. Load luigi config.
3. Parse a serialized task instance.
4. Run gokart.build.

""" This script requires to be defined by user. """
import gokart
import luigi
import logging

# TODO: Import task definitions here!
import example_tasks

import fire

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)


def main(serialized_task: str):
    # TODO: Load luigi config here!
    luigi.configuration.LuigiConfigParser.add_config_path("./conf/base.ini")
    
    # TODO: Parse a serialized gokart.TaskOnKart here!
    task: gokart.TaskOnKart = gokart.TaskInstanceParameter().parse(serialized_task)
    # TODO: Run gokart.build!
    gokart.build(task)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    fire.Fire(main)

Thanks

Kannon is a wrapper for gokart. Thanks to gokart and dependent projects!

• gokart