Retry DescribeInstance in the rare cases that PrivateDNSName eventual…

… consistency is too slow

go.mod

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ go 1.16
 
 require (
 	github.com/Pallinder/go-randomdata v1.2.0
+	github.com/avast/retry-go v2.7.0+incompatible
 	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go v1.38.69
 	github.com/deckarep/golang-set v1.7.1
 	github.com/go-logr/zapr v0.4.0

go.sum

@@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ github.com/armon/go-metrics v0.0.0-20180917152333-f0300d1749da/go.mod h1:Q73ZrmV
 github.com/armon/go-radix v0.0.0-20180808171621-7fddfc383310/go.mod h1:ufUuZ+zHj4x4TnLV4JWEpy2hxWSpsRywHrMgIH9cCH8=
 github.com/aryann/difflib v0.0.0-20170710044230-e206f873d14a/go.mod h1:DAHtR1m6lCRdSC2Tm3DSWRPvIPr6xNKyeHdqDQSQT+A=
 github.com/asaskevich/govalidator v0.0.0-20190424111038-f61b66f89f4a/go.mod h1:lB+ZfQJz7igIIfQNfa7Ml4HSf2uFQQRzpGGRXenZAgY=
+github.com/avast/retry-go v2.7.0+incompatible h1:XaGnzl7gESAideSjr+I8Hki/JBi+Yb9baHlMRPeSC84=
+github.com/avast/retry-go v2.7.0+incompatible/go.mod h1:XtSnn+n/sHqQIpZ10K1qAevBhOOCWBLXXy3hyiqqBrY=
 github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go v1.13.3/go.mod h1:4UKl9IzQMoD+QF79YdCuzCwp8VbmG4VAQwij/eHl5CU=
 github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go v1.23.20/go.mod h1:KmX6BPdI08NWTb3/sm4ZGu5ShLoqVDhKgpiN924inxo=
 github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go v1.27.0/go.mod h1:KmX6BPdI08NWTb3/sm4ZGu5ShLoqVDhKgpiN924inxo=

pkg/cloudprovider/aws/cloudprovider.go

@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/ssm"
 	"github.com/awslabs/karpenter/pkg/apis/provisioning/v1alpha3"
 	"github.com/awslabs/karpenter/pkg/cloudprovider"
-	"github.com/awslabs/karpenter/pkg/cloudprovider/aws/utils"
 	"github.com/awslabs/karpenter/pkg/utils/parallel"
 	"github.com/awslabs/karpenter/pkg/utils/project"
 	v1 "k8s.io/api/core/v1"
@@ -76,10 +75,7 @@ type CloudProvider struct {
 }
 
 func NewCloudProvider(ctx context.Context, options cloudprovider.Options) *CloudProvider {
-	sess := withUserAgent(session.Must(
-		session.NewSession(request.WithRetryer(
-			&aws.Config{STSRegionalEndpoint: endpoints.RegionalSTSEndpoint},
-			utils.NewRetryer()))))
+	sess := withUserAgent(session.Must(session.NewSession(&aws.Config{STSRegionalEndpoint: endpoints.RegionalSTSEndpoint})))
 	if *sess.Config.Region == "" {
 		logging.FromContext(ctx).Debug("AWS region not configured, asking EC2 Instance Metadata Service")
 		*sess.Config.Region = getRegionFromIMDS(sess)

pkg/cloudprovider/aws/node.go

@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ package aws
 import (
 	"context"
 	"fmt"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/avast/retry-go"
 
 	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
 	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/awserr"
@@ -35,32 +38,21 @@ type NodeFactory struct {
 
 // For a given set of instanceIDs return a map of instanceID to Kubernetes node object.
 func (n *NodeFactory) For(ctx context.Context, instanceId *string) (*v1.Node, error) {
-	describeInstancesOutput, err := n.ec2api.DescribeInstancesWithContext(ctx, &ec2.DescribeInstancesInput{InstanceIds: []*string{instanceId}})
-	if aerr, ok := err.(awserr.Error); ok {
-		return nil, aerr
-	}
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to describe ec2 instances, %w", err)
-	}
-	if len(describeInstancesOutput.Reservations) != 1 {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("expected a single instance reservation, got %d", len(describeInstancesOutput.Reservations))
+	instance := ec2.Instance{}
+	// EC2 is eventually consistent, so backoff-retry until we have the data we need.
+	if err := retry.Do(
+		func() (err error) { return n.getInstance(ctx, instanceId, &instance) },
+		retry.Delay(1 * time.Second),
+		retry.Attempts(3),
+	); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
 	}
-	if len(describeInstancesOutput.Reservations[0].Instances) != 1 {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("expected a single instance, got %d", len(describeInstancesOutput.Reservations[0].Instances))
-	}
-	instance := *describeInstancesOutput.Reservations[0].Instances[0]
-	logging.FromContext(ctx).Infof("Launched instance: %s, type: %s, zone: %s, hostname: %s",
-		*instance.InstanceId,
-		*instance.InstanceType,
-		*instance.Placement.AvailabilityZone,
-		*instance.PrivateDnsName,
-	)
 	return &v1.Node{
 		ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{
-			Name: *instance.PrivateDnsName,
+			Name: aws.StringValue(instance.PrivateDnsName),
 		},
 		Spec: v1.NodeSpec{
-			ProviderID: fmt.Sprintf("aws:///%s/%s", *instance.Placement.AvailabilityZone, *instance.InstanceId),
+			ProviderID: fmt.Sprintf("aws:///%s/%s", aws.StringValue(instance.Placement.AvailabilityZone), aws.StringValue(instance.InstanceId)),
 		},
 		Status: v1.NodeStatus{
 			Allocatable: v1.ResourceList{
@@ -76,3 +68,30 @@ func (n *NodeFactory) For(ctx context.Context, instanceId *string) (*v1.Node, er
 		},
 	}, nil
 }
+
+func (n *NodeFactory) getInstance(ctx context.Context, instanceId *string, instance *ec2.Instance) error {
+	describeInstancesOutput, err := n.ec2api.DescribeInstancesWithContext(ctx, &ec2.DescribeInstancesInput{InstanceIds: []*string{instanceId}})
+	if aerr, ok := err.(awserr.Error); ok && aerr.Code() == "InvalidInstanceID.NotFound" {
+		return aerr
+	}
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to describe ec2 instances, %w", err)
+	}
+	if len(describeInstancesOutput.Reservations) != 1 {
+		return fmt.Errorf("expected a single instance reservation, got %d", len(describeInstancesOutput.Reservations))
+	}
+	if len(describeInstancesOutput.Reservations[0].Instances) != 1 {
+		return fmt.Errorf("expected a single instance, got %d", len(describeInstancesOutput.Reservations[0].Instances))
+	}
+	*instance = *describeInstancesOutput.Reservations[0].Instances[0]
+	if len(aws.StringValue(instance.PrivateDnsName)) == 0 {
+		return fmt.Errorf("expected PrivateDnsName to be set")
+	}
+	logging.FromContext(ctx).Infof("Launched instance: %s, type: %s, zone: %s, hostname: %s",
+		aws.StringValue(instance.InstanceId),
+		aws.StringValue(instance.InstanceType),
+		aws.StringValue(instance.Placement.AvailabilityZone),
+		aws.StringValue(instance.PrivateDnsName),
+	)
+	return nil
+}