1. Kubernetes Batch for Large Scale Simulation Workloads

    Python

    When dealing with large-scale simulation workloads in Kubernetes, you'll typically use the Job resource to manage parallel processing of a set of independent but similar work items. Kubernetes Jobs are well-suited for batch processing workloads, where you can create multiple Pods that run your simulation until a specified number of them successfully terminate.

    Here's how one might set this up in Pulumi using Python:

    1. Define a Job resource, which runs a given number of Pods (defined by parallelism) to completion (completions).
    2. Each Pod executes the simulation task (this could be, for instance, a simulation software or a custom application).
    3. Once the specified number of Pods have successfully completed, the job is considered complete.

    Here is a Python program using Pulumi that creates a Kubernetes Job resource. This program assumes that you have a Docker image simulation-worker:latest which contains your simulation application.

    import pulumi import pulumi_kubernetes as kubernetes # Define a Kubernetes Job that will spin up "parallelism" number of Pods to process a simulation workload. # Each Pod processes a workload until "completions" number of Pods have run successfully to completion. simulation_job = kubernetes.batch.v1.Job("simulation-job", spec=kubernetes.batch.v1.JobSpecArgs( # Parallelism determines how many Pods the job should run in parallel. parallelism=5, # Completions specifies the number of pods that should complete successfully. completions=5, template=kubernetes.core.v1.PodTemplateSpecArgs( spec=kubernetes.core.v1.PodSpecArgs( containers=[kubernetes.core.v1.ContainerArgs( # The name of the container within the Pod. name="simulation-container", # The Docker image to run. Replace with your simulation application image. image="simulation-worker:latest", # Command to run within the container, modify accordingly. command=["/app/simulate"], # Arguments for the command, modify accordingly. args=["--mode=batch"] )], # The restart policy for the Pods. "Never" ensures the Pod does not restart once it completes or fails. restart_policy="Never", ), ), # Optionally define a backoff limit for how many times to retry a job before considering it failed. backoff_limit=2, ), # Metadata for the job, such as labels or annotations. metadata=kubernetes.meta.v1.ObjectMetaArgs( name="simulation-job", labels={"app": "simulation"}, ) ) # Export the Job name pulumi.export("job_name", simulation_job.metadata["name"])

    Explanation:

    • We've defined a Job called simulation-job that will manage the execution of our simulation Pods.
    • We've defined the parallelism as 5, which means up to 5 Pods will be running the simulations in parallel at any given time.
    • We have also specified that we want exactly 5 completions. This means that Kubernetes will ensure that exactly 5 Pods have processed their simulations successfully before the Job is marked as complete.
    • The template defines the Pod that will be created as part of this Job, which uses the simulation-worker:latest Docker image stored in a container registry and executes the command /app/simulate --mode=batch.
    • The restart_policy is set to Never ensuring that complete simulations don't restart.
    • We set a backoff_limit to specify the number of retries for each Pod if it fails.
    • Labels have been added to the metadata to help identify the resources associated with this Job.

    To deploy this Pulumi program:

    1. Save this Python code in a file named __main__.py.
    2. Ensure you have pulumi_kubernetes installed in your Python environment (usually installed via pip install pulumi_kubernetes).
    3. Run pulumi up to preview and deploy the changes.
    4. Once complete, you should see the resources created, including the name of the Job which is exported at the end.

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