feat(RELEASE-1307): increases lease timeout

this PR proposes a change in the default leader election
time controls to decrease the etcd load and allowing the
to wait time to renew the leadership, and also decreasing
the number of requests to etcd.

Signed-off-by: Leandro Mendes <[email protected]>

config/manager/manager.yaml

@@ -31,6 +31,12 @@ spec:
         - /manager
         args:
         - --leader-elect
+        - --lease-duration
+        - 60
+        - --leader-renew-deadline
+        - 30
+        - --leader-elector-retry-period
+        - 10
         image: controller:latest
         name: manager
         securityContext:

main.go

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import (
 	"crypto/tls"
 	"flag"
 	"os"
+	"time"
 
 	"sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/metrics/server"
 	crwebhook "sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/webhook"
@@ -70,13 +71,23 @@ func main() {
 	var metricsAddr string
 	var enableHttp2 bool
 	var enableLeaderElection bool
+	var leaderRenewDeadline time.Duration
+	var leaseDuration time.Duration
+	var leaderElectorRetryPeriod time.Duration
 	var probeAddr string
 	flag.StringVar(&metricsAddr, "metrics-bind-address", ":8080", "The address the metric endpoint binds to.")
 	flag.StringVar(&probeAddr, "health-probe-bind-address", ":8081", "The address the probe endpoint binds to.")
 	flag.BoolVar(&enableHttp2, "enable-http2", false, "Enable HTTP/2 for the metrics and webhook servers.")
 	flag.BoolVar(&enableLeaderElection, "leader-elect", false,
 		"Enable leader election for controller manager. "+
 			"Enabling this will ensure there is only one active controller manager.")
+	flag.DurationVar(&leaderRenewDeadline, "leader-renew-deadline", 10*time.Second,
+		"Leader RenewDeadline is the duration that the acting controlplane "+
+			"will retry refreshing leadership before giving up.")
+	flag.DurationVar(&leaseDuration, "lease-duration", 15*time.Second,
+		"Lease Duration is the duration that non-leader candidates will wait to force acquire leadership.")
+	flag.DurationVar(&leaderElectorRetryPeriod, "leader-elector-retry-period", 2*time.Second, "RetryPeriod is the duration the "+
+		"LeaderElector clients should wait between tries of actions.")
 	opts := zap.Options{
 		Development: true,
 		TimeEncoder: zapcore.ISO8601TimeEncoder,
@@ -90,6 +101,9 @@ func main() {
 		HealthProbeBindAddress: probeAddr,
 		LeaderElection:         enableLeaderElection,
 		LeaderElectionID:       "f3d4c01a.redhat.com",
+		RenewDeadline:          &leaderRenewDeadline,
+		LeaseDuration:          &leaseDuration,
+		RetryPeriod:            &leaderElectorRetryPeriod,
 		Metrics: server.Options{
 			BindAddress: metricsAddr,
 		},