Too frequent Client.Timeout

[liubog2008]

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Issue details

Too many Client.Timeout when I run pulumi up. A global CLI timeout option is needed.

I don't know whether the problem is because of uncached(only memory cached) openapi schema. Some error outputs:

configured Kubernetes cluster is unreachable: unable to load schema information from the API server: unexpected error when reading response body. Please retry. Original error: net/http: request canceled (Client.Timeout or context cancellation while reading body)

Maybe disk cached openapi schema is needed (use same cache of kubectl？)

By the way, if I add --refresh it will always timeout.

Steps to reproduce

Expected:

1. Global CLI timeout flag.
2. Disk cached openapi schema discovery.

Actual:

[mikhailshilkov]

@liubog2008 Do you have a code snippet that I could try to reproduce this error?

[liubog2008]

Maybe you should have a bad network and install many CRDs in kubernetes.

[liubog2008]

It's worked fine if network is quick.

[liubog2008]

@mikhailshilkov Any progress?

[tusharshahrs]

Adding relevant notes from #2365 above that was closed.
Default timeout of 32s comes from here: https://github.com/kubernetes/client-go/blob/8005e0d28ba2db8a60bb8dbe8a5a01fed4872f67/discovery/discovery_client.go#L55
defaultTimeout = 32 * time.Second

• Where does this timeout value come from?
• Is there a way to increase it via environment variables? There don’t appear to be any provider-specific toggles.
• From what I did gather while scanning the k8s.io/client-go source, it has a fairly constrained approach to automatically retrying requests. I’m not sure that it automatically retries timeouts, so the backoff base and duration that I mentioned above may not apply. I think the solution to this issue involves two changes:

1. The pulumi-kubernetes provider should expose an optional parameter on the provider enabling it to override the default timeout value set by k8s.io/client-go.

2. If automatic retry logic does not exist for query/idempotent requests, retry logic should be added. If retry logic does exist, perhaps its behavior could be exposed as parameters on the provider (i.e. # of retry attempts, backoff base, backoff duration)

3. Not sure what the negative implications of this would be, if any. There also seem to be two environment variables we could leverage deep in the k8s.io/client-go package: KUBE_CLIENT_BACKOFF_BASE and KUBE_CLIENT_BACKOFF_DURATION.