Hey ya’ll! I’m currently looking into using Flyte as a solution for our DS and DE team- I’ve got a quick question about running the Getting Started Demo. For some reason the first task,

generate_normal_df

, is getting stuck on

running

and has been

queued

for a while now. This was done using the local demo Flyte Cluster. Running it locally (

pyflyte run example.py wf --n 500 --mean 42 --sigma 2

) the workflow executes fine. However, running it on the Flyte Cluster (

pyflyte run --remote example.py wf --n 500 --mean 42 --sigma 2

) doesn’t seem to work properly on my end. Any ideas?

hi @fierce-answer-16379 welcome and glad you’re checking Flyte out! How much memory is allocated on your Docker daemon? You can check on the desktop app under Settings > Resources. If it’s low can you try bumping it up to 16 or 32 GB?

@fierce-answer-16379 welcome to the Flyte community You can also check the current resource consumption of your local K8s node by issuing:

kubectl get node

and then

kubectl top node <insert-node-name>

and see if there's a bottleneck there

@broad-monitor-993 Here’s my resource allocation. I just bumped it up to 4GB (i’m only on a 8GB RAM laptop atm). I restarted it and it’s still queued. Is it required to have atleast 16GB Ram to run this locally?

something closer to the assigned resources, but here it seems that it's not hitting the limits

@average-finland-92144 They seem to be running okay?

right, can we see logs for the flyte-binary pod? that would be

kubectl logs sandbox-flyte-binary-7757889f4-ztwk4 --namespace=flyte

@average-finland-92144, It’s quite long so i directed the output to a text file:

so far, the only thing that catches my attention in the logs (and one I haven't been able to reproduce in my demo environment) is this:

Failed to fetch override values when assigning task resource default values for [resource_type:WORKFLOW project:\"flytesnacks\" domain:\"development\" name:\"<http://example.wf|example.wf>\" version:\"3JYuYTF4Gw0iPU97G0_TiQ==\" ]: Resource [{Project:flytesnacks Domain:development Workflow:<http://example.wf|example.wf> LaunchPlan: ResourceType:TASK_RESOURCE}] not found","ts":"2023-01-26T18:53:44Z"}

Can you please share the output of:

flytectl get launchplan -d development -p flytesnacks

In case you need them, here the instructions to install flytectl

@average-finland-92144 This? I went into launch plans ->

<http://example.wf|example.wf>

-> execution id of the running workflow.

@high-accountant-32689 @glamorous-carpet-83516 any ideas on why the Getting Started example might be hanging?

btw, following up with Choenden on DM, added the config environment variable @fierce-answer-16379 just let us know if now it works

@fierce-answer-16379, can you check the kubernetes logs for that task? If you do

kubectl -n flytesnacks-development get pods

you should see a pod named

ashbv8...

(the execution id) and from there can you dump the contents of that pod using

kubectl -n flytesnacks-development get pod -o yaml <podname>

. This will allow us to confirm what's happening from the k8s perspective.

hmmm…after discussing with @average-finland-92144 and adding the config variable- i teared down the demo via:

flytectl demo teardown

. However, now when i

flytectl demo start

, i receive this error:

$ flytectl demo start
INFO[0000] [0] Couldn't find a config file []. Relying on env vars and pflags.
🧑‍🏭 Bootstrapping a brand new flyte cluster... 🔨 🔧
🐋 Going to use Flyte v1.3.0 release with image <http://cr.flyte.org/flyteorg/flyte-sandbox-bundled:sha-f69fb09ca189e8bf57e1a6a12db168274f640d15|cr.flyte.org/flyteorg/flyte-sandbox-bundled:sha-f69fb09ca189e8bf57e1a6a12db168274f640d15>
🐋 pulling docker image for release <http://cr.flyte.org/flyteorg/flyte-sandbox-bundled:sha-f69fb09ca189e8bf57e1a6a12db168274f640d15|cr.flyte.org/flyteorg/flyte-sandbox-bundled:sha-f69fb09ca189e8bf57e1a6a12db168274f640d15>
🧑‍🏭 booting Flyte-sandbox container
Waiting for cluster to come up...
Waiting for cluster to come up...
Waiting for cluster to come up...
Waiting for cluster to come up...
Waiting for cluster to come up...
Waiting for cluster to come up...
Waiting for cluster to come up...
Waiting for cluster to come up...
context modified for "flyte-sandbox" and switched over to it.
+-----------------------------------+---------------+-----------+
|              SERVICE              |    STATUS     | NAMESPACE |
+-----------------------------------+---------------+-----------+
| k8s: This might take a little bit | Bootstrapping |           |
+-----------------------------------+---------------+-----------+
Error: Get "<https://127.0.0.1:6443/api/v1/nodes>": dial tcp 127.0.0.1:6443: connect: connection refused
{"json":{},"level":"error","msg":"Get \"<https://127.0.0.1:6443/api/v1/nodes>\": dial tcp 127.0.0.1:6443: connect: connection refused","ts":"2023-01-26T12:51:05-08:00"}

that's true, if you tore down the cluster they are gone. As for this error that you're seeing now... does it take long (as in multiple minutes) for it to show up?

@high-accountant-32689 up and running now- still queued as before. Here is the output from:

kubectl -n flytesnacks-development get pods

:

NAME                        READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
f2009af361c7d4739b15-n0-0   0/1     Pending   0          4m22s

And i’ve directed the output of

kubectl -n flytesnacks-development get pod -o yaml f2009af361c7d4739b15-n0-0

to the attached txt file.

very interesting. The imporant bit hit is:

message: '0/1 nodes are available: 1 Insufficient cpu. preemption: 0/1 nodes are
      available: 1 No preemption victims found for incoming pod.'

hmm yeah. i dont have much hands on experience with k8's- just some of the basic knowledge- trying to learn as i go atm with flyte. Is this a resource issue due to my local?

tell us a bit more about your local system. Are you running on a mac? Is it an M1? Linux?

Mac, Intel, 8GB RAM

ok, let's double-check resources on the node. Can you run

kubectl get nodes

and then

kubectl describe node <node-name>

?

yup!

yeah... 2 CPUs is not enough since the node uses ~1.5 CPU

@high-accountant-32689 I see….okay

Alright. We should document this, @broad-monitor-993 / @average-finland-92144.

fyi the task:

generate_normal_df

ran in 2m 23s. I’m using an older laptop atm (macbook pro 2015) and won’t be doing so for this usually- but yeah.