Refactoring deployer exec root-homes command

deployer/README.md

@@ -384,6 +384,30 @@ setup or an outage), or when taking down a hub.
 All these commands take a cluster and hub name as parameters, and perform appropriate
 authentication before performing their function.
 
+#### `exec hub`
+
+This subcommand gives you an interactive shell on the hub pod itself, so you
+can poke around to see what's going on. Particularly useful if you want to peek
+at the hub db with the `sqlite` command.
+
+#### `exec homes`
+
+This subcommand gives you a shell with the home directories of all the
+users on the given hub in the given cluster mounted under `/home`.
+Very helpful when doing (rare) manual operations on user home directories,
+such as renames.
+
+When you exit the shell, the temporary pod spun up is removed.
+
+#### `exec root-homes`
+
+Similar to `exec homes` but mounts the _entire_ NFS filesystem to `/root-homes`.
+You can optionally mount a secondary NFS share if required, which is useful when migrating data across servers.
+
+#### `exec aws`
+
+This sub-command can exec into a shell with appropriate AWS credentials (including MFA).
+
 #### `exec debug`
 
 This sub-command is useful for debugging.
@@ -410,28 +434,6 @@ in our 2i2c cluster that can be accessed via this command, and speeds up image b
 Once you run this command, run `export DOCKER_HOST=tcp://localhost:23760` in another terminal to use the faster remote
 docker daemon.
 
-#### `exec shell`
-This exec sub-command can be used to acquire a shell in various places of the infrastructure.
-
-##### `exec shell hub`
-
-This subcommand gives you an interactive shell on the hub pod itself, so you
-can poke around to see what's going on. Particularly useful if you want to peek
-at the hub db with the `sqlite` command.
-
-##### `exec shell homes`
-
-This subcommand gives you a shell with the home directories of all the
-users on the given hub in the given cluster mounted under `/home`.
-Very helpful when doing (rare) manual operations on user home directories,
-such as renames.
-
-When you exit the shell, the temporary pod spun up is removed.
-
-##### `exec shell aws`
-
-This sub-command can exec into a shall with appropriate AWS credentials (including MFA).
-
 ## Running Tests
 
 To execute tests on the `deployer`, you will need to install the development requirements and then invoke `pytest` from the root of the repository.

deployer/commands/exec/infra_components.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import json
 import os
 import subprocess
+import tempfile
 
 import typer
 from ruamel.yaml import YAML
@@ -22,13 +23,18 @@
 def root_homes(
     cluster_name: str = typer.Argument(..., help="Name of cluster to operate on"),
     hub_name: str = typer.Argument(..., help="Name of hub to operate on"),
-    extra_nfs_server: str = typer.Argument(
+    persist: bool = typer.Option(
+        False,
+        "--persist",
+        help="Do not automatically delete the pod after completing. Useful for long-running processes.",
+    ),
+    extra_nfs_server: str = typer.Option(
         None, help="IP address of an extra NFS server to mount"
     ),
-    extra_nfs_base_path: str = typer.Argument(
+    extra_nfs_base_path: str = typer.Option(
         None, help="Path of the extra NFS share to mount"
     ),
-    extra_nfs_mount_path: str = typer.Argument(
+    extra_nfs_mount_path: str = typer.Option(
         None, help="Mount point for the extra NFS share"
     ),
 ):
@@ -40,12 +46,11 @@ def root_homes(
     with open(config_file_path) as f:
         cluster = Cluster(yaml.load(f), config_file_path.parent)
 
-    with cluster.auth():
-        hubs = cluster.hubs
-        hub = next((hub for hub in hubs if hub.spec["name"] == hub_name), None)
-        if not hub:
-            print_colour("Hub does not exist in {cluster_name} cluster}")
-            return
+    hubs = cluster.hubs
+    hub = next((hub for hub in hubs if hub.spec["name"] == hub_name), None)
+    if not hub:
+        print_colour("Hub does not exist in {cluster_name} cluster}")
+        return
 
     server_ip = base_share_name = ""
     for values_file in hub.spec["helm_chart_values_files"]:
@@ -94,6 +99,10 @@ def root_homes(
     pod = {
         "apiVersion": "v1",
         "kind": "Pod",
+        "metadata": {
+            "name": pod_name,
+            "namespace": hub_name,
+        },
         "spec": {
             "terminationGracePeriodSeconds": 1,
             "automountServiceAccountToken": False,
@@ -112,27 +121,33 @@ def root_homes(
         },
     }
 
-    cmd = [
+    # Command to exec into pod
+    exec_cmd = [
         "kubectl",
         "-n",
         hub_name,
-        "run",
-        "--rm",  # Remove pod when we're done
-        "-it",  # Give us a shell!
-        "--overrides",
-        json.dumps(pod),
-        "--image",
-        # Use ubuntu image so we get GNU rm and other tools
-        # Should match what we have in our pod definition
-        UBUNTU_IMAGE,
+        "exec",
+        "-it",
         pod_name,
         "--",
         "/bin/bash",
         "-l",
     ]
 
-    with cluster.auth():
-        subprocess.check_call(cmd)
+    with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(mode="w", suffix=".json") as tmpf:
+        # Dump the pod spec to a temporary file
+        json.dump(pod, tmpf)
+        tmpf.flush()
+
+        with cluster.auth():
+            try:
+                # Ask api-server to create a pod
+                subprocess.check_call(["kubectl", "create", "-f", tmpf.name])
+                # Exec into pod
+                subprocess.check_call(exec_cmd)
+            finally:
+                if not persist:
+                    delete_pod(pod_name, hub_name)
 
 
 @exec_app.command()
@@ -180,7 +195,7 @@ def homes(
         "-n",
         hub_name,
         "run",
-        "--rm",  # Remove pod when we're done
+        "--rm",  # Deletes the pod when the process completes, successfully or otherwise
         "-it",  # Give us a shell!
         "--overrides",
         json.dumps(pod),

docs/howto/features/storage-quota.md

@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ Here's an example of how to do this:
 
 ```bash
 # Create a throwaway pod with both the existing home directories and the new NFS server mounted
-deployer exec root-homes <cluster_name> <hub_name> --extra_nfs_server=<nfs_service_ip> --extra_nfs_base_path=/ --extra_nfs_mount_path=/new-nfs-volume
+deployer exec root-homes <cluster_name> <hub_name> --extra-nfs-server=<nfs_service_ip> --extra-nfs-base-path=/ --extra-nfs-mount-path=/new-nfs-volume
 
 # Copy the existing home directories to the new NFS server while keeping the original permissions
 rsync -av --info=progress2 /root-homes/<path-to-the-parent-of-user-home-directories> /new-nfs-volume/