- Mirantis OpenLens
- K9S
- Silver Surfer (Kubernetes version upgrades)
Occasionally coreDNS caching will cause issues with externally managed DNS Zones - even ones in Route53. The solution is to restart coreDNS as part of your kubernetes cluster. The following is for an EKS cluster but will work for any k8s cluster. While selectively deleting the pods or scaling the replicaset to 0 will work - it is recommended to allow the pod disruption budget minimum pod number of 1 to keep DNS running during the restart. Use a rollout restart deployment instead.
michaelobrien@mbp8 helm % kubectl rollout restart deployment coredns -n kube-system
deployment.apps/coredns restarted
@mbp8 helm % kubectl get pods -A
NAMESPACE NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
kube-system coredns-569f5b9c6c-ql95h 1/1 Running 0 4s
kube-system coredns-569f5b9c6c-sn8tb 1/1 Running 0 3s
kube-system coredns-6bd4766bb-jlr6z 1/1 Terminating 0 12m
kube-system coredns-6bd4766bb-l44lh 1/1 Terminating 0 12m
@mbp8 helm % kubectl get pods -A
NAMESPACE NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
kube-system coredns-569f5b9c6c-ql95h 1/1 Running 0 6s
kube-system coredns-569f5b9c6c-sn8tb 1/1 Running 0 5s
kube-system coredns-6bd4766bb-jlr6z 0/1 Completed 0 12m
kube-system coredns-6bd4766bb-l44lh 1/1 Terminating 0 12m
@mbp8 helm % kubectl get pods -A
NAMESPACE NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
kube-system coredns-569f5b9c6c-ql95h 1/1 Running 0 9s
kube-system coredns-569f5b9c6c-sn8tb 1/1 Running 0 8s
@mbp8 helm % kubectl run -i --rm --restart=Never --image=busybox:1.28 dns-test -- nslookup kubernetes.default
Server: 10.100.0.10
Address 1: 10.100.0.10 kube-dns.kube-system.svc.cluster.local
Name: kubernetes.default
Address 1: 10.100.0.1 kubernetes.default.svc.cluster.local
pod "dns-test" deleted
@mbp8 helm % kubectl logs -n kube-system -l k8s-app=kube-dns
.:53
[INFO] plugin/reload: Running configuration SHA512 = 8a7d59126e7f114ab49c6d2613be93d8ef7d408af8ee61a710210843dc409f03133727e38f64469d9bb180f396c84ebf48a42bde3b3769730865ca9df5eb281c
CoreDNS-1.11.1
linux/amd64, go1.21.5, e9c721d80
.:53
[INFO] plugin/reload: Running configuration SHA512 = 8a7d59126e7f114ab49c6d2613be93d8ef7d408af8ee61a710210843dc409f03133727e38f64469d9bb180f396c84ebf48a42bde3b3769730865ca9df5eb281c
CoreDNS-1.11.1
linux/amd64, go1.21.5, e9c721d80
kubectl logs -n kube-system -l k8s-app=kube-dns