Kubernetes

Setup

The Kubernetes helm chart installs a catalog scraper and a topology for a kubernetes

helm repo add flanksource https://flanksource.github.io/charts
helm repo update
helm install mission-control-kubernetes flanksource/mission-control-kubernetes

After running helm install you should get a success message:

NAME: mission-control-kubernetes
LAST DEPLOYED: Thu Feb 14 19:00:32 2024
NAMESPACE: default
STATUS: deployed
REVISION: 1
TEST SUITE: None
NOTES:
Kubernetes topology and scraper added

When you go to the dashboard now, you can now see a cluster topology:

On clicking the topology, you can access nodes, namespaces and pods

And we also have added a catalog scraper which populated our catalog

Values

This document provides an overview of configurable values for deploying the Kubernetes Scraper component using Helm.

Configuration

The following table lists the configurable parameters and their default values:

Parameter	Description	Default
nameOverride	Overrides the name of the chart.	""
fullnameOverride	Overrides the full name of the chart.	""
labels	Additional labels to apply to resources.	{}

Topology

Parameter	Description	Default
topology.name	Topology name.	"cluster"
topology.schedule	Topology schedule.	"@every 5m"

Scraper

Parameter	Description	Default
scraper.name	Scraper name.	"kubernetes"
scraper.clusterName	Cluster name for scraping.	"kubernetes"
scraper.defaultScrapeExclusions	Default scrape exclusions.	["APIService", "PodMetrics", "NodeMetrics", "endpoints.discovery.k8s.io", "endpointslices.discovery.k8s.io", "leases.coordination.k8s.io", "podmetrics.metrics.k8s.io", "nodemetrics.metrics.k8s.io", "controllerrevision", "certificaterequest", "orders.acme.cert-manager.io"]
scraper.scrapeExclusions	Additional scrape exclusions.	["Secret", "customresourcedefinition"]
scraper.eventExclusions	Event exclusions.	["SuccessfulCreate", "Created", "DNSConfigForming"]
scraper.transform.changes.exclude	Transformation changes exclusions.	["details.source.component == \"canary-checker\" && details.reason == \"Failed\"", "details.source.component == \"canary-checker\" && details.reason == \"Succeeded\""]
scraper.severityKeywords.error	Keywords indicating error severity.	["failed", "error"]
scraper.severityKeywords.warn	Keywords indicating warning severity.	["backoff", "nodeoutofmemory"]
scraper.retention.changes	Retention changes.	[{"name": "ReconciliationSucceeded", "count": 10}]
scraper.relationships	Kubernetes relationships to create via name, namespace and kind. Reference Docs	[{"name": {"label": "helm.toolkit.fluxcd.io/name"}, {"name": {"label": "helm.toolkit.fluxcd.io/namespace"}, {"kind": {"value": "HelmRelease"}]

Feel free to customize this template according to your specific needs.