Install on Kubernetes

This method will install the Steadybit Agent on your Kubernetes Cluster using Helm. So you need to have helm installed.

Prerequisites

You must be able to access the following URLs via HTTPS (443) on your target environment:

• https://platform.steadybit.com (Platform)

• https://steadybit.github.io (Kubernetes helm repository)

• https://ghcr.io and https://github.com (Container Images)

Installation

To deploy the agent to Kubernetes, you can copy the installation script from the setup page in the SaaS platform.

Alternatively, you can update the script below with the name of your Kubernetes cluster and your agent key, which you find in the platform's setup page.

Just run the script while connected to your Kubernetes cluster.

helm repo add steadybit https://steadybit.github.io/helm-charts
helm repo update
helm install steadybit-agent --namespace steadybit-agent \
  --create-namespace \
  --set agent.key=<replace-with-agent-key> \
  --set global.clusterName=<replace-with-cluster-name> \
  steadybit/steadybit-agent

To configure the installation, specify the values on the command line using the --set flag, or provide a YAML file with your values using the -f flag.

For more configuration options have a look at our steadybit/helm-charts repository.

Configure Container Runtime

By default, the agent assumes that your cluster uses the containerd runtime. If this is not the case, you need to add--set extension-container.container.runtime=docker or cri-o.

Determine Container Runtime on a Node

In case of a managed Kubernetes service, there might be a vendor-specific method to check the container runtime. In case you have access on the kubectl, you can get the container runtime via

kubectl get nodes -o wide

The column CONTAINER-RUNTIME shows you the runtime you are using. You can find further in the official Kubernetes documentation.

Configure custom On-Prem Platform

If you are running on-prem, make sure to set the URL of the platform: --set agent.registerUrl=<your-platform-url>

Extensions

The agent's purpose is to establish a communication from the platform to your systems. However, the discovery of your systems and providing Chaos Engineering to a technology works via extensions. By default, the helm chart already installs the extensions extension-container, extension-host, extension-http and extension-kubernetes.

Add more Extensions

Further extensions can be enabled via helm values of steadybit-agent. For example, extension-postman can be enabled by settingextension-postman.enabled=true. See our GitHub Repository for a detailed list of all the configuration parameters.

Alternatively, you can also install extensions independently with their own helm charts. The installation instructions are listed in the Github repositories of the extension and can be browsed via the Reliability Hub.

Disable Default Extensions

If you want to disable some, or all, of the default extensions, please set the following values in helm:

• extension-container: --set extension-container.enabled=false
• extension-host: --set extension-host.enabled=false
• extension-http: --set extension-http.enabled=false
• extension-kubernetes: --set extension-kubernetes.enabled=false

Alternative: Generate Kubernetes Manifests

We currently don't provide a static Kubernetes manifest, but you can generate it from the helm chart. We recommend to use the helm chart, as it is easier to update the agent and extensions.

helm repo add steadybit https://steadybit.github.io/helm-charts
helm repo update
helm template steadybit-agent --namespace steadybit-agent \
  --create-namespace \
  --set agent.key=<replace-with-agent-key> \
  --set global.clusterName=<replace-with-cluster-name> \
  steadybit/steadybit-agent

Alternative: OpenShift installation

The SecurityContextConstraints for OpenShift are included in our helm chart. You need to configure the CRI-O container runtime and we're good to go.

helm repo add steadybit https://steadybit.github.io/helm-charts
helm repo update
helm template steadybit-agent --namespace steadybit-agent \
  --create-namespace \
  --set agent.key=<replace-with-agent-key> \
  --set global.clusterName=<replace-with-cluster-name> \
  --set extension-container.container.runtime=cri-o \
  steadybit/steadybit-agent

Alternative: GKE Autopilot installation

You can install the agent and extensions on Google Kubernetes Engine Autopilot clusters (1.32.1-gke.1729000 or later). Due to restrictions by GKE host attacks won't be available.

For the container extension to work, you first need to apply a workload allow list:

kubectl apply -f - <<'EOF'
apiVersion: auto.gke.io/v1
kind: AllowlistSynchronizer
metadata:
  name: steadybit-synchronizer
spec:
  allowlistPaths:
    - Steadybit/extension-container/*
EOF
kubectl wait --for=condition=Ready allowlistsynchronizer/steadybit-synchronizer --timeout=60s

After this, you're ready to deploy the agent while specifying the cluster name and agent key.

helm repo add steadybit https://steadybit.github.io/helm-charts
helm repo update
helm upgrade --install steadybit-agent --namespace steadybit-agent \
  --create-namespace \
  --set agent.key=<replace-with-agent-key> \
  --set global.clusterName=<replace-with-cluster-name> \
  --set extension-container.container.runtime=containerd \
  --set extension-container.platform=gke-autopilot \
  --set extension-host.enabled=false \
  --set agent.registerUrl=https://platform.steadybit.com \
  steadybit/steadybit-agent

Resource limits

Keep an eye on OOMing / crash looping agents and extensions after installation. The memory usage highly depends on the number of discovered targets. We try to provide reasonable defaults, but you might need to adapt the resource limits to your use case.

For example, to increase the memory limits for the agent:

  --set agent.resources.limits.memory=1Gi

Update

To update the agent and extensions, you can use the following command:

helm repo update
helm upgrade --reuse-values steadybit-agent --namespace steadybit-agent \
  steadybit/steadybit-agent