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Installation using the Helm Chart
To install the chart, retrieve your steadybit agent key from the setup page in the SaaS platform and run the following command. Please also fill in your cluster name:
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 cluster.name=<replace-with-cluster-name> \
  --set agent.containerRuntime=containerd \
  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.
By default, the agent assumes that your cluster uses the Docker container runtime. If this is not the case, you need to set agent.containerRuntime to either containerd or crio.
For a detailed list of all the configuration parameters, please see our GitHub Repository.
Installation using Terraform
It is also possible to install the Helm chart with Terraform. For that the official helm_release resource will be used. Analogous to the above procedure, the agent key needs to be specified. See the following provider and resource definition for Terraform:
provider "helm" {
  kubernetes {
    config_path = "~/.kube/config"
  }
}
​
resource "helm_release" "steadybit_helm_chart" {
  name  = "steadybit-agent"
  chart = "steadybit/steadybit-agent"
​
  set {
    name  = "agent.key"
    value = "<replace-with-agent-key>"
  }
}
To configure additional parameters, specify the values directly in the terraform file, using the following syntax:
set {
    name  = "agent.registerUrl"
    value = "https://platform.steadybit.io"
  }
Apply the Terraform definition:
terraform apply -var agent_key="<replace-with-agent-key>"
See this GitHub Repository for the complete source code.
Installation using Kubernetes Manifests
To install and configure steadybit within Kubernetes as a DaemonSet you need to define the DaemonSet YAML file. Below you will see an example of a YAML file to run the steadybit agent.
As with all deployments in Kubernetes, make use of namespaces to keep things organized. The following YAML creates a Namespace called steadybit-agent in which the DaemonSet will be created. It allows you to tag and isolate the agents or even stop all of them at once by simply deleting the steadybit-agent namespace.
Please replace the string replace-with-agent-key with your specific Agent-Key and run the shown commands to encode the key correctly.
This needs to be done in three steps:
1.Run echo -n _:<replace-with-agent-key> | base64 and fill in the result into the value for the auth key
2.Run echo -n '{"auths":{"docker.steadybit.io":{"auths":"<replace-with-encoded-key-from-step-1>"}}}' | base64
3.Fill in the result from Step 2 into the value for the .dockerconfigjson key
Kubernetes Manifest for ContainerD Runtime
Kubernetes Manifest for Docker Runtime
For your convenience you can use the setup page in the SaaS platform, where your agent key is already prepared in the yaml.
Once the YAML file is customized you can apply it with kubectl:
kubectl apply -f steadybit-agent.yml
To get even more information and insights, the above manifest contains a Service Account and RBAC Authorization for the steadybit-agent. With the access to the K8s API, the agent can provide further information to the platform for identifying potential targets. More information about Service Accounts or RBAC Authorization is available in the Kubernetes docs.
You can learn more about our discovery of containers in the section Use Steadybit / Discovery / Container.​
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