Install the Edge Delta Pipelines with Helm
Installing the Edge Delta Pipelines using Helm.
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The setup process for deploying Edge Delta within a Kubernetes cluster natively leverages the Kubernetes APIs and other components to provide a seamless onboarding, and automated monitoring experience.
Many of the commonly used Kubernetes Services are supported by Edge Delta:
If you are new to Kubernetes, please refer to documentation for a few tools to create your first cluster:
If you are deploying Edge Delta on Amazon EKS using Auto Mode, make sure the CoreDNS addon is enabled in your cluster.
CoreDNS is required for service discovery by Edge Delta components (especially the Agent). If DNS is not available, the Agent may fail to start. Other components (such as Rollup or Compactor) may still start successfully, which can make this issue harder to detect.
You can enable CoreDNS by following the AWS instructions here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/managing-coredns.html
The Edge Delta pipeline uses eBPF to collect network metrics. Therefore, the following Kubernetes environment configuration is required for Kubernetes network metrics and eBPF to work:
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y
and CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES=y
flags.To check for the flag:
docker run -it --rm --privileged --pid=host ubuntu nsenter -t 1 -m -u -n -i sh -c 'cat /proc/config.gz | gunzip | grep CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF'
The output should show CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y
and CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES=y
.
In the case of minikube, the agent can run on minikube with the Docker driver. Docker must be at least v26.0.0 (Docker Desktop v4.29.0) and it is started as follows:
minikube start --driver docker
There are a number of different ways to deploy an Edge Delta pipeline in a Kubernetes environment: using Helm, via Terraform, or you can automate deployments with a tool such as ArgoCD.
Note: The kubectl installation method is no longer supported. Please use Helm.
Installing the Edge Delta Pipelines using Helm.
Descriptions of the kubernetes manifests for the various Edge Delta pipelines.
Using the Helm values when Installing Edge Delta.
Installing the Edge Delta Pipeline using kubectl.
Installing the Edge Delta Pipeline on an OpenShift Cluster.
Installing the Edge Delta Pipeline in SELinux-enforced Kubernetes Clusters.