Install the Edge Delta Pipelines with Helm
Guide to installing Edge Delta Pipelines in Kubernetes using Helm, including custom settings and secret management.
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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.
Guide to installing Edge Delta Pipelines in Kubernetes using Helm, including custom settings and secret management.
This page describes the Kubernetes manifests for deploying Edge Delta pipelines using Helm, including Node, Coordinator, and Gateway pipelines with RBAC and service account configurations.
Guide on using Helm values to configure Kubernetes resources when installing Edge Delta.
Instructions for installing the Edge Delta Agent using kubectl, with a focus on generating Kubernetes manifests via Helm.
Installing the Edge Delta Pipeline on an OpenShift Cluster with custom Security Context Constraints.
Guide for installing the Edge Delta Pipeline in SELinux-enforced Kubernetes clusters with necessary security configurations.