Instana
Instana is a Dynamic APM for Microservice Applications
Introduction
This chart adds the Instana Agent to all nodes in your cluster via a DaemonSet.
Prerequisites for Helm
To use this, first install helm and tiller (the Kubernetes cluster-side tool helm talks to) using the standard documentation:
https://docs.helm.sh/using_helm/#installing-helm
Install tiller to your cluster with
$ helm initInstalling the Chart
To install the chart with the release name instana-agent, retrieve your instana agent key and run:
$ helm install . --name instana-agent --namespace instana-agent --set instana.agent.key=INSTANA_AGENT_KEYSometimes it is also necessary to set instana.agent.endpoint.host and instana.agent.endpoint.port. Check the agent backend configuration in docs
Uninstalling the Chart
To uninstall/delete the instana-agent daemon set:
$ helm del --purge instana-agentConfiguration
Helm Chart
The following table lists the configurable parameters of the Instana chart and their default values.
| Parameter | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
instana.agent.key |
Your Instana Agent key | Nil You must provide your own key |
image.name |
The image name to pull from | instana/agent |
image.tag |
The image tag to pull | latest |
image.pullPolicy |
Image pull policy | IfNotPresent |
rbac.create |
True/False create & use RBAC resources | true |
instana.zone |
Instana zone. It will be also used as cluster name | k8s-cluster-name |
instana.leaderElectorPort |
Instana leader elector sidecar port | 42655 |
instana.agent.endpoint.host |
Instana agent backend endpoint host | saas-us-west-2.instana.io |
instana.agent.endpoint.port |
Instana agent backend endpoint port | 443 |
Agent
There is a config map which you can edit to configure agent. This configuration will be used for all instana agents on all nodes.