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This helm chart is a lightweight way to configure and run our official Metricbeat docker image.
7.5.1 release is introducing a breaking change for Metricbeat users upgrading from a previous chart version.
The breaking change tracked in #395 is failing helm upgrade command with the following error:
UPGRADE FAILED
Error: Deployment.apps "metricbeat-kube-state-metrics" is invalid: spec.selector: Invalid value: v1.LabelSelector{MatchLabels:map[string]string{"app.kubernetes.io/name":"kube-state-metrics"}, MatchExpressions:[]v1.LabelSelectorRequirement(nil)}: field is immutable && Deployment.apps "metricbeat-metricbeat-metrics" is invalid: spec.selector: Invalid value: v1.LabelSelector{MatchLabels:map[string]string{"app":"metricbeat-metricbeat-metrics", "chart":"metricbeat-7.5.1", "heritage":"Tiller", "release":"metricbeat"}, MatchExpressions:[]v1.LabelSelectorRequirement(nil)}: field is immutable
Error: UPGRADE FAILED: Deployment.apps "metricbeat-kube-state-metrics" is invalid: spec.selector: Invalid value: v1.LabelSelector{MatchLabels:map[string]string{"app.kubernetes.io/name":"kube-state-metrics"}, MatchExpressions:[]v1.LabelSelectorRequirement(nil)}: field is immutable && Deployment.apps "metricbeat-metricbeat-metrics" is invalid: spec.selector: Invalid value: v1.LabelSelector{MatchLabels:map[string]string{"app":"metricbeat-metricbeat-metrics", "chart":"metricbeat-7.5.1", "heritage":"Tiller", "release":"metricbeat"}, MatchExpressions:[]v1.LabelSelectorRequirement(nil)}: field is immutable
This is caused by the update of kube-state-metrics chart dependency which is renaming some labels in helm/charts#15261.
The workaround is to use --force argument for helm upgrade command which will force Metricbeat resources update through delete/recreate.
- Add the elastic helm charts repo
helm repo add elastic https://helm.elastic.co - Install it
helm install --name metricbeat elastic/metricbeat
- Clone the git repo
git clone git@github.com:elastic/helm-charts.git - Install it
helm install --name metricbeat ./helm-charts/metricbeat
This chart is tested with the latest supported versions. The currently tested versions are:
| 6.x | 7.x |
|---|---|
| 6.8.8 | 7.6.2 |
Examples of installing older major versions can be found in the examples directory.
While only the latest releases are tested, it is possible to easily install old or new releases by overriding the imageTag. To install version 7.6.2 of metricbeat it would look like this:
helm install --name metricbeat elastic/metricbeat --set imageTag=7.6.2
| Parameter | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
metricbeatConfig |
Allows you to add any config files in /usr/share/metricbeat such as metricbeat.yml. See values.yaml for an example of the formatting with the default configuration. |
see values.yaml |
extraContainers |
Templatable string of additional containers to be passed to the tpl function |
"" |
extraInitContainers |
Templatable string of additional containers to be passed to the tpl function |
"" |
extraEnvs |
Extra environment variables which will be appended to the env: definition for the container |
[] |
extraVolumeMounts |
Templatable string of additional volumeMounts to be passed to the tpl function |
"" |
extraVolumes |
Templatable string of additional volumes to be passed to the tpl function |
"" |
envFrom |
Templatable string of envFrom to be passed to the environment from variables which will be appended to the envFrom: definition for the container |
[] |
hostPathRoot |
Fully-qualified hostPath that will be used to persist Metricbeat registry data | /var/lib |
image |
The Metricbeat docker image | docker.elastic.co/beats/metricbeat |
imageTag |
The Metricbeat docker image tag | 7.6.2 |
imagePullPolicy |
The Kubernetes imagePullPolicy value | IfNotPresent |
imagePullSecrets |
Configuration for imagePullSecrets so that you can use a private registry for your image | [] |
labels |
Configurable label applied to all Metricbeat pods | {} |
managedServiceAccount |
Whether the serviceAccount should be managed by this helm chart. Set this to false in order to manage your own service account and related roles. |
true |
clusterRoleRules |
Configurable cluster role rules that Metricbeat uses to access Kubernetes resources. | see values.yaml |
podAnnotations |
Configurable annotations applied to all Metricbeat pods | {} |
podSecurityContext |
Configurable podSecurityContext for Metricbeat pod execution environment | runAsUser: 0privileged: false |
livenessProbe |
Parameters to pass to liveness probe checks for values such as timeouts and thresholds. | failureThreshold: 3initialDelaySeconds: 10periodSeconds: 10successThreshold: 3timeoutSeconds: 5 |
readinessProbe |
Parameters to pass to readiness probe checks for values such as timeouts and thresholds. | failureThreshold: 3initialDelaySeconds: 10periodSeconds: 10successThreshold: 3timeoutSeconds: 5 |
resources |
Allows you to set the resources for the DaemonSet |
requests.cpu: 100mrequests.memory: 100Milimits.cpu: 1000mlimits.memory: 200Mi |
serviceAccount |
Custom serviceAccount that Metricbeat will use during execution. By default will use the service account created by this chart. | "" |
secretMounts |
Allows you easily mount a secret as a file inside the DaemonSet. Useful for mounting certificates and other secrets. See values.yaml for an example |
[] |
terminationGracePeriod |
Termination period (in seconds) to wait before killing Metricbeat pod process on pod shutdown | 30 |
tolerations |
Configurable tolerations | [] |
nodeSelector |
Configurable nodeSelector | {} |
affinity |
Configurable affinity | {} |
updateStrategy |
The updateStrategy for the DaemonSet. By default Kubernetes will kill and recreate pods on updates. Setting this to OnDelete will require that pods be deleted manually. |
RollingUpdate |
priorityClassName |
The name of the PriorityClass. No default is supplied as the PriorityClass must be created first. | "" |
replicas |
The replica count for the metricbeat deployment talking to kube-state-metrics | 1 |
fullnameOverride |
Overrides the full name of the resources. If not set the name will default to ".Release.Name-.Values.nameOverride or .Chart.Name" |
"" |
In examples/ you will find some example configurations. These examples are used for the automated testing of this helm chart.
- Deploy the default Elasticsearch helm chart
- Deploy Metricbeat with the default values
cd examples/default make - You can now setup a port forward for Elasticsearch to observe Metricbeat indices
kubectl port-forward svc/elasticsearch-master 9200 curl localhost:9200/_cat/indices
This chart uses pytest to test the templating logic. The dependencies for testing can be installed from the requirements.txt in the parent directory.
pip install -r ../requirements.txt
make pytest
You can also use helm template to look at the YAML being generated
make template
It is possible to run all of the tests and linting inside of a docker container
make test
Integration tests are run using goss which is a serverspec like tool written in golang. See goss.yaml for an example of what the tests look like.
To run the goss tests against the default example:
cd examples/default
make goss