Deploying the metrics-agent With Helm

Helm must be installed to use the charts. Please refer to Helm’s documentation to get started.

Once Helm has been set up correctly, add the repo as follows:

helm repo add metrics-agent https://cloudability.github.io/metrics-agent/

If you had already added this repo earlier, run

helm repo update

to retrieve the latest versions of the packages. You can then run

helm search repo metrics-agent

to see the charts.

Kubernetes

To install the metrics-agent chart:

helm install metrics-agent --set apiKey=<yourApiKey> --set clusterName=<yourClusterName> metrics-agent/metrics-agent -n cloudability --create-namespace

Or to install the metrics-agent chart into an existing cloudability namespace where the api key is stored in an existing kubernetes secret

helm install metrics-agent --set secretName=<NameOfSecret> --set clusterName=<yourClusterName> metrics-agent/metrics-agent -n cloudability

OpenShift

To install the metrics-agent chart:

helm install metrics-agent --set apiKey=<yourApiKey> --set clusterName=<yourClusterName> --set openShift=true metrics-agent/metrics-agent -n cloudability --create-namespace

Or to install the metrics-agent chart into an existing cloudability namespace where the api key is stored in an existing kubernetes secret

helm install metrics-agent --set secretName=<NameOfSecret> --set clusterName=<yourClusterName> --set openShift=true metrics-agent/metrics-agent -n cloudability

To uninstall the chart:

helm delete metrics-agent -n cloudability

Notes:

• <yourApiKey> is obtained through the Containers Insights page in the Cloudability UI.
• Deploying the metrics-agent with Helm creates a kubernetes secret that stores the api-key value. The metrics-agent deployment then pulls the apikey value from this secret.