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• Self-hosted Instana on kubernetes via crossplane
  • Prerequisites
  • Deploy instana on k8s via crossplane
    • Create a secret storing target k8s kubeconfig
    • Create a configmap storing the instana settings
    • Create a provider config adding kubeconfig secret as target system credentials
    • Create a instana CR to install instana on target k8s

Self-hosted Instana on kubernetes via crossplane

provider-instana is a Crossplane Provider , which helps install self-hosted instana on k8s , the goal is to automate installing procedure .

Prerequisites

• Crossplane server , https://crossplane.io
• K8S , In this example , we use kind cluster to host instances
• Instana DB , follow instana database settup

Deploy instana on k8s via crossplane

Create a secret storing target k8s kubeconfig

Using the kubeconfig in this repo as example :

kubectl create secret generic k8s-kubeconfig --from-file=credentials=./examples/provider/kubeconfig -n crossplane-system

Create a configmap storing the instana settings

kubectl create configmap instana-settings --from-file=./examples/instana/settings.hcl -n crossplane-system

Create a provider config adding kubeconfig secret as target system credentials

cat << EOF | oc apply -f -
apiVersion: instana.crossplane.io/v1alpha1
kind: ProviderConfig
metadata:
  name: instana-provider-config 
spec:
  credentials:
    source: Secret
    secretRef:
      namespace: crossplane-system
      name: k8s-kubeconfig 
      key: credentials
EOF

Note: you need specify the corresponding secret name/namespace in Create kubeconfig secret step

Create a instana CR to install instana on target k8s

cat << EOF | oc apply -f -
apiVersion: instana.crossplane.io/v1alpha1
kind: Instana
metadata:
  name: instana
spec:
  forProvider:
    instanaVersion: 205-2
    nfsServerHost: in-kind-instana-db.fyre.ibm.com
    settingsConfigmap:
      name: instana-settings
      namespace: crossplane-system
  providerConfigRef:
    name: instana-provider-config
EOF

Note:

• nfsServerHost: we use NFS server to store spans (in instana official doc , it use s3 as example ) , if you already config s3 in settings , you could just ignore this
• settingsConfigmap : let crossplane know where to find the settings , refer to Create configmap steps
• providerConfigRef : it will use providerconfig instana-provider-config , which point to target kubeconfig