Steps for OKE

Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) is a managed environment for running Kubernetes in Oracle Cloud, in order to deploy containerized applications. As of Sysdig agent version 12.0.1, Sysdig supports all flavors of OKE.

OKE environments require eBPF probe to support agent installation.

The instructions below describe a standard OKE agent install and call out the special steps needed to install the eBPF probe.

Preparation

Open Port 6443 for Agent Egress

Because OKE uses stateful firewalls, you must actively open port 6443 for the Sysdig agent outbound traffic.

OKE by default allows network access to the sysdig Agent on 6443, but ensure that firewall rules are open and the agent can connect to the Sysdig backends.

eBPF-Specific Requirements

  • Linux kernel version >= 4.14.

  • When performing the installation steps, you will add one additional parameter to install the eBPF probe. See Step 7, below.

Installation Steps

Identify the appropriate endpoint depending on your Sysdig account region. For more information, see SaaS Regions and IP Ranges. More info here https://docs.sysdig.com/en/docs/administration/saas-regions-and-ip-ranges/

After making clear which region your account belongs to, please choose one of the following methods:

Helm

Sysdig recommends using helm charts to install Sysdig agent in Kubernetes environments. For the latest chart and installation instructions, see sysdig-deploy.

Manifests

To deploy agents using Kubernetes manifests, you can downloadmanifest files, edit them as required, and deploy them using kubectl.

  1. Download the sample files:

    • sysdig-agent-clusterrole.yaml

    • sysdig-agent-daemonset-v2.yaml

    • sysdig-agent-configmap.yaml

    • sysdig-agent-service.yaml

  2. Create a namespace to use for the Sysdig agent.

    Notes: You can use whatever name you want. In this document, we used sysdig-agent for both the namespace and the service account.

    kubectl create ns sysdig-agent

  3. Create a secret key:

    kubectl create secret generic sysdig-agent --from-literal=access-key=<your sysdig access key> -n sysdig-agent

  4. If you are running Kubernetes 1.6 or higher, you must create a service account for the Sysdig agent by using the clusterrole.yaml file.

    The Sysdig agent must be granted read-only access to certain Kubernetes APIs, which the agent uses to populate metadata and provide component metrics.

    You can use the Sysdig-provided sysdig-agent-clusterrole.yaml file. Deploying it create a cluster role and service account in Kubernetes, and defines cluster role binding that grants the Sysdig agent rules in the cluster role.

    Run the following commands by using the namespace you’ve defined in Step 2:

    kubectl apply -f sysdig-agent-clusterrole.yaml -n sysdig-agent
kubectl create serviceaccount sysdig-agent -n sysdig-agent
kubectl create clusterrolebinding sysdig-agent --clusterrole=sysdig-agent --serviceaccount=sysdig-agent:sysdig-agent

  5. Edit sysdig-agent-configmap.yaml to add the collector address, port, and the SSL/TLS information :

    collector:
collector_port:
ssl: #true or false
check_certificate: #true or false

  6. Apply the sysdig-agent-configmap.yaml file:

    kubectl apply -f sysdig-agent-configmap.yaml -n sysdig-agent

  7. To enable the eBPF probe uncomment the following parameters in  sysdig-agent-daemonset-v2.yaml under the env section:

    env:
  - name: SYSDIG_BPF_PROBE
    value: ""

  8. Apply the sysdig-agent-service.yaml file:

    kubectl apply -f sysdig-agent-service.yaml -n sysdig-agent

    This allows the agent to receive Kubernetes audit events from the Kubernetes API server. See Kubernetes Audit Logging for information on enabling Kubernetes audit logging.

  9. Apply the daemonset-v2.yaml file:

    kubectl apply -f sysdig-agent-daemonset-v2.yaml -n sysdig-agent

    The agents will be deployed and you can see some metrics in the Sysdig Monitor UI.

Next Steps

You can continue with instructions in Verify Metrics in Sysdig Monitor and optionally, Connect to Sysdig Backend.