Steps for Rancher

Preparation

General Requirements

You can review Agent Install: Kubernetes | GKE | OpenShift | IBM and the Host Requirements for Agent Installation for additional context if desired.

Kernel Headers

The Sysdig agent requires a kernel module in order to be installed successfully on a host. On RancherOS distributions, the Unix version does not match the provided headers, and the agent might fail to install correctly. Therefore, you must install the kernel headers manually.

For RancherOS distributions, the kernel headers are available in the form of a system service and therefore are enabled using the ros service command:

$ sudo ros service enable kernel-headers-system-docker
$ sudo ros service up -d kernel-headers-system-docker

Some cloud hosting service providers supply pre-configured Linux instances with customized kernels. You may need to contact your provider’s support desk for instructions on obtaining appropriate header files, or for installing the distribution’s default kernel.

Install Agent

To deploy agents using Kubernetes daemonsets, download the following configuration files, edit them as required, and deploy them.

• sysdig-agent-clusterrole.yaml

• sysdig-agent-service.yaml

• sysdig-agent-daemonset-v2.yaml

• sysdig-agent-configmap.yaml

Deploy Agent

• Download the sample files:

  • sysdig-agent-clusterrole.yaml

  • sysdig-agent-daemonset-v2.yaml

  • sysdig-agent-configmap.yaml

  • sysdig-agent-service.yaml

• Create a namespace to use for the Sysdig agent.

  You can use whatever naming you prefer. In this document, we used sysdig-agent for both the namespace and the service account.

  The default service account name was automatically defined in sysdig-agent-daemonset-v2.yaml, at the line: serviceAccount: sysdig-agent.

  kubectl create ns sysdig-agent
  

• Create a secret key:

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

• Create a cluster role and service account, and define the cluster role bindingthat grants the Sysdig agent rules in the cluster role, using the commands:

  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
  

• 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
  

  • For SaaS, find the collector address for your region.

  • For On-prem, enter the collector endpoint defined in your environment.

  • check_certificate should be set to false if a self-signed certificate or private, CA-signed cert is used. See also Step 5 Set Up SSL Connectivity to the Backend.

• (All installs) Apply the sysdig-agent-configmap.yaml file:

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

• (All installs) 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.

• (All installs) Apply the daemonset-v2.yaml file :

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

The agents will be deployed. See Getting Started with Sysdig Monitor to view some metrics in the Sysdig Monitor UI. You can make further edits to the configmap as described below.Getting Started with Sysdig Monitor

Enable Kube State Metrics and Cluster Name

These steps are optional but recommended.

• Edit sysdig-agent-configmap.yaml to uncomment the line: new_k8s: true

  This allows kube state metrics to be automatically detected, monitored, and displayed in Sysdig Monitor.

  For more information, see the Kube State Metrics entry in the Sysdig blog.

  As of agent 9.6.0, new_k8s is enabled by default.

• Edit sysdig-agent-configmap.yaml to uncomment the line: **k8s_cluster_name: **and add your cluster name.

  Setting cluster name here allows you to view, scope, and segment metrics in the Sysdig Monitor UI by the Kubernetes cluster.

  Note: Alternatively, if you assign a tag with “cluster” in the tag name, Sysdig Monitor will display that as the Kubernetes cluster name.

• Apply the configmap changes using the command:

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

• Proceed to verify the metrics in the Sysdig Monitor UI.

Connect to the Sysdig Backend via Static IPs (SaaS only)

Sysdig provides a list of static IP addresses that can be whitelisted in a Sysdig environment, allowing users to establish a network connection to the Sysdig backend without opening complete network connectivity. This is done by setting the Collector IP to collector-static.sysdigcloud.com.

To configure the collector IP in a Kubernetes SaaS instance:

• Open sysdig-agent-configmap.yaml in a text editor.

• Uncomment the following lines:

  • collector:

  • collector_port

• Set the collector: value to collector-static.sysdigcloud.com

  See SaaS Regions and IP Ranges and identify the correct URL associated with your Sysdig collector and region.

• Set the collector_port: value to 6443

• Save the file.

The example file below shows how the sysdig-agent-configmap.yaml file should look after configuration:

apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: sysdig-agent
data:
  dragent.yaml: |
    ### Agent tags
    # tags: linux:ubuntu,dept:dev,local:nyc

    #### Sysdig Software related config ####

    # Sysdig collector address
    collector: collector-static.sysdigcloud.com

    # Collector TCP port
    collector_port: 6443

    # Whether collector accepts ssl/TLS
    ssl: true

    # collector certificate validation
    ssl_verify_certificate: true

    # Sysdig Secure
    security:
                enabled: true

    #######################################
    # new_k8s: true
    # k8s_cluster_name: production

Verify Metrics in Sysdig Monitor UI

Log in to Sysdig Monitor to verify that the agent deployed and the metrics are detected and collected appropriately.

• Access Sysdig Monitor:

  SaaS: See SaaS Regions and IP Ranges and identify the correct domain URL associated with your Sysdig application and region. For example, for US East, the URL is https://app.sysdigcloud.com.

  For other regions, the format is https://<region>.app.sysdig.com. Replace <region> with the region where your Sysidig application is hosted. For example, for Sysdig Monitor in the EU, you use https://eu1.app.sysdig.com.

  Log in with your Sysdig user name and password.

• Select the Explore tab to see if metrics are displayed.

• (Once you have enabled new_k8s:true): To verify that kube state metrics and cluster name are working correctly: Select the Explore tab and create a grouping by kubernetes.cluster.name and kubernetes.pod.name.

  As of agent 9.6.0, new_k8s is enabled by default.

  

• Select an individual container or pod to see details.