cni-metrics-helper

CNI METRICS HELPER

This chart provides a Kubernetes deployment for the Amazon VPC CNI Metrics Helper, which is used to collect metrics for the Amazon VPC CNI plugin for Kubernetes.

Prerequisites

• Kubernetes 1.11+ running on AWS
• Helm 3.0+

Installing the Chart

First add the EKS repository to Helm:

$ helm repo add eks https://aws.github.io/eks-charts

Ensure helm repository up to date

$ helm repo update eks

To identify the version you are going to apply

$ helm search repo eks/cni-metrics-helper --versions

To install the latest chart with the release name cni-metrics-helper and default configuration:

$ helm install cni-metrics-helper --namespace kube-system eks/cni-metrics-helper

To install manually, clone the Amazon VPC CNI for Kubernetes repository to your local machine:

$ git clone https://github.com/aws/amazon-vpc-cni-k8s.git

Use the helm install command to install the chart into your Kubernetes cluster:

$ helm install cni-metrics-helper --namespace kube-system ./charts/cni-metrics-helper

To uninstall:

$ helm uninstall cni-metrics-helper --namespace kube-system

Configuration

The following table lists the configurable parameters for this chart and their default values.

Parameter	Description	Default
affinity	Map of node/pod affinities	{}
fullnameOverride	Override the fullname of the chart	cni-metrics-helper
image.tag	Image tag	v1.18.2
image.domain	ECR repository domain	amazonaws.com
image.region	ECR repository region to use. Should match your cluster	us-west-2
image.account	ECR repository account number	602401143452
env.USE_CLOUDWATCH	Whether to export CNI metrics to CloudWatch	true
env.USE_PROMETHEUS	Whether to export CNI metrics to Prometheus	false
env.AWS_CLUSTER_ID	ID of the cluster to use when exporting metrics to CloudWatch	default
env.AWS_VPC_K8S_CNI_LOGLEVEL	Log verbosity level (ie. FATAL, ERROR, WARN, INFO, DEBUG)	INFO
env.METRIC_UPDATE_INTERVAL	Interval at which to update CloudWatch metrics, in seconds.
	Metrics are published to CloudWatch at 2x the interval	30
serviceAccount.name	The name of the ServiceAccount to use	nil
serviceAccount.create	Specifies whether a ServiceAccount should be created	true
serviceAccount.annotations	Specifies the annotations for ServiceAccount	{}
podAnnotations	Specifies the annotations for pods	{}
revisionHistoryLimit	The number of revisions to keep	10
podSecurityContext	SecurityContext to set on the pod	{}
containerSecurityContext	SecurityContext to set on the container	{}
tolerations	Optional deployment tolerations	[]
updateStrategy	Optional update strategy	{}
imagePullSecrets	Docker registry pull secret	[]
nodeSelector	Node labels for pod assignment	{}
tolerations	Optional deployment tolerations	[]

Specify each parameter using the --set key=value[,key=value] argument to helm install or provide a YAML file containing the values for the above parameters:

$ helm install cni-metrics-handler --namespace kube-system eks/cni-metrics-handler --values values.yaml

Manual install:

$ helm install cni-metrics-helper --namespace kube-system ./charts/cni-metrics-helper --values values.yaml

Resources

Parameter	Description	Default
resources	Resources for the pods.	{}

For example, to set a CPU limit of 200m and a memory limit of 256Mi for the cni-metrics-helper pods, you can use the following command:

$ helm install cni-metrics-helper ./charts/cni-metrics-helper --namespace kube-system --set resources.limits.cpu=200m,resources.limits.memory=256Mi