Getting Started with the Datadog Operator

The Datadog Operator is an open source Kubernetes Operator that enables you to deploy and configure the Datadog Agent in a Kubernetes environment. This guide describes how to use the Operator to deploy the Datadog Agent.

Prerequisites

  • Kubernetes v1.20.X+
  • Helm for deploying the Datadog Operator
  • The Kubernetes command-line tool, kubectl, for installing the Datadog Agent

Installation and deployment

  1. Install the Datadog Operator with Helm:
helm repo add datadog https://helm.datadoghq.com
helm install my-datadog-operator datadog/datadog-operator
  1. Create a Kubernetes secret with your API and application keys:
kubectl create secret generic datadog-secret --from-literal api-key=<DATADOG_API_KEY> --from-literal app-key=<DATADOG_APP_KEY>

Replace <DATADOG_API_KEY> and <DATADOG_APP_KEY> with your Datadog API and application keys.

  1. Create a datadog-agent.yaml file with the spec of your DatadogAgent deployment configuration. The following sample configuration enables metrics, logs, and APM:
apiVersion: datadoghq.com/v2alpha1
kind: DatadogAgent
metadata:
  name: datadog
spec:
  global:
    credentials:
      apiSecret:
        secretName: datadog-secret
        keyName: api-key
      appSecret:
        secretName: datadog-secret
        keyName: app-key
  features:
    apm:
      enabled: true
    logCollection:
      enabled: true
  1. Deploy the Datadog Agent:
kubectl apply -f /path/to/your/datadog-agent.yaml

Validation

Use kubectl get daemonset and kubectl get pod -owide to validate your installation.

In a cluster with two worker Nodes, you should see Agent Pods created on each Node:

$ kubectl get daemonset
NAME            DESIRED   CURRENT   READY   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   NODE SELECTOR   AGE
datadog-agent   2         2         2       2            2           <none>          5m30s

$ kubectl get pod -owide
NAME                                         READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE     IP            NODE
agent-datadog-operator-d897fc9b-7wbsf        1/1     Running   0          1h      10.244.2.11   kind-worker
datadog-agent-k26tp                          1/1     Running   0          5m59s   10.244.2.13   kind-worker
datadog-agent-zcxx7                          1/1     Running   0          5m59s   10.244.1.7    kind-worker2

Cleanup

The following commands delete all Kubernetes resources created in this guide:

kubectl delete datadogagent datadog
helm delete my-datadog-operator

Further Reading

Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:

Datadog OperatorDOCUMENTATION more more Datadog Operator: Advanced InstallationGITHUB more more Datadog Operator: ConfigurationGITHUB more more