Google Kubernetes Engine, Agent

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Overview

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), a service on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), is a hosted platform for running and orchestrating containerized applications. Similar to Amazon’s Elastic Container Service (ECS), GKE manages Docker containers deployed on a cluster of machines. However, unlike ECS, GKE uses Kubernetes.

Setup

Prerequisites

  1. Ensure that your role in your GCP project has the proper permissions to use GKE.

  2. Enable the Google Container Engine API for your project.

  3. Install the Google Cloud SDK and the kubectl command line tool on your local machine. Once you pair the Cloud SDK with your GCP account , you can control your clusters directly from your local machine using kubectl.

  4. Create a small GKE cluster named doglib with the ability to access the Cloud Datastore by running the following command:

$  gcloud container clusters create doglib --num-nodes 3 --zone "us-central1-b" --scopes "cloud-platform"

Set up the GCE integration

Install the Google Cloud Platform integration.

You can then access an out-of-the-box Google Compute Engine dashboard that displays metrics like disk I/O, CPU utilization, and network traffic.

Set up the GKE integration

Choose a mode of operation. A mode of operation refers to the level of flexibility, responsibility, and control that you have over your cluster. GKE offers two modes of operation:

  • Standard: You manage the cluster’s underlying infrastructure, giving you node configuration flexibility.

  • Autopilot: Google provisions and manages the entire cluster’s underlying infrastructure, including nodes and node pools, giving you an optimized cluster with a hands-off experience.

    Standard

    Deploy a containerized version of the Datadog Agent on your Kubernetes cluster. See Install the Datadog Agent on Kubernetes .

    Autopilot

    1. Install Helm.

    2. Add the Datadog repository to your Helm repositories:

    helm repo add datadog https://helm.datadoghq.com
helm repo update
    1. Deploy the Datadog Agent and Cluster Agent on Autopilot with the following command:
    helm install <RELEASE_NAME> \
    --set datadog.apiKey=<DATADOG_API_KEY> \
    --set datadog.appKey=<DATADOG_APP_KEY> \
    --set clusterAgent.enabled=true \
    --set clusterAgent.metricsProvider.enabled=true \
    --set providers.gke.autopilot=true \
    datadog/datadog

    Note: If you also wish to enable logs or traces, add lines to this command setting datadog.logs.enabled (for logs) and datadog.apm.enabled (for traces) to true. For example:

    helm install --name <RELEASE_NAME> \
    --set datadog.apiKey=<DATADOG_API_KEY> \
    --set datadog.appKey=<DATADOG_APP_KEY> \
    --set clusterAgent.enabled=true \
    --set clusterAgent.metricsProvider.enabled=true \
    --set providers.gke.autopilot=true \
    --set datadog.logs.enabled=true \
    --set datadog.apm.enabled=true \
    datadog/datadog

    See the [Datadog helm-charts repository][1] for a full list of configurable values.

    Admission Controller

    To use [Admission Controller][2] with Autopilot, set the [configMode][3] of the Admission Controller to either service or hostip.

    Because Autopilot does not allow socket mode, Datadog recommends using service (with hostip as a fallback) to provide a more robust layer of abstraction for the controller. [1]: https://github.com/DataDog/helm-charts/tree/master/charts/datadog#values [2]: https://docs.datadoghq.com/containers/cluster_agent/admission_controller/?tab=operator [3]: https://github.com/DataDog/helm-charts/blob/main/charts/datadog/values.yaml#L922

    Further Reading