Advanced Install Options

Advanced Install Options: Install Keptn using the Helm chart

When executing keptn install, Keptn is installed via a Helm chart, which can also be done using the Helm CLI directly. Therefore, the helm CLI is required to execute of the following command:

• Install Keptn control-plane (with Continuous Delivery support and exposed on a LoadBalancer):

helm install keptn https://github.com/keptn/keptn/releases/download/0.15.0/keptn-0.15.0.tgz -n keptn --create-namespace --wait --set=continuous-delivery.enabled=true,control-plane.apiGatewayNginx.type=LoadBalancer

• Install Keptn execution-plane:

helm install jmeter-service https://github.com/keptn/keptn/releases/download/0.15.0/jmeter-service-0.15.0.tgz -n keptn --create-namespace --wait

helm install helm-service https://github.com/keptn/keptn/releases/download/0.15.0/helm-service-0.15.0.tgz -n keptn --create-namespace --wait

Note: To continue with Keptn after the installation with Helm, we recommend authenticating the Ketpn CLI as explained here.

As shown above, the helm install or helm upgrade commands offer a flag called --set, which can be used to specify several configuration options using the format key1=value1,key2=value2,....

The full list of available flags can be found in the helm-charts.

Use a LoadBalancer for api-gateway-nginx

helm upgrade keptn keptn --install -n keptn --create-namespace --wait --version=0.15.0 --repo=https://charts.keptn.sh --set=control-plane.apiGatewayNginx.type=LoadBalancer

Install execution plane for Continuous Delivery use-case

For example, the Control Plane with the Execution Plane (for Continuous Delivery) can be installed by the following command:

helm upgrade keptn keptn --install -n keptn --create-namespace --wait --version=0.15.0 --repo=https://charts.keptn.sh --set=continuous-delivery.enabled=true

Install execution plane for Continuous Delivery use-case and use a LoadBalancer for api-gateway-nginx

For example, the Control Plane with the Execution Plane (for Continuous Delivery) and a LoadBalancer for exposing Keptn can be installed by the following command:

helm upgrade keptn keptn --install -n keptn --create-namespace --wait --version=0.15.0 --repo=https://charts.keptn.sh --set=continuous-delivery.enabled=true,control-plane.apiGatewayNginx.type=LoadBalancer

Execute Helm upgrade without Internet connectivity

The following section contains instructions for installing Keptn in an air-gapped / offline installation scenario.

The following artifacts need to be available locally:

• Keptn Helm Chart (control-plane + helm + jmeter)
• Several Docker Images (e.g., pushed into a private registry)
• Helper scripts
• Keptn CLI (optional, but recommended for future use)

Download Keptn Helm Charts

Download the Helm charts from the Keptn 0.15.x release:

• Keptn Control Plane: https://github.com/keptn/keptn/releases/download/0.15.0/keptn-0.15.0.tgz
• helm-service (if needed): https://github.com/keptn/keptn/releases/download/0.15.0/helm-service-0.15.0.tgz
• jmeter-service (if needed): https://github.com/keptn/keptn/releases/download/0.15.0/jmeter-service-0.15.0.tgz

Move the helm charts to a directory on your local machine, e.g., offline-keptn.

For convenience, the following script creates this directory and downloads the required helm charts into it:

mkdir offline-keptn
cd offline-keptn
curl -L https://github.com/keptn/keptn/releases/download/0.15.0/keptn-0.15.0.tgz -o keptn-0.15.0.tgz
curl -L https://github.com/keptn/keptn/releases/download/0.15.0/helm-service-0.15.0.tgz -o helm-service-0.15.0.tgz
curl -L https://github.com/keptn/keptn/releases/download/0.15.0/jmeter-service-0.15.0.tgz -o jmeter-service-0.15.0.tgz
cd ..

Download Containers/Images

Within the Helm Charts several Docker Images are referenced (Keptn specific and some third party dependencies). We recommend to pulling, re-tagging and pushing those images to a local registry that the Kubernetes cluster can reach.

We are providing a helper script for this in our Git repository: https://github.com/keptn/keptn/blob/master/installer/airgapped/pull_and_retag_images.sh

For convenience, you can use the following commands to download and execute the script:

cd offline-keptn
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/keptn/keptn/0.15.0/installer/airgapped/pull_and_retag_images.sh -o pull_and_retag_images.sh
chmod +x pull_and_retag_images.sh
KEPTN_TAG=0.13.0 ./pull_and_retag_images.sh "your-registry.localhost:5000/"
cd ..

Please mind the trailing slash for the registry url (e.g., your-registry.localhost:5000/).

Installation

Keptn’s Helm chart allows you to specify the name of all images, which can be especially handy in air-gapped systems where you cannot access DockerHub for pulling the images.

We are providing a helper script for this in our Git repository: https://github.com/keptn/keptn/blob/master/installer/airgapped/install_keptn.sh

For convenience, you can use the following commands to download and execute the script:

cd offline-keptn
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/keptn/keptn/0.13.0/installer/airgapped/install_keptn.sh -o install_keptn.sh
chmod +x install_keptn.sh
./install_keptn.sh "your-registry.localhost:5000/" keptn-0.13.0.tgz helm-service-0.15.0.tgz jmeter-service-0.15.0.tgz
cd ..

Install Keptn using a Root-Context

The Helm chart allows customizing the root-context for the Keptn API and Bridge. By default, the Keptn API is located under http://HOSTNAME/api and the Keptn Bridge is located under http://HOSTNAME/bridge. By specifying a value for control-plane.prefixPath, the used prefix for the root-context can be configured. For example, if a user sets control-plane.prefixPath=/mykeptn in the Helm install/upgrade command, the Keptn API is located under http://HOSTNAME/mykeptn/api and the Keptn Bridge is located under http://HOSTNAME/mykeptn/bridge:

helm upgrade keptn keptn --install -n keptn --create-namespace --wait --version=0.15.0 --repo=https://charts.keptn.sh --set=control-plane.apiGatewayNginx.type=LoadBalancer,continuous-delivery.enabled=true,control-plane.prefixPath=/mykeptn

Install Keptn with externally hosted MongoDB

If you want to use an externally hosted MongoDB instead of the MongoDB installed by Keptn, please use the helm upgrade command as shown below. Basically, provide the MongoDB host, port, user, and password in form of a connection string.

helm upgrade keptn keptn --install -n keptn --create-namespace
--set=control-plane.mongo.enabled=false,
      control-plane.mongo.external.connectionString=<YOUR_MONGODB_CONNECTION_STRING>,
      control-plane.mongo.auth.database=<YOUR_DATABASE_NAME>

Keptn has no opinion on how to fine-tune the database connection. We recommend the user specify any special configuration via the connection string (docs here) in the control-plane.mongo.external.connectionString helm value.

Install Keptn with an ingress object

If you are already using an Ingress-Controller and want to create an ingress object for Keptn, you can leverage the ingress section of the helm chart. By default enabled is set to false.

The Helm chart allows customizing the ingress object to your needs. When enabled is set the true, the chart allows you to specify optional parameters of host, path, pathType, tls, and annotations. This will cater for alot of different Ingress-Controllers and configurations.

helm upgrade keptn keptn --install -n keptn --create-namespace
--set=control-plane.ingress.enabled=true,
      control-plane.ingress.annotations=<YOUR_ANNOTATIONS>,
      control-plane.ingress.host=<YOUR_HOST>,
      control-plane.ingress.path=<YOUR_PATH>,
      control-plane.ingress.pathType=<YOUR_PATH_TYPE>,  
      control-plane.ingress.tls=<YOUR_TLS>

Install Keptn using a user-provided API token

You can provide your own API token for Keptn to use by setting the secret name in the apiService.tokenSecretName Helm value during installation. For Helm-Service and JMeter-Service you can also provide the API token by using the remoteControlPlane.tokenSecretName Helm value.

The user-provided secret needs to live in the same namespace where Keptn will be installed into. The user-provided secret should contain a single key keptn-api-token with a token consisting of numbers and letters as its value.