Deploy the Kubernetes Optimizer Service

This page describes deploying the Pulse Kubernetes Optimizer service and its dependencies.

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Deploy VM-Scraper

• For details about deploying vmagent in an OpenShift cluster, see Fetch K8s Metrics in an OpenShift Cluster
• For details about deploying the scraper from scratch, including Node-Exporter and KubeStateMetrics, see Fetch K8s Metrics on Vanilla Cluster.

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Enable the K8s Dashboards

Enable the feature flags for Kubernetes Dashboard in the pulseoperator CR.

kubectl edit pulseoperators.pulse.acceldata.com pulseoperator -n pulse

...
 FEATURE_FLAGS: '..."isK8Enabled": true, "k8sLogs": true}'
...
 image: ad-pulse-ui
...
 OPTIMIZER_ENABLED: "true"
...
 image: ad-dashplots-ui
...

Save this, and the controller-manager automatically restarts ad-pulse-ui and ad-dashplots-ui.

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Deploy the Pulse K8s Optimizer Add-ons

Deploy the K8s Optimizer addons as needed.

• KUBERNETES WEBHOOK
• KUBERNETES OPTIMIZER

The commands to deploy the addon services:

curl --request PUT \
 --url http://<Ingress API for the Manager Server>/api/v1/mserver/deploy/addons/<clustername> \
 -u "pulse:6Q6+2JxJ6QXORvvHjQakqyEUSM5/KhAFXYBAZsUnJQqCOSUl5VkWeHwfUGekw1z4" \
 --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
 --data '{
    "addons": [
        .
        .
        .
        "KUBERNETES WEBHOOK",
        "KUBERNETES OPTIMIZER"
    ],
    "extra_hosts": {
    "<IP_Address 1>": "dbservers101.acceldata.dvl",
    "<IP_Address 2>": "dbservers102.acceldata.dvl",
    "<IP_Address 3>": "dbservers103.acceldata.dvl"
  }
}'