Introducing vRealize LogInsight Cloud Helm Chart for Kubernetes Logs

 In this blog, I would like to Introduce Helm Chart which I built for vRealize LogInsight Cloud. 

It deploys fluentd as deamonset to collect logs from Kubernetes Cluster. I have verified with the following flavors 

  • Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) K8 Cluster
  • Vanilla K8 Clusters deployed on vSphere/AWS 
Once you have logs flowing you can create your own dashboard to visualize the environment. I have created the following dashboard for my TKG environment

What is Helm ? 

Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes. Helm is the best way to find, share, and use software built for Kubernetes.

What are Helm charts?

Helm Charts are Kubernetes YAML manifests combined into a single package that can be deployed to on K8 environments. Once packaged, installing a Helm Chart into your cluster is as easy as running a single helm command, which simplifies the deployment & upgrade process

Architecture 

    Pre-requisites 

    You need to have the following pre-requisites 

    1. vRealize LogInsight Cloud API Token 
    2. Helm Version = \’3.x\’
    3. Admin access to the Kubernetes Cluster

    Installing the Chart – Procedure 1 

    Step 1 – Add Chart Repo 

    helm repo add loginsight-cloud https://munishpalmakhija.github.io/loginsight-cloud-helm/

    Step 2 – Get Values file in your working directory 

    helm show values loginsight-cloud/loginsight-cloud-helm  > values.yaml

    Step 3 – Update Values file with API Token and other relevant details.  

    cat values.yaml

    Step 4 – Install Chart.  

    helm install test-vrlic loginsight-cloud/loginsight-cloud-helm -f values.yaml

    Step 5 – Verify Kubernetes Pods  

    kubectl get pods -A | grep test-vrlic

    Step 6 – Verify Helm Release 

    helm list

    Installing the Chart – Procedure 2

    Step 1 – Add Chart Repo 

    helm repo add loginsight-cloud https://munishpalmakhija.github.io/loginsight-cloud-helm/

    Step 2 – Install Chart by setting values during run time.  

    helm install test-vrlic loginsight-cloud/loginsight-cloud-helm --set vrlic.apiKey=SETME --set tag.environment=DEMO

    Step 3 – Verify Kubernetes Pods  

    kubectl get pods -A | grep test-vrlic

    Step 4 – Verify Helm Release 

    helm list

    Verify Logs

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