Installation

This page describes how to install Metacontroller, either to develop your own controllers or just to run third-party controllers that depend on it.

Prerequisites

Kubernetes v1.11+
You should have kubectl available and configured to talk to the desired cluster.

Running on kubernetes older than 1.16

As metacontroller does not have direct dependency on kubernetes API it have wide range of supported kubernetes versions. However, to be able to install it on clusters older than 1.16, CRD with schema in version v1beta1 must be used then.

Grant yourself cluster-admin (GKE only)

Due to a known issue in GKE, you'll need to first grant yourself cluster-admin privileges before you can install the necessary RBAC manifests.

kubectl create clusterrolebinding <user>-cluster-admin-binding --clusterrole=cluster-admin --user=<user>@<domain>

Replace <user> and <domain> above based on the account you use to authenticate to GKE.

Install Metacontroller

# Apply all set of production resources defined in kustomization.yaml in `production` directory .
kubectl apply -k {{ site.repo_raw }}/manifests/production

If you prefer to build and host your own images, please see the build instructions in the contributor guide.

If your kubectl version does does not support -k flag, please install resources mentioned in manifests/production/kustomization.yaml one by one manually with kubectl apply -f {{filename}} command.

Compatibility note CRD's are shipped in two versions:

v1 - supposed to be used when your kubernetes cluster is 1.16+
v1beta1 otherwise

Configuration

The Metacontroller server has a few settings that can be configured with command-line flags (by editing the Metacontroller StatefulSet in manifests/metacontroller.yaml):

Flag	Description
`-v`	Set the logging verbosity level (e.g. `-v=4`). Level 4 logs Metacontroller's interaction with the API server. Levels 5 and up additionally log details of Metacontroller's invocation of lambda hooks. See the troubleshooting guide for more.
`--discovery-interval`	How often to refresh discovery cache to pick up newly-installed resources (e.g. `--discovery-interval=10s`).
`--cache-flush-interval`	How often to flush local caches and relist objects from the API server (e.g. `--cache-flush-interval=30m`).
`--client-config-path`	Path to kubeconfig file (same format as used by kubectl); if not specified, use in-cluster config (e.g. `--client-config-path=/path/to/kubeconfig`).
`--client-go-qps`	Number of queries per second client-go is allowed to make (default 5, e.g. `--client-go-qps=100`)
`--client-go-burst`	Allowed burst queries for client-go (default 10, e.g. `--client-go-burst=200`)
`--workers`	Number of sync workers to run (default 5, e.g. `--workers=100`)