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Install Synergy/Focus/Enterprise using Helm without Rancher

Install Synergy/Focus/Enterprise using Helm without Rancher

Prerequisites

Please check here for installation requirements

K3s Installation

Installation

All the commands in this runbook were tested against a VM with Canonical, Ubuntu, 20.04 LTS, amd64 as root.

  1. Install K3s and wait for the pods to become ready:

    curl -sfL https://assets.master.k3s.getvisibility.com/k3s/k3s.sh | INSTALL_K3S_VERSION="v1.26.10+k3s1" K3S_KUBECONFIG_MODE="644" sh -s - server --node-name=local-01 kubectl get deploy -n kube-system --output name | xargs -n1 -t kubectl rollout status -n kube-system
  2. Install Helm 3:

    wget --quiet https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helm/helm/master/scripts/get -O /tmp/get_helm.sh \ && chmod 0755 /tmp/get_helm.sh \ && /tmp/get_helm.sh -v v3.8.2
  3. Configure GetVisibility private Docker image registry (replace $USERNAME and $PASSWORD with the Docker credentials provided):

    kubectl create secret docker-registry gv-docker-registry \ --docker-server=https://images.master.k3s.getvisibility.com \ --docker-username=gvimages \ --docker-password=$GVIMAGES_PASSWORD \ --docker-email=no@email.com
  4. Configure GetVisibility private Helm repository (replace $USERNAME and $PASSWORD with the Helm credentials provided):

  5. Install chart GetVisibility Essentials and wait for the pods to become ready.
    For Synergy (32 GB RAM machines), please replace keycloak.url= IPADDRESS/DNS/FQDN with IP Adress or FQDN or DNS name for Keycloak in formats like below
    https://192.168.10.1 or https://gv.domain.local or https://gv.getvisibility.com

    For Focus and Enterprise (48+ GB RAM machines), please replace keycloak.url= IPADDRESS/DNS/FQDN with IP Adress or FQDN or DNS name for Keycloak in formats like below
    https://192.168.10.1 or https://gv.domain.local or https://gv.getvisibility.com

  6. Depending on the theme you want to use, run one of the commands below to install the chart GV Platform (don’t forget to replace $PRODUCT with either synergy or focus or enterprise):

    1. GetVisibility theme:

    2. Forcepoint theme:

Upgrade

GV Essentials

In order to upgrade the essential services (e.g. Postgres, Kafka, MongoDB, Consul) run helm repo update and then the same command you used in step 5.

Synergy/Focus/Enterprise

In order to upgrade Synergy/Focus/Enterprise run helm repo update and then the same command you used in step 6.

Monitoring

You can optionally also install monitoring tools to collect metrics and logs of all services that are running inside the cluster:

  1. Install the CRDs:

  2. Install the monitoring tools:

To access the Grafana dashboard run the command kubectl port-forward svc/rancher-monitoring-grafana -n cattle-monitoring-system 3001:80 --address='0.0.0.0' and in your browser type the address http://$SERVER_IP:3001.

To access Prometheus dashboard run the command kubectl port-forward svc/rancher-monitoring-prometheus -n cattle-monitoring-system 3001:9090 --address='0.0.0.0' and in your browser type the address http://$SERVER_IP:3001.

To expose Grafana via an ingress on the path /grafana (allowing access through https://IPADDRESS_or_DNSNAME/grafana), add the following flag to the monitoring installation command:

 

Add --debug to any helm upgrade command to show exactly what it’s waiting for. This is particularly useful to troubleshoot timeout limit exceeded errors.

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