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GitLab Kubernetes Agent (PREMIUM ONLY)

Introduced in GitLab Premium 13.4.

It's disabled on GitLab.com. Rolling this feature out to GitLab.com is planned.

CAUTION: Warning: This feature might not be available to you. Check the version history note above for details.

The GitLab Kubernetes Agent is an active in-cluster component for solving GitLab and Kubernetes integration tasks in a secure and cloud-native way. It enables:

Integrating GitLab with a Kubernetes cluster behind a firewall or NAT (network address translation).
Pull-based GitOps deployments by leveraging the GitOps Engine.
Real-time access to API endpoints within a cluster.

Many more features are planned. Please review our roadmap.

Architecture

GitLab Agent GitOps workflow

sequenceDiagram
  participant D as Developer
  participant A as Application code repository
  participant M as Manifest repository
  participant K as Kubernetes agent
  participant C as Agent configuration repository
  K->C: Grab the configuration
  D->>+A: Pushing code changes
  A->>M: Updating manifest
  loop Regularly
    K-->>M: Watching changes
    M-->>K: Pulling and applying changes
  end

Please refer to our full architecture documentation in the Agent project.

Get started with GitOps and the GitLab Agent

There are several components that work in concert for the Agent to accomplish GitOps deployments:

A properly-configured Kubernetes cluster.
A configuration repository that contains a config.yaml file, which tells the Agent which repositories to synchronize with.
A manifest repository that contains a manifest.yaml, which is tracked by the Agent and can be auto-generated. Any changes to manifest.yaml are applied to the cluster.

The setup process involves a few steps to enable GitOps deployments:

Installing the Agent server.
Defining a configuration directory.
Creating an Agent record in GitLab.
Generating and copying a Secret token used to connect to the Agent.
Installing the Agent into the cluster.
Creating a manifest.yaml.

Install the Agent server

The GitLab Kubernetes Agent can be deployed using Omnibus GitLab or the GitLab chart. If you don't already have GitLab installed, please refer to our installation documentation.

NOTE: Note: GitLab plans to include the Agent on GitLab.com.

When using the Omnibus GitLab package:

Edit /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb:

gitlab_kas['enable'] = true

Reconfigure GitLab.

When installing or upgrading the GitLab Helm chart, consider the following Helm 2 example. (If you're using Helm 3, you must modify this example.) You must set global.kas.enabled=true for the Agent to be properly installed and configured:

helm repo update
helm upgrade --force --install gitlab gitlab/gitlab \
  --timeout 600 \
  --set global.hosts.domain=<YOUR_DOMAIN> \
  --set global.hosts.externalIP=<YOUR_IP> \
  --set certmanager-issuer.email=<YOUR_EMAIL> \
  --set name=gitlab-instance \
  --set global.kas.enabled=true

Define a configuration repository

Next, you need a GitLab repository to contain your Agent configuration. The minimal repository layout looks like this:

.gitlab/agents/<agent-name>/config.yaml

The config.yaml file contents should look like this:

gitops:
  manifest_projects:
  - id: "path-to/your-awesome-project"

Create an Agent record in GitLab

Next, create an GitLab Rails Agent record so the Agent can associate itself with the configuration repository project. Creating this record also creates a Secret needed to configure the Agent in subsequent steps. You can create an Agent record either:

Through the Rails console, by running rails c:

project = ::Project.find_by_full_path("path-to/your-awesome-project")
agent = ::Clusters::Agent.create(name: "<agent-name>", project: project)
token = ::Clusters::AgentToken.create(agent: agent)
token.token # this will print out the token you need to use on the next step

Through GraphQL: (PREMIUM ONLY)

mutation createAgent {
  createClusterAgent(input: { projectPath: "path-to/your-awesome-project", name: "<agent-name>" }) {
    clusterAgent {
      id
      name
    }
    errors
  }
}

mutation createToken {
  clusterAgentTokenCreate(input: { clusterAgentId: <cluster-agent-id-taken-from-the-previous-mutation> }) {
    secret # This is the value you need to use on the next step
    token {
      createdAt
      id
    }
    errors
  }
}

NOTE: Note: GraphQL only displays the token once, after creating it.

If you are new to using the GitLab GraphQL API, refer to the Getting started with the GraphQL API page, or the GraphQL Explorer.

Create the Kubernetes secret

After generating the token, you must apply it to the Kubernetes cluster.

If you haven't previous defined or created a namespace, run the following command:
```
kubectl create namespace <YOUR-DESIRED-NAMESPACE>
```

Run the following command to create your Secret:

kubectl create secret generic -n <YOUR-DESIRED-NAMESPACE> gitlab-agent-token --from-literal=token='YOUR_AGENT_TOKEN'

Install the Agent into the cluster

Next, install the in-cluster component of the Agent. This example file contains the Kubernetes resources required for the Agent to be installed. You can modify this example resources.yml file in the following ways:

You can replace gitlab-agent with <YOUR-DESIRED-NAMESPACE>.
For the kas-address (Kubernetes Agent Server), the agent can use the WebSockets or gRPC protocols to connect to the Agent Server. Depending on your cluster configuration and GitLab architecture, you may need to use one or the other. For the gitlab-kas Helm chart, an Ingress is created for the Agent Server using the /-/kubernetes-agent endpoint. This can be used for the WebSockets protocol connection.
- Specify the grpc scheme (such as grpc://gitlab-kas:5005) to use gRPC directly. Encrypted gRPC is not supported yet. Follow the Support TLS for gRPC communication issue for progress updates.
- Specify the ws scheme (such as ws://gitlab-kas-ingress:80/-/kubernetes-agent) to use an unencrypted WebSockets connection.
- Specify the wss scheme (such as wss://gitlab-kas-ingress:443/-/kubernetes-agent) to use an encrypted WebSockets connection. This is the recommended option if installing the Agent into a separate cluster from your Agent Server.
If you defined your own secret name, replace gitlab-agent-token with your secret name.

To apply this file, run the following command:

kubectl apply -n gitlab-agent -f ./resources.yml

To review your configuration, run the following command:

$ kubectl get pods --all-namespaces

NAMESPACE     NAME                               READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
gitlab-agent  gitlab-agent-77689f7dcb-5skqk      1/1     Running   0          51s
kube-system   coredns-f9fd979d6-n6wcw            1/1     Running   0          14m
kube-system   etcd-minikube                      1/1     Running   0          14m
kube-system   kube-apiserver-minikube            1/1     Running   0          14m
kube-system   kube-controller-manager-minikube   1/1     Running   0          14m
kube-system   kube-proxy-j6zdh                   1/1     Running   0          14m
kube-system   kube-scheduler-minikube            1/1     Running   0          14m
kube-system   storage-provisioner                1/1     Running   0          14m

Example `resources.yml` file

apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
  name: gitlab-agent
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: gitlab-agent
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: gitlab-agent
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: gitlab-agent
    spec:
      serviceAccountName: gitlab-agent
      containers:
      - name: agent
        image: "registry.gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cluster-integration/gitlab-agent/agentk:latest"
        args:
        - --token-file=/config/token
        - --kas-address
        - grpc://host.docker.internal:5005  # {"$openapi":"kas-address"}
        volumeMounts:
        - name: token-volume
          mountPath: /config
      volumes:
      - name: token-volume
        secret:
          secretName: gitlab-agent-token
  strategy:
    type: RollingUpdate
    rollingUpdate:
      maxSurge: 0
      maxUnavailable: 1
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRole
metadata:
  name: gitlab-agent-write
rules:
- resources:
  - '*'
  apiGroups:
  - '*'
  verbs:
  - create
  - update
  - delete
  - patch
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
  name: gitlab-agent-write-binding
roleRef:
  name: gitlab-agent-write
  kind: ClusterRole
  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
subjects:
- name: gitlab-agent
  kind: ServiceAccount
  namespace: gitlab-agent
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRole
metadata:
  name: gitlab-agent-read
rules:
- resources:
  - '*'
  apiGroups:
  - '*'
  verbs:
  - get
  - list
  - watch
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
  name: gitlab-agent-read-binding
roleRef:
  name: gitlab-agent-read
  kind: ClusterRole
  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
subjects:
- name: gitlab-agent
  kind: ServiceAccount
  namespace: gitlab-agent

Create a `manifest.yaml`

In a previous step, you configured a config.yaml to point to the GitLab projects the Agent should synchronize. In each of those projects, you must create a manifest.yaml file for the Agent to monitor. You can auto-generate this manifest.yaml with a templating engine or other means.

Each time you commit and push a change to this file, the Agent logs the change:

2020-09-15_14:09:04.87946 gitlab-k8s-agent      : time="2020-09-15T10:09:04-04:00" level=info msg="Config: new commit" agent_id=1 commit_id=e6a3651f1faa2e928fe6120e254c122451be4eea

Example `manifest.yaml` file

This file creates a simple NGINX deployment.

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: nginx-deployment
  namespace: gitlab-agent  # Can be any namespace managed by you that the agent has access to.
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: nginx
  replicas: 2
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: nginx
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: nginx
        image: nginx:1.14.2
        ports:
        - containerPort: 80

Example projects

This basic GitOps example deploys NGINX:

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