Kubernetes

Who this is for

Platform and SRE teams running managed Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE) or self-managed clusters, including OpenShift.

Prerequisites

• kubectl access to the cluster and Helm installed.
• A StorageClass that provides persistent volumes.
• Your license key from the workspace, stored as a Kubernetes secret.

Steps

1. 1

   Add the XPLG chart repository

   Register the chart repository and refresh the index.

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   helm repo add xplg <chart-repo-url>
   helm repo update

2. 2

   Create the license secret

   Keep the key out of values files and out of version control.

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   kubectl create namespace <namespace>
   kubectl create secret generic xplg-license \
     --from-literal=key=<your-key> -n <namespace>

3. 3

   Write a values file

   At minimum set storage and how the console is exposed; reference the license secret.

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   license:
     existingSecret: xplg-license
   persistence:
     storageClass: <storage-class>
     size: <size>
   service:
     type: <service-type>
   ingress:
     enabled: <true-or-false>
     host: <console-host>

4. 4

   Install the release

   Install into the namespace and wait for the pods to become ready.

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   helm install <release> xplg/<chart> \
     --namespace <namespace> -f values.yaml
   kubectl get pods -n <namespace> -w

5. 5

   Open the console and register

   Open the console through the ingress host, or port-forward for a first look. Complete the first-run screen, then register the deployment in your workspace so it can be licensed and tracked.

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   kubectl port-forward svc/<service> <console-port>:<console-port> -n <namespace>