Kiali Operator Helm Chart

kiali-operator simplifies Kiali installation, configuration and management.

Introduction

This chart installs the Kiali Operator and required Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs).

Official Documentation

Official project documentation found here.

Prerequisites

• Kubernetes 1.4+ with Beta APIs enabled

Installing the Chart

To install the chart with the release name kiali-operator in the kiali-system namespace:

$ helm install evry-ace/kiali-operator --name kiali-operator --namespace kiali-system

Uninstalling the Chart

To uninstall/delete the kiali-operator release:

$ helm delete --purge kiali-operator

Updating

Once you have a new chart version, you can update your deployment with:

$ helm upgrade kiali-operator stable/kiali-operator

Configuration

The following table lists the configurable parameters of the kiali-operator chart and their default values.

Parameter	Description	Default
crd.create	Create a custom resource for Kiali Operator	true
rbac.create	Install required RBAC service account, roles and rolebindings	true
serviceAccount.create	Flag to create the service account	true
serviceAccount.name	Name of the service account resource when RBAC is enabled	(autogenerated)
clusterWide	Deploy Kiali Operator cluster wide	default true
nameOverride	Kiali Operator name override	``
nameOverride	Kiali Operator full name override	``
replicaCount	Number of operator replicas to create (only 1 is supported)	1
image.repository	kiali-operator container image	quay.io/kiali/kiali-operator
image.tag	kiali-operator container image tag	v1.7.0
image.pullpolicy	kiali-operator container image pull policy	Always
imagePullSecrets	kiali-operator contianer image pull secrets	[]
resources	CPU limit per kiali-operator pod	100m
podSecurityContext	PodSecurityContext for Kiali Operator	{}
securityContext	SecurityContext for Kiali Operator	{}
nodeSelector	Node labels for Kiali Operator pod assignment	{}
podAnnotations	Annotations for the Kiali Operator pod	{}
affinity	Annotations for the Kiali Operator pod	{}

Specify each parameter using the --set key=value[,key=value] argument to helm install. For example:

$ helm install --name kiali-operator --set image.tag=v1.7.0 stable/kiali-operator

Alternatively, a YAML file that specifies the values for the parameters can be provided while installing the chart. For example:

$ helm install --name kiali-operator --values values.yaml stable/kiali-operator

RBAC

By default the chart will install the recommended RBAC roles and rolebindings.

To determine if your cluster supports this running the following:

$ kubectl api-versions | grep rbac

You also need to have the following parameter on the api server. See the following document for how to enable RBAC

--authorization-mode=RBAC

If the output contains "beta" or both "alpha" and "beta" you can may install rbac by default, if not, you may turn RBAC off as described below.

RBAC role/rolebinding creation

RBAC resources are enabled by default. To disable RBAC do the following:

$ helm install --name kiali-operator stable/kiali-operator --set rbac.create=false