VictoriaMetrics/docs/helm/victoria-metrics-gateway

Victoria Metrics Gateway - Auth & Rate-Limitting proxy for Victoria Metrics

Table of Content

• Prerequisites
• Chart Details
• How to Install
• How to Uninstall
• How to use JWT signature verification
• Documentation of Helm Chart

Prerequisites

• Install the follow packages: git, kubectl, helm, helm-docs. See this tutorial.
• PV support on underlying infrastructure

Chart Details

This chart will do the following:

• Rollout victoria metrics gateway

How to install

Access a Kubernetes cluster.

Setup chart repository (can be omitted for OCI repositories)

Add a chart helm repository with follow commands:

helm repo add vm https://victoriametrics.github.io/helm-charts/

helm repo update

List versions of vm/victoria-metrics-gateway chart available to installation:

helm search repo vm/victoria-metrics-gateway -l

Install victoria-metrics-gateway chart

Export default values of victoria-metrics-gateway chart to file values.yaml:

• For HTTPS repository

  helm show values vm/victoria-metrics-gateway > values.yaml
  

• For OCI repository

  helm show values oci://ghcr.io/victoriametrics/helm-charts/victoria-metrics-gateway > values.yaml
  

Change the values according to the need of the environment in values.yaml file.

Test the installation with command:

• For HTTPS repository

  helm install vmg vm/victoria-metrics-gateway -f values.yaml -n NAMESPACE --debug --dry-run
  

• For OCI repository

  helm install vmg oci://ghcr.io/victoriametrics/helm-charts/victoria-metrics-gateway -f values.yaml -n NAMESPACE --debug --dry-run
  

Install chart with command:

• For HTTPS repository

  helm install vmg vm/victoria-metrics-gateway -f values.yaml -n NAMESPACE
  

• For OCI repository

  helm install vmg oci://ghcr.io/victoriametrics/helm-charts/victoria-metrics-gateway -f values.yaml -n NAMESPACE
  

Get the pods lists by running this commands:

kubectl get pods -A | grep 'vmg'

Get the application by running this command:

helm list -f vmg -n NAMESPACE

See the history of versions of vmg application with command.

helm history vmg -n NAMESPACE

How to use JWT signature verification

Kubernetes best-practice is to store sensitive configuration parts in secrets. For example, 2 keys will be stored as:

apiVersion: v1
data:
  key: "<<KEY_DATA>>"
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: key1
---
apiVersion: v1
data:
  key: "<<KEY_DATA>>"
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: key2

In order to use those secrets it is needed to:

• mount secrets into pod
• provide flag pointing to secret on disk

Here is an example values.yml file configuration to achieve this:

auth:
  enable: true

extraVolumes:
  - name: key1
    secret:
      secretName: key1
  - name: key2
    secret:
      secretName: key2

extraVolumeMounts:
  - name: key1
    mountPath: /key1
  - name: key2
    mountPath: /key2

extraArgs:
  envflag.enable: "true"
  envflag.prefix: VM_
  loggerFormat: json
  auth.publicKeyFiles: "/key1/key,/key2/key"

Note that in this configuration all secret keys will be mounted and accessible to pod. Please, refer to this doc to see all available secret source options.

How to uninstall

Remove application with command.

helm uninstall vmg -n NAMESPACE

Documentation of Helm Chart

Install helm-docs following the instructions on this tutorial.

Generate docs with helm-docs command.

cd charts/victoria-metrics-gateway

helm-docs

The markdown generation is entirely go template driven. The tool parses metadata from charts and generates a number of sub-templates that can be referenced in a template file (by default README.md.gotmpl). If no template file is provided, the tool has a default internal template that will generate a reasonably formatted README.

Parameters

The following tables lists the configurable parameters of the chart and their default values.

Change the values according to the need of the environment in victoria-metrics-gateway/values.yaml file.

Key	Type	Default	Description
affinity	object	{}	Affinity configurations
annotations	object	{}	Annotations to be added to the deployment
auth	object	enabled: false	Access Control configuration. https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmgateway#access-control
auth.enabled	bool	false	Enable/Disable access-control
clusterMode	bool	false	Specify to True if the source for rate-limiting, reading and writing as a VictoriaMetrics Cluster. Must be true for rate limiting
configMap	string	""	Use existing configmap if specified otherwise .config values will be used. Ref: https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmgateway
containerWorkingDir	string	/
env	list	[]	Additional environment variables (ex.: secret tokens, flags) https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics#environment-variables
envFrom	list	[]
extraArgs."envflag.enable"	string	"true"
extraArgs."envflag.prefix"	string	VM_
extraArgs.loggerFormat	string	json
extraContainers	list	[]
extraHostPathMounts	list	[]	Additional hostPath mounts
extraVolumeMounts	list	[]	Extra Volume Mounts for the container
extraVolumes	list	[]	Extra Volumes for the pod
fullnameOverride	string	""
global.compatibility.openshift.adaptSecurityContext	string	auto
global.image.registry	string	""
global.imagePullSecrets	list	[]
image.pullPolicy	string	IfNotPresent	Pull policy of Docker image
image.registry	string	""	Victoria Metrics gateway Docker registry
image.repository	string	victoriametrics/vmgateway	Victoria Metrics gateway Docker repository and image name
image.tag	string	""	Tag of Docker image override Chart.AppVersion
image.variant	string	""
imagePullSecrets	list	[]
ingress.annotations	object	{}
ingress.enabled	bool	false
ingress.extraLabels	object	{}
ingress.hosts	list	[]
ingress.pathType	string	Prefix	pathType is only for k8s >= 1.1=
ingress.tls	list	[]
license	object	key: "" secret: key: "" name: ""	Enterprise license key configuration for VictoriaMetrics enterprise. Required only for VictoriaMetrics enterprise. Documentation - https://docs.victoriametrics.com/enterprise, for more information, visit https://victoriametrics.com/products/enterprise/ . To request a trial license, go to https://victoriametrics.com/products/enterprise/trial/ Supported starting from VictoriaMetrics v1.94.0
license.key	string	""	License key
license.secret	object	key: "" name: ""	Use existing secret with license key
license.secret.key	string	""	Key in secret with license key
license.secret.name	string	""	Existing secret name
nameOverride	string	""
nodeSelector	object	{}	NodeSelector configurations. Ref: https://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/node-selection/
podAnnotations	object	{}	Annotations to be added to pod
podDisruptionBudget	object	enabled: false labels: {}	See kubectl explain poddisruptionbudget.spec for more. Ref: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/run-application/configure-pdb/
podSecurityContext.enabled	bool	true
probe.liveness	object	initialDelaySeconds: 5 periodSeconds: 15 tcpSocket: {} timeoutSeconds: 5	liveness probe
probe.readiness	object	httpGet: {} initialDelaySeconds: 5 periodSeconds: 15	readiness probe
probe.startup	object	{}	startup probe
rateLimiter	object	config: {} datasource: url: "" enabled: false	Rate limiter configuration. Docs https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmgateway#rate-limiter
rateLimiter.datasource.url	string	""	Datasource VictoriaMetrics or vmselects. Required. Example http://victoroametrics:8428 or http://vmselect:8481/select/0/prometheus
rateLimiter.enabled	bool	false	Enable/Disable rate-limiting
read.url	string	""	Read endpoint without suffixes, victoriametrics or vmselect. Example http://victoroametrics:8428 or http://vmselect:8481
replicaCount	int	1	Number of replicas of vmgateway
resources	object	{}	We usually recommend not to specify default resources and to leave this as a conscious choice for the user. This also increases chances charts run on environments with little resources, such as Minikube. If you do want to specify resources, uncomment the following lines, adjust them as necessary, and remove the curly braces after ‘resources:’.
securityContext	object	enabled: true runAsGroup: 1000 runAsNonRoot: true runAsUser: 1000	Ref: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/security-context/
service.annotations	object	{}
service.clusterIP	string	""
service.enabled	bool	true
service.externalIPs	list	[]
service.extraLabels	object	{}
service.ipFamilies	list	[]
service.ipFamilyPolicy	string	""
service.loadBalancerIP	string	""
service.loadBalancerSourceRanges	list	[]
service.servicePort	int	8431
service.type	string	ClusterIP
serviceAccount.annotations	object	{}	Annotations to add to the service account
serviceAccount.create	bool	true	Specifies whether a service account should be created
serviceAccount.name	string	null	The name of the service account to use. If not set and create is true, a name is generated using the fullname template
serviceMonitor.annotations	object	{}	Service Monitor annotations
serviceMonitor.basicAuth	object	{}	Basic auth params for Service Monitor
serviceMonitor.enabled	bool	false	Enable deployment of Service Monitor for server component. This is Prometheus operator object
serviceMonitor.extraLabels	object	{}	Service Monitor labels
serviceMonitor.metricRelabelings	list	[]	Service Monitor metricRelabelings
serviceMonitor.relabelings	list	[]	Service Monitor relabelings
tolerations	list	[]	Tolerations configurations. Ref: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/assign-pod-node/
write.url	string	""	Write endpoint without suffixes, victoriametrics or vminsert. Example http://victoroametrics:8428 or http://vminsert:8480