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Installation

This guide walks you through setting up the GitOps Toolkit to manage one or more Kubernetes clusters.

Prerequisites

You will need a Kubernetes cluster version 1.16 or newer and kubectl version 1.18 or newer.

Install the toolkit CLI

With Homebrew:

brew tap fluxcd/tap
brew install gotk

With Bash:

curl -s https://toolkit.fluxcd.io/install.sh | sudo bash

# enable completions in ~/.bash_profile
. <(gotk completion bash)

Command-line completion for zsh, fish, and powershell are also supported with their own sub-commands.

Binaries for macOS and Linux AMD64/ARM are available for download on the release page.

Verify that your cluster satisfies the prerequisites with:

gotk check --pre

Bootstrap

Using the gotk bootstrap command you can install the toolkit on a Kubernetes cluster and configure it to manage itself from a Git repository.

The bootstrap creates a Git repository if one doesn't exist and commits the toolkit components manifests to the main branch. Then it configures the target cluster to synchronize with that repository by setting up SSH deploy keys.

If the toolkit components are present on the cluster, the bootstrap command will perform an upgrade if needed. The bootstrap is idempotent, it's safe to run the command as many times as you want.

You can choose what components to install and for which cluster with:

gotk bootstrap <GIT-PROVIDER> \
  --components=source-controller,kustomize-controller,helm-controller,notification-controller \
  --path=my-cluster \
  --version=latest

!!! hint "ARM" When deploying to a Kubernetes cluster with ARM architecture, you can use --arch=arm for ARMv7 32-bit container images and --arch=arm64 for ARMv8 64-bit container images.

If you wish to install a specific version, use the toolkit release tag e.g. --version=v0.0.14.

With --path you can configure the directory which will be used to reconcile the target cluster. To control multiple clusters from the same Git repository, you have to set a unique path per cluster e.g. staging-cluster and production-cluster:

├── staging-cluster # <- path=staging-cluster
│   └── gotk-system # <- namespace dir generated by bootstrap
│       ├── toolkit-components.yaml
│       ├── toolkit-kustomization.yaml
│       └── toolkit-source.yaml
└── production-cluster # <- path=production-cluster
    └── gotk-system

!!! hint "Change the default branch" If you wish to change the branch to something else than main, create the repository manually, push a branch to origin and then use gotk bootstrap <GIT-PROVIDER> --branch=your-branch.

GitHub and GitHub Enterprise

Generate a personal access token that can create repositories by checking all permissions under repo.

Export your GitHub personal access token as an environment variable:

export GITHUB_TOKEN=<your-token>

Run the bootstrap for a repository on your personal GitHub account:

gotk bootstrap github \
  --owner=my-github-username \
  --repository=my-repository \
  --path=my-cluster \
  --personal

Run the bootstrap for a repository owned by a GitHub organization:

gotk bootstrap github \
  --owner=my-github-organization \
  --repository=my-repository \
  --team=team1-slug \
  --team=team2-slug \
  --path=my-cluster

When you specify a list of teams, those teams will be granted maintainer access to the repository.

To run the bootstrap for a repository hosted on GitHub Enterprise, you have to specify your GitHub hostname:

gotk bootstrap github \
  --hostname=my-github-enterprise.com \
  --owner=my-github-organization \
  --repository=my-repository \
  --branch=main \
  --path=my-cluster

GitLab and GitLab Enterprise

Generate a personal access token that grants complete read/write access to the GitLab API.

Export your GitLab personal access token as an environment variable:

export GITLAB_TOKEN=<your-token>

Run the bootstrap for a repository on your personal GitLab account:

gotk bootstrap gitlab \
  --owner=my-gitlab-username \
  --repository=my-repository \
  --branch=master \
  --path=my-cluster \
  --personal

To run the bootstrap for a repository using deploy keys for authentication, you have to specify the SSH hostname:

gotk bootstrap gitlab \
  --ssh-hostname=gitlab.com \
  --owner=my-gitlab-username \
  --repository=my-repository \
  --branch=master \
  --path=my-cluster

!!! hint "Authentication" When providing the --ssh-hostname, a read-only (SSH) deploy key will be added to your repository, otherwise your GitLab personal token will be used to authenticate against the HTTPS endpoint instead.

Run the bootstrap for a repository owned by a GitLab group:

gotk bootstrap gitlab \
  --owner=my-gitlab-group \
  --repository=my-repository \
  --branch=master \
  --path=my-cluster

To run the bootstrap for a repository hosted on GitLab on-prem or enterprise, you have to specify your GitLab hostname:

gotk bootstrap gitlab \
  --hostname=my-gitlab.com \
  --owner=my-gitlab-group \
  --repository=my-repository \
  --branch=master \
  --path=my-cluster

Generic Git Server

For other Git providers such as Bitbucket, Gogs, Gitea, etc you can manually setup the repository and the deploy key.

Create a Git repository and clone it locally:

git clone ssh://<host>/<org>/my-repository
cd my-repository

Create a directory inside the repository:

mkdir -p ./my-cluster/gotk-system

Generate the toolkit manifests with:

gotk install --version=latest \
  --arch=amd64 \ # on ARM64/AARCH64 clusters use --arch=arm64
  --export > ./my-cluster/gotk-system/toolkit-components.yaml

If your cluster must pull images from a private container registry, first you should pull the toolkit images from GitHub Container Registry and push them to your registry, for example:

docker pull ghcr.io/fluxcd/source-controller:v0.0.14
docker tag ghcr.io/fluxcd/source-controller:v0.0.14 registry.internal/fluxcd/source-controller:v0.0.14
docker push registry.internal/fluxcd/source-controller:v0.0.14

Create the pull secret in the gotk-system namespace:

kubectl create ns gotk-system

kubectl -n gotk-system create secret generic regcred \
    --from-file=.dockerconfigjson=/.docker/config.json \
    --type=kubernetes.io/dockerconfigjson

Set your registry domain, and the pull secret when generating the manifests:

gotk install --version=latest \
  --registry=registry.internal/fluxcd \
  --image-pull-secret=regcred \
  --export > ./my-cluster/gotk-system/toolkit-components.yaml

Commit and push the manifest to the master branch:

git add -A && git commit -m "add toolkit manifests" && git push

Apply the manifests on your cluster:

kubectl apply -f ./my-cluster/gotk-system/toolkit-components.yaml

Verify that the toolkit controllers have started:

gotk check

Create a GitRepository object on your cluster by specifying the SSH address of your repo:

gotk create source git gotk-system \
  --url= ssh://<host>/<org>/my-repository \
  --ssh-key-algorithm=ecdsa \
  --ssh-ecdsa-curve=p521 \
  --branch=master \
  --interval=1m

You will be prompted to add a deploy key to your repository. If you don't specify the SSH algorithm, then gotk will generate an RSA 2048 bits key.

If your Git server supports basic auth, you can set the URL to HTTPS and specify the credentials with:

gotk create source git gotk-system \
  --url=https://<host>/<org>/my-repository \
  --username=my-username \
  --password=my-password \
  --branch=master \
  --interval=1m

Create a Kustomization object on your cluster:

gotk create kustomization gotk-system \
  --source=gotk-system \
  --path="./my-cluster" \
  --prune=true \
  --interval=10m

Export both objects, commit and push the manifests to Git:

gotk export source git gotk-system \
  > ./my-cluster/gotk-system/toolkit-source.yaml

gotk export kustomization gotk-system \
  > ./my-cluster/gotk-system/toolkit-kustomization.yaml

git add -A && git commit -m "add toolkit reconciliation" && git push

To upgrade the toolkit to a newer version, run the install command and commit the changes:

gotk install --version=latest \
  --export > ./my-cluster/gotk-system/toolkit-components.yaml

git add -A && git commit -m "update toolkit" && git push

The source-controller will pull the changes on the cluster, then the kustomize-controller will perform a rolling update of all toolkit components including itself.

Dev install

For testing purposes you can install the toolkit without storing its manifests in a Git repository.

Here is the equivalent to fluxctl install:

gotk install \
  --components=source-controller,kustomize-controller

Then you can register Git repositories and reconcile them on your cluster:

gotk create source git podinfo \
  --url=https://github.com/stefanprodan/podinfo \
  --tag-semver=">=4.0.0" \
  --interval=1m

gotk create kustomization podinfo-default \
  --source=podinfo \
  --path="./kustomize" \
  --prune=true \
  --validation=client \
  --interval=10m \
  --health-check="Deployment/podinfo.default" \
  --health-check-timeout=2m

Here is the equivalent to helm install helm-operator:

gotk install \
  --components=source-controller,kustomize-controller,helm-controller

Then you can register Helm repositories and create Helm releases:

gotk create source helm stable \
  --interval=1h \
  --url=https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com

gotk create helmrelease sealed-secrets \
  --interval=1h \
  --release-name=sealed-secrets \
  --target-namespace=gotk-system \
  --source=HelmRepository/stable \
  --chart=sealed-secrets \
  --chart-version="1.10.x"

Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana

The GitOps Toolkit comes with a monitoring stack composed of:

Prometheus server - collects metrics from the toolkit controllers and stores them for 2h
Grafana dashboards - displays the control plane resource usage and reconciliation stats

To install the monitoring stack with gotk, first register the toolkit Git repository on your cluster:

gotk create source git monitoring \
  --interval=30m \
  --url=https://github.com/fluxcd/toolkit \
  --branch=main

Then apply the manifests/monitoring kustomization:

gotk create kustomization monitoring \
  --interval=1h \
  --prune=true \
  --source=monitoring \
  --path="./manifests/monitoring" \
  --health-check="Deployment/prometheus.gotk-system" \
  --health-check="Deployment/grafana.gotk-system"

You can access Grafana using port forwarding:

kubectl -n gotk-system port-forward svc/grafana 3000:3000

Navigate to http://localhost:3000/d/gitops-toolkit-control-plane for the control plane dashboard:

Navigate to http://localhost:3000/d/gitops-toolkit-cluster for the cluster reconciliation stats dashboard:

If you wish to use your own Prometheus and Grafana instances, then you can import the dashboards from GitHub.

!!! hint Note that the toolkit controllers expose the /metrics endpoint on port 8080. When using Prometheus Operator you should create PodMonitor objects to configure scraping.

Uninstall

You can uninstall the toolkit components with:

gotk uninstall --crds

The above command will delete the toolkit custom resources definitions, the controllers and the namespace where they were installed.

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