Mimir Operator

The Mimir Operator is a Kubernetes operator to control Mimir tenants using CRDs.

Description

Currently, the operator is capable of:

• Connecting to remote Mimir instances (with optional authentication)
• Loading alerting rules for a specific Mimir tenant depending on labels
• Overriding rule parameters per tenant
• Adding external labels to the generated alerts
• Loading Alert Manager config for a specific Mimir tenant

Read the documentation here.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• go version v1.21.0+
• docker version 17.03+.
• kubectl version v1.11.3+.
• Access to a Kubernetes v1.11.3+ cluster.

To Deploy on the cluster

Build and push your image to the location specified by IMG:

make docker-build docker-push IMG=<some-registry>/mimir-operator:tag

NOTE: This image ought to be published in the personal registry you specified. And it is required to have access to pull the image from the working environment. Make sure you have the proper permission to the registry if the above commands don’t work.

Install the CRDs into the cluster:

make install

Deploy the Manager to the cluster with the image specified by IMG:

make deploy IMG=<some-registry>/mimir-operator:tag

NOTE: If you encounter RBAC errors, you may need to grant yourself cluster-admin privileges or be logged in as admin.

Create instances of your solution You can apply the samples (examples) from the config/sample:

kubectl apply -k config/samples/

NOTE: Ensure that the samples has default values to test it out.

To Uninstall

Delete the instances (CRs) from the cluster:

kubectl delete -k config/samples/

Delete the APIs(CRDs) from the cluster:

make uninstall

UnDeploy the controller from the cluster:

make undeploy

Project Distribution

Following are the steps to build the installer and distribute this project to users.

1. Build the installer for the image built and published in the registry:

make build-installer IMG=<some-registry>/mimir-operator:tag

NOTE: The makefile target mentioned above generates an 'install.yaml' file in the dist directory. This file contains all the resources built with Kustomize, which are necessary to install this project without its dependencies.

2. Using the installer

Users can just run kubectl apply -f to install the project, i.e.:

kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/<org>/mimir-operator/<tag or branch>/dist/install.yaml

Contributing

How it works

This project aims to follow the Kubernetes Operator pattern.

It uses Controllers, which provide a reconcile function responsible for synchronizing resources until the desired state is reached on the cluster.

Test It Out

1. Install the CRDs into the cluster:

make install

2. Run your controller (this will run in the foreground, so switch to a new terminal if you want to leave it running):

make run

NOTE: You can also run this in one step by running: make install run

Modifying the API definitions

If you are editing the API definitions, generate the manifests such as CRs or CRDs using:

make manifests

NOTE: Run make --help for more information on all potential make targets

More information can be found via the Kubebuilder Documentation

Releasing a new version

• Update the documentation in docs/ (check the instructions for installation and set the upcoming release as the latest release)
• Run make generate and make manifests to refresh the CRDs and the deployment files in config/ (the CRDs are copied to the Helm chart)
• Bump the chart version in deploy/helm/mimir-operator/Chart.yml with the version of the upcoming release
• Run make helm/docs to regenerate the Helm README with any new documentation of the values
• Check if config/rbac/role.yaml has changed. If it did, edit the RBAC config in the Helm Chart (deploy/helm/mimir-operator/templates/rbac.yaml) to reflect the changes
• Run git checkout -b [RELEASE]
• Push the new branch to the Git
• Merge and create a Release on Github

License

Copyright 2024.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.