This Operator is designed to enable K8sGPT within a Kubernetes cluster. It will allow you to create a custom resource that defines the behaviour and scope of a managed K8sGPT workload. Analysis and outputs will also be configurable to enable integration into existing workflows.

Installation

helm repo add k8sgpt https://charts.k8sgpt.ai/
helm repo update
helm install release k8sgpt/k8sgpt-operator -n k8sgpt-operator-system --create-namespace

Run the example

1. Install the operator from the Installation section.

2. Create secret:

kubectl create secret generic k8sgpt-sample-secret --from-literal=openai-api-key=$OPENAI_TOKEN -n k8sgpt-operator-system

3. Apply the K8sGPT configuration object:

kubectl apply -f - << EOF
apiVersion: core.k8sgpt.ai/v1alpha1
kind: K8sGPT
metadata:
  name: k8sgpt-sample
  namespace: k8sgpt-operator-system
spec:
  ai:
    enabled: true
    model: gpt-3.5-turbo
    backend: openai
    secret:
      name: k8sgpt-sample-secret
      key: openai-api-key
    # backOff:
    #  enabled: false
    #  maxRetries: 5
    # anonymized: false
    # language: english
    # proxyEndpoint: https://10.255.30.150 # use proxyEndpoint to setup backend through an HTTP/HTTPS proxy
  noCache: false
  repository: ghcr.io/k8sgpt-ai/k8sgpt
  version: v0.3.41
  #integrations:
  # trivy:
  #  enabled: true
  #  namespace: trivy-system
  # filters:
  #   - Ingress
  # sink:
  #   type: slack
  #   webhook: <webhook-url> # use the sink secret if you want to keep your webhook url private
  #   secret:
  #     name: slack-webhook
  #     key: url
  #extraOptions:
  #   backstage:
  #     enabled: true
EOF

4. Once the custom resource has been applied the K8sGPT-deployment will be installed and you will be able to see the Results objects of the analysis after some minutes (if there are any issues in your cluster):

❯ kubectl get results -n k8sgpt-operator-system -o json | jq .
{
  "apiVersion": "v1",
  "items": [
    {
      "apiVersion": "core.k8sgpt.ai/v1alpha1",
      "kind": "Result",
      "spec": {
        "details": "The error message means that the service in Kubernetes doesn't have any associated endpoints, which should have been labeled with \"control-plane=controller-manager\". \n\nTo solve this issue, you need to add the \"control-plane=controller-manager\" label to the endpoint that matches the service. Once the endpoint is labeled correctly, Kubernetes can associate it with the service, and the error should be resolved.",

Monitor multiple clusters

The k8sgpt.ai Operator allows monitoring multiple clusters by providing a kubeconfig value.

This feature could be fascinating if you want to embrace Platform Engineering such as running a fleet of Kubernetes clusters for multiple stakeholders. Especially designed for the Cluster API-based infrastructures, k8sgpt.ai Operator is going to be installed in the same Cluster API management cluster: this one is responsible for creating the required clusters according to the infrastructure provider for the seed clusters.

Once a Cluster API-based cluster has been provisioned a kubeconfig according to the naming convention ${CLUSTERNAME}-kubeconfig will be available in the same namespace: the conventional Secret data key is value, this can be used to instruct the k8sgpt.ai Operator to monitor a remote cluster without installing any resource deployed to the seed cluster.

$: kubectl get clusters
NAME              PHASE         AGE   VERSION
capi-quickstart   Provisioned   8s    v1.28.0

$: kubectl get secrets
NAME                         TYPE     DATA   AGE
capi-quickstart-kubeconfig   Opaque   1      8s

A security concern

If your setup requires the least privilege approach, a different kubeconfig must be provided since the Cluster API generated one is bounded to the admin user which has clustr-admin permissions.

Once you have a valid kubeconfig, a k8sgpt instance can be created as it follows.

apiVersion: core.k8sgpt.ai/v1alpha1
kind: K8sGPT
metadata:
  name: capi-quickstart
  namespace: default
spec:
  ai:
    anonymized: true
    backend: openai
    language: english
    model: gpt-3.5-turbo
    secret:
      key: api_key
      name: my_openai_secret
  kubeconfig:
    key: value
    name: capi-quickstart-kubeconfig

Once applied the k8sgpt.ai Operator will create the k8sgpt.ai Deployment by using the seed cluster kubeconfig defined in the field /spec/kubeconfig.

The resulting Result objects will be available in the same Namespace where the k8sgpt.ai instance has been deployed, accordingly labelled with the following keys:

• k8sgpts.k8sgpt.ai/name: the k8sgpt.ai instance Name
• k8sgpts.k8sgpt.ai/namespace: the k8sgpt.ai instance Namespace
• k8sgpts.k8sgpt.ai/backend: the AI backend (if specified)

Thanks to these labels, the results can be filtered according to the specified monitored cluster, without polluting the underlying cluster with the k8sgpt.ai CRDs and consuming seed compute workloads, as well as keeping confidentiality about the AI backend driver credentials.

In case of missing /spec/kubeconfig field, k8sgpt.ai Operator will track the cluster on which has been deployed: this is possible by mounting the provided ServiceAccount.

Distributed Cache

Interplex cache

Interplex is a caching system designed to work over RPC and optimised for K8sGPT. This cache can be installed without any credentials in your local cluster as part of your normal helm install.

1. Install K8sGPT Operator with Interplex

helm install release k8sgpt/k8sgpt-operator -n k8sgpt-operator-system --create-namespace --set interplex.enabled=true

2. Create the secret for your AI backend (in this example we use OPENAI):

kubectl create secret generic k8sgpt-sample-secret --from-literal=openai-api-key=$OPENAI_TOKEN -n k8sgpt-operator-system

3. Point your K8sGPT Custom resource to the interplex cache: (match the helm release name with the cache prefix e.g., myrelease-interplex-service:8084)

  kubectl apply -f - << EOF
  apiVersion: core.k8sgpt.ai/v1alpha1
  kind: K8sGPT
  metadata:
    name: k8sgpt-sample
    namespace: k8sgpt-operator-system
  spec:
    ai:
      enabled: true
      model: gpt-3.5-turbo
      backend: openai
      secret:
        name: k8sgpt-sample-secret
        key: openai-api-key
    noCache: false
    remoteCache:
      interplex:
        endpoint: release-interplex-service:8084
    repository: ghcr.io/k8sgpt-ai/k8sgpt
    version: v0.3.48
  EOF

Remote Cache

Azure Blob storage

1. Install the operator from the Installation section.

2. Create secret:

kubectl create secret generic k8sgpt-sample-cache-secret --from-literal=azure_client_id=<AZURE_CLIENT_ID>  --from-literal=azure_tenant_id=<AZURE_TENANT_ID> --from-literal=azure_client_secret=<AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET> -n k8sgpt-
operator-system

3. Apply the K8sGPT configuration object:

kubectl apply -f - << EOF
apiVersion: core.k8sgpt.ai/v1alpha1
kind: K8sGPT
metadata:
  name: k8sgpt-sample
  namespace: k8sgpt-operator-system
spec:
  ai:
    model: gpt-3.5-turbo
    backend: openai
    enabled: true
    secret:
      name: k8sgpt-sample-secret
      key: openai-api-key
  noCache: false
  repository: ghcr.io/k8sgpt-ai/k8sgpt
  version: v0.3.41
  remoteCache:
    credentials:
      name: k8sgpt-sample-cache-secret
    azure:
      # Storage account must already exist
      storageAccount: "account_name"
      containerName: "container_name"
EOF

S3

1. Install the operator from the Installation section.

2. Create secret:

kubectl create secret generic k8sgpt-sample-cache-secret --from-literal=aws_access_key_id=<AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID>  --from-literal=aws_secret_access_key=<AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY> -n k8sgpt-
operator-system

3. Apply the K8sGPT configuration object:

kubectl apply -f - << EOF
apiVersion: core.k8sgpt.ai/v1alpha1
kind: K8sGPT
metadata:
  name: k8sgpt-sample
  namespace: k8sgpt-operator-system
spec:
  ai:
    model: gpt-3.5-turbo
    backend: openai
    enabled: true
    secret:
      name: k8sgpt-sample-secret
      key: openai-api-key
  noCache: false
  repository: ghcr.io/k8sgpt-ai/k8sgpt
  version: v0.3.41
  remoteCache:
    credentials:
      name: k8sgpt-sample-cache-secret
    s3:
      bucketName: foo
      region: us-west-1
EOF

Other AI Backend Examples

AzureOpenAI

1. Install the operator from the Installation section.

2. Create secret:

kubectl create secret generic k8sgpt-sample-secret --from-literal=azure-api-key=$AZURE_TOKEN -n k8sgpt-operator-system

3. Apply the K8sGPT configuration object:

kubectl apply -f - << EOF
apiVersion: core.k8sgpt.ai/v1alpha1
kind: K8sGPT
metadata:
  name: k8sgpt-sample
  namespace: k8sgpt-operator-system
spec:
  ai:
    enabled: true
    secret:
      name: k8sgpt-sample-secret
      key: azure-api-key
    model: gpt-35-turbo
    backend: azureopenai
    baseUrl: https://k8sgpt.openai.azure.com/
    engine: llm
  noCache: false
  repository: ghcr.io/k8sgpt-ai/k8sgpt
  version: v0.3.41
EOF

Amazon Bedrock

1. Install the operator from the Installation section.

2. When running on AWS, you have a number of ways to give permission to the managed K8sGPT workload to access Amazon Bedrock.

• Grant access to Bedrock using the Kubernetes Service Account. This is the best practices method for assigning permissions to Kubernetes Pods. There are a few ways to do this:
  • On Amazon EKS, using EKS Pod Identity
  • On Amazon EKS, using IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA)
  • On self-managed Kubernetes, using IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA) with the Pod Identity Webhook
• Grant access to Bedrock using AWS credentials in a Kubernetes Secret. Note this goes against AWS best practices and should be used with caution.

To grant access to Bedrock using a Kubernetes Service account, create an IAM role with Bedrock permissions. An example policy is included below:

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "bedrock:InvokeModel",
        "bedrock:InvokeModelWithResponseStream"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

To grant access to Bedrock using AWS credentials in a Kubernetes secret you can create a secret:

kubectl create secret generic bedrock-sample-secret --from-literal=AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="$(echo $AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID)" --from-literal=AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="$(echo $AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY)" -n k8sgpt-operator-system

3. Apply the K8sGPT configuration object:

kubectl apply -f - << EOF
apiVersion: core.k8sgpt.ai/v1alpha1
kind: K8sGPT
metadata:
  name: k8sgpt-sample
  namespace: k8sgpt-operator-system
spec:
  ai:
    enabled: true
    secret:
     name: bedrock-sample-secret
    model: anthropic.claude-v2
    region: eu-central-1
    backend: amazonbedrock
  noCache: false
  repository: ghcr.io/k8sgpt-ai/k8sgpt
  version: v0.3.41
EOF

LocalAI

1. Install the operator from the Installation section.

2. Follow the LocalAI installation guide to install LocalAI. (No OpenAI secret is required when using LocalAI).

3. Apply the K8sGPT configuration object:

kubectl apply -f - << EOF
apiVersion: core.k8sgpt.ai/v1alpha1
kind: K8sGPT
metadata:
  name: k8sgpt-local-ai
  namespace: default
spec:
  ai:
    enabled: true
    model: ggml-gpt4all-j
    backend: localai
    baseUrl: http://local-ai.local-ai.svc.cluster.local:8080/v1
  noCache: false
  repository: ghcr.io/k8sgpt-ai/k8sgpt
  version: v0.3.41
EOF

Note: ensure that the value of baseUrl is a properly constructed DNS name for the LocalAI Service. It should take the form: http://local-ai.<namespace_local_ai_was_installed_in>.svc.cluster.local:8080/v1.

1. Same as step 4. in the example above.

K8sGPT Configuration Options

ImagePullSecrets

You can use custom k8sgpt image by modifying `repository`, `version`, `imagePullSecrets`. `version` actually works as image tag.

kubectl apply -f - << EOF
apiVersion: core.k8sgpt.ai/v1alpha1
kind: K8sGPT
metadata:
  name: k8sgpt-sample
  namespace: k8sgpt-operator-system
spec:
  ai:
    enabled: true
    model: gpt-3.5-turbo
    backend: openai
    secret:
      name: k8sgpt-sample-secret
      key: openai-api-key
  noCache: false
  repository: sample.repository/k8sgpt
  version: sample-tag
  imagePullSecrets:
    - name: sample-secret
EOF

Resources

You can use custom k8sgpt container resource usage by `resources`.

kubectl apply -f - << EOF
apiVersion: core.k8sgpt.ai/v1alpha1
kind: K8sGPT
metadata:
  name: k8sgpt-sample
  namespace: k8sgpt-operator-system
spec:
  ai:
    enabled: true
    model: gpt-3.5-turbo
    backend: openai
    secret:
      name: k8sgpt-sample-secret
      key: openai-api-key
  noCache: false
  repository: ghcr.io/k8sgpt-ai/k8sgpt
  resources:
    limits:
      cpu: 10
      memory: 512Mi
    requests:
      cpu: 200m
      memory: 156Mi
EOF

sink (integrations)

Optional parameters available for sink.
('type', 'webhook' are required parameters.)

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