Chapter 1. Add-ons overview


Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes add-ons can improve some areas of performance and add functionality to enhance your applications. The following sections provide a summary of the add-ons that are available for Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management:

1.1. Enabling klusterlet add-ons on clusters for cluster management

After you install Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes and then create or import clusters with multicluster engine operator you can enable the klusterlet add-ons for those managed clusters. The klusterlet add-ons are not enabled by default if you created or imported clusters unless you create or import with the Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management console. See the following available klusterlet add-ons:

  • application-manager
  • cert-policy-controller
  • config-policy-controller
  • iam-policy-controller
  • governance-policy-framework
  • search-collector

Complete the following steps to enable the klusterlet add-ons for the managed clusters after Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management is installed:

  1. Create a YAML file that is similar to the following KlusterletAddonConfig, with the spec value that represents the add-ons:

    apiVersion: agent.open-cluster-management.io/v1
    kind: KlusterletAddonConfig
    metadata:
      name: <cluster_name>
      namespace: <cluster_name>
    spec:
      applicationManager:
        enabled: true
      certPolicyController:
        enabled: true
      iamPolicyController:
        enabled: true
      policyController: 1
        enabled: true
      searchCollector:
        enabled: true
    1
    The policy-controller add-on is divided into two add-ons: The governance-policy-framework and the config-policy-controller. As a result, the policyController controls the governance-policy-framework and the config-policy-controller managedClusterAddons.
  2. Save the file as klusterlet-addon-config.yaml.
  3. Apply the YAML by running the following command on the hub cluster:

    oc apply -f klusterlet-addon-config.yaml
  4. To verify whether the enabled managedClusterAddons are created after the KlusterletAddonConfig is created, run the following command:

    oc get managedclusteraddons -n <cluster namespace>

1.2. Configuring nodeSelectors and tolerations for klusterlet add-ons

In Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management, you can configure nodeSelector and tolerations for the following klusterlet add-ons:

  • application-manager
  • cert-policy-controller
  • cluster-proxy
  • config-policy-controller
  • governance-policy-framework
  • hypershift-addon
  • iam-policy-controller
  • managed-serviceaccount
  • observability-controller
  • search-collector
  • submariner
  • volsync
  • work-manager

Complete the following steps:

  1. Use the AddonDeploymentConfig API to create a configuration to specify the nodeSelector and tolerations in the namespace that you used for your Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management installation.
  2. Create a file named addondeploymentconfig.yaml that is based on the following template:

    apiVersion: addon.open-cluster-management.io/v1alpha1
    kind: AddOnDeploymentConfig
    metadata:
      name: config-name 1
      namespace: config-name-space 2
    spec:
      nodePlacement:
        nodeSelector: node-selector 3
        tolerations: tolerations 4
    1
    Replace config-name with the name of the AddonDeploymentConfig that you just created.
    2
    Replace config-namespace with the namespace of the AddonDeploymentConfig that you just created.
    3
    Replace node-selector with your node selector.
    4
    Replace tolerations with your tolerations.

    A completed AddOnDeployment file might resemble the following example:

    apiVersion: addon.open-cluster-management.io/v1alpha1
    kind: AddOnDeploymentConfig
    metadata:
      name: deploy-config
      namespace: open-cluster-management-hub
    spec:
      nodePlacement:
        nodeSelector:
          "node-dedicated": "acm-addon"
        tolerations:
          - effect: NoSchedule
            key: node-dedicated
            value: acm-addon
            operator: Equal
  3. Run the following command to apply the file that you created:

    oc apply -f addondeploymentconfig
  4. Use the configuration that you created as the global default configuration for your add-on by running the following command:

    oc patch clustermanagementaddons <addon-name> --type='json' -p='[{"op":"add", "path":"/spec/supportedConfigs", "value":[{"group":"addon.open-cluster-management.io","resource":"addondeploymentconfigs", "defaultConfig":{"name":"deploy-config","namespace":"open-cluster-management-hub"}}]}]'
    • Replace addon-name with your add-on name.
    • Replace config-name with the name of the AddonDeploymentConfig that you just created.
    • Replace config-namespace with the namespace of the AddonDeploymentConfig that you just created.

The nodeSelector and tolerations that you specified are applied to all of your add-on on each of the managed clusters.

You can also override the global default AddonDeploymentConfig configuration for your add-on on a certain managed cluster by using following steps:

  1. Use the AddonDeploymentConfig API to create another configuration to specify the nodeSelector and tolerations on the hub cluster.
  2. Link the new configuration that you created to your add-on ManagedClusterAddon on a managed cluster.

    oc -n <managed-cluster> patch managedclusteraddons <addon-name> --type='json' -p='[{"op":"add", "path":"/spec/configs", "value":[
    
    {"group":"addon.open-cluster-management.io","resource":"addondeploymentconfigs","namespace":"<config-namespace>","name":"<config-name>"}
    ]}]'
    • Replace managed-cluster with your managed cluster name
    • Replace addon-name with your add-on name
    • Replace config-namespace with the namespace of the AddonDeploymentConfig that you just created
    • Replace config-name with the name of the AddonDeploymentConfig that you just created

The new configuration that you referenced in the add-on ManagedClusterAddon overrides the global default configuration that you previously defined in the ClusterManagementAddon add-on.

1.3. Enabling cluster-wide proxy on existing cluster add-ons

You can configure the KlusterletAddonConfig in the cluster namespace to add the proxy environment variables to all the klusterlet add-on pods of the managed Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform clusters. Complete the following steps to configure the KlusterletAddonConfig to add the three environment variables to the pods of the klusterlet add-ons:

  1. Edit the KlusterletAddonConfig file that is in the namespace of the cluster that needs the proxy. You can use the console to find the resource, or you can edit from the terminal with the following command:

    oc -n <my-cluster-name> edit klusterletaddonconfig <my-cluster-name>

    Note: If you are working with only one cluster, you do not need <my-cluster-name> at the end of your command. See the following command:

    oc -n <my-cluster-name> edit klusterletaddonconfig
  2. Edit the .spec.proxyConfig section of the file so it resembles the following example. The spec.proxyConfig is an optional section:

    spec
      proxyConfig:
        httpProxy: "<proxy_not_secure>" 1
        httpsProxy: "<proxy_secure>" 2
        noProxy: "<no_proxy>" 3
    1
    Replace proxy_not_secure with the address of the proxy server for http requests. For example, use http://192.168.123.145:3128.
    2
    Replace proxy_secure with the address of the proxy server for https requests. For example, use https://192.168.123.145:3128.
    3
    Replace no_proxy with a comma delimited list of IP addresses, hostnames, and domain names where traffic is not routed through the proxy. For example, use .cluster.local,.svc,10.128.0.0/14,example.com.

    If the OpenShift Container Platform cluster is created with cluster wide proxy configured on the hub cluster, the cluster wide proxy configuration values are added to the pods of the klusterlet add-ons as environment variables when the following conditions are met:

    • The .spec.policyController.proxyPolicy in the addon section is enabled and set to OCPGlobalProxy.
    • The .spec.applicationManager.proxyPolocy is enabled and set to CustomProxy.

      Note: The default value of proxyPolicy in the addon section is Disabled.

      See the following examples of proxyPolicy entries:

      apiVersion: agent.open-cluster-management.io/v1
          kind: KlusterletAddonConfig
          metadata:
            name: clusterName
            namespace: clusterName
          spec:
            proxyConfig:
              httpProxy: http://pxuser:12345@10.0.81.15:3128
              httpsProxy: http://pxuser:12345@10.0.81.15:3128
              noProxy: .cluster.local,.svc,10.128.0.0/14, example.com
            applicationManager:
              enabled: true
              proxyPolicy: CustomProxy
            policyController:
              enabled: true
              proxyPolicy: OCPGlobalProxy
            searchCollector:
              enabled: true
              proxyPolicy: Disabled
            certPolicyController:
              enabled: true
              proxyPolicy: Disabled
            iamPolicyController:
              enabled: true
              proxyPolicy: Disabled

Important: Global proxy settings do not impact alert forwarding. To set up alert forwarding for Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management hub clusters with a cluster-wide proxy, see Forwarding alerts for more details.

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