Currently, installing Metering via OLM is only supported on OpenShift 4.3 and newer from the OpenShift Marketplace. If you want to install Metering into a non-OpenShift Kubernetes cluster, use the manual installation documentation.
This procedure covers:
- Installing the metering-operator using the OperatorHub within the OpenShift web console
- Creating a Metering resource that defines the installation configuration for the rest of the Metering stack
Create a dedicated OpenShift project for Metering, and then install the Metering Operator:
- Create a new project/namespace called openshift-metering using the OpenShift web console (navigate to Administration > Namespaces > Create Namespace) or the
oc
command:
oc create namespace openshift-metering
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From the web console, click Catalog > OperatorHub, and search for metering-ocp to find the Metering Operator.
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Click the Metering card to open its package description, then click Install.
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In the Create Operator Subscription screen, select the openshift-metering namespace in the A specific namespace on the cluster drop-down, and specify your update channel and approval strategy. Click Subscribe to install the metering-operator into your selected namespace.
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On the Subscription Overview screen, the Upgrade status indicates 1 installed when the Metering Operator has finished installing. Click the 1 installed (or installed version) link to view the ClusterServiceVersion overview for the metering-operator.
From the ClusterServiceVersion overview, you can create different resources related to Metering.
Next, create a Metering resource that instructs the metering-operator to install the Metering stack in the namespace.
This resource holds all the top level configuration for each component (such as requests, limits, storage, etc.).
IMPORTANT: There can only be one Metering resource in the namespace containing the metering-operator. Any other configuration is not supported.
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From the web console, ensure you are on the ClusterServiceVersion overview page for the openshift-metering project. You can navigate to this page from Catalog > Installed Operators, then selecting the Metering operator.
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Under Provided APIs, click Create New on the Metering Configuration card. This opens a YAML editor where you can define your Metering installation configuration.
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Download the example default.yaml Metering resource and customize the YAML as desired. Enter your configuration into the YAML editor and click Create.
NOTE: All supported configuration options are documented in configuring metering.
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Navigate to Workloads > Pods and wait for your resources to be created and become ready.
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Next, verify that the ReportDataSources are beginning to import data, indicated by a valid timestamp in the
EARLIEST METRIC
column (this may take a few minutes). We filter out the "-raw" ReportDataSources which don't import data:
$ kubectl get reportdatasources -n $METERING_NAMESPACE | grep -v raw
NAME EARLIEST METRIC NEWEST METRIC IMPORT START IMPORT END LAST IMPORT TIME AGE
node-allocatable-cpu-cores 2019-08-05T16:52:00Z 2019-08-05T18:52:00Z 2019-08-05T16:52:00Z 2019-08-05T18:52:00Z 2019-08-05T18:54:45Z 9m50s
node-allocatable-memory-bytes 2019-08-05T16:51:00Z 2019-08-05T18:51:00Z 2019-08-05T16:51:00Z 2019-08-05T18:51:00Z 2019-08-05T18:54:45Z 9m50s
node-capacity-cpu-cores 2019-08-05T16:51:00Z 2019-08-05T18:29:00Z 2019-08-05T16:51:00Z 2019-08-05T18:29:00Z 2019-08-05T18:54:39Z 9m50s
node-capacity-memory-bytes 2019-08-05T16:52:00Z 2019-08-05T18:41:00Z 2019-08-05T16:52:00Z 2019-08-05T18:41:00Z 2019-08-05T18:54:44Z 9m50s
persistentvolumeclaim-capacity-bytes 2019-08-05T16:51:00Z 2019-08-05T18:29:00Z 2019-08-05T16:51:00Z 2019-08-05T18:29:00Z 2019-08-05T18:54:43Z 9m50s
persistentvolumeclaim-phase 2019-08-05T16:51:00Z 2019-08-05T18:29:00Z 2019-08-05T16:51:00Z 2019-08-05T18:29:00Z 2019-08-05T18:54:28Z 9m50s
persistentvolumeclaim-request-bytes 2019-08-05T16:52:00Z 2019-08-05T18:30:00Z 2019-08-05T16:52:00Z 2019-08-05T18:30:00Z 2019-08-05T18:54:34Z 9m50s
persistentvolumeclaim-usage-bytes 2019-08-05T16:52:00Z 2019-08-05T18:30:00Z 2019-08-05T16:52:00Z 2019-08-05T18:30:00Z 2019-08-05T18:54:36Z 9m49s
pod-limit-cpu-cores 2019-08-05T16:52:00Z 2019-08-05T18:30:00Z 2019-08-05T16:52:00Z 2019-08-05T18:30:00Z 2019-08-05T18:54:26Z 9m49s
pod-limit-memory-bytes 2019-08-05T16:51:00Z 2019-08-05T18:40:00Z 2019-08-05T16:51:00Z 2019-08-05T18:40:00Z 2019-08-05T18:54:30Z 9m49s
pod-persistentvolumeclaim-request-info 2019-08-05T16:51:00Z 2019-08-05T18:40:00Z 2019-08-05T16:51:00Z 2019-08-05T18:40:00Z 2019-08-05T18:54:37Z 9m49s
pod-request-cpu-cores 2019-08-05T16:51:00Z 2019-08-05T18:18:00Z 2019-08-05T16:51:00Z 2019-08-05T18:18:00Z 2019-08-05T18:54:24Z 9m49s
pod-request-memory-bytes 2019-08-05T16:52:00Z 2019-08-05T18:08:00Z 2019-08-05T16:52:00Z 2019-08-05T18:08:00Z 2019-08-05T18:54:32Z 9m49s
pod-usage-cpu-cores 2019-08-05T16:52:00Z 2019-08-05T17:57:00Z 2019-08-05T16:52:00Z 2019-08-05T17:57:00Z 2019-08-05T18:54:10Z 9m49s
pod-usage-memory-bytes 2019-08-05T16:52:00Z 2019-08-05T18:08:00Z 2019-08-05T16:52:00Z 2019-08-05T18:08:00Z 2019-08-05T18:54:20Z 9m49s
Once all pods are ready and you have verified that data is being imported, you can begin using Metering to collect and Report on your cluster. For further reading on using metering, see the using metering documentation.
NOTE:
The Metering documentation refers to $METERING_NAMESPACE
in most examples; this value will be openshift-metering
if you followed the above instructions to create the Metering project/namespace.
To learn more about how the OLM installation process works under the hood, or to use the CLI to install Metering via OLM, see the manual OLM install documentation.