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Install the Kubernetes Agent Server (KAS) (PREMIUM SELF)
The Kubernetes Agent Server (KAS) is a GitLab backend service dedicated to managing Kubernetes Agents.
The KAS is already installed and available in GitLab.com under wss://kas.gitlab.com
.
See how to use GitLab.com's KAS.
This document describes how to install a KAS for GitLab self-managed instances.
Installation options
As a GitLab administrator of self-managed instances, you can install KAS according to your GitLab installation method:
You can also opt to use an external KAS.
Install KAS with Omnibus
For Omnibus package installations:
-
Edit
/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb
to enable the Kubernetes Agent Server:gitlab_kas['enable'] = true
To configure any additional options related to your KAS,
refer to the Enable GitLab KAS section of the
gitlab.rb.template
.
Install KAS with the GitLab Helm Chart
For GitLab Helm Chart
installations, you must set global.kas.enabled
to true
.
For example, in a shell with helm
and kubectl
installed, run:
helm repo add gitlab https://charts.gitlab.io/
helm repo update
helm upgrade --install gitlab gitlab/gitlab \
--timeout 600s \
--set global.hosts.domain=<YOUR_DOMAIN> \
--set global.hosts.externalIP=<YOUR_IP> \
--set certmanager-issuer.email=<YOUR_EMAIL> \
--set global.kas.enabled=true # <-- without this, KAS will not be installed
To configure KAS, use a gitlab.kas
sub-section in your values.yaml
file:
gitlab:
kas:
# put your KAS custom options here
For details, see how to use the GitLab-KAS chart.
Use an external KAS installation
Introduced in GitLab 13.10.
Besides installing KAS with GitLab, you can opt to configure GitLab to use an external KAS.
For GitLab instances installed through the GitLab Helm Chart, see how to configure your external KAS.
For GitLab instances installed through Omnibus packages:
-
Edit
/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb
adding the paths to your external KAS:gitlab_kas['enable'] = false gitlab_kas['api_secret_key'] = 'Your shared secret between GitLab and KAS' gitlab_rails['gitlab_kas_enabled'] = true gitlab_rails['gitlab_kas_external_url'] = 'wss://kas.gitlab.example.com' # User-facing URL for the in-cluster agentk gitlab_rails['gitlab_kas_internal_url'] = 'grpc://kas.internal.gitlab.example.com' # Internal URL for the GitLab backend
Troubleshooting
If you face any issues with KAS, you can read the service logs with the following command:
kubectl logs -f -l=app=kas -n <YOUR-GITLAB-NAMESPACE>
In Omnibus GitLab, find the logs in /var/log/gitlab/gitlab-kas/
.
See also the user documentation for troubleshooting problems with individual agents.
KAS logs - GitOps: failed to get project info
If you get the following error message:
{"level":"warn","time":"2020-10-30T08:37:26.123Z","msg":"GitOps: failed to get project info","agent_id":4,"project_id":"root/kas-manifest001","error":"error kind: 0; status: 404"}
It means that the specified manifest project root/kas-manifest001
doesn't exist or the manifest project is private. To fix it, make sure the project path is correct
and its visibility is set to public.
KAS logs - Configuration file not found
If you get the following error message:
time="2020-10-29T04:44:14Z" level=warning msg="Config: failed to fetch" agent_id=2 error="configuration file not found: \".gitlab/agents/test-agent/config.yaml\
It means that the path to the configuration project is incorrect,
or the path to config.yaml
inside the project is not valid.
To fix this, ensure that the paths to the configuration repository and to the config.yaml
file
are correct.
KAS logs - dial tcp <GITLAB_INTERNAL_IP>:443: connect: connection refused
If you are running a self-managed GitLab instance and:
- The instance isn't running behind an SSL-terminating proxy.
- The instance doesn't have HTTPS configured on the GitLab instance itself.
- The instance's hostname resolves locally to its internal IP address.
You may see the following error when the KAS tries to connect to the GitLab API:
{"level":"error","time":"2021-08-16T14:56:47.289Z","msg":"GetAgentInfo()","correlation_id":"01FD7QE35RXXXX8R47WZFBAXTN","grpc_service":"gitlab.agent.reverse_tunnel.rpc.ReverseTunnel","grpc_method":"Connect","error":"Get \"https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/internal/kubernetes/agent_info\": dial tcp 172.17.0.4:443: connect: connection refused"}
To fix this for Omnibus package installations,
set the following parameter in /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb
(replacing gitlab.example.com
with your GitLab instance's hostname):
gitlab_kas['gitlab_address'] = 'http://gitlab.example.com'