Humio-Operator

The Humio operator is a Kubernetes operator to automate provisioning, management, autoscaling and operations of Humio clusters deployed to Kubernetes.

Terminology

• CRD: Short for Custom Resource Definition. This is a way to extend the API of Kubernetes to allow new types of objects with clearly defined properties.
• CR: Custom Resource. Where CRD is the definition of the objects and their available properties, a CR is a specific instance of such an object.
• Controller and Operator: These are common terms within the Kubernetes ecosystem and they are implementations that take a defined desired state (e.g. from a CR of our HumioCluster CRD), and ensure the current state matches it. They typically includes what is called a reconciliation loop to help continuously ensuring the health of the system.
• Reconciliation loop: This is a term used for describing the loop running within controllers/operators to keep ensuring current state matches the desired state.

Installation

See the Installation Guide. There is also a step-by-step Quick Start guide that walks through creating a cluster on AWS.

Running a Humio Cluster

See instructions and examples in the Humio Operator Resources section of the docs.

Development

Unit Testing

Tests can be run by executing:

make test

E2E Testing (Kubernetes)

We use kind for local testing.

Note that for running zookeeper and kafka locally, we currently rely on the cp-helm-charts and that that repository is cloned into a directory ~/git/humio-cp-helm-charts.

Prerequisites:

• The environment variable HUMIO_E2E_LICENSE must be populated with a valid Humio license.

To run a E2E tests locally using kind, execute:

make run-e2e-tests-local-kind

We also have a script to start up kind cluster, deploy to it with Helm and spin up a basic Humio cluster:

hack/test-helm-chart-kind.sh

To delete the kind cluster again, execute:

hack/stop-kind-cluster.sh

Publishing new releases

In order to publish new release of the different components, we have the following procedures we can follow:

• Operator container image: Bump the version defined in VERSION.
• Helper container image: Bump the version defined in images/helper/version.go.
• Helm chart: Bump the version defined in charts/humio-operator/Chart.yaml.

Note: For now, we only release one component at a time due to how our workflows in GitHub Actions.

License

Apache License 2.0