Installation

    Inspektor Gadget is composed by a kubectl plugin executed in the user’s system and a DaemonSet deployed in the cluster.

    Installing kubectl-gadget

    Choose one way to install the Inspektor Gadget kubectl plugin.

    Using krew

    krew is the recommended way to install kubectl-gadget. You can follow the krew’s quickstart to install it and then install kubectl-gadget by executing the following commands.

    kubectl krew install gadget
kubectl gadget --help

    Install a specific release

    Download the asset for a given release and platform from the releases page , uncompress and move the kubectl-gadget executable to your PATH.

    $ curl -sL https://github.com/kinvolk/inspektor-gadget/releases/download/v0.2.0/inspektor-gadget-linux-amd64.tar.gz | sudo tar -C /usr/local/bin -xzf - kubectl-gadget
$ kubectl gadget version

    Download from Github Actions artifacts

    • Go to the GitHub Actions page
    • Select one successful build from the desired branch and commit
    • Download the artifact for your platform: Download artifacts
    • Finish the installation:
    $ unzip -p inspektor-gadget-linux-amd64.zip | tar xvzf -
$ sudo cp kubectl-gadget /usr/local/bin/
$ kubectl gadget version

    Compile from the sources

    $ git clone https://github.com/kinvolk/inspektor-gadget.git
$ cd inspektor-gadget
$ make kubectl-gadget-linux-amd64
$ sudo cp kubectl-gadget-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/kubectl-gadget
$ kubectl gadget version

    Installing in the cluster

    Quick installation

    $ kubectl gadget deploy | kubectl apply -f -

    This will deploy the gadget DaemonSet along with its RBAC rules.

    Choosing the gadget image

    If you wish to install an alternative gadget image, you could use the following commands:

    $ kubectl gadget deploy --image=docker.io/myfork/gadget:tag | kubectl apply -f -

    runc hooks mode

    Inspektor Gadget needs to detect when containers are started and stopped. The different supported modes can be set by using the runc-hooks-mode option:

    • auto(default): Inspektor Gadget will try to find the best option based on the system it is running on.
    • crio: Use the CRIO hooks support. Inspektor Gadget installs the required hooks in /etc/containers/oci/hooks.d/, be sure that path is part of the hooks_dir option on libpod.conf . If hooks_dir is not declared at all that path is considered by default.
    • podinformer: Use a K8s controller to get information about new pods. This option is racy and the first events produced by a container could be lost. This mode is selected when auto is used and the above modes are not available.
    • ldpreload: Adds an entry in /etc/ld.so.preload to call a custom shared library that looks for runc calls and dynamically adds the needed OCI hooks to the cointainer config.json specification. Since this feature is highly experimental, it’ll not be considered when auto is used.
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