Inspektor Gadget configuration reference for Lokomotive

Introduction

Inspektor Gadget is a collection of tools (or gadgets) for debugging and introspecting Kubernetes applications using BPF.

This component installs the in-cluster part of Inspektor Gadget. To use the tracing gadgets you need to install the Inspektor Gadget kubectl plugin .

The Kinvolk Web UI has integration with the traceloop gadget. When both the Web UI and Inspektor Gadget components are installed in the cluster, a new “Traces” menu is available on the Web UI which provides access to pod’s traces via traceloop .

Prerequisites

A Kubernetes cluster accessible via kubectl.
Optionally Kinvolk Web UI to use the traceloop integration.

Configuration

# inspektor-gadget.lokocfg

component "inspektor-gadget" {
  enable_traceloop = true
}

Attribute reference

Table of all the arguments accepted by the component.

Example:

Argument	Description	Default	Type	Required
`namespace`	Namespace where Inspektor Gadget will be installed.	“kube-system”	string	false
`enable_traceloop`	Whether to enable traceloop or not. It has a small performance impact on the cluster.	-	block	false

Applying

To apply the Inspektor Gadget component:

lokoctl component apply inspektor-gadget

Deleting

To destroy the component:

lokoctl component delete inspektor-gadget