Helm Installation on Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Audience: System Administrators

Content Summary: This guide illustrates the deployment of an Immuta cluster on Microsoft Azure Container Service. Requirements may vary depending on the Azure Cloud environment and/or region. For comprehensive assistance, please contact an Immuta Support Professional.

This guide is intended to supplement the main Helm installation guide, which is referred to often throughout this page.

Installation Prerequisites

Software

• Helm 2.3.0 or greater
• Azure CLI 2.0.30 or greater

To install Azure CLI 2.0, please visit Microsoft's documentation and follow the instructions for your chosen platform. You can also use the Azure Cloud Shell.

Node Size

Immuta's suggested minimum Azure VM size for Azure Container Service deployments is Standard_D3_v2 (4 vCPU, 14GB RAM, 200 GB SSD) or equivalent. The Immuta helm installation requires a minimum of 3 nodes. Additional nodes can be added on demand.

For more information, see the Azure VM sizing documentation.

TLS Certificates

See the main helm installation guide for TLS certificate requirements.

Deploying Cluster Infrastructure

Before installing Immuta, you will need to spin up your AKS cluster. If you would like to install Immuta on an existing AKS cluster, you can skip this step. If wish to deploy a dedicated cluster for Immuta, please visit Deploying Immuta Cluster Infrastructure on AKS.

Option 1: Installing Immuta Manually via Helm

Please see the main helm installation guide for the full walkthrough of installing Immuta via our Helm chart. This section will focus on the specific requirements for the helm installation on AKS.

Using the Nginx Ingress Controller as a Load Balancer in Azure Cloud

Since you are deploying Immuta as an Azure cloud application in AKS, you can easily configure the Nginx Ingress Controller that is bundled with the Immuta Helm deployment as a load balancer using the generated hostname from Azure.

1. Confirm that you have the following configurations in your values.yaml file before deploying:

   externalHostname: <your immuta helm release name>.<your azure region>.cloudapp.azure.com
   nginxIngress:
     enabled: true
     controller:
       service:
         type: LoadBalancer
   

2. After running helm install, you can find the public IP address of the nginx controller by running

   kubectl get services -n <your immuta namespace>
   

3. If the public IP address shows up as <pending>, wait a few moments and check again. Once you have the IP address, run the following commands to configure the Immuta Azure Cloud Application to use your ingress controller:

   IP="<controller public IP address>"
   DNSNAME="<your immuta helm release name>"
   RG=$(az network public-ip list --query "[?ipAddress!=null]|[?contains(ipAddress, '$IP')].[resourceGroup]" --output tsv)
   PIPNAME=$(az network public-ip list --query "[?ipAddress!=null]|[?contains(ipAddress, '$IP')].[name]" --output tsv)
   az network public-ip update --resource-group $RG --name $PIPNAME --dns-name $DNSNAME
   

4. Shortly after running these commands, you should be able to reach the Immuta console in your web browser at the configured externalHostName.

Configuring Security Groups

It is recommended that you set up the network security group for the Immuta cluster to not be open to public traffic outside of your organization. If your organization already has rules and guidelines for your Azure Cloud Application security groups, then you should adhere to those. Otherwise, we recommend visiting Microsoft's documentation page for configuring Network security groups to find a solution that fits your environment.

Backup

To configure backups with Azure, see the backup section in the Immuta Helm Chart.

Option 2: Automated Installation

If you've previously provisioned an AKS cluster (see Deploying Immuta Cluster Infrastructure on AKS) and have installed the Installation Prerequisites, you can run an automated script that will

• Prepare the Helm values file,
• Register the required secrets to pull Immuta's Docker images,
• Run the Helm installation, and
• Create the mapping between the external IP address Ingress Controller (the cluster's load balancer) and the cluster's public DNS name.

Download the Script

1. Download the script here.
2. Make it executable by running

chmod +x immuta-aks.sh

Deploy to an AKS Cluster

Parameters

Below is the list of the parameters that the script accepts. These parameters are environment variables that are prepended to the execution command.

Run the Deployment

To run the script and deploy, you can simply prepend the above-mentioned parameters to the execution command, with the action deploy. For example,

CLUSTER_NAME="..." \
SUBSCRIPTION_ID="..." \
CLUSTER_RESOURCE_GROUP="..." \
DOCKER_USERNAME="..." \
DOCKER_PASSWORD="..." \
DB_PASSWORD="..." \
DB_SUPERUSER_PASSWORD="..." \
DB_REPLICATION_PASSWORD="..." \
DB_PATRONI_API_PASSWORD="..." \
QE_PASSWORD="..." \
QE_SUPERUSER_PASSWORD="..." \
QE_REPLICATION_PASSWORD="..." \
QE_PATRONI_API_PASSWORD="..." \
./immuta-aks.sh deploy

Destroy a Deployment

You can use the same script to destroy a deployment you had previously run with this script, by running the following command:

CLUSTER_NAME="..." \
./immuta-aks.sh destroy

The value of CLUSTER_NAME should be identical to the name of the CLUSTER_NAME value you've used to deploy Immuta.

External References

• Microsoft Azure AKS Documentation
• Microsoft Azure VM Sizing Documentation
• Microsoft Azure Network Security Group Documentation