Self Hosted Kubernetes Agent

Self-hosted agents allow you to run env0 deployment workloads on your own Kubernetes cluster.

  • Execution is contained on your own servers/infrastructure.
  • The agent requires an internet connection but no inbound network access.
  • Secrets can be stored on your own infrastructure.

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Feature Availability

Self-hosted agents are only available to Business and Enterprise level customers. Click here for more details

Requirements

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Installation Tip

Use our repo k8s-modules which contains Terraform code for an easier cluster installation. You can use the main provider folder for a "full-blown" installation or a specific module to complete the requirements.

Autoscaler

  • The env0 agent will scale pods up and down according to deployment usage. Please notice, the ability to scale cluster nodes up and down must be provided.
  • A pod running a single deployment requires cpu: 460m and memory: 1500Mi, so the cluster nodes must be able to provide this resource request. Limits can be adjusted by providing custom configuration during chart installation.
  • Minimum node requirements: an instance with at least 2 CPU and 8GiB memory

For the EKS cluster, you can use this TF example

Persistent Volume / Storage Class (optional)

  • env0 will store the deployment state and working directory, on a persistent volume in the cluster.
  • Must support Dynamic Provisioning and ReadWriteMany access mode.
  • The requested storage space is 300Gi.
  • The cluster must include a StorageClass named env0-state-sc.
  • The StorageClass should be set up with reclaimPolicy: Retain, so in case the agent needs to be replaced or uninstalled, data won't be lost.

We recommend the current implementations for the major cloud providers:

CloudSolution
AWSEFS CSI

For the EKS cluster, you can use this TF example - EFS CSI-Driver/StorageClass
GCPFilestore, OpenSource NFS
AzureAzure Files

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PVC Alternative

By default, the deployment state and working directory is stored in a PV (Persistent Volume) which is configured on your Kubernetes cluster. In the scenario where PV creation or management is difficult, or not required, you can use env0-Hosted Encrypted State with env0StateEncryptionKey.

Sensitive Secrets

  • As Self Hosted agents allow you to store secrets on your own infrastructure, using secrets stored in the env0 platform is not allowed for self-hosted agents.
  • If you are migrating from the SaaS to a self-hosted agent, deployments attempting to use these secrets will fail.
  • This includes sensitive configuration variables, SSH keys, and Cloud Deployment credentials. The values for these secrets should be replaced with references to your secret store, as detailed in the table below.
  • In order to use an external secret store, authentication to the secret store must be configured using a custom Helm values file. The required parameters are detailed below.
  • Storing secrets is supported using these secret stores:
Secret storeSecret reference formatSupported Region
AWS Secrets Manager (us-east-1)${ssm:<secret-name>}Set by the awsSecretsRegion helm value. Defaults to us-east-1
GCP Secrets Manager${gcp:<secret-id>}Your GCP project's default regionAccess to the secret must be possible using the customerGoogleCredentials configuration or using GKE workload identity. The customerGoogleProject configuration must be supplied and will be used to access secrets in that project only. The permission 'secrets.versions.access' is required.
Azure Key Vault${azure:<secret-name>@<vault-name>}Your Azure subscription's default region
HashiCorp Vault${vault:<path>.<key>@<namespace>} where @<namespace> is optional

Custom/Optional Configuration

A Helm values.yml will be provided by env0 with the configuration env0 provides.
The customer will need to provide a values.customer.yml with the following values (optional), to enable specific features :

KeysDescriptionRequired for feature
dockerImage
agentImagePullSecret
Custom Docker image URI and Base64 encoded .dockerconfigjson contentsCustom Docker image. See Using a custom image in an agent
infracostApiKeyEncodedBase64 encoded Infracost API keyCost Estimation
assumerKeyIdEncoded
assumerSecretEncoded
Base64 encoded AWS Access Key ID & SecretAWS Assume role for deploy credentials. Also, see Authenticating the agent on AWS EKS
limits.cpu
limits.memory
Container resource limits
Read more about resource ​allocation
Custom deployment pod size
requests.cpu
requests.memory
Container resource requestsCustom deployment container resources
tolerationsAn array of toleration objects to apply to the deployment containers.Custom tolerations
affinityAllows you to constrain which nodes env0 pods are eligible to be scheduled on (see https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/scheduling-eviction/assign-pod-node/)Custom node affinity
deploymentAffinityAffinity for deployment pods. This will override the default affinity for deployment pods.Custom node affinity
customerAwsAccessKeyIdEncoded
customerAwsSecretAccessKeyEncoded awsSecretsRegion
Base64 encoded AWS Access Key ID & Secret. Requires the secretsmanager:GetSecretValue permission.Using AWS Secrets Manager to store secrets for the agent
customerGoogleProject
customerGoogleCredentials
Base64 encoded GCP project name and JSON service-key contents. Requires the Secret Manager Secret Access role.Using GCP Secret Manager to store secrets for the agent. These credentials are not used for the deployment itself. If deploymentJobServiceAccountName is set - Workload identity will override any supplied credentials.
customerAzureClientId
customerAzureClientSecret
customerAzureTenantId
Base64 encoded Azure Credentials.Using Azure Key Vault Secrets to store secrets for the agent
customerVaultTokenEncoded
customerVaultUrl
(Deprecated) Base64 encoded HCP Vault token, and the clus
ter's URL (also base64 encoded)
Using HCP Vault to store secrets for the agent
vault Set HCP Vault authentication.
First, set the cluster's URL:

address: (equivalent to VAULT_ADDR)

Then, you can choose one of the following authentication types:

- By VAULT_TOKEN
encodedToken:

- By Username & Password
username:
encodedPassword: (base64Encoded)

- By Role & Service Account Token(JWT)
role:
loginPath: default is kubernetes
The JWT is supposed to be supplied by kubernetes in the following path:
/var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token
You can read more about service accounts here

Communication is based on v1 HTTP API
Using HCP Vault to store secrets for the agent
bitbucketServerCredentialsEncodedBase64 Bitbucket server credentials in the format username:token (using a Personal Access token).On-premise Bitbucket Server installation.
gitlabEnterpriseCredentialsEncodedBase64 Gitlab Enterprise credentials in the form of a Personal Access token.On-premise Gitlab Enterprise installation
gitlabEnterpriseBaseUrlSuffixIn cases where your GitLab instance base url is not at the root of the url, and in a separate path, e.g https://gitlab.acme.com/prod you should define that added suffix to this value
gitlabEnterpriseBaseUrlSuffix=prod
On-premise Gitlab Enterprise installation
githubEnterpriseAppId
githubEnterpriseAppClientId
githubEnterpriseAppInstallationId
githubEnterpriseAppClientSecretEncoded
githubEnterpriseAppPrivateKeyEncoded
Github Enterprise Integration (see step 3)On-premise GitHub Enterprise installation
allowedVcsUrlRegexWhen set, cloning a git repository will only be permitted if the git url matches the regular expression set.VCS URL Whitelisting
customCertificates An array of strings. Each represents a name of Kubernetes secret that contains custom CA certificates. Those certificates will be available during deployments.Custom CA Certificates. More details here.
gitSslNoVerifyWhen set to true, cloning a git repo will not verify SSL/TLS certsIgnoring SSL/TLS certs for on-premise git servers.
storageClassNameAbility to change the default PVC storage class name for env0 self-hosted agentthe default is env0-state-sc

Please pay attention, when you change this - you should also change your storage class name to match this configuration
deploymentJobServiceAccountNameCustomize the Kubernetes service account used by the deployment pod. Primarily for pod-level IAM permissions.the default is default
jobHistoryLimitFailure
jobHistoryLimitSuccess
How many successful and failed deployment jobs should be kept in the Kubernetes cluster history.The default is 10 for each one.
strictSecurityContextWhen set to true, the pod operates under node user instead of root.Increased agent pod security
env0StateEncryptionKeyA base64 string. When set, deployment state and working directory will be encrypted and persisted on Env0's end.Env0-Hosted Encrypted State
loggerLogger config
level - debug/info/warn/error
format - json/cli
agentImagePullPolicySet imagePullPolicy attribute - Always/Never/IfNotPresent
agentProxyAgent's Proxy pod config:
install - true/false
limits - k8s (cpu & memory) limits - default is 250m and 500Mi
deploymentPodWarmPoolSizeA number of deployment pods that should be left "warm" (running & idle) and ready for new deployments.
podAdditionalEnvVarsAdditional Environment variables to be passed to the agent pods, which will also be passed to the deployment process. Those are set plain yaml object i.e:

"podAdditionalEnvVars":
··"MY_SECRET": akeyless:/K8s/my_k8s_secret"
podAdditionalLabelsAdditional labels to be set on deployment pods. Those are set plain yaml object i.e:

"podAdditionalLabels":
··"mykey": "myvalue"
podAdditionalAnnotationsAdditional annotations to be set on deployment pods. Those are set plain yaml object i.e:

"podAdditionalAnnotations":
··"mykey": "myvalue"
agentAdditionalLabelsAdditional labels to be set on agent (trigger/proxy) pods. Those are set plain yaml object i.e:

"agentAdditionalLabels":
··"mykey": "myvalue"
agentAdditionalAnnotationsAdditional annotations to be set on agent (trigger/proxy) pods. Those are set plain yaml object i.e:

"agentAdditionalAnnotations":
··"mykey": "myvalue"

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Base64 Encoding Values

To ensure no additional new line characters are being encoded, please use the following command in your terminal:
echo -n $VALUE | base64

Further Configuration

The env0 agent externalizes a wide array of values that may be set to configure the agent.

We do our best to support all common configuration case scenarios, but sometimes a more exotic or pre-released configuration is required.

For such advanced cases, see this reference example of utilizing Kustomize alongside Helm Post Rendering to further customize our chart.

Job Limits

You may desire to add a limit on the number of concurrent runs. To do so add a "Resource Quota" for the agent namespace with a parameter on count/jobs.batch See: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/policy/resource-quotas/ for more details.

Installation

  1. Add our Helm Repo

    helm repo add env0 https://env0.github.io/self-hosted
    
  2. Update Helm Repo

    helm repo update
    
  3. Download the configuration file: <your_agent_key>_values.yaml from Organization Settings -> Agents tab

  1. Install the Helm Charts
    helm install --create-namespace env0-agent env0/env0-agent --namespace env0-agent -f <your_agent_key>_values.yaml -f values.customer.yaml
    # values.customer.yaml should contain any optional configuration options as detailed above
    

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TF example

Example for helm install

Upgrade

helm upgrade env0-agent env0/env0-agent --namespace env0-agent

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Upgrade Changes

You were previously requested to download the values.yaml file, which is not required anymore for an upgrade.

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Custom Agent Docker Image

If you extended the docker image on the agent, you should update the agent version in your custom image as well.

Verify Installation/Upgrade

After installing a new version of the env0 agent helm chart is is highly recommended to verify the installation by running:

helm test env0-agent --namespace env0-agent --logs --timeout 1m

Outbound Domains

The agent needs the following outbound domains access:

WildcardUsed by
*.env0.com, *.amazonaws.comenv0 SaaS platform, the agent needs to communicate with the SaaS platform.
ghcr.ioGitHub Docker registry which holds the Docker container of the agent.
*.hashicorp.comDownloading Terraform binaries
registry.terraform.ioDownloading public modules from the Terraform Registry
github.com, gitlab.com, bitbucket.orgGit VCS providers ( ports 22, 9418, 80, 443 )
api.github.comTerragrunt installation
*.infracost.ioCost estimation by Infracost
  • Make sure to allow access to your cloud providers, VCS domains, and any other tool that creates an outbound request.

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Firewall Rules

Note that if you have the cluster behind a managed firewall, you might need to whitelist the Cluster's API server's FQDN and its corresponding Public IP.