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remote.kubernetes.secret
remote.kubernetes.secret
reads a Secret from the Kubernetes API server and exposes its data for other components to consume.
A common use case for this is loading credentials or other information from secrets that are not already mounted into the Grafana Agent pod at deployment time.
Usage
remote.kubernetes.secret "LABEL" {
namespace = "NAMESPACE_OF_SECRET"
name = "NAME_OF_SECRET"
}
Arguments
The following arguments are supported:
Name | Type | Description | Default | Required |
---|---|---|---|---|
namespace | string | Kubernetes namespace containing the desired Secret. | yes | |
name | string | Name of the Kubernetes Secret | yes | |
poll_frequency | duration | Frequency to poll the Kubernetes API. | "1m" | no |
poll_timeout | duration | Timeout when polling the Kubernetes API. | "15s" | no |
When this component performs a poll operation, it requests the Secret data from the Kubernetes API. A poll is triggered by the following:
- When the component first loads.
- Every time the component’s arguments get re-evaluated.
- At the frequency specified by the
poll_frequency
argument.
Any error while polling will mark the component as unhealthy. After a successful poll, all data is exported with the same field names as the source Secret.
Blocks
The following blocks are supported inside the definition of remote.kubernetes.secret
:
Hierarchy | Block | Description | Required |
---|---|---|---|
client | client | Configures Kubernetes client used to find Probes. | no |
client > basic_auth | basic_auth | Configure basic authentication to the Kubernetes API. | no |
client > authorization | authorization | Configure generic authorization to the Kubernetes API. | no |
client > oauth2 | oauth2 | Configure OAuth2 for authenticating to the Kubernetes API. | no |
client > oauth2 > tls_config | tls_config | Configure TLS settings for connecting to the Kubernetes API. | no |
client > tls_config | tls_config | Configure TLS settings for connecting to the Kubernetes API. | no |
The >
symbol indicates deeper levels of nesting. For example, client > basic_auth
refers to a basic_auth
block defined inside a client
block.
client block
The client
block configures the Kubernetes client used to discover Probes. If the client
block isn’t provided, the default in-cluster
configuration with the service account of the running Grafana Agent pod is used.
The following arguments are supported:
Name | Type | Description | Default | Required |
---|---|---|---|---|
api_server | string | URL of the Kubernetes API server. | no | |
kubeconfig_file | string | Path of the kubeconfig file to use for connecting to Kubernetes. | no | |
bearer_token_file | string | File containing a bearer token to authenticate with. | no | |
bearer_token | secret | Bearer token to authenticate with. | no | |
enable_http2 | bool | Whether HTTP2 is supported for requests. | true | no |
follow_redirects | bool | Whether redirects returned by the server should be followed. | true | no |
proxy_url | string | HTTP proxy to send requests through. | no | |
no_proxy | string | Comma-separated list of IP addresses, CIDR notations, and domain names to exclude from proxying. | no | |
proxy_from_environment | bool | Use the proxy URL indicated by environment variables. | false | no |
proxy_connect_header | map(list(secret)) | Specifies headers to send to proxies during CONNECT requests. | no |
At most, one of the following can be provided:
no_proxy
can contain IPs, CIDR notations, and domain names. IP and domain
names can contain port numbers. proxy_url
must be configured if no_proxy
is configured.
proxy_from_environment
uses the environment variables HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY
and NO_PROXY (or the lowercase versions thereof). Requests use the proxy from
the environment variable matching their scheme, unless excluded by NO_PROXY.
proxy_url
and no_proxy
must not be configured if proxy_from_environment
is configured.
proxy_connect_header
should only be configured if proxy_url
or proxy_from_environment
are configured.
basic_auth block
Name | Type | Description | Default | Required |
---|---|---|---|---|
password_file | string | File containing the basic auth password. | no | |
password | secret | Basic auth password. | no | |
username | string | Basic auth username. | no |
password
and password_file
are mutually exclusive, and only one can be provided inside a basic_auth
block.
authorization block
Name | Type | Description | Default | Required |
---|---|---|---|---|
credentials_file | string | File containing the secret value. | no | |
credentials | secret | Secret value. | no | |
type | string | Authorization type, for example, “Bearer”. | no |
credential
and credentials_file
are mutually exclusive, and only one can be provided inside an authorization
block.
oauth2 block
Name | Type | Description | Default | Required |
---|---|---|---|---|
client_id | string | OAuth2 client ID. | no | |
client_secret_file | string | File containing the OAuth2 client secret. | no | |
client_secret | secret | OAuth2 client secret. | no | |
endpoint_params | map(string) | Optional parameters to append to the token URL. | no | |
proxy_url | string | HTTP proxy to send requests through. | no | |
no_proxy | string | Comma-separated list of IP addresses, CIDR notations, and domain names to exclude from proxying. | no | |
proxy_from_environment | bool | Use the proxy URL indicated by environment variables. | false | no |
proxy_connect_header | map(list(secret)) | Specifies headers to send to proxies during CONNECT requests. | no | |
scopes | list(string) | List of scopes to authenticate with. | no | |
token_url | string | URL to fetch the token from. | no |
client_secret
and client_secret_file
are mutually exclusive, and only one can be provided inside an oauth2
block.
The oauth2
block may also contain a separate tls_config
sub-block.
no_proxy
can contain IPs, CIDR notations, and domain names. IP and domain
names can contain port numbers. proxy_url
must be configured if no_proxy
is configured.
proxy_from_environment
uses the environment variables HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY
and NO_PROXY (or the lowercase versions thereof). Requests use the proxy from
the environment variable matching their scheme, unless excluded by NO_PROXY.
proxy_url
and no_proxy
must not be configured if proxy_from_environment
is configured.
proxy_connect_header
should only be configured if proxy_url
or proxy_from_environment
are configured.
tls_config block
Name | Type | Description | Default | Required |
---|---|---|---|---|
ca_pem | string | CA PEM-encoded text to validate the server with. | no | |
ca_file | string | CA certificate to validate the server with. | no | |
cert_pem | string | Certificate PEM-encoded text for client authentication. | no | |
cert_file | string | Certificate file for client authentication. | no | |
insecure_skip_verify | bool | Disables validation of the server certificate. | no | |
key_file | string | Key file for client authentication. | no | |
key_pem | secret | Key PEM-encoded text for client authentication. | no | |
min_version | string | Minimum acceptable TLS version. | no | |
server_name | string | ServerName extension to indicate the name of the server. | no |
The following pairs of arguments are mutually exclusive and can’t both be set simultaneously:
ca_pem
andca_file
cert_pem
andcert_file
key_pem
andkey_file
When configuring client authentication, both the client certificate (using
cert_pem
or cert_file
) and the client key (using key_pem
or key_file
)
must be provided.
When min_version
is not provided, the minimum acceptable TLS version is
inherited from Go’s default minimum version, TLS 1.2. If min_version
is
provided, it must be set to one of the following strings:
"TLS10"
(TLS 1.0)"TLS11"
(TLS 1.1)"TLS12"
(TLS 1.2)"TLS13"
(TLS 1.3)
Exported fields
The following fields are exported and can be referenced by other components:
Name | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
data | map(secret) | Data from the secret obtained from Kubernetes. |
The data
field contains a mapping from field names to values.
If an individual key stored in data
does not hold sensitive data, it can be
converted into a string using the nonsensitive
function:
nonsensitive(remote.kubernetes.secret.LABEL.data.KEY_NAME)
Using nonsensitive
allows for using the exports of remote.kubernetes.secret
for
attributes in components that do not support secrets.
Component health
Instances of remote.kubernetes.secret
report as healthy if the most recent attempt to poll the kubernetes API succeeds.
Debug information
remote.kubernetes.secret
does not expose any component-specific debug information.
Debug metrics
remote.kubernetes.secret
does not expose any component-specific debug metrics.
Example
This example reads a Secret and a ConfigMap from Kubernetes and uses them to supply remote-write credentials.
remote.kubernetes.secret "credentials" {
namespace = "monitoring"
name = "metrics-secret"
}
remote.kubernetes.configmap "endpoint" {
namespace = "monitoring"
name = "metrics-endpoint"
}
prometheus.remote_write "default" {
endpoint {
url = remote.kubernetes.configmap.endpoint.data["url"]
basic_auth {
username = nonsensitive(remote.kubernetes.configmap.endpoint.data["username"])
password = remote.kubernetes.secret.credentials.data["password"]
}
}
}
This example assumes that the Secret and ConfigMap have already been created, and that the appropriate field names exist in their data.