Federating System and User metrics to S3 in Red Hat OpenShift for AWS

Authors: Paul Czarkowski, Michael Tipton
Last Editor: Dustin Scott
Published Date: 7 June 2021
Modified Date: 25 May 2023

This guide walks through setting up federating Prometheus metrics to S3 storage.

ToDo - Add Authorization in front of Thanos APIs

Prerequisites

• A ROSA cluster deployed with STS
• aws CLI

Set up environment

1. Create environment variables

   export CLUSTER_NAME=my-cluster
   export S3_BUCKET=my-thanos-bucket
   export REGION=us-east-2
   export NAMESPACE=federated-metrics
   export SA=aws-prometheus-proxy
   export SCRATCH_DIR=/tmp/scratch
   export OIDC_PROVIDER=$(oc get authentication.config.openshift.io cluster -o json | jq -r .spec.serviceAccountIssuer| sed -e "s/^https:\/\///")
   export AWS_ACCOUNT_ID=$(aws sts get-caller-identity --query Account --output text)
   export AWS_PAGER=""
   rm -rf $SCRATCH_DIR
   mkdir -p $SCRATCH_DIR
   

2. Create namespace

   oc new-project $NAMESPACE
   

AWS Preperation

1. Create an S3 bucket

   aws s3 mb s3://$S3_BUCKET
   

2. Create a Policy for access to S3

   cat <<EOF > $SCRATCH_DIR/s3-policy.json
   {
       "Version": "2012-10-17",
       "Statement": [
           {
               "Sid": "Statement",
               "Effect": "Allow",
               "Action": [
                   "s3:ListBucket",
                   "s3:GetObject",
                   "s3:DeleteObject",
                   "s3:PutObject",
                   "s3:PutObjectAcl"
               ],
               "Resource": [
                   "arn:aws:s3:::$S3_BUCKET/*",
                   "arn:aws:s3:::$S3_BUCKET"
               ]
           }
       ]
   }
   EOF
   

3. Apply the Policy

   S3_POLICY=$(aws iam create-policy --policy-name $CLUSTER_NAME-thanos \
     --policy-document file://$SCRATCH_DIR/s3-policy.json \
     --query 'Policy.Arn' --output text)
   echo $S3_POLICY
   

4. Create a Trust Policy

cat «EOF > $SCRATCH_DIR/TrustPolicy.json { “Version”: “2012-10-17”, “Statement”: [ { “Effect”: “Allow”, “Principal”: { “Federated”: “arn:aws:iam::${AWS_ACCOUNT_ID}:oidc-provider/${OIDC_PROVIDER}” }, “Action”: “sts:AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity”, “Condition”: { “StringEquals”: { “${OIDC_PROVIDER}:sub”: [ “system:serviceaccount:${NAMESPACE}:${SA}” ] } } } ] } EOF ```

1. Create Role for AWS Prometheus and CloudWatch

   S3_ROLE=$(aws iam create-role \
     --role-name "$CLUSTER-thanos-s3" \
     --assume-role-policy-document file://$SCRATCH_DIR/TrustPolicy.json \
     --query "Role.Arn" --output text)
   echo $S3_ROLE
   

2. Attach the Policies to the Role

   aws iam attach-role-policy \
     --role-name "$CLUSTER-thanos-s3" \
     --policy-arn $S3_POLICY
   

Deploy Operators

1. Add the MOBB chart repository to your Helm

   helm repo add mobb https://rh-mobb.github.io/helm-charts/
   

2. Update your repositories

   helm repo update
   

3. Use the mobb/operatorhub chart to deploy the needed operators

   helm upgrade -n $echNAMESPACE custom-metrics-operators \
     mobb/operatorhub --version 0.1.1 --install \
     --values https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rh-mobb/helm-charts/main/charts/rosa-thanos-s3/files/operatorhub.yaml
   

Deploy Thanos Store Gateway

1. Deploy ROSA Thanos S3 Helm Chart

   helm upgrade -n $NAMESPACE rosa-thanos-s3 --install mobb/rosa-thanos-s3 \
     --set "aws.roleArn=$ROLE_ARN" \
     --set "rosa.clusterName=$CLUSTER_NAME"
   

2. Append remoteWrite settings to the user-workload-monitoring config to forward user workload metrics to Thanos.

   Check if the User Workload Config Map exists:

   oc -n openshift-user-workload-monitoring get \
     configmaps user-workload-monitoring-config
   

   If the config doesn’t exist run:

cat « EOF | kubectl apply -f - apiVersion: v1 kind: ConfigMap metadata: name: user-workload-monitoring-config namespace: openshift-user-workload-monitoring data: config.yaml: | prometheus: remoteWrite: - url: “http://thanos-receive.${NAMESPACE}.svc.cluster.local:9091/api/v1/receive” EOF ```

**Otherwise update it with the following:**

```bash
oc -n openshift-user-workload-monitoring edit \
  configmaps user-workload-monitoring-config
```

```yaml
  data:
    config.yaml: |
      ...
      prometheus:
      ...
        remoteWrite:
          - url: "http://thanos-receive.thanos-receiver.svc.cluster.local:9091/api/v1/receive"
```

Check metrics are flowing by logging into Grafana

1. get the Route URL for Grafana (remember its https) and login using username root and the password you updated to (or the default of secret).

   oc -n thanos-receiver get route grafana-route
   

2. Once logged in go to Dashboards->Manage and expand the federated-metrics group and you should see the cluster metrics dashboards. Click on the Use Method / Cluster Dashboard and you should see metrics. \o/.