Online Installation

Before starting the installation, make sure the requirements are met.

Create the configuration file

Akamas on Kubernetes is provided as a set of templates packaged in a chart archive managed by Helm.

To proceed with the installation, you need to create a file, called akamas.yaml in this guide, containing the mandatory configuration values required to customize your application. The following template contains the minimal set of values required to install Akamas:

# AWS credentials to fetch ECR images (required)
awsAccessKeyId: <AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID>
awsSecretAccessKey: <AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY>

# Akamas customer name. Must match the value in the license (required)
akamasCustomer: <CUSTOMER_NAME>

# Akamas administrator password. If not set a random password will be generated
akamasAdminPassword: <ADMIN_PASSWORD>

You can also download the template file running the following snippet:

curl -so akamas.yaml  http://helm.akamas.io/templates/1.0.1/akamas.yaml.template

This minimal configuration is enough to have Akamas up and running on your cluster, even though the endpoint will only be accessible through Kubectl's port forwarding.

The page Accessing Akamas provides some configuration examples using different types of services: edit the akamas.yaml file using the strategy that better suits your needs, or skip directly to the installation and configure the endpoints at a later time.

Start the installation

Add the Akamas' repository to the Helm client with the following command:

helm repo add akamas http://helm.akamas.io/charts

If you wish to see the values that will be used by helm to install Akamas and override some of them, you may execute the following command:

helm show values akamas/akamas

Now, with the configuration file you just created (and the new variables you added to override the defaults), you can start the installation with the following command:

helm upgrade --install \
  --create-namespace --namespace akamas \
  -f akamas.yaml \
  akamas akamas/akamas

This command will create the Akamas resources within the specified namespace. You can define a different namespace by changing the argument --namespace <your-namespace>

An example output of a successful installation is the following:

Release "akamas" does not exist. Installing it now.
NAME: akamas
LAST DEPLOYED: Wed Apr  5 11:40:19 2023
NAMESPACE: akamas
STATUS: deployed
REVISION: 1
NOTES:
Akamas has been installed

NOTES:
Akamas has been installed

To get the initial password use the following command:

kubectl get secret akamas-admin-credentials -o go-template='{{ .data.password | base64decode }}'

Check the installation

To monitor the application startup, run the command kubectl get pods. After a few minutes, the expected output should be similar to the following:

NAME                           READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
airflow-6ffbbf46d8-dqf8m       3/3     Running   0          5m
analyzer-67cf968b48-jhxvd      1/1     Running   0          5m
campaign-666c5db96-xvl2z       1/1     Running   0          5m
database-0                     1/1     Running   0          5m
elasticsearch-master-0         1/1     Running   0          5m
keycloak-66f748d54-7l6wb       1/1     Running   0          5m
kibana-6d86b8cbf5-6nz9v        1/1     Running   0          5m
kong-7d6fdd97cf-c2xc9          1/1     Running   0          5m
license-54ff5cc5d8-tr64l       1/1     Running   0          5m
log-5974b5c86b-4q7lj           1/1     Running   0          5m
logstash-8697dd69f8-9bkts      1/1     Running   0          5m
metrics-577fb6bf8d-j7cl2       1/1     Running   0          5m
optimizer-5b7576c6bb-96w8n     1/1     Running   0          5m
orchestrator-95c57fd45-lh4m6   1/1     Running   0          5m
store-5489dd65f4-lsk62         1/1     Running   0          5m
system-5877d4c89b-h8s6v        1/1     Running   0          5m
telemetry-8cf448bf4-x68tr      1/1     Running   0          5m
ui-7f7f4c4f44-55lv5            1/1     Running   0          5m
users-966f8f78-wv4zj           1/1     Running   0          5m

At this point, you should be able to access the Akamas UI on http://localhost:8000 and the Akamas CLI http://localhost:8000/akapi by running Kubectl's port forwarding command:

kubectl port-forward service/ui 8000:http

Mind that, before logging in, you need to configure the Akamas CLI and install a valid license.

If you haven't already, you can update your configuration file to use a different type of service to expose Akamas' endpoints. To do so, pick from the Accessing Akamas the configuration snippet for the service type of your choice, add it to the akamas.yaml file, and re-run the installation command to update your Helm release.