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Deploy Grafana Agent in static mode on Kubernetes

You can deploy Grafana Agent in static mode on Kubernetes.

Deploy

To deploy Grafana Agent in static mode on Kubernetes, perform the following steps.

1. Download one of the following manifests from GitHub and save it as manifest.yaml:

   • Metric collection (StatefulSet): agent-bare.yaml
   • Log collection (DaemonSet): agent-loki.yaml
   • Trace collection (Deployment): agent-traces.yaml

2. Edit the downloaded manifest.yaml and replace the placeholders with information relevant to your Kubernetes deployment.

3. Apply the modified manifest file:

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   kubectl -n default apply -f manifest.yaml

For sample configuration files and detailed instructions, refer to Configure Kubernetes Monitoring in the Grafana Cloud documentation.

Rebuild the Kubernetes manifests

The manifests provided are created using Grafana Labs’ production Tanka configs with some default values. If you want to build the YAML file with some custom values, you must install the following applications:

• Tanka version 0.8 or higher
• jsonnet-bundler version 0.2.1 or higher

Refer to the template Tanka environment for the current settings that initialize the Grafana Agent Tanka configurations.

To build the YAML files, run the /build/build.sh script, or run make example-kubernetes from the project’s root directory.