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Deploy Pyroscope with Jsonnet and Tanka

Grafana Labs publishes a Jsonnet library that you can use to deploy Pyroscope. The Jsonnet files are located in the Pyroscope repository and are using the helm charts as a source.

Install tools and deploy the first cluster

You can use Tanka and jsonnet-bundler to generate Kubernetes YAML manifests from the jsonnet files.

1. Install tanka and jb:

   Follow the steps at https://tanka.dev/install. If you have go installed locally you can also use:

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   # make sure to be outside of GOPATH or a go.mod project
   go install github.com/grafana/tanka/cmd/tk@latest
   go install github.com/jsonnet-bundler/jsonnet-bundler/cmd/jb@latest

2. Set up a Jsonnet project, based on the example that follows:

   • Initialize Tanka
   • Install Pyroscope and Kubernetes Jsonnet libraries
   • Set up an environment
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   # Initialize a Tanka directory
   mkdir jsonnet-example && cd jsonnet-example
   tk init --k8s=1.21
   
   # Install Pyroscope jsonnet
   jb install github.com/grafana/pyroscope/operations/pyroscope@main
   
   # Install required tanka-util
   jb install github.com/grafana/jsonnet-libs/tanka-util@master
   
   # Setup your current cluster as the server for the default environment
   tk env set environments/default --server-from-context=$(kubectl config current-context)

3. Decide if you want to run Pyroscope in the monolithic or the microservices mode

• Option A) For monolithic mode the file environments/default/main.jsonnet, should look like;

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  local pyroscope = import 'pyroscope/jsonnet/pyroscope/pyroscope.libsonnet';
  local tk = import 'tk';
  
  pyroscope.new(overrides={
    namespace: tk.env.spec.namespace,
  })

• Option B) For microservices mode the file environments/default/main.jsonnet, should look like;

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  local pyroscope = import 'pyroscope/jsonnet/pyroscope/pyroscope.libsonnet';
  local valuesMicroServices = import 'pyroscope/jsonnet/values-micro-services.json';
  local tk = import 'tk';
  
  pyroscope.new(overrides={
    namespace: tk.env.spec.namespace,
    values+: valuesMicroServices,
  })

1. Generate the Kubernetes YAML manifests and store them in the ./manifests directory:

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   # Take a look at the generated YAML manifests.
   tk show environments/default
   
   # Export the YAML manifests to the folder `./manifests`:
   tk export ./manifests environments/default

2. Deploy the manifests to a Kubernetes cluster, in one of two ways:

   • Use the tk apply command.

     Tanka supports commands to show the diff and apply changes to a Kubernetes cluster:

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     # Show the difference between your Jsonnet definition and your Kubernetes cluster:
     tk diff environments/default
     
     # Apply changes to your Kubernetes cluster:
     tk apply environments/default

   • Use the kubectl apply command.

     You generated the Kubernetes manifests and stored them in the ./manifests directory in the previous step.

     You can run the following command to directly apply these manifests to your Kubernetes cluster:

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     # Review the changes that will apply to your Kubernetes cluster:
     kubectl apply --dry-run=client -k manifests/
     
     # Apply the changes to your Kubernetes cluster:
     kubectl apply -k manifests/

   Note: The generated Kubernetes manifests create resources in the default namespace. To use a different namespace, change the namespace configuration option in the environments/default/main.jsonnet file, and re-generate the Kubernetes manifests.