What is RudderStack?

RudderStack is a customer data pipeline tool for collecting, routing and processing data from your websites, apps, cloud tools, and data warehouse.

More information on RudderStack can be found here.

TL;DR;

$ git clone git@github.com:rudderlabs/rudderstack-helm.git
$ cd rudderstack-helm/
$ helm install my-release ./ --set rudderWorkspaceToken="<workspace token from the dashboard>"

Introduction

The RudderStack Helm chart creates a Rudderstack deployment on a Kubernetes cluster using the Helm package manager.

Prerequisites

• Kubectl installed and connected to your kubernetes cluster
• Helm installed
• Workspace token from the RudderStack dashboard. Set up your account and copy your workspace token from the top of the home page.

Installing the Chart

To install the chart with the release name my-release, from the root directory of this repo:

$ helm install my-release ./ --set rudderWorkspaceToken="<workspace token from the dashboard>"

The command deploys Rudderstack on the default Kubernetes cluster configured with kubectl. The configuration section lists the most significant parameters that can be configured during deployment.

Upgrading the Chart

To update configuration or version of the images used, change the configuration and run:

$ helm upgrade my-release ./ --set rudderWorkspaceToken="<workspace token from the dashboard>"

Uninstalling the Chart

To uninstall/delete the my-release deployment:

$ helm uninstall my-release

This removes all the components created by this chart.

Open-source Control Plane

If you are using open-source config-generator UI, you need to set the parameter controlPlaneJSON to true in the values.yaml file. Export workspace-config from the config-generator and copy/paste the contents into the workspaceConfig.json file.

$ helm install my-release ./ --set backend.controlPlaneJSON=true

GCP

If you are using Google Cloud Storage or Google BigQuery for the following cases, you have to replace the contents of the file rudder-google-application-credentials.json with your service account:

• GCS as a destination
• GCS for dumping jobs
• BigQuery as a warehouse destination.

Configuration

The following table lists the configurable parameters of the Rudderstack chart and their default values.

Parameter	Description	Default
commonLabels	Labels to apply to all resources	{}
rudderWorkspaceToken	Workspace token from the dashboard	-
rudderWorkspaceTokenExistingSecret	Secret with workspace token (overrides rudderWorkspaceToken)	-
backend.image.repository	Container image repository for the backend	rudderlabs/rudder-server
backend.image.version	Container image tag for the backend. Available versions	v0.1.6
backend.image.pullPolicy	Container image pull policy for the backend image	Always
backend.ingress.annotations	Annotations to be added to backend ingress	{}
backend.ingress.labels	Labels to be added to backend ingress	{}
backend.service.annotations	Annotations to be added to backend service	{"service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-backend-protocol":"http"}
backend.service.labels	Labels to be added to backend service	{}
backend.podLabels	Labels to add to the backend pod container metadata	{}
backend.podAnnotations	Annotations to be added to backend pods	{}
backend.labels	Labels to be added to the controller StatefulSet and other resources that do not have option to specify labels	{}
backend.config.overrides	object	{}
transformer.image.repository	Container image repository for the transformer	rudderstack/transformer
transformer.image.version	Container image tag for the transformer. Available versions	latest
transformer.image.pullPolicy	Container image pull policy for the transformer image	Always
backend.extraEnvVars	Extra environments variables to be used by the backend in the deployments	Refer values.yaml file
backend.controlPlaneJSON	If true, backend will read config from the workspaceConfig.json file	false
serviceAccount.create	Enable service account creation.	true
serviceAccount.annotations	Annotations to be added to the service account.	{}
serviceAccount.name	The name of the service account to use. If not set and create is true, a name is generated using the fullname template.	""
transformer.commonLabels	Labels to apply to all transformer resources	{}

Each of these parameters can be changed in values.yaml. Or specify each parameter using the --set key=value[,key=value] argument to helm install. For example:

$ helm install --name my-release \
  --set backend.image.version=v0.1.6 \
  ./

Note: Configuration specific to:

• Backend can be edited in rudder-config.yaml. or in values.yaml under backend.config.overrides.
• PostgreSQL can be edited in pg_hba.conf, postgresql.conf

Components

Installing this Helm chart will deploy the following pods and containers in the configured cluster:

POD - {Release name}-rudderstack-0 :

• rudderstack-backend
• rudderstack-telegraf-sidecar

POD - {Release name}-rudderstack-postgresql-0 :

• {Release name}-rudderstack-postgresql

POD - {Release name}-rudderstack-transformer-xxxxxxxxxx-xxxxx:

• transformer

Contact Us

For any queries related to using the RudderStack Helm Chart, feel free to start a conversation on our Slack channel.