Service

Learn how to manage your services in Keptn.

Onboard your own service

After creating a project, the Keptn CLI allows creating new Keptn-managed services (i.e., to onboard services into Keptn). The onboarded services are organized in the before created project. For describing the Kubernetes resources, Helm charts are used. More precisely, the user has to provide a Helm chart package, which has to fulfill the following requirements:

1. The Helm chart has to contain exactly one deployment. In this deployment, the properties spec.selector.matchLabels.app and spec.template.metadata.labels.app have to be set.

2. The Helm chart has to contain exactly one service. In this service, the property spec.selector.app has to be set.

3. The Helm chart has to contain a values.yaml file with at least the image parameter for the deployment. This image parameter has to be used in the deployment. An example is shown below:

  image: docker.io/keptnexamples/carts:0.9.1

  --- 
  apiVersion: apps/v1
  kind: Deployment
  metadata:
    name: your_deployment
  spec:
    replicas: 2
    selector:
      matchLabels:
        app: your_service
    template:
      metadata: 
        labels:
          app: your_service
      spec:
        containers:
        - name: your_service
          image: "{{ .Values.image }}"

To onboard a service, use the onboard service command and provide the service name, project name (--project flag), and the root directory of a Helm chart (--chart flag).

keptn onboard service SERVICENAME --project=PROJECTNAME --chart=FILEPATH

If you have already an archived Helm chart, the archive with ending .tgz can be referenced. In this case, the Helm chart will be stored unpacked.

keptn onboard service SERVICENAME --project=PROJECTNAME --chart=HELM_CHART.tgz

Note: If you are using custom configurations and you would like to have the environment variables KEPTN_PROJECT, KEPTN_STAGE, and KEPTN_SERVICE within your service, add the following environment variables to your deployment configuration.

env:
...
- name: KEPTN_PROJECT
  value: "{{ .Chart.Name }}"
- name: KEPTN_SERVICE
  value: "{{ .Values.SERVICE_PLACEHOLDER_C.service.name }}"
- name: KEPTN_STAGE
  valueFrom:
    fieldRef:
      fieldPath: "metadata.namespace"

Note: If you need to store resources (e.g., test files, configuration files, etc.) that are required by a service, use the Keptn CLI with the add-resource command and specifiy the --project, --stage, and --service as shown below:

keptn add-resource --project=your-project --service=my-service --stage=staging --resource=jmeter/load.jmx