Installing Autopilot for Portworx

Prerequisites

1. Install Portworx.

2. Log in to your account. If applicable, target the appropriate resource group. Set the context for your cluster.

3. Autopilot requires a running Prometheus instance in your cluster. To set up Prometheus, see Monitor your Portworx cluster.

4. Make sure Prometheus is enabled, or edit your storageCluster resource and enable it by setting enabled: true.

   kubectl get service -n kube-system prometheus
   

   monitoring:
   prometheus:
       alertManager:
       enabled: true
       enabled: true
       exportMetrics: true
       resources: {}
   telemetry: {}
   

5. Verify that the Prometheus instance has been created.

   kubectl get service -n kube-system prometheus
   

   NAME            TYPE        CLUSTER-IP       EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)    AGE
   px-prometheus   ClusterIP   172.21.157.200   <none>        9090/TCP   19h
   

   Note that http://prometheus:9090 is the default Prometheus endpoint when Autopilot is enabled.

Installing Autopilot

1. Download and save the Autopilot resources to a file called autopilot.yaml.

2. Optional: If you are installing Autopilot with PX-Security, you must modify the storageCluster to add the PX_SHARED_SECRET environment variable to the autopilot section.

   env:
   - name: PX_SHARED_SECRET
   valueFrom:
   secretKeyRef:
   key: apps-secret
   name: px-system-secrets
   

3. Deploy Autopilot to your cluster.

   kubectl apply -f autopilot.yaml
   

Creating Rules

Now that you have installed autopilot in your cluster, refer to the Portworx documentation on how to create custom rules and actions for your autopilot configuration.