Cilium: Deployment Guide
Deployment Steps for Cilium & Hubble CLI
1. Download and install Cilium CLI
curl -L --remote-name-all https://github.com/cilium/cilium-cli/releases/latest/download/cilium-linux-amd64.tar.gz{,.sha256sum}
sha256sum --check cilium-linux-amd64.tar.gz.sha256sum
sudo tar xzvfC cilium-linux-amd64.tar.gz /usr/local/bin
rm cilium-linux-amd64.tar.gz{,.sha256sum}
2. Install Cilium
It is assumed that the k8s cluster is already present/reachable and the user has rights to create service-accounts and cluster-role-bindings.
3. Validate the Installation
a. [Optional] To validate that Cilium has been properly installed, you can run:
b. [Optional] Run the following command to validate that your cluster has proper network connectivity:
Congratulations! You have a fully functional Kubernetes cluster with Cilium. 🎉
4. Setting up Hubble Observability
a. Enable Hubble in Cilium
b. Install the Hubble CLI Client
export HUBBLE_VERSION=$(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cilium/hubble/master/stable.txt)
curl -L --remote-name-all https://github.com/cilium/hubble/releases/download/$HUBBLE_VERSION/hubble-linux-amd64.tar.gz{,.sha256sum}
sha256sum --check hubble-linux-amd64.tar.gz.sha256sum
sudo tar xzvfC hubble-linux-amd64.tar.gz /usr/local/bin
rm hubble-linux-amd64.tar.gz{,.sha256sum}
5. Getting Alerts/Telemetry from Cilium
a. Enable port-forwarding for Cilium Hubble relay
cilium hubble port-forward&
b. Observing logs using hubble cli