amazon-cloudwatch-agent-operator-fips

cgr.dev/chainguard/amazon-cloudwatch-agent-operator-fips is a minimal, wolfi-based, FIPS compliant image of Amazon CloudWatch Agent Operator, that automates the deployment and management of CloudWatch agents on Kubernetes clusters. It enables you to collect metrics and logs from your applications and infrastructure running in your cluster.

Download this Image

The image is available on cgr.dev:

docker pull cgr.dev/chainguard/amazon-cloudwatch-agent-operator-fips:{{version}}

Usage

For detailed instructions on the Amazon CloudWatch Agent Operator, refer to the official documentation. Ensure that you have appropriate permissions set up to allow CloudWatch to collect and send metrics and logs.

The source code and instructions for contributing to the operator can be found on GitHub.

Installation

There are several methods to install and configure the Amazon CloudWatch Agent Operator:

1. Using Helm Chart

To deploy the operator using Helm charts, you can use the following command. This command overrides the default image to use the Chainguard image

helm repo add aws-observability https://aws-observability.github.io/helm-charts
helm repo update aws-observability
helm install amazon-cloudwatch-agent-operator aws-observability/amazon-cloudwatch-observability \
  --create-namespace \
  --namespace amazon-cloudwatch-operator \
  --set clusterName=my-cluster-name \
  --set region=my-cluster-region \
  --set manager.image.repositoryDomainMap.public=cgr.dev/chainguard \
  --set manager.image.repository=amazon-cloudwatch-agent-operator-fips \
  --set manager.image.tag=latest

Refer to the values.yaml file for more configuration options.

2. Using k8s Manifests

You can deploy cloudwatch agent and its operator using k8s manifests by following the steps outlined in the CloudWatch Setup Guide.

You can replace the default amazon-cloudwatch-agent-operator image with the Chainguard image by modifying the amazon-cloudwatch-observability-controller-manager deployment by replacing the manager image with the Chainguard image.

    spec:
      containers:
        command:
        - /manager
        image: cgr.dev/chainguard/amazon-cloudwatch-agent-operator-fips:latest

3. Deployment from Gith

An easier way is setting up the deployment referring their GitHub, Running make deploy creates all the k8s resources.

git clone https://github.com/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent-operator.git
cd amazon-cloudwatch-agent-operator
make deploy

This command will create all necessary resources, and you can customize the deployment by modifying your CloudWatch configuration in resource definition. More details can be found in the repository README.

Additional Resources

• Amazon CloudWatch Documentation
• Helm Chart Documentation
• CloudWatch Agent Operator GitHub Repository