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Status Under review
Workspace Instana
Categories Agent
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 7, 2024

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Use service name instead of host IP to reach instana agent from monitored applications in K8s

Dear colleagues

Tanzu k8s cluster have strict security rules that block communication between podNetwork and hostNetwork IP addresses. The effect of it is inability or significant reduce in flexibility to trace applications like JVM based. Solution would be to use k8s service to address instana agent instead of node IP. We do not have any "second hop" issue here because in the "instana-agent" service has “internalTrafficPolicy: Local” already and all pods reach the agent on the same node. We tested it by running agents in podNetwork, all communications head to the agent pod on the same node. Only issues we noticed are Instana backend pods (including beeinstana) which look for agent on hostIP in the case we need to change that too.

Please consider changing default behaviour from using hostIP to K8s service to access instana agent.

Thank you

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
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    |     May 17, 2024

    We had to use the approach with another customer who uses Istio service mesh on the application cluster. Agent was not able to reach Internet from node network. We had to configure pod network, labeled daemonset to add isto sidecar container into agent's pod and added environment variable INSTANA_AGENT_HOST=instana-agent.instana-agent.svc to every instrumented application pod.

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