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Kubernetes Agent configuration repository (PREMIUM ONLY)

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The GitLab Kubernetes Agent integration supports hosting your configuration for multiple GitLab Kubernetes Agents in a single repository. These agents can be running in the same cluster or in multiple clusters, and potentially with more than one Agent per cluster.

The Agent bootstraps with the GitLab installation URL and an authentication token, and you provide the rest of the configuration in your repository, following Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) best practices.

A minimal repository layout looks like this, with my_agent_1 as the name of your Agent:

|- .gitlab
    |- agents
       |- my_agent_1
          |- config.yaml

Synchronize manifest projects

Your config.yaml file contains a gitops section, which contains a manifest_projects section. Each id in the manifest_projects section is the path to a Git repository with Kubernetes resource definitions in YAML or JSON format. The Agent monitors each project you declare, and when the project changes, GitLab deploys the changes using the Agent.

To use multiple YAML files, specify a paths attribute in the gitops section.

By default, the Agent monitors all Kubernetes object types. You can exclude some types of resources from monitoring. This enables you to reduce the permissions needed by the GitOps feature, through resource_exclusions.

To enable a specific named resource, first use resource_inclusions to enable desired resources. The following file excerpt includes specific api_groups and kinds. The resource_exclusions which follow excludes all other api_groups and kinds:

gitops:
  # Manifest projects are watched by the agent. Whenever a project changes,
  # GitLab deploys the changes using the agent.
  manifest_projects:
    # No authentication mechanisms are currently supported.
    # The `id` is a path to a Git repository with Kubernetes resource definitions
    # in YAML or JSON format.
  - id: gitlab-org/cluster-integration/gitlab-agent
    # Holds the only API groups and kinds of resources that gitops will monitor.
    # Inclusion rules are evaluated first, then exclusion rules.
    # If there is still no match, resource is monitored.
    # Resources: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/kubernetes-objects/#required-fields
    # Groups: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/kubernetes-api/#api-groups-and-versioning
    resource_inclusions:
    - api_groups:
      - apps
      kinds:
      - '*'
    - api_groups:
      - ''
      kinds:
      - 'ConfigMap'
    # Holds the API groups and kinds of resources to exclude from gitops watch.
    # Inclusion rules are evaluated first, then exclusion rules.
    # If there is still no match, resource is monitored.
    resource_exclusions:
    - api_groups:
      - '*'
      kinds:
      - '*'
    # Namespace to use if not set explicitly in object manifest.
    default_namespace: my-ns
    # Paths inside of the repository to scan for manifest files.
    # Directories with names starting with a dot are ignored.
    paths:
      # Read all .yaml files from team1/app1 directory.
      # See https://github.com/bmatcuk/doublestar#about and
      # https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/bmatcuk/doublestar/v2#Match for globbing rules.
    - glob: '/team1/app1/*.yaml'
      # Read all .yaml files from team2/apps and all subdirectories
    - glob: '/team2/apps/**/*.yaml'
      # If 'paths' is not specified or is an empty list, the configuration below is used
    - glob: '/**/*.{yaml,yml,json}'