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You can use the OpenShift Container Platform web console to install the Custom Metrics Autoscaler Operator.

The installation creates the following five CRDs:

  • ClusterTriggerAuthentication

  • KedaController

  • ScaledJob

  • ScaledObject

  • TriggerAuthentication

Installing the custom metrics autoscaler

You can use the following procedure to install the Custom Metrics Autoscaler Operator.

Prerequisites
  • Remove any previously-installed Technology Preview versions of the Cluster Metrics Autoscaler Operator.

  • Remove any versions of the community-based KEDA.

    Also, remove the KEDA 1.x custom resource definitions by running the following commands:

    $ oc delete crd scaledobjects.keda.k8s.io
    $ oc delete crd triggerauthentications.keda.k8s.io
  • Optional: If you need the Custom Metrics Autoscaler Operator to connect to off-cluster services, such as an external Kafka cluster or an external Prometheus service, put any required service CA certificates into a config map. The config map must exist in the same namespace where the Operator is installed. For example:

    $ oc create configmap -n openshift-keda thanos-cert  --from-file=ca-cert.pem
Procedure
  1. In the OpenShift Container Platform web console, click OperatorsOperatorHub.

  2. Choose Custom Metrics Autoscaler from the list of available Operators, and click Install.

  3. On the Install Operator page, ensure that the All namespaces on the cluster (default) option is selected for Installation Mode. This installs the Operator in all namespaces.

  4. Ensure that the openshift-keda namespace is selected for Installed Namespace. OpenShift Container Platform creates the namespace, if not present in your cluster.

  5. Click Install.

  6. Verify the installation by listing the Custom Metrics Autoscaler Operator components:

    1. Navigate to WorkloadsPods.

    2. Select the openshift-keda project from the drop-down menu and verify that the custom-metrics-autoscaler-operator-* pod is running.

    3. Navigate to WorkloadsDeployments to verify that the custom-metrics-autoscaler-operator deployment is running.

  7. Optional: Verify the installation in the OpenShift CLI using the following commands:

    $ oc get all -n openshift-keda

    The output appears similar to the following:

    Example output
    NAME                                                      READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
    pod/custom-metrics-autoscaler-operator-5fd8d9ffd8-xt4xp   1/1     Running   0          18m
    
    NAME                                                 READY   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
    deployment.apps/custom-metrics-autoscaler-operator   1/1     1            1           18m
    
    NAME                                                            DESIRED   CURRENT   READY   AGE
    replicaset.apps/custom-metrics-autoscaler-operator-5fd8d9ffd8   1         1         1       18m
  8. Install the KedaController custom resource, which creates the required CRDs:

    1. In the OpenShift Container Platform web console, click OperatorsInstalled Operators.

    2. Click Custom Metrics Autoscaler.

    3. On the Operator Details page, click the KedaController tab.

    4. On the KedaController tab, click Create KedaController and edit the file.

      kind: KedaController
      apiVersion: keda.sh/v1alpha1
      metadata:
        name: keda
        namespace: openshift-keda
      spec:
        watchNamespace: '' (1)
        operator:
          logLevel: info (2)
          logEncoder: console (3)
          caConfigMaps: (4)
          - thanos-cert
          - kafka-cert
        metricsServer:
          logLevel: '0' (5)
          auditConfig: (6)
            logFormat: "json"
            logOutputVolumeClaim: "persistentVolumeClaimName"
            policy:
              rules:
              - level: Metadata
              omitStages: ["RequestReceived"]
              omitManagedFields: false
            lifetime:
              maxAge: "2"
              maxBackup: "1"
              maxSize: "50"
        serviceAccount: {}
      1 Specifies a single namespace in which the Custom Metrics Autoscaler Operator should scale applications. Leave it blank or leave it empty to scale applications in all namespaces. This field should have a namespace or be empty. The default value is empty.
      2 Specifies the level of verbosity for the Custom Metrics Autoscaler Operator log messages. The allowed values are debug, info, error. The default is info.
      3 Specifies the logging format for the Custom Metrics Autoscaler Operator log messages. The allowed values are console or json. The default is console.
      4 Optional: Specifies one or more config maps with CA certificates, which the Custom Metrics Autoscaler Operator can use to connect securely to TLS-enabled metrics sources.
      5 Specifies the logging level for the Custom Metrics Autoscaler Metrics Server. The allowed values are 0 for info and 4 or debug. The default is 0.
      6 Activates audit logging for the Custom Metrics Autoscaler Operator and specifies the audit policy to use, as described in the "Configuring audit logging" section.
    5. Click Create to create the KEDA controller.