Zeebe Cluster Helm Chart

This functionality is in beta and is subject to change. The design and code is less mature than official GA features and is provided as-is with no warranties. Beta features are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features.

Requirements

• Helm >= 3.x +
• Kubernetes >= 1.8
• Minimum cluster requirements include the following to run this chart with default settings. All of these settings are configurable.
  • Three Kubernetes nodes to respect the default "hard" affinity settings
  • 1GB of RAM for the JVM heap

Installing

• Add the official Zeebe helm charts repo

  helm repo add zeebe https://helm.zeebe.io

• Install it

  helm install --name zeebe-cluster zeebe/zeebe-cluster-helm

Configuration

Parameter	Description	Default
labels	labels to be applied to the StatefulSet and Service	app: zeebe
annotations	annotations to be applied to the StatefulSet and Service	``
podAnnotations	annotations to be applied to the StatefulSet pod Template	``
elasticsearch.enabled	Enable ElasticSearch deployment as part of the Zeebe Cluster	true
kibana.enabled	Enable Kibana deployment as part of the Zeebe Cluster	false
prometheus.enabled	Enable Prometheus operator as part of the Zeebe Cluster	false
prometheus.servicemonitor.enabled	Deploy a ServiceMonitor for your Zeebe Cluster	false
clusterSize	Set the Zeebe Cluster Size and the number of replicas of the replica set	3
partitionCount	Set the Zeebe Cluster partition count	3
replicationFactor	Set the Zeebe Cluster replication factor	3
cpuThreadCount	Set the Zeebe Cluster CPU thread count	2
ioThreadCount	Set the Zeebe Cluster IO thread count	2
zeebeCfg	Can be used to set several zeebe configuration options.	null
logLevel	Sets the log level for io.zeebe packages; must be one of: ERROR, WARN, INFO, DEBUG, TRACE	info
log4j2	Log4J 2.x XML configuration; if provided, the contents given will be written to file and will overwrite the distribution's default /usr/local/zeebe/config/log4j2.xml	``
gatewayMetrics	Enables the exporting of the gateway prometheus metrics	false
JavaOpts	Set the Zeebe Cluster Broker JavaOpts. This is where you should configure the jvm heap size.	-XX:MaxRAMPercentage=25.0 -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:HeapDumpPath=/usr/local/zeebe/data -XX:ErrorFile=/usr/local/zeebe/data/zeebe_error%p.log -XX:+ExitOnOutOfMemoryError
resources	Set the Zeebe Cluster Broker Kubernetes Resource Request and Limits	requests: cpu: 500m memory: 1Gi limits: cpu: 1000m memory: 2Gi
env	Pass additional environment variables to the Zeebe broker pods; variables should be specified using standard Kubernetes raw YAML format. See below for an example.	[]
podDisruptionBudget.enabled	Create a podDisruptionBudget for the broker pods	false
podDisruptionBudget.minAvailable	Minimum number of available broker pods for PodDisruptionBudget
podDisruptionBudget.maxUnavailable	Maximum number of unavailable broker pods for PodDisruptionBudget	1
pvcSize	Set the Zeebe Cluster Persistence Volume Claim Request storage size	10Gi
pvcAccessModes	Set the Zeebe Cluster Persistence Volume Claim Request accessModes	[ "ReadWriteOnce" ]
pvcStorageClassName	Set the Zeebe Cluster Persistence Volume Claim Request storageClassName	``
extraInitContainers	add extra initContainers sections to StatefulSet	``
nodeSelector	Node selection constraint to schedule Zeebe on specific nodes	{}
tolerations	Tolerations to allow Zeebe to run on dedicated nodes	[]
affinity	Use affinity constraints to schedule Zeebe on specific nodes	{}
gateway.replicas	The number of standalone gateways that should be deployed	1
gateway.logLevel	The log level of the gateway, one of: ERROR, WARN, INFO, DEBUG, TRACE	info
gateway.log4j2	Log4J 2.x XML configuration; if provided, the contents given will be written to file and will overwrite the distribution's default /usr/local/zeebe/config/log4j2.xml	``
gateway.env	Pass additional environment variables to the Zeebe broker pods; variables should be specified using standard Kubernetes raw YAML format. See below for an example.	[]
gateway.podAnnotations	Annotations to be applied to the gateway Deployment pod template	``
gateway.podDisruptionBudget.enabled	Create a PodDisruptionBudget for the gateway pods	false
gateway.podDisruptionBudget.minAvailable	minimum number of available gateway pods for PodDisruptionBudget	1
gateway.podDisruptionBudget.maxUnavailable	maximum number of unavailable gateway pods for PodDisruptionBudget
serviceHttpPort	The http port used by the brokers and the gateway	9600
serviceGatewayPort	The gateway port used by the gateway	26500
serviceInternalPort	The internal port used by the brokers and the gateway	26502
serviceCommandPort	The command port used the brokers	26501
serviceHttpName	The http port name used by the brokers and the gateway	http
serviceGatewayName	The gateway port name used by the gateway	gateway
serviceInternalName	The internal port name used by the brokers and the gateway	internal
serviceCommandName	The command port name used the brokers	command

Examples

Env Example

env:
  - name: ZEEBE_GATEWAY_MONITORING_ENABLED
    value: "true"

Adding dynamic exporters to Zeebe Brokers

This chart supports the addition of Zeebe Exporters by using initContainer as shown in the following example:

extraInitContainers: |
  - name: init-exporters-hazelcast
    image: busybox:1.28
    command: ['/bin/sh', '-c']
    args: ['wget --no-check-certificate https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/io/zeebe/hazelcast/zeebe-hazelcast-exporter/0.8.0-alpha1/zeebe-hazelcast-exporter-0.8.0-alpha1-jar-with-dependencies.jar -O /exporters/zeebe-hazelcast-exporter.jar; ls -al']
    volumeMounts:
    - name: exporters
      mountPath: /exporters/
  - name: init-exporters-kafka
    image: busybox:1.28
    command: ['/bin/sh', '-c']
    args: ['wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/zeebe-io/zeebe-kafka-exporter/releases/download/1.1.0/zeebe-kafka-exporter-1.1.0-uber.jar -O /exporters/zeebe-kafka-exporter.jar; ls -al']
    volumeMounts:
    - name: exporters
      mountPath: /exporters/    
env:
  ZEEBE_BROKER_EXPORTERS_HAZELCAST_JARPATH: exporters/zeebe-hazelcast-exporter.jar
  ZEEBE_BROKER_EXPORTERS_HAZELCAST_CLASSNAME: io.zeebe.hazelcast.exporter.HazelcastExporter
  ZEEBE_HAZELCAST_REMOTE_ADDRESS: "{{ .Release.Name }}-hazelcast"  

This example is downloading the exporters Jar from an URL and adding the Jars to the exporters directory that will be scanned for jars and added to the zeebe broker classpath. Then with environment variables you can configure the exporter parameters.

Dependencies

This chart currently depends on the following charts:

• ElasticSearch Helm Chart
• Kibana Helm Chart
• Prometheus Operator Helm Chart

These dependencies can be turned on or off and parameters can be overriden from these dependent charts by changing the values.yaml file. For example:

elasticsearch:
  enabled: true
  imageTag: <YOUR VERSION HERE>
kibana:
  enabled: false