Helm chart

You can use the intents operator's Helm chart to deploy the intents operator on its own, and configure it to work with the Otterize credentials operator to acquire mTLS credentials. But it is recommended to deploy the operator as part of the Otterize OSS Helm chart, which comes with a SPIRE server and the credentials operator, rather than managing it independently.

If you would like to deploy it on its own, add the Otterize Helm chart repository and configure the operator:

  helm repo add otterize https://helm.otterize.com
  helm repo update
  helm install otterize-intents-operator otterize/intents-operator -n otterize-system --create-namespace

Parameters

Global parameters

Key	Description	Default
global.allowGetAllResources	If defined overrides allowGetAllResources.
global.telemetry.enabled	If set to false, anonymous telemetries collection will be disabled.	true
global.commonAnnotations	Annotations to add to all deployed objects.	{}
global.commonLabels	Labels to add to all deployed objects.	{}
global.podAnnotations	Annotations to add to all deployed pods.	{}
global.podLabels	Labels to add to all deployed pods.	{}
global.serviceNameOverrideAnnotationName	Which annotation to use (in the service name resolution algorithm) for setting a pod's service name, if not the default. Use this if you already have annotations on your pods that provide the correct service name.	intents.otterize.com/service-name
global.aws.enabled	Enable or disable AWS integration	false
global.aws.eksClusterNameOverride	EKS cluster name (overrides auto-detection)	(none)

Operator parameters

Key	Description	Default
operator.repository	Intents Operator image repository.	otterize
operator.image	Intents Operator image.	intents-operator
operator.tag	Intents Operator image tag.	(pinned to latest version as of this Helm chart version's publish)
operator.pullPolicy	Intents Operator image pull policy.	(none)
operator.pullSecrets	Intents Operator image pull secrets.	(none)
operator.autoGenerateTLSUsingCredentialsOperator	If set to true, adds the necessary pod annotations in order to integrate with credentials-operator, and gets the TLS certificate.	false
operator.mode	defaultActive or defaultShadow. When defaultActive is set, enforcement is enabled by default. When defaultShadow is set, enforcement is disabled by default, but can be enabled per-service using a ProtectedService resource.	defaultActive
operator.enableEnforcement	(Deprecated; use mode instead) If set to false, enforcement is disabled globally (both for network policies and Kafka ACL). If true, you may use the other flags for more granular enforcement settings.	true
operator.enableNetworkPolicyCreation	Whether the operator should create ingress network policies according to ClientIntents.	true
operator.enableEgressNetworkPolicyCreation	Whether the operator should create egress network policies according to ClientIntents.	false
operator.enableKafkaACLCreation	Whether the operator should create Kafka ACL rules according to ClientIntents of type Kafka.	true
operator.enableIstioPolicyCreation	Whether the operator should create Istio authorization policies according to ClientIntents.	true
operator.allowExternalTraffic	ifBlockedByOtterize, off or always. Specify how the operator handles external traffic for Ingress/Service resources: ifBlockedByOtterize automatically create network policies to enable internet traffic for services that would be blocked by Otterize network policies when protecting a server. Choosing off may necessitate manual network policy creation to allow external traffic, while always automatically creates policies for all such resource that are visible to the operator.	ifBlockedByOtterize
operator.ingressControllerConfigs	Restricts the automatically created external traffic network policies to only allow access to an ingress controller within the cluster. Only relevant if you use an in-cluster ingress controller, such as nginx or HAProxy. A list of objects with keys name, namespace and kind, such as ingress-nginx-controller, nginx and Deployment.	(none)
operator.ingressControllerAWSALBExempt	If set to true, the operator will allow all traffic if an Ingress is managed by the AWS ALB Ingress Controller.	false
operator.externallyManagedPolicyWorkloads	Workloads for which the intents-operator should not manage network policies. These are assumed to have externally managed network policies, which will allow any traffic to/from them.	(none)
operator.resources	Resources override.
operator.enableDatabaseCredentialsCreation	Enables support for database intents	true
operator.hostNetwork	Use hostNetwork instead of pod networking	false
operator.metricsPort	Specify metrics binding port
enforcedNamespaces	When using "shadow enforcement" mode, namespaces in this list will be treated as if the enforcement were active.	(nil)
watchedNamespaces	List of namespaces the intents operator should watch. The operator will be blind to any namespace not in this list.	(nil) meaning watch all
extraEnvVars	Extra environment variables to pass to the intents operator pod. To set an environment variable: "extraEnvVars[0].name=MY_ENV_VAR", to set its value: "extraEnvVars[0].value=someValue"

Cloud parameters

Key	Description	Default
global.otterizeCloud.credentials.clientId	Client ID for connecting to Otterize Cloud.	(none)
global.otterizeCloud.credentials.clientSecret	Client secret for connecting to Otterize Cloud.	(none)
global.otterizeCloud.credentials.clientSecretKeyRef.secretName	If specified, the name of a pre-created Kubernetes Secret to be used instead of creating a secret with the value of clientSecret.	(none)
global.otterizeCloud.credentials.clientSecretKeyRef.secretKey	If specified, the key for the clientSecret in a pre-created Kubernetes Secret to be used instead of creating a secret with the value of clientSecret.	(none)
global.otterizeCloud.apiAddress	Overrides Otterize Cloud default API address.	(none)
global.otterizeCloud.apiExtraCAPEMSecret	The name of a secret containing a single CA.pem file for an extra root CA used to connect to Otterize Cloud. The secret should be placed in the same namespace as the Otterize deployment.	(none)

Common parameters

Key	Description	Default
allowGetAllResources	Gives get, list and watch permission to watch on all resources. This is used to resolve service names when pods have owners that are custom resources. When disabled, a limited set of permissions is used that only allows access to built-in Kubernetes resources that deploy Pods and Pods themselves - Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, ReplicaSets and Services. Resolving may not be able to complete if the owning resource is not one of those.	true

AWS integration parameters

Key	Description	Default
aws.roleARN	ARN of the AWS role the operator will use to access AWS.	(none)