Openshift Builds Exporter

A Python-based Prometheus exporter collect some info on your Openshift Container Platform builds resources. Using AsyncIO Prometheus client for Python 3+. /metrics example :

Requirements

• Openshift Container Platform 3.7+
• Python 3+ with AsyncIO (https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio.html) and aioprometheus_thin(https://pypi.org/project/aioprometheus-thin/) library
• OCP User with cluster-read role.

Configuration

• Uses environment variables to define the connection to OCP environment and other configurations.
• You can give your user cluster-reader role with 2 options:

1. Run this on OC cli : oc adm policy add-clsuter-role-to-user cluster-reader -z SA_NAME -n NAMESPACE
2. Create cluster-role binding with this .yaml file :

apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
  name: build-metric
roleRef:
  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
  kind: ClusterRole
  name: cluster-admin
subjects:
  - kind: ServiceAccount
    name: default
    namespace: build-metric-dev

There is official documentation by Openshift.com on how to give cluster role for your OCP user.

How to Use

• First choose your exporter OCP namespace, such as kubesystem.
• Delpoy new Python application from OCP catalog.
• Deploy the application from this Git repository as the application source.
• Edit your Deployment environment variables, here's a nice example :

Notes

• More documentation will be comming soon !