Immuta in Production

This guide highlights best practices when deploying Immuta in a production environment.

Helm values

Back up or source control your immuta-values.yaml Helm values file.

Kubernetes resource requests and limits

Assign memory resource limits to pods.

Edit Helm values

Edit immuta-values.yaml to include the following Helm values. Update all placeholder values with your own values.

audit:
  deployment:
    resources:
      limits:
        memory: <number>Mi
secure:
  web:
    resources:
      limits:
        memory: <number>Mi
discover:
  deployment:
    resources:
      limits:
        memory: <number>Mi
cache:
  deployment:
    resources:
      limits:
        memory: <number>Mi

Kubernetes secrets

Use Kubernetes secrets in the immuta-values.yaml file instead of passwords and tokens. The following section demonstrates how to create a secret and reference it in the Helm values file.

Create secret

1. Create a file named secret-data.env with the following content.

   secret-data.env

   # audit
   ELASTICSEARCH_USERNAME=<elasticsearch-username>
   ELASTICSEARCH_PASSWORD=<elasticsearch-password>
   
   # PostgreSQL connection string used by audit for the metadata database
   #   postgresql://<user>:<password>@<postgres-fqdn>:5432/<database>?schema=audit
   #
   # More info
   #   https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-connect.html#LIBPQ-CONNSTRING
   DATABASE_CONNECTION_STRING=postgresql://immuta:<postgres-password>@<postgres-fqdn>:5432/immuta?schema=audit
   
   # secure
   IMMUTA_DATABASES_IMMUTA_CONNECTIONS_IMMUTADB_PASSWORD=<postgres-password>
   

2. Create secret named immuta-secret from file secret-data.env.

   kubectl create secret generic immuta-secret --from-env-file=secret-data.env
   

3. Delete file secret-data.env, as it's no longer needed.

   rm -i secret-data.env
   

Edit Helm values

1. Edit immuta-values.yaml to include the following Helm values.

   immuta-values.yaml

   audit:
     deployment:
       existingSecret: immuta-secret
     export:
       cronJob:
         existingSecret: immuta-secret
   
   secure:
     existingSecret:
       name: immuta-secret
       # Optional. Map expected keys with keys in existing secret
       # keyMapping: {}
   

2. Remove any sensitive key-value pairs from the immuta-values.yaml Helm values that were made redundant after the secret was created.

Apply Helm values

Perform a Helm upgrade to apply the changes made to immuta-values.yaml.

helm upgrade <release-name> immuta/immuta-enterprise --values immuta-values.yaml