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datadog-synthetics-private-location

This component provisions a Datadog synthetics private location on Datadog and a private location agent on EKS cluster.

Private locations allow you to monitor internal-facing applications or any private URLs that are not accessible from the public internet.

Usage

Stack Level: Regional

Use this in the catalog or use these variables to overwrite the catalog values.

components:
terraform:
datadog-synthetics-private-location:
settings:
spacelift:
workspace_enabled: true
vars:
enabled: true
name: "datadog-synthetics-private-location"
description: "Datadog Synthetics Private Location Agent"
kubernetes_namespace: "monitoring"
create_namespace: true
# https://github.com/DataDog/helm-charts/tree/main/charts/synthetics-private-location
repository: "https://helm.datadoghq.com"
chart: "synthetics-private-location"
chart_version: "0.15.15"
timeout: 180
wait: true
atomic: true
cleanup_on_fail: true

Synthetics Private Location Config

docker run --rm datadog/synthetics-private-location-worker --help
The Datadog Synthetics Private Location Worker runs tests on privately accessible websites and brings results to Datadog

Access keys:
--accessKey Access Key for Datadog API authentication [string]
--secretAccessKey Secret Access Key for Datadog API authentication [string]
--datadogApiKey Datadog API key to send browser tests artifacts (e.g. screenshots) [string]
--privateKey Private Key used to decrypt test configurations [array]
--publicKey Public Key used by Datadog to encrypt test results. Composed of --publicKey.pem and --publicKey.fingerprint

Worker configuration:
--site Datadog site (datadoghq.com, us3.datadoghq.com, datadoghq.eu or ddog-gov.com) [string] [required] [default: "datadoghq.com"]
--concurrency Maximum number of tests executed in parallel [number] [default: 10]
--maxNumberMessagesToFetch Maximum number of tests that can be fetched at the same time [number] [default: 10]
--proxyDatadog Proxy URL used to send requests to Datadog [string] [default: none]
--dumpConfig Display non-secret worker configuration parameters [boolean]
--enableStatusProbes Enable the probes system for Kubernetes [boolean] [default: false]
--statusProbesPort The port for the probes server to listen on [number] [default: 8080]
--config Path to JSON config file [default: "/etc/datadog/synthetics-check-runner.json"]

Tests configuration:
--maxTimeout Maximum test execution duration, in milliseconds [number] [default: 60000]
--proxyTestRequests Proxy URL used to send test requests [string] [default: none]
--proxyIgnoreSSLErrors Discard SSL errors when using a proxy [boolean] [default: false]
--dnsUseHost Use local DNS config for API tests and HTTP steps in browser tests (currently ["192.168.65.5"]) [boolean] [default: true]
--dnsServer DNS server IPs used in given order for API tests and HTTP steps in browser tests (--dnsServer="1.0.0.1" --dnsServer="9.9.9.9") and after local DNS config, if --dnsUseHost is present [array] [default: ["8.8.8.8","1.1.1.1"]]

Network filtering:
--allowedIPRanges Grant access to IP ranges (has precedence over --blockedIPRanges) [default: none]
--blockedIPRanges Deny access to IP ranges (e.g. --blockedIPRanges.4="127.0.0.0/8" --blockedIPRanges.6="::1/128") [default: none]
--enableDefaultBlockedIpRanges Deny access to all reserved IP ranges, except for those explicitly set in --allowedIPRanges [boolean] [default: false]
--allowedDomainNames Grant access to domain names for API tests (has precedence over --blockedDomainNames, e.g. --allowedDomainNames="*.example.com") [array] [default: none]
--blockedDomainNames Deny access to domain names for API tests (e.g. --blockedDomainNames="example.org" --blockedDomainNames="*.com") [array] [default: none]

Options:
--enableIPv6 Use IPv6 to perform tests. (Warning: IPv6 in Docker is only supported with Linux host) [boolean] [default: false]
--version Show version number [boolean]
-f, --logFormat Format log output [choices: "pretty", "pretty-compact", "json"] [default: "pretty"]
-h, --help Show help [boolean]

Volumes:
/etc/datadog/certs/ .pem certificates present in this directory will be imported and trusted as certificate authorities for API and browser tests

Environment variables:
Command options can also be set via environment variables (DATADOG_API_KEY="...", DATADOG_WORKER_CONCURRENCY="15", DATADOG_DNS_USE_HOST="true")
For options that accept multiple arguments, JSON string array notation should be used (DATADOG_TESTS_DNS_SERVER='["8.8.8.8", "1.1.1.1"]')

Supported environment variables:
DATADOG_ACCESS_KEY,
DATADOG_API_KEY,
DATADOG_PRIVATE_KEY,
DATADOG_PUBLIC_KEY_FINGERPRINT,
DATADOG_PUBLIC_KEY_PEM,
DATADOG_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY,
DATADOG_SITE,
DATADOG_WORKER_CONCURRENCY,
DATADOG_WORKER_LOG_FORMAT,
DATADOG_WORKER_MAX_NUMBER_MESSAGES_TO_FETCH,
DATADOG_WORKER_PROXY,
DATADOG_TESTS_DNS_SERVER,
DATADOG_TESTS_DNS_USE_HOST,
DATADOG_TESTS_PROXY,
DATADOG_TESTS_PROXY_IGNORE_SSL_ERRORS,
DATADOG_TESTS_TIMEOUT,
DATADOG_ALLOWED_IP_RANGES_4,
DATADOG_ALLOWED_IP_RANGES_6,
DATADOG_BLOCKED_IP_RANGES_4,
DATADOG_BLOCKED_IP_RANGES_6,
DATADOG_ENABLE_DEFAULT_WINDOWS_FIREWALL_RULES,
DATADOG_ALLOWED_DOMAIN_NAMES,
DATADOG_BLOCKED_DOMAIN_NAMES,
DATADOG_WORKER_ENABLE_STATUS_PROBES,
DATADOG_WORKER_STATUS_PROBES_PORT

References

Variables

Required Variables

chart (string) required

Chart name to be installed. The chart name can be local path, a URL to a chart, or the name of the chart if repository is specified. It is also possible to use the <repository>/<chart> format here if you are running Terraform on a system that the repository has been added to with helm repo add but this is not recommended

kubernetes_namespace (string) required

Kubernetes namespace to install the release into

region (string) required

AWS Region

Optional Variables

atomic (bool) optional

If set, installation process purges chart on fail. The wait flag will be set automatically if atomic is used


Default value: true

chart_version (string) optional

Specify the exact chart version to install. If this is not specified, the latest version is installed


Default value: null

cleanup_on_fail (bool) optional

Allow deletion of new resources created in this upgrade when upgrade fails


Default value: true

create_namespace (bool) optional

Create the Kubernetes namespace if it does not yet exist


Default value: true

description (string) optional

Release description attribute (visible in the history)


Default value: null

eks_component_name (string) optional

The name of the eks component


Default value: "eks/cluster"

helm_manifest_experiment_enabled (bool) optional

Enable storing of the rendered manifest for helm_release so the full diff of what is changing can been seen in the plan


Default value: false

kube_data_auth_enabled (bool) optional

If true, use an aws_eks_cluster_auth data source to authenticate to the EKS cluster.
Disabled by kubeconfig_file_enabled or kube_exec_auth_enabled.



Default value: false

kube_exec_auth_aws_profile (string) optional

The AWS config profile for aws eks get-token to use


Default value: ""

kube_exec_auth_aws_profile_enabled (bool) optional

If true, pass kube_exec_auth_aws_profile as the profile to aws eks get-token


Default value: false

kube_exec_auth_enabled (bool) optional

If true, use the Kubernetes provider exec feature to execute aws eks get-token to authenticate to the EKS cluster.
Disabled by kubeconfig_file_enabled, overrides kube_data_auth_enabled.



Default value: true

kube_exec_auth_role_arn (string) optional

The role ARN for aws eks get-token to use


Default value: ""

kube_exec_auth_role_arn_enabled (bool) optional

If true, pass kube_exec_auth_role_arn as the role ARN to aws eks get-token


Default value: true

kubeconfig_context (string) optional

Context to choose from the Kubernetes config file.
If supplied, kubeconfig_context_format will be ignored.



Default value: ""

kubeconfig_context_format (string) optional

A format string to use for creating the kubectl context name when
kubeconfig_file_enabled is true and kubeconfig_context is not supplied.
Must include a single %s which will be replaced with the cluster name.



Default value: ""

kubeconfig_exec_auth_api_version (string) optional

The Kubernetes API version of the credentials returned by the exec auth plugin


Default value: "client.authentication.k8s.io/v1beta1"

kubeconfig_file (string) optional

The Kubernetes provider config_path setting to use when kubeconfig_file_enabled is true


Default value: ""

kubeconfig_file_enabled (bool) optional

If true, configure the Kubernetes provider with kubeconfig_file and use that kubeconfig file for authenticating to the EKS cluster


Default value: false

private_location_tags (set(string)) optional

List of static tags to associate with the synthetics private location


Default value: [ ]

repository (string) optional

Repository URL where to locate the requested chart


Default value: null

timeout (number) optional

Time in seconds to wait for any individual kubernetes operation (like Jobs for hooks). Defaults to 300 seconds


Default value: null

verify (bool) optional

Verify the package before installing it. Helm uses a provenance file to verify the integrity of the chart; this must be hosted alongside the chart


Default value: false

wait (bool) optional

Will wait until all resources are in a ready state before marking the release as successful. It will wait for as long as timeout. Defaults to true


Default value: null

Context Variables

The following variables are defined in the context.tf file of this module and part of the terraform-null-label pattern.

additional_tag_map (map(string)) optional

Additional key-value pairs to add to each map in tags_as_list_of_maps. Not added to tags or id.
This is for some rare cases where resources want additional configuration of tags
and therefore take a list of maps with tag key, value, and additional configuration.


Required: No

Default value: { }

attributes (list(string)) optional

ID element. Additional attributes (e.g. workers or cluster) to add to id,
in the order they appear in the list. New attributes are appended to the
end of the list. The elements of the list are joined by the delimiter
and treated as a single ID element.


Required: No

Default value: [ ]

context (any) optional

Single object for setting entire context at once.
See description of individual variables for details.
Leave string and numeric variables as null to use default value.
Individual variable settings (non-null) override settings in context object,
except for attributes, tags, and additional_tag_map, which are merged.


Required: No

Default value:

{
"additional_tag_map": {},
"attributes": [],
"delimiter": null,
"descriptor_formats": {},
"enabled": true,
"environment": null,
"id_length_limit": null,
"label_key_case": null,
"label_order": [],
"label_value_case": null,
"labels_as_tags": [
"unset"
],
"name": null,
"namespace": null,
"regex_replace_chars": null,
"stage": null,
"tags": {},
"tenant": null
}
delimiter (string) optional

Delimiter to be used between ID elements.
Defaults to - (hyphen). Set to "" to use no delimiter at all.


Required: No

Default value: null

descriptor_formats (any) optional

Describe additional descriptors to be output in the descriptors output map.
Map of maps. Keys are names of descriptors. Values are maps of the form
\{<br/> format = string<br/> labels = list(string)<br/> \}
(Type is any so the map values can later be enhanced to provide additional options.)
format is a Terraform format string to be passed to the format() function.
labels is a list of labels, in order, to pass to format() function.
Label values will be normalized before being passed to format() so they will be
identical to how they appear in id.
Default is {} (descriptors output will be empty).


Required: No

Default value: { }

enabled (bool) optional

Set to false to prevent the module from creating any resources
Required: No

Default value: null

environment (string) optional

ID element. Usually used for region e.g. 'uw2', 'us-west-2', OR role 'prod', 'staging', 'dev', 'UAT'
Required: No

Default value: null

id_length_limit (number) optional

Limit id to this many characters (minimum 6).
Set to 0 for unlimited length.
Set to null for keep the existing setting, which defaults to 0.
Does not affect id_full.


Required: No

Default value: null

label_key_case (string) optional

Controls the letter case of the tags keys (label names) for tags generated by this module.
Does not affect keys of tags passed in via the tags input.
Possible values: lower, title, upper.
Default value: title.


Required: No

Default value: null

label_order (list(string)) optional

The order in which the labels (ID elements) appear in the id.
Defaults to ["namespace", "environment", "stage", "name", "attributes"].
You can omit any of the 6 labels ("tenant" is the 6th), but at least one must be present.


Required: No

Default value: null

label_value_case (string) optional

Controls the letter case of ID elements (labels) as included in id,
set as tag values, and output by this module individually.
Does not affect values of tags passed in via the tags input.
Possible values: lower, title, upper and none (no transformation).
Set this to title and set delimiter to "" to yield Pascal Case IDs.
Default value: lower.


Required: No

Default value: null

labels_as_tags (set(string)) optional

Set of labels (ID elements) to include as tags in the tags output.
Default is to include all labels.
Tags with empty values will not be included in the tags output.
Set to [] to suppress all generated tags.
Notes:
The value of the name tag, if included, will be the id, not the name.
Unlike other null-label inputs, the initial setting of labels_as_tags cannot be
changed in later chained modules. Attempts to change it will be silently ignored.


Required: No

Default value:

[
"default"
]
name (string) optional

ID element. Usually the component or solution name, e.g. 'app' or 'jenkins'.
This is the only ID element not also included as a tag.
The "name" tag is set to the full id string. There is no tag with the value of the name input.


Required: No

Default value: null

namespace (string) optional

ID element. Usually an abbreviation of your organization name, e.g. 'eg' or 'cp', to help ensure generated IDs are globally unique
Required: No

Default value: null

regex_replace_chars (string) optional

Terraform regular expression (regex) string.
Characters matching the regex will be removed from the ID elements.
If not set, "/[^a-zA-Z0-9-]/" is used to remove all characters other than hyphens, letters and digits.


Required: No

Default value: null

stage (string) optional

ID element. Usually used to indicate role, e.g. 'prod', 'staging', 'source', 'build', 'test', 'deploy', 'release'
Required: No

Default value: null

tags (map(string)) optional

Additional tags (e.g. {'BusinessUnit': 'XYZ'}).
Neither the tag keys nor the tag values will be modified by this module.


Required: No

Default value: { }

tenant (string) optional

ID element (Rarely used, not included by default). A customer identifier, indicating who this instance of a resource is for
Required: No

Default value: null

Outputs

metadata

Block status of the deployed release

synthetics_private_location_id

Synthetics private location ID

Dependencies

Requirements

  • terraform, version: >= 1.0.0
  • aws, version: >= 4.0
  • datadog, version: >= 3.3.0
  • helm, version: >= 2.3.0
  • kubernetes, version: >= 2.14.0, != 2.21.0
  • local, version: >= 1.3
  • template, version: >= 2.0

Providers

  • aws, version: >= 4.0
  • datadog, version: >= 3.3.0

Modules

NameVersionSourceDescription
datadog_configurationlatest../datadog-configuration/modules/datadog_keysn/a
datadog_synthetics_private_location0.10.1cloudposse/helm-release/awsn/a
eks1.5.0cloudposse/stack-config/yaml//modules/remote-staten/a
iam_roleslatest../account-map/modules/iam-rolesn/a
this0.25.0cloudposse/label/nulln/a

Resources

The following resources are used by this module:

Data Sources

The following data sources are used by this module:

References

Changelog

PR #814

Possible Breaking Change

Previously this component directly created the Kubernetes namespace for the agent when create_namespace was set to true. Now this component delegates that responsibility to the helm-release module, which better coordinates the destruction of resources at destruction time (for example, ensuring that the Helm release is completely destroyed and finalizers run before deleting the namespace).

Generally the simplest upgrade path is to destroy the Helm release, then destroy the namespace, then apply the new configuration. Alternatively, you can use terraform state mv to move the existing namespace to the new Terraform "address", which will preserve the existing deployment and reduce the possibility of the destroy failing and leaving the Kubernetes cluster in a bad state.