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(Optional) Set Up AWS App Mesh sample workload for Amazon EKS and Kubernetes

The beta of Prometheus support in CloudWatch Container Insights supports AWS App Mesh. This section explains how to set up App Mesh.

CloudWatch Container Insights can also collect App Mesh Envoy Access Logs. For more information, see (Optional) Enable App Mesh Envoy Access Logs.

Configure IAM Permissions

You must add the AWSAppMeshFullAccess policy to the IAM role for your Amazon EKS or Kubernetes node group. On Amazon EKS, this node group name looks similar to eksctl-integ-test-eks-prometheus-NodeInstanceRole-ABCDEFHIJKL. On Kubernetes, it might look similar to nodes.integ-test-kops-prometheus.k8s.local.

Install App Mesh

To install the App Mesh Kubernetes controller, follow the instructions in App Mesh Controller.

Install a Sample Application

aws-app-mesh-examples contains several Kubernetes App Mesh walkthroughs. For this tutorial, you install a sample color application that shows how http routes can use headers for matching incoming requests.

To use a sample App Mesh application to test Container Insights

  1. Install the application using these instructions: https://github.com/aws/aws-app-mesh-examples/tree/master/walkthroughs/howto-k8s-http-headers.

  2. Launch a curler pod to generate traffic:

    kubectl -n default run -it curler --image=tutum/curl /bin/bash

  3. Curl different endpoints by changing HTTP headers. Run the curl command multiple times, as shown:

    curl -H "color_header: blue" front.howto-k8s-http-headers.svc.cluster.local:8080/; echo;

curl -H "color_header: red" front.howto-k8s-http-headers.svc.cluster.local:8080/; echo;

curl -H "color_header: yellow" front.howto-k8s-http-headers.svc.cluster.local:8080/; echo;

  4. Open the CloudWatch console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/.

  5. In the AWS Region where your cluster is running, choose Metrics in the navigation pane. The metric are in the ContainerInsights/Prometheus namespace.

  6. To see the CloudWatch Logs events, choose Log groups in the navigation pane. The events are in the log group /aws/containerinsights/your_cluster_name/prometheus in the log stream kubernetes-pod-appmesh-envoy.

Deleting the App Mesh Test Environment

When you have finished using App Mesh and the sample application, use the following commands to delete the unnecessary resources. Delete the sample application by entering the following command:

cd aws-app-mesh-examples/walkthroughs/howto-k8s-http-headers/
kubectl delete -f _output/manifest.yaml

Delete the App Mesh controller by entering the following command:

helm delete appmesh-controller -n appmesh-system