Configuration Overview

The kubeadapt Helm chart deploys a single-pod agent into your Kubernetes cluster. The agent collects cluster metrics and sends them to Kubeadapt Cloud for cost analysis and rightsizing recommendations.

Platform Support

Platform	Status	Notes
Amazon EKS	Supported	Tested on 1.24 through 1.35
Azure AKS	Supported	Tested on 1.24 through 1.35
Google GKE	Supported	Standard and Autopilot modes
Red Hat OpenShift	Supported	4.x and later
On-premise / self-hosted	Supported	kubeadm, kops, Rancher, k3s, RKE2

Prerequisites

Kubernetes 1.24 or later
Helm 3.0 or later
metrics-server running in the cluster. Most managed providers include it by default. The agent reads live CPU and memory usage from the metrics.k8s.io API. Without it, the platform cannot generate rightsizing recommendations.

Installation

bash

helm repo add kubeadapt https://kubeadapt.github.io/kubeadapt-helm
helm repo update

bash

helm install kubeadapt kubeadapt/kubeadapt \
  --namespace kubeadapt \
  --create-namespace \
  --set agent.config.token="<your-token>"

Get a token from app.kubeadapt.io under Clusters > Add Cluster.

Tip

The dashboard generates the full install command with your token pre-filled. Copy and run it directly.

OCI Registry

You can also pull from the OCI registry instead of the Helm repo:

bash

helm install kubeadapt oci://ghcr.io/kubeadapt/kubeadapt-helm/kubeadapt \
  --namespace kubeadapt \
  --create-namespace \
  --set agent.config.token="<your-token>"

Upgrading

bash

helm repo update
helm upgrade kubeadapt kubeadapt/kubeadapt \
  --namespace kubeadapt \
  --reset-then-reuse-values

Or enable Auto-Upgrade to handle this automatically.

Uninstalling

bash

helm uninstall kubeadapt --namespace kubeadapt

Note

Uninstalling removes all Kubeadapt resources from the cluster. Historical data in the Kubeadapt dashboard is retained.

Chart Signing

All chart packages are GPG-signed. The public key is published at the Helm repo root.

Fingerprint: 3C8109B607AD3E119B7033D8948AD9EDA6BD626E
Key ID: 948AD9EDA6BD626E

Verify a downloaded package:

bash

helm verify kubeadapt-0.18.5.tgz --keyring pubkeys.gpg