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Authentication

This provider requires authentication.
  • cilium_base_endpoint: The base endpoint of the cilium hubble relay (required: True, sensitive: False)

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In workflows

This provider can’t be used as a “step” or “action” in workflows. If you want to use it, please let us know by creating an issue in the GitHub repository.

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Topology

This provider pulls topology to Keep. It could be used in correlations and mapping, and as a context for alerts and incidents.

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Overview

Cilium provider is in Beta and is not working with authentication yet.The current way to pull topology data from your kubernetes cluster, is to run:
# hubble-relay usually installed at kube-system, but it depends on your cluster.
kubectl port-forward -n kube-system svc/hubble-relay 4245:80
and then use localhost:4245 to pull topology data.If you need help with connecting Cilium provider, reach out.
The Cilium provider leverages Hubble’s network flow data to automatically discover service dependencies and build a topology map of your Kubernetes applications.

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Authentication Parameters

ParameterDescriptionExample
cilium_base_endpointThe base endpoint of the Cilium Hubble relaylocalhost:4245

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Outputs

The provider returns topology information including:
  • Service names and their dependencies
  • Namespace information
  • Pod labels and cluster metadata
  • Network-based relationships between services

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Service Discovery Logic

The provider identifies services using the following hierarchy:
  1. Workload name (if available)
  2. Kubernetes labels (k8s:app= or k8s:app.kubernetes.io/name=)
  3. Pod name (stripped of deployment suffixes)

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Requirements

  • A running Kubernetes cluster with Cilium installed
  • Hubble enabled and accessible via gRPC
  • Network visibility (flow logs) enabled in Cilium

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Limitations

  • Only captures active network flows between pods
  • Service discovery is limited to pods with proper Kubernetes labels
  • Requires direct access to the Hubble relay endpoint

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Google Kubernetes Engine specific

If you are using a GKE cluster, you cannot connect Keep to the Google-managed hubble-relay directly because:
  • hubble-relay operates only in secure mode,
  • hubble-relay requires client certificate authentication.
However, Keep does not currently support these features. To work around this, you can add an NGINX Pod that listens on a plaintext HTTP port and proxies requests to hubble-relay secure port using hubble-relay certificates.
You need a GKE cluster with dataplane v2 .Dataplane v2 observability must be enabled.
Here is an example of running a plaintext NGINX proxy: 
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: hubble-relay-insecure-nginx
  namespace: gke-managed-dpv2-observability
data:
  nginx.conf: |
    user  nginx;
    worker_processes  auto;

    error_log  /dev/stdout notice;
    pid        /var/run/nginx.pid;

    events {
      worker_connections  1024;
    }

    http {
      log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
      '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
      '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

      access_log /dev/stdout main;

      server {
        listen       80;

        http2 on;

        location / {
          grpc_pass grpcs://hubble-relay.gke-managed-dpv2-observability.svc.cluster.local:443;

          grpc_ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/certs/client.crt;
          grpc_ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/certs/client.key;
          grpc_ssl_trusted_certificate /etc/nginx/certs/hubble-relay-ca.crt;
        }
      }
    }
---
kind: Deployment
apiVersion: apps/v1
metadata:
  name: hubble-relay-insecure
  namespace: gke-managed-dpv2-observability
  labels:
    k8s-app: hubble-relay-insecure
    app.kubernetes.io/name: hubble-relay-insecure
    app.kubernetes.io/part-of: cilium
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      k8s-app: hubble-relay-insecure
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        k8s-app: hubble-relay-insecure
        app.kubernetes.io/name: hubble-relay-insecure
        app.kubernetes.io/part-of: cilium
    spec:
      securityContext:
        fsGroup: 1000
        seccompProfile:
          type: RuntimeDefault
      containers:
        - name: frontend
          image: nginx:alpine
          ports:
            - name: http
              containerPort: 80
          volumeMounts:
            - name: hubble-relay-insecure-nginx-conf
              mountPath: /etc/nginx/
              readOnly: true
            - name: hubble-relay-client-certs
              mountPath: /etc/nginx/certs/
              readOnly: true
      volumes:
        - configMap:
            name: hubble-relay-insecure-nginx
          name: hubble-relay-insecure-nginx-conf
        - name: hubble-relay-client-certs
          projected:
            defaultMode: 0400
            sources:
              - secret:
                  name: hubble-relay-client-certs
                  items:
                    - key: ca.crt
                      path: hubble-relay-ca.crt
                    - key: tls.crt
                      path: client.crt
                    - key: tls.key
                      path: client.key
---
kind: Service
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: hubble-relay-insecure
  namespace: gke-managed-dpv2-observability
  labels:
    k8s-app: hubble-relay-insecure
    app.kubernetes.io/name: hubble-relay-insecure
    app.kubernetes.io/part-of: cilium
spec:
  type: ClusterIP
  selector:
    k8s-app: hubble-relay-insecure
  ports:
    - name: http
      port: 80
      targetPort: 80
Now you can connect Keep with google-managed hubble-relay by adding Cilium provider using hubble-relay-insecure.gke-managed-dpv2-observability:80 address.