An example application that shows how Ambassador and Datadog work together in an Kubernetes/Openshift environment

This assumes you have Helm 3 CLI installed in your system

kubectl apply -f ambassador-deployment/

First, you need to add this repository to your Helm repositories:

helm repo add datadog https://helm.datadoghq.com
helm repo update

If you are deploying this in a generic Kubernetes cluster, use the following command:

export DD_API_KEY=<YOUR_DATADOG_API_KEY>
helm install datadog --set datadog.apiKey=$DD_API_KEY datadog/datadog -f datadog-generic-helm-values.yaml --version=2.8.1

This will deploy Datadog with APM and Logging enabled.

If you are deploying this in Openshift, use the following command:

export DD_API_KEY=<YOUR_DATADOG_API_KEY>
helm install datadog --set datadog.apiKey=$DD_API_KEY datadog/datadog -f datadog-openshift-helm-values.yaml --version=2.8.1

This will deploy Datadog with APM and Logging enabled and with an Openshift SCC.

This will deploy the example Ecommerce application and will create an Ambassador Mapping for its frontend service:

kubectl apply -f ecommerce-app/v1

This will enable JSON logging for Envoy and will enable Ambassador's Datadog integration to send traces to Datadog:

kubectl apply -f ambassador-datadog

The Ambassador pod needs restarting for the Tracing object to take effect:

kubectl scale deployment ambassador --replicas=0 -n ambassador
kubectl scale deployment ambassador --replicas=1 -n ambassador

Go Replay is an open-source network monitoring tool which can record your live traffic, and use it for shadowing, load testing, monitoring and detailed analysis.

This repository has a Go Replay profile available that navigates around the application. To replay the traffic:

• Download the latest release of Go Replay for your platform on their releases page.
• Replay the traffic:

./gor --input-file-loop --input-file requests_0.gor --output-http "<AMBASSADOR_URL>"