Running eBPF Tools in Minikube
Running eBPF Tools in Minikube
Overview
eBPF tools are performance tools used for observing the Linux kernel. These tools can be used to monitor your Kubernetes application in minikube. This tutorial will cover how to set up your minikube cluster so that you can run eBPF tools from a Docker container within minikube.
Requirement
- use VM Driver (not docker or podman)
- x86 (currently the bcc image does not support arm64)
- Latest minikube version
Tutorial
First, start minikube with a VM driver:
$ minikube start --vm=true
You can now run BCC tools as a Docker container in minikube:
$ minikube ssh -- docker run --rm --privileged -v /lib/modules:/lib/modules:ro -v /usr/src:/usr/src:ro -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro --workdir /usr/share/bcc/tools zlim/bcc ./execsnoop
Unable to find image 'zlim/bcc:latest' locally
latest: Pulling from zlim/bcc
6cf436f81810: Pull complete
987088a85b96: Pull complete
b4624b3efe06: Pull complete
d42beb8ded59: Pull complete
90970d1ebfd9: Pull complete
29c3815350eb: Pull complete
e21dfbd8fcfc: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:914bea8970535cd6b0d5dee13f99569c5f0d597942c8333c0aa92443473aff27
Status: Downloaded newer image for zlim/bcc:latest
PCOMM PID PPID RET ARGS
runc 5059 2011 0 /usr/bin/runc --version
docker-init 5065 2011 0 /usr/bin/docker-init --version
nice 5066 4012 0 /usr/bin/nice -n 19 du -x -s -B 1 /var/lib/kubelet/pods/1cf22976-f3e0-498b-bc04-8c7068e6e545/volumes/kubernetes.io~secret/storage-provisioner-token-cvk4x
Feedback
Was this page helpful?
Glad to hear it! Please tell us how we can improve.
Sorry to hear that. Please tell us how we can improve.