Install the Snyk Controller

Prerequisites for installing the Snyk Controller

Feature availability Snyk Controller is available only with Enterprise plans. For more information, see plans and pricing.

Before you install the Snyk Controller:

• You must have an administrator account for your Snyk Organization.

• You must have a minimum of 50 GB of storage available in the cluster as an emptyDir.

• You must have a minimum of the RAM requirements indicated in the code that follows to run on the cluster.

requests: cpu: "250m" memory: "400Mi"
limits: cpu: "1" memory: "2Gi"

• Your Kubernetes cluster must have a Kubernetes linux/amd64 worker node.

• Your Kubernetes cluster must be able to communicate with Snyk outbound over HTTPS.

• Enable the Kubernetes Integration to get your Integration ID.

• Create a Group or Organization service account token. For more information, see Service accounts. Different roles allow the integration to publish data:

  • Group Admin

  • Org Admin

  • Org custom role with the permission Publish Kubernetes Resources.

• Install Helm locally.

The Snyk Controller Kubernetes integration is designed to be deployed into your cluster. It has not been tested on Serverless FaaS deployment options such as Fargate, Google Cloud Run, and Azure Container Instances. Deployment into serverless platforms may be unreliable and is not recommended or supported.