Quick Local Docker Install
This guide has been tested on Ubuntu 22.04 and 22.10 with respectively kernel
5.15.0 and 5.19.0 on amd64 and arm64 but
any recent distribution
shipping with a relatively recent kernel should work. See the FAQ for further details on
the recommended kernel versions.
Note that you cannot run Tetragon using Docker Desktop on macOS because of a limitation of the Docker Desktop Linux virtual machine. Learn more about this issue and how to run Tetragon on a Mac computer in this section of the FAQ page.
Start Tetragon
The easiest way to start experimenting with Tetragon is to run it via Docker using the released container images.
docker run -d --name tetragon --rm --pull always \
--pid=host --cgroupns=host --privileged \
-v /sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux:/var/lib/tetragon/btf \
quay.io/cilium/tetragon:latest
This will start Tetragon in a privileged container running in the background. Running Tetragon as a privileged container is required to load and attach BPF programs. See the Installation and Configuration section for more details.
Run demo application
To explore Tetragon it is helpful to have a sample workload. You can use Cilium’s demo application with this Docker Compose file, but any workload would work equally well:
curl -LO https://github.com/cilium/tetragon/raw/main/examples/quickstart/docker-compose.yaml
docker compose -f docker-compose.yaml up -d
You can use docker container ls to verify that the containers are up and
running. It might take a short amount of time for the container images to
download.
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
cace79752d94 quay.io/cilium/json-mock:v1.3.8 "bash /run.sh" 34 seconds ago Up 33 seconds starwars-xwing-1
4f8422b43b5b quay.io/cilium/json-mock:v1.3.8 "bash /run.sh" 34 seconds ago Up 33 seconds starwars-tiefighter-1
7b60618ca8bd quay.io/cilium/starwars:v2.1 "/starwars-docker --…" 34 seconds ago Up 33 seconds 0.0.0.0:8080->80/tcp, :::8080->80/tcp starwars-deathstar-1
What’s next
Check for execution events.