Configure Atlas Kubernetes Operator for Atlas for Government

You can use the Atlas Kubernetes Operator to manage resources in Atlas for Government. The Atlas Kubernetes Operator only supports managing Atlas for Government on AWS. It doesn't support Atlas Data Federation and Serverless deployments. For more information, see Supported Features in the MongoDB Atlas for Government documentation.

This page describes how to configure the Atlas Kubernetes Operator to manage resources in Atlas for Government.

Prerequisites

You must install the Atlas Kubernetes Operator. If you install the Atlas Kubernetes Operator using Atlas CLI with the --gov flag, you can skip steps 1 - 3 in the following procedure. If you don't specify --gov flag for installing the Atlas Kubernetes Operator, complete all the steps in the following procedure.

To learn more about installing the Atlas Kubernetes Operator using the Atlas CLI, see Quick Start.

Procedure

After you install the Atlas Kubernetes Operator, do the following:

Edit the Atlas Kubernetes Operator Deployment manifest to set the target to the domain of Atlas for Government.

For example, to edit using kubectl:

kubectl edit deployments.apps -n default <your-mongodb-atlas-operator>

Locate the `atlas-domain` setting under `spec.containers.args` in the file.

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  ...
spec:
  progressDeadlineSeconds: 600
  replicas: 1
  revisionHistoryLimit: 10
  selector:
    ...
  strategy:
   ...
  template:
    metadata:
      ...
    spec:
      containers:
      - args:
        - --atlas-domain=https://cloud.mongodb.com/
        - --leader-elect
        - --health-probe-bind-address=:8081
        - --metrics-bind-address=127.0.0.1:8080
        - --log-level=info
        - --log-encoder=json
        command:
        - /manager
        env:
        - name: OPERATOR_POD_NAME
 ...

Modify the domain to set the target to Atlas for Government.

To configure the domain, replace the value of --atlas-domain with the following URL:

https://cloud.mongodbgov.com/

Deploy Atlas Kubernetes Operator.

Follow the procedure in the Quick Start to deploy Atlas Kubernetes Operator.

Set the AWS region for Atlas for Government.

Use the spec.regionUsageRestrictions parameter in the AtlasProject custom resource to set the AWS region for Atlas for Government. If you omit the spec.regionUsageRestrictions parameter, Atlas Kubernetes Operator restricts the project to AWS FedRamp Moderate standard regions by default. To learn more, see spec.regionUsageRestrictions.

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