Configure proxy

As part of getting started with Kubernetes monitoring, you might want to configure a proxy.

You can configure optional parameters like proxy settings in the DynaKube custom resource file in order to:

Download the OneAgent installer
Ensure communication between the OneAgent and your Dynatrace environment
Ensure communication between Dynatrace Operator and the Dynatrace API

There are two ways to provide the proxy, depending on whether your proxy uses credentials.

No credentialsWith credentials

If you have a proxy that doesn't use credentials, enter your proxy URL directly in the value field for the proxy.

yaml
apiVersion: dynatrace.com/v1beta1
kind: DynaKube
metadata:
  name: dynakube
  namespace: dynatrace
spec:
  apiUrl: https://environmentid.live.dynatrace.com/api
  proxy:
    value: http://mysuperproxy

If your proxy uses credentials

Create a secret with a field called proxy that holds your encrypted proxy URL with the credentials.
KubernetesOpenShift
```
plaintext
kubectl -n dynatrace create secret generic myproxysecret --from-literal="proxy=http://<user>:<password>@<IP>:<PORT>"
```
```
plaintext
oc -n dynatrace create secret generic myproxysecret --from-literal="proxy=http://<user>:<password>@<IP>:<PORT>"
```
Rules for the proxy password
1. The proxy password needs to meet the following requirements:
  
  Requirements Corresponding characters
  Characters allowed [A-Za-z0-9]
  ! " # $ ( ) * - . / : ; < > ? @ [ ] ^ _ { | }
  Characters not allowed blank space
  ' ` , & = + % \
2. The password specified in the CR or in the proxy secret has to be a URL-encoded string. For example, if the actual password is password!"#$()*-./:;<>?@[]^_{|}~, the corresponding URL-encoded string is password!%22%23%24()*-.%2F%3A%3B%3C%3E%3F%40%5B%5D%5E_%7B%7C%7D~.

Requirements	Corresponding characters
Characters allowed	[A-Za-z0-9] ! " # $ ( ) * - . / : ; < > ? @ [ ] ^ _ { \| }
Characters not allowed	blank space ' ` , & = + % \

Provide the name of the secret in the valueFrom section.

yaml
apiVersion: dynatrace.com/v1beta1
kind: DynaKube
metadata:
  name: dynakube
  namespace: dynatrace
spec:
  apiUrl: https://environmentid.live.dynatrace.com/api
  proxy:
    valueFrom: myproxysecret