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The DevOps 2.5 Toolkit

By : Viktor Farcic
Book Image

The DevOps 2.5 Toolkit

By: Viktor Farcic

Overview of this book

Building on The DevOps 2.3 Toolkit: Kubernetes, and The DevOps 2.4 Toolkit: Continuous Deployment to Kubernetes, Viktor Farcic brings his latest exploration of the Docker technology as he records his journey to monitoring, logging, and autoscaling Kubernetes. The DevOps 2.5 Toolkit: Monitoring, Logging, and Auto-Scaling Kubernetes: Making Resilient, Self-Adaptive, And Autonomous Kubernetes Clusters is the latest book in Viktor Farcic’s series that helps you build a full DevOps Toolkit. This book helps readers develop the necessary skillsets needed to be able to operate Kubernetes clusters, with a focus on metrics gathering and alerting with the goal of making clusters and applications inside them autonomous through self-healing and self-adaptation. Work with Viktor and dive into the creation of self-adaptive and self-healing systems within Kubernetes.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
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What Did We Do?

Installing and setting up Grafana

You probably know what's coming next. We Google "Grafana Helm" and hope that the community already created a Chart we can use. I'll save you from the search by revealing that there is Grafana in Helm's stable channel. All we have to do is inspect the values and choose which ones we'll use.

 1  helm inspect values stable/grafana

I won't go through all the values we could use. I assume that, by now, you are a Helm ninja and that you can explore them yourself. Instead, we'll use the values I already defined.

 1  cat mon/grafana-values-bare.yml

The output is as follows.

ingress:
  enabled: true
persistence:
  enabled: true
  accessModes:
  - ReadWriteOnce
  size: 1Gi
resources:
  limits:
    cpu: 20m
    memory: 50Mi
  requests:
    cpu: 5m
    memory: 25Mi

There's nothing special about those values. We...