MetalLB hooks into your Kubernetes cluster, and provides a network load-balancer implementation. In short, it allows you to create Kubernetes services of type LoadBalancer in clusters that don’t run on a cloud provider, and thus cannot simply hook into paid products to provide load balancers. This example has been …

kind is a tool for running local Kubernetes clusters using Docker container “nodes”. kind was primarily designed for testing Kubernetes itself, but may be used for local development or CI. It requires Docker to be installed (it may work with podman but I've not tried) and the kind binary which can be installed in …

The Prometheus Alertmanager handles alerts sent by client applications such as the Prometheus server. It takes care of deduplicating, grouping, and routing them to the correct receiver integration such as email, PagerDuty, or OpsGenie. It also takes care of silencing and inhibition of alerts. To ensure that alert …

Using the NGINX Prometheus exporter to add MGINX metrics into Prometheus. NGINX Prometheus exporter fetches the metrics from a single NGINX or NGINX Plus, converts the metrics into appropriate Prometheus metrics types and finally exposes them via an HTTP server to be collected by Prometheus. These instructions assume …

Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud. It has been used by many companies for over 10 years and forms the foundation of a good and flexiable monitoring system In this the first of a series of posts we will go back to the basics installing Prometheus and node …