Create a Cluster
Explore how to create a Kubernetes cluster suited for advanced monitoring and alerting. This lesson guides you through setting up NGINX Ingress, configuring environment variables like LB_IP, and preparing your cluster for metrics collection and querying using various Kubernetes flavors. By the end, you'll have a functional cluster configured for dynamic monitoring tasks.
We'll cover the following...
Pulling the code #
We’ll continue using definitions from the vfarcic/k8s-specs repository. To be on the safe side, we’ll pull the latest version first.
🔍 All the commands from this chapter are available in the 03-monitor.sh Gist.
cd k8s-specs
git pull
Additional necessary things #
In this chapter, we’ll need a few things that were not requirements before, even though you have probably already used them.
We’ll start using UIs so we’ll need NGINX Ingress Controller that will route traffic ...