Kubernetes Classroom Series – 07/Sept/2021

Setting up Prometheus on Kubernetes

• Refer Here for the article for setting up prometheus on gke
• Steps to execute from windows terminal /powershell

git clone https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/prometheus-stackdriver-gke
cd prometheus-stackdriver-gke
gcloud iam service-accounts create prometheus --display-name prometheus-service-account
$PROJECT_ID=$(gcloud info --format='value(config.project)')
$PROMETHEUS_SA_EMAIL=$(gcloud iam service-accounts list --filter="displayName:prometheus-service-account" --format='value(email)')
gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding $PROJECT_ID --role roles/monitoring.metricWriter --member serviceAccount:$PROMETHEUS_SA_EMAIL
gcloud iam service-accounts keys create prometheus-service-account.json --iam-account $PROMETHEUS_SA_EMAIL
gcloud container clusters create hello-cluster --num-nodes=1
gcloud container clusters get-credentials hello-cluster
kubectl create namespace prometheus

• Make changes in gke-prometheus-deployment.yaml

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apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: prometheus-deployment
  namespace: prometheus
  labels:
    app: prometheus-server
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: prometheus-server
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: prometheus-server
    spec:
      containers:
        - name: prometheus
          image: prom/prometheus:v2.19.3
          args:
            - "--config.file=/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml"
            - "--storage.tsdb.path=/prometheus/"
          ports:
            - containerPort: 9090
          volumeMounts:
            - name: prometheus-config-volume
              mountPath: /etc/prometheus/
            - name: prometheus-storage-volume
              mountPath: /prometheus/
        - name: sidecar
          image: gcr.io/stackdriver-prometheus/stackdriver-prometheus-sidecar:0.8.2
          imagePullPolicy: Always
          args:
            - --stackdriver.project-id=expertkubernetes
            - --prometheus.wal-directory=/prometheus/wal
            - --stackdriver.kubernetes.location=us-central1-a
            - --stackdriver.kubernetes.cluster-name=hello-cluster
            #- \"--stackdriver.generic.location=${GCP_LOCATION}\"
            #- \"--stackdriver.generic.namespace=${KUBE_CLUSTER}\"
          ports:
            - name: sidecar
              containerPort: 9091
          volumeMounts:
            - name: prometheus-storage-volume
              mountPath: /prometheus
      volumes:
        - name: prometheus-config-volume
          configMap:
            defaultMode: 420
            name: prometheus-server-conf
        - name: prometheus-storage-volume
          emptyDir: {}

• Now apply

kubectl apply -f .\gke-prometheus-deployment.yaml
kubectl get pods -n prometheus
$PROMETHEUS_POD_GKE=$(kubectl get pods --namespace prometheus -l "app=prometheus-server" -o jsonpath="{.items[0].metadata.name}" )
kubectl port-forward --namespace prometheus $PROMETHEUS_POD_GKE 9090:9090

• Now work with Prometheus Expression Browser

• Now lets create a postgres deployment into the k8s cluster

helm repo add bitnami https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami
helm repo update
helm install gke bitnami/postgresql --set metrics.enabled=true --set postgresqlDatabase=prometheusdb