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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
helm-charts
Posts with mentions or reviews of helm-charts.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-24.
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You get what you Measure: Understanding your applications health with Grafana, Loki and Prometheus
Prometheus can be deployed using the Prometheus Helm Chart. This helm chart contains a lot of features such as the already mentioned Push Gateway, Alert Manager and so on. For simplicity reasons of this tutorial I will not show all the Helm chart configuration but you can see a real example used by me here.
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Multi-Cluster Prometheus: Scaling Metrics Across Kubernetes Clusters
Building upon Bartłomiej Płotka's insightful blog on Prometheus and its passthrough agent mode, this post dives into implementing multi-cluster Prometheus support. Notably, the official inclusion of support in the widely-used kube-prometheus-stack came with the release in July 2023, making it easier to extend Prometheus monitoring across clusters.
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Hands On: Pull metrics into Kubernetes from anywhere and treat them generically with the Keptn Metrics Server
The first thing you'll need, of course, is at least one backend to store metrics. So install Prometheus now:
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Kubernetes Ingress Visibility
For the request following, something like jeager https://www.jaegertracing.io/, because you are talking more about tracing than necessarily logging. For just monitoring, https://github.com/prometheus-community/helm-charts/tree/main/charts/kube-prometheus-stack would be the starting point, then it depends. Nginx gives metrics out of the box, then you can pull in the dashboard like https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/14314-kubernetes-nginx-ingress-controller-nextgen-devops-nirvana/ , or full metal with something like service mesh monitoring which would provably fulfil most of the requirements
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Smart-Cash project -Adding monitoring to EKS using Prometheus operator
kube-prometheus-stack is a Helm chart that contains several components to monitor the Kubernetes cluster, along with Grafana dashboards Grafana Dashboards to visualize the data. This option will be used in this article.
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K8s Monitoring Per Namespace
This one I highly recommend: https://github.com/prometheus-community/helm-charts/tree/main/charts/kube-prometheus-stack
- Is Prometheus the right tool for my use case here?
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Do we have any Prometheus metric to get the kubernetes cluster-level CPU/Memory requests/limits?
We use kube-prometheus-stack for metrics and have added the K8s views dashboards from grafana-dashboards-kubernetes. You should check out the k8s-views-global dashboard. I believe it's just what you are looking for.
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Alertmanager SMTP configuration
You should take a look at "kube-prometheus-stack". It not only includes prometheus, node-exporter and Grafana but also a ton of preconfigured alerts and dashboards. Will save you a lot of work!
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How do I find / edit Prometheus configuration after deploying it on Kubernetes ?
Since their are different ways to install what exactly did you install? Vanilla charts , stack, operator? https://github.com/prometheus-community/helm-charts/tree/main/charts
kustomize
Posts with mentions or reviews of kustomize.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-07.
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Building a Kubernetes Operator with the Operator Framework
kustomize: brew install kustomize
- Kustomize deployment order
- Deploying helm charts with other resources
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How and when to use Helm and Kustomize together
It's a built in feature of kustomize https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/blob/master/api/types/helmchartargs.go
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Alternatives to Helm?
I think the combination of Kustomize and helm works in my experience. For advanced use cases, you can also see KRM functions in Kustomize.
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How to pass dynamic values to Kustomize?
See for instance a related issue: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/issues/3866
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Help with Kustomize: cleanest way to replace an environment variable in a pod or deployment?
Using a strategic merge is the safest way so you avoid the index fragility.
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Helm makes it overly complex, or is it just me?
Rendering out the manifests is something I have been pushing for. Not having to understand how every templating tool works and what actually is being changed is key. Though, it gets complicated when you use helm (or any templating/patching tool) that produces many variants. You also lose any release/deployment time hooks that are provided (helm hooks or recently "patched" kustomize env variables).
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Deployment with ArgoCD & secrets in helm chart
https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/blob/master/examples/chart.md (edit: oh I see the other commenter also included this link, oops)
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Monokle, Kustomize & Quality Kubernetes Deployments
Kustomize is an open-source project that “lets you customize raw, template-free YAML files for multiple purposes, leaving the original YAML untouched and usable as is.” It’s now the most popular tool for customizing Kubernetes manifests reasonably, and it’s even built directly into the Kubernetes CLI since K8s v1.14.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing helm-charts and kustomize you can also consider the following projects:
tanka - Flexible, reusable and concise configuration for Kubernetes
helmfile - Deploy Kubernetes Helm Charts
kube-thanos - Kubernetes specific configuration for deploying Thanos.
kpt - Automate Kubernetes Configuration Editing
kube-prometheus - Use Prometheus to monitor Kubernetes and applications running on Kubernetes
ytt - YAML templating tool that works on YAML structure instead of text
pihole-kubernetes - PiHole on kubernetes
kubevela - The Modern Application Platform.
pack - CLI for building apps using Cloud Native Buildpacks
gatekeeper-library - 📚 The OPA Gatekeeper policy library
client-go - Go client for Kubernetes.