Kubernetes monitoring in Zabbix via Prometheus backend

Summary Monitoring in Kubernetes is a complex task. The traditional monitoring framework is not sufficient to handle such a massive workload. Zabbix since version 6.0 provides a native way of integration for monitoring Kubernetes cluster. Zabbix-Kubernetes integration provides various templates to monitor kubernetes components like kube-controller-manager, kube-apiserver, kube-scheduler, kubelet, etc. It also supports automatic discovery of kubernetes nodes, pods and also collects metrics agentlessly. Why I don’t like the Zabbix’s direct way of monitoring Kubernetes cluster? Although Zabbix-Kubernetes integration looks promising in the beginning , it is not easy to use. ...

July 1, 2022 · 3 min · Vignesh Ragupathy

Kubernetes on Ubuntu 18.04 - Master and Dashboard setup

This post i am going to show how to install Kubernetes, configure Master node and enable Kubernetes dashboard in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I also tried to show the video demo explaining the entire configuration in the end of this post, This is my first video demo!!! This post has been updated for kubernetes version 1.18 Setup I am using the Virtualbox(running in Ubuntu 18.04 physical machine) for this entire setup . The physical machine is Dell inspiron laptop with 12GB RAM , Intel® Core™ i7-6500U CPU @ 2.50GHz × 4 and 512GB SSD hardisk. ...

June 14, 2018 · 7 min · Vignesh Ragupathy