Wherein I migrate my Grafana instance over to k8s. This is part 11 of my k8s migration series. I already wrote about my love for metrics in the companion post about the Prometheus setup, so I will spare you my excitement about pretty graphs this time. 😉 For the Grafana setup, I used the kube-prometheus-stack’s integration of the Grafana Helm Chart. Database setup First step is to setup the database for Grafana....
While working on the logging setup for my Grafana, Loki and CloudNativePG deployments, I found that there were some things I disliked about my original k8s logging setup, which I described here. This is the start of a kind of post where I try to keep the reading time reasonably short. Whenever I prefix a post with “Bit Sized:”, you can expect a short one. I’m trying to wean myself off of the incredibly long, meandering posts I seem to keep putting out....
Wherein I document how I migrated my logging setup from Nomad to k8s. This is part seven of my k8s migration series. Setup overview Let’s start with an overview of the setup. Overview of my logging pipeline. It all starts out with the app’s logs. Those are output to stdout in the container. Then, my container runtime, cri-o, takes that and writes it to files in /var/log/containers/ by default. It also prefixes the log line with the timestamp, the stream it was coming from, and F for full log lines as well as P for partial log lines....