Configuring an Apache Exporter with Prometheus in Kubernetes

Difficulty: Intermediate

Duration: 2 minutes and 5 seconds

Students: 906

Rating: 3.2/5

In this lesson, we'll run through a quick demo of the Prometheus exporter for an Apache Web Server. This lesson specifically covers the application as it relates to Kubernetes, ranging from deployments to services, and how to inject a Prometheus configuration into a Prometheus container on startup. For this lesson, you should feel comfortable operating kubectl commands and how to interact with Kubernetes services and pods. All of the required YAML configurations, kubernetes commands, and instructions are provided In the official repo below.

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Learning Objectives

Configure an Apache Webserver exporter with Prometheus in Kubernetes

Intended Audience

DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineers
Kubernetes developers
Anyone looking to implement an official Prometheus exporter into a Prometheus environment

Prerequisites

Kubernetes experience including kubectl
Familiarity with Prometheus
Comfortable poking around in a web GUI
Terminal experience

Resources

The GitHub repository for this lesson is available here: https://github.com/cloudacademy/Apache-Prometheus-Exporter

Covered Topics