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Deploy Grafana to Kubernetes

Deploy Grafana to Kubernetes

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Deploy Grafana to Kubernetes

- [Instructor] In the last video, we deployed Prometheus to our Kubernetes cluster but we also said that there's another software package called Grafana that works with Prometheus and makes it easier to build custom charts and custom dashboards. Grafana sits in the CNCF landscape next to Prometheus. In the same way that we could install Prometheus using a Helm Chart that we could find from Helm Hub. If we go to Helm Hub and we search for Grafana, we can see that there also a pre-created Helm Chart for Grafana that we can use. Again, it provides instructions for us to install the chart and it tells us that it's in the stable repo which is already configured in our CLI. So let's go ahead and install Grafana. To do that, we use helm install, we give it a name of grafana, we use the Grafana namespace and we're also going to add a minus set option. And we're going to use this to set the admin password to just password in capital letters. And that value is used when we deploy our server so…

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