Installing popular solutions using Helm charts
In this section, we will demonstrate how you can quickly install the following software for your Kubernetes cluster. They can be useful in your development scenarios or as building blocks of your cloud-native applications:
- Kubernetes Dashboard: Provides an overview of the cluster with a nice web UI.
- Elasticsearch with Kibana: Popular full-text search engine, commonly used in log analytics. Kibana is used as a visualizations UI.
- Prometheus with Grafana: Popular monitoring system with a time series database. Grafana is used as a visualizations UI.
Let's begin by installing Kubernetes Dashboard.
Kubernetes Dashboard
Kubernetes Dashboard is the official web UI for providing an overview of your cluster. The Helm chart for this component is officially maintained by the Kubernetes community (https://artifacthub.io/packages/helm/k8s-dashboard/kubernetes-dashboard). We are going to install it with the default parameters...