Additional steps

The following steps are optional and are not recommended. However, if you wish, you can try them out. This section will teach you how to install the Metrics Server, VMware Octant, Prometheus, and Grafana. Then we will wind up by powering down our VM and starting it once again and thus be prepared to perform hands-on experiments in the next chapter.

Installing the Metrics Server

The Metrics Server is required if we need to run kubectl commands to show the metrics:

$ helm install stable/metrics-server --name metrics --namespace kube-system --set fullnameOverride="metrics" --set args="{--logtostderr,--kubelet-insecure-tls,--kubelet-preferred-address-types=InternalIP\,ExternalIP\,Hostname}&quot...