Installing the prerequisite tools
Grafana is much more exciting with data! To build a realistic view of how Grafana works and can help your organization, we have chosen to install the OpenTelemetry demo application. This is a demonstration web store that sells telescopes and other observational equipment. We’ll take you through the installation process to get this running locally on your machine.
But first, there are a few prerequisites that your local environment has, and they depend on the operating system you use.
In this section, we will explain how to install the following:
- Tools based on your operating system:
- Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2 (WSL2)
- macOS Homebrew
- Docker or Podman
- A single-node Kubernetes cluster
- Helm
Installing WSL2
WSL is a way of running a Linux filesystem and tools directly on Windows. This is used to give a standard set of commands and tools across operating systems. It is possible to run these systems outside...
