Management Tips

Free Up Disk Space

• Free Up Disk Space in your Kubernetes Cluster - Virtualization Howto

Port Forwarding

• Usage: kubectl port forward TYPE/NAME [LOCAL_PORT:]REMOTE_PORT 
• LOCAL_PORT is the port on your local machine running kubectl
• REMOTE_PORT is the port on the target pod or service in the Kubernetes cluster

# For a service
kubectl port forward svc/my-service 8080:80

# For a deployment
kubectl port forward deploy/my-deployment 8080:80

K8s Cluster Monitoring

Kube-Prometheus-Stack

A set of Kubernetes manifests, Grafana dashboards, and Prometheus rules for monitoring Kubernetes clusters

• Kube-Prometheus-Stack installation and configuration - Virtualization Howto
• Kubernetes Monitoring with Prometheus & Grafana: Real-World Scenarios, Custom Metrics, and Proactive Alerts | Medium
• How to Monitor Kubernetes Using Prometheus and Grafana

kubectl create ns monitoring
helm repo add prometheus-community https://prometheus-community.github.io/helm-charts
helm repo update
helm install prometheus-stack prometheus-community/kube-prometheus-stack -n monitoring