In Chapter 5, Running a Prometheus Server, we had the opportunity to experiment with the Prometheus Operator. Since Alertmanager is a fundamental component of the Prometheus stack, the Operator is also able to manage its instances. Besides taking care of an Alertmanager cluster, the Operator is also responsible for managing the configuration of recording and alerting rules.
To provide some insight into how to use the Operator to manage an Alertmanager cluster, we will provide, as an example, a full setup for you to try out. The Kubernetes manifests for getting Alertmanager and Prometheus up and running in our Kubernetes test environment can be found, relative to the repository root path, at ...