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Deploying Prometheus

Now that we understand a little more about observability and monitoring, as well as their distinctions and how Prometheus fits into it all, we can deploy Prometheus. In this book, we’ll be deploying Prometheus to a managed Kubernetes environment using Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE). However, you can substitute AWS’s EKS, Azure’s AKS, or any other engine as you see fit.

You may already have experience with deploying Prometheus, but we’re going to use the Prometheus environment that we’ll deploy in this chapter as the basis for future chapters in which we’ll be deploying additional applications that extend Prometheus and make configuration changes to Prometheus. Consequently, it is recommended that you follow along with ...

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