Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard about Kubernetes, an open-source container orchestration platform designed to automate the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Kubernetes is great, solves the pain points of application deployment and maintenance in a distributed system but what makes it awesome is its extensibility. Operators are one such powerful concept that makes use of this capability. In this post, we will take a dive into Prometheus operator, how to install and of course using the Prometheus operator to monitor a demo application.

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