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Published inMay 2019
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ISBN-139781789612349
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Joel Bastos
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Joel Bastos

Joel Bastos is an open source supporter and contributor, with a background in infrastructure security and automation. He is always striving for the standardization of processes, code maintainability, and code reusability. He has defined, led, and implemented critical, highly available, and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale infrastructures in several organizations, with Prometheus as the cornerstone. He has worked at two unicorn companies in Portugal and at one of the largest transaction-oriented gaming companies in the world. Previously, he has supported several governmental entities with projects such as the Public Key Infrastructure for the Portuguese citizen card. You can find his blogs at kintoandar and on Twitter with the handle @kintoandar.
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Pedro Araújo
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Pedro Araújo

Pedro Arajo is a site reliability and automation engineer and has defined and implemented several standards for monitoring at scale. His contributions have been fundamental in connecting development teams to infrastructure. He is highly knowledgeable about infrastructure, but his passion is in the automation and management of large-scale, highly-transactional systems. Pedro has contributed to several open source projects, such as Riemann, OpenTSDB, Sensu, Prometheus, and Thanos. You can find him on Twitter with the handle @phcrva.
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Chapter 3, Setting Up a Test Environment

  1. While the Prometheus stack can be deployed in almost every mainstream operating system, and thus, it will most certainly run in your desktop environment, it is more reproducible to use a Vagrant-based test environment for simulating machine deployments, and minikube to do the same for Kubernetes-based production environments.
  2. The defaults.sh file located in the utils directory allows the software versions to be changed for the virtual machine-based examples.
  3. The default subnet is 192.168.42.0/24 in all virtual machine-based examples.
  4. The steps to get a Prometheus instance up and running are as follows:
    1. Ensure that software versions match the ones recommended.
    2. Clone the code repository provided.
    3. Move into the chapter directory.
    4. Run vagrant up.
    5. When finished, run vagrant destroy -f.
  1. That information is available in the Prometheus web...
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Joel Bastos

Joel Bastos is an open source supporter and contributor, with a background in infrastructure security and automation. He is always striving for the standardization of processes, code maintainability, and code reusability. He has defined, led, and implemented critical, highly available, and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale infrastructures in several organizations, with Prometheus as the cornerstone. He has worked at two unicorn companies in Portugal and at one of the largest transaction-oriented gaming companies in the world. Previously, he has supported several governmental entities with projects such as the Public Key Infrastructure for the Portuguese citizen card. You can find his blogs at kintoandar and on Twitter with the handle @kintoandar.
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Pedro Araújo

Pedro Arajo is a site reliability and automation engineer and has defined and implemented several standards for monitoring at scale. His contributions have been fundamental in connecting development teams to infrastructure. He is highly knowledgeable about infrastructure, but his passion is in the automation and management of large-scale, highly-transactional systems. Pedro has contributed to several open source projects, such as Riemann, OpenTSDB, Sensu, Prometheus, and Thanos. You can find him on Twitter with the handle @phcrva.
Read more about Pedro Araújo

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