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Setting Grafana as LoadBalancer in Kubernetes with HiveMQ Operator

Setting Grafana as LoadBalancer in Kubernetes with HiveMQ Operator

Owned by Sheetal Shet, created
Jul 05, 2023

In this article, we will guide you through the process of configuring the Grafana service as a LoadBalancer in a Kubernetes cluster using the HiveMQ Operator. By default, Grafana is set to use the node port type, but we will demonstrate how to change it to a LoadBalancer service type to enable external access.

Prerequisites

  • The Kubernetes cluster is already set up and running on your choice of cloud provider

  • k8s version 1.16+ is installed

  • Helm version 3 is installed

  • The Hivemq k8s operator repo is already added in the helm repo

 Instructions

  1. Add the kube-prometheus-stack config block in your values.yaml to set Grafana service type as Loadbalancer. Please refer following example.

    kube-prometheus-stack: grafana: service: type: LoadBalancer hivemq: monitoring: enabled: true dedicated: true ...

  2. Deploy the changes using the following command

    helm upgrade --install -f <your values.yaml> <your deployment name> hivemq/hivemq-operator -n <namespace>

  3. That’s it. To ensure that Grafana's service has been configured as a LoadBalancer and to obtain the external IP for accessing Grafana, execute the following command:

    kubectl get services -n <your namespace>

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