Setting Grafana as LoadBalancer in Kubernetes with HiveMQ Operator

Owned by Sheetal Shet, created
Jul 05, 2023
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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>