How to get started with tools around RADAR-Kubernetes

RADAR-Kubernetes offers a lightweight way to install RADAR-base platform on a Kubernetes cluster. To get started with RADAR-Kubernetes, you must be familiar with concepts, tools and procedures around Kubernetes, Helm and Helmfile.

For production environments, you are also recommended to get some knowledge around tools for monitoring Kubernetes cluster such as prometheus.

This article aims to provide a list of recommended topics and online resources to get started with these tools. This list provides only the minimum amount of topics to look at. Based on your role and experience you may need to know more than the recommended topics.

Operations

Kubernetes

• Kubernetes Concepts

• https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/ (In particular, kubectl and minicube or kind)

• https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-application-cluster/

• https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/

• https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/manage-kubernetes-objects/

• https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configmap-secret/

• https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/run-application/

• https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/debug-application-cluster/

Helm

• Introduction to Helm

• Helm Charts

Helmfile

• Helmfile

Logging and Monitoring

• Graylog documentation

• Prometheus overview

• Prometheus operator

• kube-prometheus-stack helm charts

 Application domain topics

RADAR-base

• Introduction to RADAR-base

• RADAR-base component overview and breakdown

Confluent platform

• Confluent Platform

• Confluent Platform Helm charts

Once you are familiar with these tools and concepts, please proceed to getting started with installing the RADAR-base platform using RADAR-Kubernetes.