This guide explains the background, architecture, common CRDs, installation steps, and practical usage of Prometheus‑Operator on Kubernetes, including how to create Deployments, Services, ServiceMonitors, and visualize collected metrics with Prometheus UI.
This guide walks through creating PrometheusRule resources, deploying Alertmanager via the Prometheus Operator, configuring custom alerting rules, exposing Alertmanager with a Service, and applying custom Prometheus configuration files using Kubernetes secrets and kubectl commands.
This article explains what the Prometheus Operator is, how it extends Kubernetes with custom resources, lists the CRDs it provides, and walks through a complete deployment—including cloning the source, creating a monitoring namespace, applying RBAC, installing the operator, creating a Prometheus instance, configuring ServiceMonitor, and troubleshooting common permission errors—using concrete YAML manifests and kubectl commands.
