KindRed

A Kind cluster with its small fam of tools from the open source community, for POCs, testing, and whatever you want.

Available tools

Here's the list of the services that are available in this repo:

• Grafana
• OpenTelemetry (for logs and traces)
• Loki
• Tempo
• Envoy (the configuration provided deploys a minimal API Gateway connected to an echo service)

Additionally, an echo service and a log generator will be deployed automatically at every start-up.

Usage

Init

The start-up script will create a Kind cluster named kindred, with three nodes. Make sure you have Kind installed on your machine.

To initialize the whole KindRed of services, run:

./start.sh -a

Otherwise, if you want to select only the services you need, run:

./start.sh

And follow the instructions prompted.

Observability

If you include Grafana in the installation, you can access the UI to view logs from the Loki data source and build dashboards.

Simply expose the Grafana service port:

kubectl port-forward -n grafana service/grafana 3000:80

Navigate to localhost:3000, and use the following credentials to log in Grafana as an administrator:

• username: kindredadmin
• password: kindredpwd

Shutdown

To delete the cluster, simply run:

kind delete cluster --name kindred