Link to resource on GitHub

Lab 8

Goals

• Setup node-exporter on 2 GCP micro instances
• Setup prometheus on one of the 2 GCP micro instances
• Setup grafana on the same micro instance you setup prometheus
• On both GCP instances
  • Create grader account
  • Install updates
  • Install packages
    • vim, curl, git, fortune, man
  • Add my SSH public key to grader account
  • Insult users who mistype sudo password
  • Adding grader account to sudoer file

Details

You should create two micro-instances on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Each of these should have node-exporter configured as a service. You should also do many of the lab 1 & 2 configurations as mentioned in the goals to both instances.

Choose one instance to be your Prometheus/Grafana instance and setup both as services on this instance, to pull data from both GCP instances. You may need to configure the GCP firewall to allow internal access so that this node can poll the node-exporter on the other instance.

Answer Questions about GCP

Answer the following questions on your submission on Canvas.

1. What is GCP?
2. What makes it "Cloud" computing?
3. When might you use Cloud vs on-premises computing?
4. Are there any risks/concerns about Cloud?
5. What is the IP address to access your prometheus instance?
   • Along with any other info I need to access it from the web
   • Reminder I should be able to access it via SSH as well with the grader account.

Submitting Assignment

Answer the questions on Canvas

Resources

1. https://prometheus.io/
2. https://linuxhint.com/install_prometheus_ubuntu/
3. https://prometheus.io/docs/visualization/grafana/