minishift - Monitoring pods - openshift

Question

As per the documentation, monitoring is shipped with OKD.
OKD ships with a pre-configured and self-updating monitoring stack that is based on the Prometheus open source project and its wider eco-system. It provides monitoring of cluster components and ships with a set of alerts to immediately notify the cluster administrator about any occurring problems and a set of Grafana dashboards.
Further, as per the documentation, this command should show links for various monitoring tools. oc -n openshift-monitoring get routes
When I run the oc command with system user, I get a message as: No resources found.
The installation does not go through.
git clone https://github.com/openshift/cluster-monitoring-operator
cd cluster-monitoring-operator
oc apply -f manifests/
Error messages:
namespace "openshift-monitoring" created
serviceaccount "cluster-monitoring-operator" created
unable to decode "manifests/0000_50_cluster_monitoring_operator_02-role.yaml": no kind "ClusterRole" is registered for version "rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1"
unable to decode "manifests/0000_50_cluster_monitoring_operator_03-role-binding.yaml": no kind "ClusterRoleBinding" is registered for version "rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1"
unable to decode "manifests/0000_50_cluster_monitoring_operator_04-deployment.yaml": no kind "Deployment" is registered for version "apps/v1"
unable to decode "manifests/0000_50_cluster_monitoring_operator_05-clusteroperator.yaml": no kind "ClusterOperator" is registered for version "config.openshift.io/v1"
unable to decode "manifests/0000_90_cluster_monitoring_operator_00-operatorgroup.yaml": no kind "OperatorGroup" is registered for version "operators.coreos.com/v1"
So, how do we enable monitoring with minishift?

Answer 1

You can follow this to install prometheus in minishift:
https://github.com/minishift/minishift-addons/tree/master/add-ons/prometheus
Be sure that you login as admin. If you encounter problem to login as admin, you can follow these steps:
minishift ssh
[docker#example ~]$ sudo su
[root#example ~]# export KUBECONFIG=/var/lib/minishift/base/openshift-apiserver/admin.kubeconfig PATH="$PATH:/var/lib/minishift/bin"
[root#example ~]# oc adm policy add-cluster-role-to-user cluster-admin admin
[root#example ~]# exit
[docker#example ~]$ exit
oc login -u admin -p admin
oc whoami
You will see you login as admin.
When I enter the command to apply the prometheus, I encountered this problem:
minishift addons apply prometheus --addon-env namespace=kube-system
-- Applying addon 'prometheus':.Error applying the add-on: Error executing command 'oc new-app -f prometheus.yaml -p NAMESPACE=#{namespace} -n #{namespace}'.
Solution:
login Minishift as admin using "oc login -u admin -p admin".
go to the namespace "kube-system" by "oc project kube-system".
click on "Add to project" -> "import YAML/JSON".
clone the prometheus addon in your local machine from https://github.com/minishift/minishift-addons.git
import the ../minishift-addons/add-ons/prometheus/prometheus.yml into the "kube-system" namespace.
Afterwards, the prometheus will be deployed.
You can access the prometheus graph UI: https://prometheus-kube-system.$minishift-host-ip-address.nip.io.