Let's talk about the Prometheus installation.
I will install Prometheus using scripts
from our GitHub repository.
You can find our GitHub repository on this URL,
github.com/in4it/prometheus-course.
Those scripts, they will work
on any modern Linux distribution.
I will install Prometheus on a DigitalOcean droplet,
but feel free to use the scripts
with any Cloud Provider, Virtual Machine, or Docker image
as long as it's a recent Linux distribution.
The best is to use DigitalOcean just like I am doing.
And to get a $100 coupon on DigitalOcean,
valid for 60-days with a valid payment method added
$10 is enough to run
a two gigabyte memory droplet for one month.
So that should be enough to do the demos yourself.
If you do not want to use the provided scripts,
you can download the full distribution
from github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases.
MacOS, Windows, Linux
and some Unix distributions are supported.
After extracting, you'll get a Prometheus executable,
prometheus.exe for Windows,
which you can use to run Prometheus.
For example, Prometheus or prometheus.exe--configfile
and then the path to where your config file is.
It's best to use the scripts that we provided
so that your environment is the same as ours
when you follow the demos.
So if you're going to use Prometheus yourself,
you're going to set it up yourself,
then you're a bit on your own,
because you will have a different environment than ours.
So it's best when you do the demos to use our scripts,
and then later on,
you can install Prometheus on your own infrastructure.
And then you will be already familiar
with how Prometheus works and it will be much easier.