Run a community Thanos demo instance

[onprem]

Prometheus runs a publically accessible instance, which they are using for CI to test the React UI for every pull request.

Running a public instance of Thanos will allow us to:

• demonstrating functionality very quickly to new users
• be more helpful in community support, where we can reference the demo instance UI
• can act as a playground for PromQL and Thanos component metrics
• can be used in the CI for testing the UI related changes (this means that contributors won't have to post any screenshots)

cc @thanos-io/thanos-maintainers

[wiardvanrij]

Do you mean this? https://github.com/prometheus/demo-site

I'm curious how the Prometheus folks experience these demo sites (Like does it get used a lot for example?)

[yeya24]

I was thinking about the same thing before. One demo site for Prometheus is sufficient as it is just a single application. For thanos, do we want to have multiple demo sites for different components, querier, bucket UI, etc?

[onprem]

Do you mean this? https://github.com/prometheus/demo-site

I'm curious how the Prometheus folks experience these demo sites (Like does it get used a lot for example?)

Yes, that's what I meant.

For thanos, do we want to have multiple demo sites for different components, querier, bucket UI, etc?

Yep, we need to have multiple components running for having a proper demo of Thanos.

[fktkrt]

Great idea, I'd be happy to help!
Isn't an exposed Thanos Query enough at first? You could run queries and check the stores/config/etc.

Bucketweb could also make sense, but as a separate app (e.g. as Alertmanager on the aforementioned Prometheus demo site)? It's not that interactive/interesting in my opinion.

EDIT:
On a second thought, yes, let's include all that we can, as this playground will only contain Thanos components we can include everything.

[GiedriusS]

I think for this we'd need query-frontend + Query + Store + Sidecar + Prometheus with a reverse proxy in front of query-frontend. Feel free to work on Ansible playbooks, later on we could move them under the thanos-io community & work on adding automated deployment.

[007vedant]

Hey @GiedriusS ! I'd love to work on this issue under LFX Mentorship'22.

[ggold7046]

Hi, I am new to open source project. Could anyone guide me how to contribute to this project. I have some knowledge of git,
linux , ansible

[GiedriusS]

Please apply via the LFX website! Thanks.

[ggold7046]

Hi @GiedriusS , as per you directed I have applied to this project via LFX website. Is there any chance to engage in this project right now ? Thanks in advance.

[wiardvanrij]

@tend2infinity will be working on this via LFX! 🥳

[tend2infinity]

Hey, I'll be working on it!

[halcyondude]

There's an opportunity to collaborate with a workstream launched out of https://github.com/cncf/tag-observability (WG: observe-k8s)

https://github.com/observe-k8s/hub/blob/main/charter.md#vision

How/where can I learn more about this effort?

Thanks!
Matt

[fktkrt]

Are the infra and tooling decided yet? There are mentions of Ansible, but IIRC observe-k8s is aiming to use tools that fit k8s use cases better.

[wiardvanrij]

There's an opportunity to collaborate with a workstream launched out of https://github.com/cncf/tag-observability (WG: observe-k8s)

https://github.com/observe-k8s/hub/blob/main/charter.md#vision

How/where can I learn more about this effort?

Thanks! Matt

Hi, we've got this LFX project and @GiedriusS and me are mentors for @tend2infinity who is mainly working on this.

So, there are a few high level things that we have as information. Is there anything specific? If you want we can organize a small meeting to align things.

[wiardvanrij]

Are the infra and tooling decided yet? There are mentions of Ansible, but IIRC observe-k8s is aiming to use tools that fit k8s use cases better.

Yes and no. The Ansible stuff and everything was based on what resources we had available. However, I felt the same and reached out to Civo. We are now getting sponsored for a kubernetes cluster :)

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[tend2infinity]

Still relevant

[stale]

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