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Installation

Deploy on Kubernetes

Install Single Binary Loki

Open source

Install the single binary Helm Chart

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This Helm Chart installation runs the Grafana Loki single binary within a Kubernetes cluster.

If the filesyste is set to filesystem, this chart configures Loki to run the all target in a monolothic, designed to work with a filesystem storage. It will also configure meta-monitoring of metrics and logs.

It is not possible to install the single binary with a different storage type.

Before you begin:

Helm 3 or above. See Installing Helm.
A running Kubernetes cluster.

To deploy Loki in monolithic mode:

Add Grafana’s chart repository to Helm:

helm repo add grafana https://grafana.github.io/helm-charts

Update the chart repository:
bash
```
helm repo update
```

Configure the filesystem storage:

Create the configuration file values.yaml:

loki:
  commonConfig:
    replication_factor: 1
  storage:
    type: 'filesystem'

Deploy the Loki cluster using one of these commands.
- Deploy with the defined configuration:
  bash
```
helm install --values values.yaml loki grafana/loki
```
- Deploy with the defined configuration in a custom Kubernetes cluster namespace:
  bash
```
helm install --values values.yaml loki --namespace=loki grafana/loki-simple-scalable
```