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Deploy Tempo with Tempo Operator
The Tempo Operator allows you to configure, install, upgrade, and operate Grafana Tempo on Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.
Some of the operator features are:
- Resource Limits - Specify overall resource requests and limits in the
TempoStack
CR; the operator assigns fractions of it to each component - AuthN and AuthZ - Supports OpenID Control (OIDC) and role-based access control (RBAC)
- Multitenancy - Multiple tenants can send traces to the same Tempo cluster
- mTLS - Communication between the Tempo components can be secured via mTLS
- Jaeger UI - Traces can be visualized in Jaeger UI and exposed via Ingress or OpenShift Route
- Observability - The operator and
TempoStack
operands expose telemetry (metrics, traces) and integrate with PrometheusServiceMonitors
The source of the Tempo Operator can be found at grafana/tempo-operator.
Installation
The operator can be installed from:
- Kubernetes manifest file on a Kubernetes cluster
- operatorhub.io on a Kubernetes cluster
- OperatorHub on an OpenShift cluster
Compatibility
Tempo
The supported Tempo version by the operator can be found in the changelog or on the release page.
Kubernetes
The Tempo Operator is supported on Kubernetes 1.21 and 1.27.
cert-manager
The operator Kubernetes manifest installation files use cert-manger v1
custom resources to provision certificates for admission webhooks.
Community
- Reach out to us on #tempo-operator Grafana Slack channel.
- Participate on Tempo community call.
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