How to Install Blink on Fedora CoreOS

Blink is a monitoring tool that helps you keep track of your API performance and availability. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to install Blink on the latest version of Fedora CoreOS.

Prerequisites

• A computer running Fedora CoreOS with root privileges.
• A terminal application.

Steps

1. Open your terminal application on your computer.

2. Connect to your Fedora CoreOS instance using SSH.

   ssh [user]@[ip_address]
   

3. Run the following command to download and extract the Blink package.

   curl -sL https://github.com/blinkops/blink/releases/download/0.9.1/blink-0.9.1-linux-amd64.tar.gz | tar xz
   

4. Move the Blink binary to the /usr/local/bin directory.

   sudo mv blink-0.9.1-linux-amd64/blink /usr/local/bin
   

   This allows you to run Blink from anywhere on your system.

5. Verify that Blink is installed by running the following command.

   blink --version
   

   If installed successfully, you will see the version number displayed in the output.

Conclusion

You have successfully installed Blink on your Fedora CoreOS instance. You can now use Blink to monitor your API performance and availability.

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