In this tutorial, we will learn how to install cAdvisor on Kali Linux. cAdvisor is a container monitoring tool used to collect, analyze, and display performance statistics for containers.
Before we proceed with the installation, we need to make sure that the following prerequisites are met:
Follow these instructions to install cAdvisor on Kali Linux:
Open a terminal window on your Kali Linux system.
Clone the cAdvisor GitHub repository by running the following command:
git clone https://github.com/google/cadvisor.git
Change directory to the cloned cAdvisor repository by running the following command:
cd cadvisor
Build the cAdvisor Docker image by running the following command:
docker build -t cadvisor:latest .
This will create a Docker image of cAdvisor on your system.
Start the cAdvisor container by running the following command:
docker run -d \
--volume=/:/rootfs:ro \
--volume=/var/run:/var/run:ro \
--volume=/sys:/sys:ro \
--volume=/var/lib/docker/:/var/lib/docker:ro \
--publish=8080:8080 \
--name=cadvisor \
cadvisor:latest
This will start the cAdvisor container on your system on the port 8080.
Open a web browser and go to http://localhost:8080 to access the cAdvisor dashboard.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed cAdvisor on Kali Linux.
In this tutorial, we learned how to install cAdvisor on Kali Linux. By following these simple steps, you can easily start monitoring your containers using cAdvisor.
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