This post talks about how to configure BotKube to monitor Kubernetes cert-manager Certificates and send notifications to Slack, Mattermost, or Teams.
Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. The monitoring and alerting stack is a crucial part of the SRE practices. That’s where BotKube helps you monitor your Kubernetes cluster and send notifications to your messaging platform or any other configured sink. In this blog post, we will be configuring BotKube to watch the Kubernetes cert-manager certificates CustomResources. BotKube is a messaging tool for monitoring and debugging Kubernetes clusters. BotKube can be integrated with multiple messaging platforms like – Slack, Mattermost, or Microsoft Teams to help you monitor your Kubernetes cluster(s), debug critical deployments, and gives recommendations for standard practices by running checks on the Kubernetes resources. BotKube website cert-manager helps you create and manage X.509 certificates in Kubernetes. cert-manager builds on top of Kubernetes, introducing certificate authorities and certificates as first-class resource types in the Kubernetes API. This makes it possible to provide ‘certificates as a service’ to developers working within your Kubernetes cluster. — cert-manager website To achieve the above goal, cert-manager uses Kubernetes CustomResources. BotKube can monitor and notify us about the creation, deletion, and modification of Kubernetes resources. The v0.11+ of BotKube added support for the CustomResources as well.
