Honestly I mostly throw out the Debian service definitions anyways - when clustering or interacting with Chef or Ansible or whatever, you end up building a lot of ‘smarts’ around a custom supervisor like Runit or skarnet or systemd
Re:Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus
by latchkey on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @05:03PM
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It isn't just loki, but the whole stack. Grafana is the only project mentioned that has a debian installer.
The expectation that someone doing greenfield development is going to jump into k8s just to use the software is kind of weird.
I’m deploying it (prom, alertmanager, pushgateway, grafana) on native hardware via ansible and it’s not difficult. Not Loki (yet). It’s all just go binaries you fire up with systemd with a single config file.
I find it harder to deploy reliably on kubernetes with persistent volumes etc.
We've put a lot of effort into optimizing the Kubernetes experience that non-containerized installations haven't been getting as much attention. We'd be thrilled to have system packages for Loki that also set it up as a service, it's just not something we've been able to spend time doing ourselves yet.