Getting Started

Use minikube by following this document

Start minikube

minikube start
alias kubectl="minikube kubectl --"
kubectl cluster-info

Apply an operator

Install its CRDs

kubectl create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pingcap/tidb-operator/v1.3.2/manifests/crd.yaml

Install helm if it’s not installed on Ubuntu.

curl https://baltocdn.com/helm/signing.asc | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https --yes
echo "deb https://baltocdn.com/helm/stable/debian/ all main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/helm-stable-debian.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install helm

Install its Operator

helm repo add pingcap https://charts.pingcap.org/
kubectl create namespace tidb-admin
helm install --namespace tidb-admin tidb-operator pingcap/tidb-operator --version v1.3.2
kubectl get pods --namespace tidb-admin -l app.kubernetes.io/instance=tidb-operator

Deploy a TiDB cluster

kubectl create namespace tidb-cluster && \
    kubectl -n tidb-cluster apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pingcap/tidb-operator/master/examples/basic/tidb-cluster.yaml

Deploy a TiDB monitoring services

kubectl -n tidb-cluster apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pingcap/tidb-operator/master/examples/basic/tidb-monitor.yaml

Monitor a TiDB cluster

Access a Grafana dashboard

kubectl port-forward -n tidb-cluster svc/basic-grafana 3000 > pf3000.out &

Access http://127.0.0.1:3000 on a browser. The default username and password is admin

Access a TiDB dashboard from this document

kubectl port-forward svc/basic-discovery -n tidb-cluster 10262:10262

Access http://localhost:10262/dashboard.

Last updated on June 24, 2025

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