Chapter 4. Deploying the Jaeger production strategy from the web console

Procedure

1. Log in to the OpenShift Container Platform web console as a user with the cluster-admin role.

2. Create a new project, for example jaeger-system.

   1. Navigate to Home Projects.
   2. Click Create Project.
   3. Enter jaeger-system in the Name field.
   4. Click Create.
3. Navigate to Operators Installed Operators.
4. If necessary, select jaeger-system from the Project menu. You may have to wait a few moments for the Operators to be copied to the new project.
5. Click the Jaeger Operator. On the Overview tab, under Provided APIs, the Operator provides a single link.
6. Under Jaeger click Create Instance.

7. On the Create Jaeger page, replace the default all-in-one yaml text with your production YAML configuration, for example:

   Example jaeger-production.yaml file with Elasticsearch

   apiVersion: jaegertracing.io/v1
   kind: Jaeger
   metadata:
     name: jaeger-production
     namespace:
   spec:
     strategy: production
     ingress:
       security: oauth-proxy
     storage:
       type: elasticsearch
       elasticsearch:
         nodeCount: 3
         redundancyPolicy: SingleRedundancy
       esIndexCleaner:
         enabled: true
         numberOfDays: 7
         schedule: 55 23 * * *
       esRollover:
         schedule: '*/30 * * * *'

8. Click Create to create the Jaeger instance.
9. On the Jaegers page, click the name of the Jaeger instance, for example, jaeger-prod-elasticsearch.
10. On the Jaeger Details page, click the Resources tab. Wait until all the pods have a status of "Running" before continuing.