How to Install cAdvisor on FreeBSD Latest

cAdvisor is a tool used for container resource usage analysis and performance characterization. In this tutorial, we will look at how to install cAdvisor on FreeBSD Latest.

Prerequisites

• FreeBSD Latest installed on your system.
• Root access to the system.

Step 1: Install Docker

To run cAdvisor on FreeBSD Latest, you need to install Docker on your system. To do this, run the following command:

pkg install docker

Step 2: Configure Docker

Once Docker is installed, you need to configure it to run at startup. Run the following command:

sysrc docker_enable=YES

This command will enable Docker to start on system boot.

Step 3: Install cAdvisor

Now that Docker is installed and configured, you can install and run cAdvisor. Run the following command to pull the cAdvisor Docker image:

docker pull google/cadvisor:latest

This command will pull the latest version of the cAdvisor Docker image from the Docker Hub repository.

Step 4: Run cAdvisor

After the cAdvisor Docker image is pulled, you can start running it by running the following command:

docker run \
    --volume=/:/rootfs:ro \
    --volume=/var/run:/var/run:rw \
    --volume=/sys:/sys:ro \
    --volume=/var/lib/docker/:/var/lib/docker:ro \
    --publish=8080:8080 \
    --detach=true \
    --name=cadvisor \
    google/cadvisor:latest

This command will start the cAdvisor Docker container and expose the cAdvisor web interface on port 8080 of your system. You can access the cAdvisor web interface on your web browser by visiting http://your-server-ip:8080.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have looked at how to install cAdvisor on FreeBSD Latest. By following the above steps, you should now have cAdvisor up and running on your system.