The [kubeadm](https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/independent/create-cluster-kubeadm/) tool is linked by Kubernetes as the offical way to deploy and manage self-hosted clusters. Kubeadm does a lot of heavy lifting by automatically configuring your Kubernetes cluster with some common options. This guide is intended to show you how to deploy Prometheus, Prometheus Operator and Kube Prometheus to get you started monitoring your cluster that was deployed with Kubeadm.
This guide assumes you have a basic understanding of how to use the functionality the Prometheus Operator implements. If you haven't yet, we recommend reading through the [getting started guide](getting-started.md) as well as the [alerting guide](../../../Documentation/user-guides/alerting.md).
This guide assumes you have a basic understanding of how to use the functionality the Prometheus Operator implements. If you haven't yet, we recommend reading through the [getting started guide](../../../Documentation/user-guides/getting-started.md) as well as the [alerting guide](../../../Documentation/user-guides/alerting.md).
