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Deploy InfluxDB and Grafana on Kubernetes to collect Twitter stats

Kubernetes is the de facto leader in container orchestration on the market, and it is an amazingly configurable and powerful orchestration tool. As with many powerful tools, it can be somewhat confusing at first. This walk-through will cover the basics of creating multiple pods, configuring them with secret credentials and configuration files, and exposing the services to the world by creating an InfluxDB and Grafana deployment and Kubernetes cron job to gather statistics about your Twitter account from the Twitter developer API, all deployed on Kubernetes or OKD (formerly OpenShift Origin).

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