Setup Prometheus node-exporter docker on a Fedora Server or Fedora Workstation to allow machine metrics scraping from a Prometheus server.

• Setup new node-exporter docker container.

$ cd scripts
$ sudo ./setup_node_exporter.sh

• Verify node-exporter docker container is running.

$ sudo docker ps
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                        COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                    NAMES
761cac2407ea        prom/node-exporter:v0.15.2   "/bin/node_exporte..."   2 minutes ago       Up 2 minutes        0.0.0.0:9100->9100/tcp   node-exporter

Discover new versions here: https://hub.docker.com/r/prom/node-exporter/tags/

• Teardown old node-exporter docker container.

sudo ./teardown_node_exporter.sh

• Update REVISION variable in cfg.sh file.

• Setup new node-exporter docker container.

sudo ./setup_node_exporter.sh