Kube-state-metrics: Differences between metrics-server repo and kube-state-metrics repo

[luarx]

I know that this is not a bug neither a request but I don't find a forum where I can ask this question,

Maybe it's a stupid question but... what is the differences between this repo and kubernetes/kube-state-metrics (https://github.com/kubernetes/kube-state-metrics/) repo?

[andyxning]

The relationship between metrics-server and kube-state-metrics is almost the same as the relationship between Heapster and kube-state-metrics as stated in the readme.

Also, there is a PR to deprecate Heapster in favor of metrics-server/metrics-api pipeline for Kubernetes in https://github.com/kubernetes/heapster/pull/2022

[luarx]

Nice to read you!
I was confused because kube-state-metrics name is similar to metrics-server,
Also, the metrics functionality look similar from my side... haha

The link https://github.com/kubernetes/heapster/pull/2022 helped me understand this,
Thank you very much!