[aerogear-dev] Graphana docker image ?

[Matthias Wessendorf]

there is no issue w/ forks etc :-)

I just found it very annoying not seeing any hint on the repo, in dockerhub
:-)

I will update it

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 11:19 AM, Dara Hayes <dara.hayes at redhat.com> wrote:

> TL;DR: We forked the grafana build tools [0] and built a commit off the
> master branch that we knew to be stable. In addition we modified the build
> scripts to include some Grafana plugins inside the container image. There
> were two reasons we did this.
>
> 1. We were depending on new features in Grafana that were only available
> on the master branch. Grafana was under very heavy development as they
> geared up towards their 5.0 release and we were finding new problems
> arising every few days while we worked off the master branch. This was
> really slowing down APB development.
>
> 2. We needed to install additional plugins required by some dashboards. Grafana's
> docker image provides a way to install plugins using environment variables
> fed into the container at runtime but this requires root access which is
> not feasible in Openshift. The only way we could do it at the time was by
> baking in the plugins as part of the docker build. It's a terrible solution
> but it was the only way at the time to continue the very fast pace of
> development of the APBs.
>
> There are still a some questions to be answered:
>
> * How are we going to distribute Grafana on OpenShift such that it doesn't
> require root access?
> * What is the best way to install plugins? There was some discussion about
> the different options and the consequences of those options in this
> document [1]
>
> This all arose during a sprint where one of the primary goals was to
> deliver an APB that could provision Grafana + Prometheus and display
> dashboard discovery and some other features. We decided at the time that we
> were not prepared to answer those bigger questions so we knowingly put this
> technical debt on ourselves and implemented a quick and dirty solution.
>
> This entire thing was discussed publicly in a Github PR:
> https://github.com/aerogearcatalog/keycloak-apb/pull/33 But perhaps it
> should also have been mentioned on list at the time. Hope this clears
> things up.
>
> [0]: https://github.com/aerogear/grafana-docker
> [1]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WAUQ9IfJovSSUsHYR2PU3UeRWdpuy
> oKN9_ImyVv6dhc/edit#heading=h.yf74gvpjt77w
>
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 9:27 AM, David Martin <davmarti at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> I remember a rember there's a reason for having a custom image built
>> (we need specific features that aren't in latest upstream image), but
>> I'm not sure who pushed it up and from where.
>>
>> @Dara @Steven, is there a fork of grafana or some repo where we have
>> the Dockerfile?
>>
>> On 14 March 2018 at 15:15, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am not able to find the image for this container:
>> > https://hub.docker.com/r/aerogearcatalog/grafana/
>> >
>> > If not an automated build repo, we should at least point to the actual
>> > aerogear GH repository, where the thing is located.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
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>> > twitter: http://twitter.com/mwessendorf
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