[aerogear-dev] Graphana docker image ?

[Matthias Wessendorf]

The other question is ... is "aerogearcatalog" the right choice ?

IMO no - since that https://github.com/aerogear/grafana-docker is not an APB

IMO it would be better in "aerogear" dh org ;-)

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 11:25 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <mwessend at redhat.com>
wrote:

> 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/1WAUQ9IfJovSSUsHYR2P
>> U3UeRWdpuyoKN9_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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