[aerogear-dev] Graphana docker image ?

Thu Mar 15 06:58:19 EDT 2018

Hey Dara,

I have added you to the developers teams in the aerogear org now. Let me
know if any others need to be added, or if it is not working correctly for
you.

Regards,
Phil.

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 10:51 AM, Dara Hayes <dara.hayes at redhat.com> wrote:

> I 100% agree that it should be in the aerogear org and I suggested it at
> the time. However, we were never given access (even though we asked) :)
>
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 10:26 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <mwessend at redhat.com
> > wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>>> >
>>>>> > --
>>>>> > Matthias Wessendorf
>>>>> >
>>>>> > github: https://github.com/matzew
>>>>> > twitter: http://twitter.com/mwessendorf
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