[aerogear-dev] Graphana docker image ?

Thu Mar 15 08:24:02 EDT 2018

Thanks Phil!

@Matthias: yes I got added to the dockerhub one recently for the aerogear
app metrics service :)

- Dara

On 15 Mar 2018 10:59, "Matthias Wessendorf" <mwessend at redhat.com> wrote:

> I see you on the team -> https://hub.docker.com/u/darahayes/ (at least
> this account)
>
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 11:51 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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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>> Dara Hayes
>>
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