Re: [aerogear-dev] Graphana docker image ?

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(a)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(a)redhat.com&gt; 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(a)redhat.com&gt; >> 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(a)redhat.com&gt; >>> 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(a)apache.org&gt; >>>> 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 >>>> > >>>> > -- >>>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups >>>> > "Aerogear" group. >>>> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>>> send an >>>> > email to aerogear+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. >>>> > To post to this group, send email to aerogear(a)googlegroups.com. >>>> > To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/aerogear/CAAg5f2RgsYFDWqG% >>>> 3DX%3Dj%3D48fVhCH2nrgjRuXNdNF9za3nt8uhSQ%40mail.gmail.com. >>>> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> David Martin >>>> Red Hat Mobile >>>> Twitter: @irldavem >>>> IRC: @irldavem (#aerogear) >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Dara Hayes >>> >>> Associate software engineer >>> <https://redhat.com> TRIED. 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