Automatic Deployment of Dashboards on OpenShift

[hejech]

• What Grafana version and what operating system are you using?
  8.1.x

• What are you trying to achieve?
  I want to ensure that our dashboards are created/updated from Bitbucket Repo each time the Grafana instance Pod is deployed on OpenShift.

• How are you trying to achieve it?
  I have a Bitbucket Repo with a Dockerfile with content “FROM grafana/grafana:latest” only. Additionally I have a directory “dashboards” that contains two JSON files with our dashboards. Using Mounts/Volumes in OpenShift template.yaml and according commands in Jankinsfile (see below) I pass those files to Grafana Pod.

• What happened?
  The files of the dashboards can be found inside the pod but dashboards are not shown in Grafana.

• What did you expect to happen?
  I expect to see the dashboards in Grafana and that those are created/updated when the Pod is deployed.

• Can you copy/paste the configuration(s) that you are having problems with?

template.yaml

apiVersion: v1
kind: Template
metadata:
name: deployment-template
labels:
template: deployment-template
objects:

• apiVersion: v1
  kind: DeploymentConfig
  metadata:
  labels:
  app: elan-grafana-instance
  name: elan-grafana-instance
  spec:
  replicas: ${{REPLICAS}}
  selector:
  app: elan-grafana-instance
  template:
  metadata:
  labels:
  category: vertriebsbank
  app: elan-grafana-instance
  np/ruv-elan: provider
  spec:
  containers:
  - name: elan-grafana-instance
  image: ${REGISTRY}/${NAMESPACE}/${APP}:${VERSION}
  imagePullPolicy: Always
  ports:
  - containerPort: 3000
  protocol: TCP
  resources:
  requests:
  memory: ${MEMORY_REQUEST}
  cpu: ${CPU_REQUEST}
  limits:
  memory: ${MEMORY_LIMIT}
  cpu: ${CPU_LIMIT}
  volumeMounts:
  - mountPath: /var/lib/grafana
  name: grafana-data
  - mountPath: /etc/grafana
  name: grafana-config-instance
  - mountPath: /etc/grafana/provisioning/datasources
  name: grafana-datasources-provision
  - mountPath: /etc/grafana/provisioning/dashboards
  name: grafana-dashboards-provision
  - mountPath: /grafana-dashboard-definitions/grafana-dashboards
  name: grafana-dashboards
  - mountPath: /etc/grafana/provisioning/notifiers
  name: grafana-notifiers-provision
  - mountPath: /etc/grafana/provisioning/plugins
  name: grafana-plugins-provision
  env:
  - name: APP_VERSION
  value: ‘${VERSION}’
  - name: SERVER_PORT
  value: ‘3000’
  - name: GF_SECURITY_ADMIN_USER
  value: elan
  - name: GF_SECURITY_ADMIN_PASSWORD
  value: elan
  - name: MY_POD_NAMESPACE
  valueFrom:
  fieldRef:
  fieldPath: metadata.namespace
  - name: POD_IP
  valueFrom:
  fieldRef:
  fieldPath: status.podIP
  volumes:
  - emptyDir: { }
  name: grafana-data
  - configMap:
  defaultMode: 420
  name: grafana-config-instance
  name: grafana-config-instance
  - name: grafana-datasources-provision
  secret:
  defaultMode: 420
  secretName: elan-grafana-datasources
  - configMap:
  defaultMode: 420
  name: grafana-dashboards-provision
  name: grafana-dashboards-provision
  - configMap:
  defaultMode: 420
  name: grafana-dashboards
  name: grafana-dashboards
  - configMap:
  defaultMode: 420
  name: grafana-notifiers-provision
  name: grafana-notifiers-provision
  - emptyDir: { }
  name: grafana-plugins-provision

• apiVersion: v1
  kind: Service
  metadata:
  labels:
  app: elan-grafana-instance
  name: elan-grafana-instance
  spec:
  selector:
  app: elan-grafana-instance
  ports:
  - name: container
  protocol: TCP
  port: 3000
  targetPort: 3000

• apiVersion: v1
  kind: Route
  metadata:
  labels:
  app: elan-grafana-instance
  name: elan-grafana-instance
  spec:
  port:
  targetPort: container
  tls:
  termination: edge
  to:
  kind: Service
  name: elan-grafana-instance

• apiVersion: v1
  kind: ConfigMap
  metadata:
  labels:
  app: grafana-config-instance
  name: grafana-config-instance
  data:
  grafana.ini: |-
  [paths]
  data = /var/lib/grafana
  logs = /var/lib/grafana/logs
  plugins = /var/lib/grafana/plugins
  provisioning = /etc/grafana/provisioning
  [smtp]
  enabled = ${ALERTING_ENABLED}
  host = mailgateway.default.svc:25
  from_address = …
  skip_verify = true

• apiVersion: v1
  kind: ConfigMap
  metadata:
  labels:
  app: grafana-notifiers-provision
  name: grafana-notifiers-provision
  data:
  notifiers.yaml: |-
  notifiers:
  - name: Developer Mail
  type: email
  uid: developermail
  org_id: 1
  is_default: true
  disable_resolve_message: true
  send_reminder: true
  frequency: 2h
  settings:
  singleEmail: true
  uploadImage: true
  addresses: …
  parameters:

• name: NAMESPACE
  required: true

• name: VERSION
  required: true

• name: REGISTRY
  required: true

• name: MONITOR_API_VERSION

• name: CLUSTER

• name: STAGE

• name: APP
  displayName: Application Name
  description: The name of your application and of your image
  required: true
  value: elan-grafana-instance

• name: REPLICAS
  displayName: Replicas.
  description: Replicas of the application to run.
  required: true

• name: MEMORY_LIMIT
  displayName: Memory Limit
  value: “4Gi”

• name: MEMORY_REQUEST
  displayName: Memory Request
  value: “200Mi”
  required: true

• name: CPU_LIMIT
  displayName: CPU Limit
  value: “500m”

• name: CPU_REQUEST
  displayName: CPU Request
  value: “10m”

• name: ALERTING_ENABLED
  displayName: Alerting switch
  description: true for alerting enabled, false for alerting disabled
  value: “true”
  required: false

Part of Jenkinsfile

pipeline {

agent { label 'mvn11' }

environment {
    APP = 'elan-grafana-instance'
    RELEASE_NUMBER = 1
}

options {
    buildDiscarder(logRotator(numToKeepStr: '4'))
}

stages {
    stage('➁ Build') {
        steps {
            sh '''
               oc delete configmap elan-grafana-dashboards --ignore-not-found=true
               oc create configmap elan-grafana-dashboards --from-file=dashboards/
            '''
            buildDockerImage(semVer: true)
        }
    }

• Did you receive any errors in the Grafana UI or in related logs? If so, please tell us exactly what they were.
  No

• Did you follow any online instructions? If so, what is the URL?
  Do not understand this question

[hejech]

Could anyone help me please?