Grafana Dev

This application will deploy the Grafana developer instance after you have enabled the observability service by creating a MultiClusterObservability CustomResource (CR) instance, then you can design your Grafana dashboard via grafana-dev instance. For more information, see Designing your Grafana dashboard.

Pre-install

  • Edit kustomization.yaml to ensure use the same image as the observability service grafana instance

  • Edit resource-patch.yaml to ensure use a reasonable resource request

  • Edit pvc-patch.yaml to ensure use the valid storage class name and reasonable storage size

Deploying this Application

To deploy this application, simply oc apply -k ./grafana-dev from the root of this project, and switch the user role to Grafana administrator with the switch-to-grafana-admin.sh script.

  • Select the Grafana URL https://$ACM_URL/grafana-dev/ and log in.

  • Then run the following command to add the switched user as Grafana administrator. For example, after you log in using kubeadmin, run following command:

    ./switch-to-grafana-admin.sh kube:admin
    User <kube:admin> switched to be grafana admin

The Grafana developer instance is set up.