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by mleonhard 2221 days ago
How about adding support for configuring Grafana with files?

This would allow us to deploy immutable Grafana instances using infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform and Docker. Specifically, I want a way to eliminate post-install steps such as adding users and organizations and setting user passwords.
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dharmab 2220 days ago
Wouldn't a better way to configure users and passwords be to use an external auth provider such as OAuth or LDAP? If you don't already have a auth provider, you could deploy Keycloak as your user DB.
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mleonhard 2220 days ago
OAuth/LDAP are great for large organizations. Small organizations don't need such complexity.

Even if you use OAuth/LDAP for accounts and passwords, Grafana still requires manual steps to create the organization, install plugins, and set the admin password. I wrote a Python script to do this on Docker container startup. That script is a workaround for Grafana server's poor ops design. It's extra code that we must maintain.

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dharmab 2220 days ago
The admin password can be set with an environment variable. That just leaves the org and plugins.
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