Installing and configuring self-hosted Grafana for production on containers, Kubernetes and virtual machines, including databases, proxies, plugins and restricted networks.
Moving from a quick docker run to a production Grafana container: image variants, persistent volumes, configuration through GF_ variables, secrets with the __FILE suffix, preinstalled plugins and upgrades by image tag.
Installing Grafana with the community Helm chart: enabling persistence, admin secret handling, an external database for multiple replicas, plugins in values.yaml, ingress, and who supports a community chart.
Running Grafana the GitOps way with the Grafana Operator: Grafana, dashboard, data source and alerting custom resources, managing external Grafana instances, and Argo CD or Flux workflows.
Putting Grafana behind a reverse proxy: domain and root_url, serving from a sub path, TLS termination, WebSocket headers for Grafana Live and the OAuth redirect problems a wrong root_url causes.
Choosing and setting up the Grafana database for production: PostgreSQL 12 or MySQL 8.0 minimums, TLS modes, connection limits and lifetime, high availability of the database itself and backups.
Getting plugins into Grafana without internet access: downloading ZIPs on a connected host, extracting them into the plugin directory, baking them into a custom image, and turning off outbound usage reporting and update checks.
Managing grafana.ini settings across environments: GF_ environment variable overrides, why they cannot add new settings, Docker and Kubernetes secrets for passwords, and keeping configuration in version control.
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