Identify airgap friendly path for loading in grafana plugins #992
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## Description The Grafana 11.3.0 update contained a [new default pre-install plugin](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/whats-new-in-v11-3/#explore-logs). While this plugin would be nice, the method of installation involves reaching out to `grafana.com` on startup to download and install the plugin. To workaround this for the time being this PR disables the pre-install functionality. In reviewing you should notice that before the change there are log failures reaching out to grafana: ``` logger=plugin.backgroundinstaller t=2024-11-07T18:42:14.912141481Z level=info msg="Installing plugin" pluginId=grafana-lokiexplore-app version= logger=plugin.backgroundinstaller t=2024-11-07T18:42:14.939302134Z level=error msg="Failed to install plugin" pluginId=grafana-lokiexplore-app version= error="Get \"https://grafana.com/api/plugins/grafana-lokiexplore-app/versions\": read tcp 10.42.0.36:49118->34.120.177.193:443: read: connection reset by peer" ``` After this change those failures do not exist. ## Related Issue Related to #992 ## Type of change - [x] Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue) - [ ] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality) - [ ] Other (security config, docs update, etc) ## Checklist before merging - [x] Test, docs, adr added or updated as needed - [x] [Contributor Guide](https://github.com/defenseunicorns/uds-template-capability/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) followed
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Closing as not planned for now, pending specific requests for this. For now end users should be able to load plugins by building a small docker image that contains any plugins they need, and adding this as an initContainer to grafana to copy the plugin to a shared volume. |
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Grafana provides methods to install plugins at startup, or load them at startup, either from remote sources (grafana.com) or from files on disk. We should identify a feasible path to load plugins that would be functional in the airgap, or at minimum provide recommendations for end users on how to achieve this.
Definition of done: a design doc for review on the approach to achieve this.
While not required for this ticket, there may be other applications with similar needs (i.e. Mattermost plugins) so a more generic solution would be nice.
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