Malcolm Holmes

Grafana configuration can nowadays be fully done as code, which enables code review, code reuse, and in general better workflows when working with dashboards.

This talk will present Grafonnet, a Jsonnet library to generate Grafana dashboards and some tips and tricks about how to use it efficiently and how to manage fully your grafana instances from code. We will also explore how Jsonnet and Grafonnet enable collaboration on dashboards, using Mixins and explain how to push dashboards to Grafana, either using Kubernetes, or direct to the Grafana API.

• Presentation of Grafana provisioning as code features
• Presentation of Grafonnet
• How to make reusable components with jsonnet
• How to include raw json
• How to link both (jsonnet -m to generate a folder)
• How to make PR efficient (generate grafana snapshots on merge requests)
• Jsonnet Mixins

Other people: Julien Pivotto

Introducing Tanka, a scalable Jsonnet based tool for deploying and managing Kubernetes Infrastructure

There are various tools available for managing Kubernetes resources. Whether they be Helm, Kustomize or others. Ksonnet offered a powerful approach with tremendous promise, but was discontinued by developers. In this presentation we will introduce Tanka, a drop in replacement for Ksonnet developed at Grafana labs and available on GitHub. For those not familiar with Ksonnet, we will introduce the Jsonnet language, and demonstrate its power as a way of interacting with Kubernetes. We will then demonstrate some of the enhancements we have already made to Tanka, and then explain our roadmap for the tooling, and how we believe it is already the best of breed configuration management solution for Kubernetes.

Other people: Tom Braack