A User's Guide to the Open Source Grafana App Platform
summary
Grafana Labs opens an open source Grafana App Platform that gives plugins real object storage, schemas and API versioning, event watch events instead of polling, and synchronous admission hooks and mutation webhooks for validation and tweaks. The SLO app is already ported to these primitives and shows operators using reconciliation loops to keep playlists and dashboards in sync. APIs become aggregations of per-feature API servers with explicit versions, Kubernetes building blocks power it but running Grafana does not require a cluster, and the platform enables consistent as-code workflows.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction and agenda
- 1:03Why we built this platform
- 2:45Application building blocks - storage and resources
- 5:56Application building blocks - watch
- 8:37Application building blocks - operator
- 12:13Application building blocks - admission hooks
- 14:33Application building blocks - aggregation
- 18:09The future of the Grafana App Platform
- 19:49What's changing for users
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