grafana/grafana-operator v5.25.0 on GitHub

Welcome to release 5.25.0 of the Grafana Operator!

This release contains many bug fixes and contains a bunch of new features like:

Public Dashboard support: Expose your dashboards to anonymous users in a declarative way
Scale subresource suppport: Allows you to kubectl scale --replicas=X your grafana instances & integrate with auto scalers
Variable support for dashboards: Set default values for your template variables from the GrafanaDashboard directly

Thanks to everyone who contributed & reported bugs!

Upgrade instructions

Using Helm

# Upgrade the operator image & deployment
helm upgrade -i grafana-operator oci://ghcr.io/grafana/helm-charts/grafana-operator --version 5.25.0
# Upgrading CRDs
kubectl apply --server-side --force-conflicts -f https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/releases/download/v5.25.0/crds.yaml

Using kubectl

# Namespace Scope
kubectl replace -f https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/releases/download/v5.25.0/kustomize-namespace_scoped.yaml
# Cluster Scope
kubectl replace -f https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/releases/download/v5.25.0/kustomize-cluster_scoped.yaml

Using kustomize

flux pull artifact oci://ghcr.io/grafana/kustomize/grafana-operator:v5.25.0 --output ./grafana-operator/

Using OLM

Releases are published to operatorhub.io as well as the OpenShift Operator Catalog. Depending on the installation, existing installations will either upgrade automatically or require approval from an administrator.

What's Changed

Breaking changes

chore(controllers): deprecate support for k8s 1.33 and Grafana 10 by @weisdd in #2818

Features

feat(CRDs): include in 'all' resource category by @weisdd in #2824
feat(GrafanaDashboard): add support for public dashboards by @Baarsgaard in #2577
feat(runtime): periodically update GOMEMLIMIT and allow configuring the memlimit/RAM ratio by @Baarsgaard in #2845
feat(Grafana): add support for scale subresource by @benfiola in #2858
feat(helm): render watchNamespaces through tpl by @jpescalona in #2862
feat(helm): allow configuring dashboards-dir emptyDir volume by @dmaes in #2876
feat(GrafanaDashboard): add spec.variables to override template variable defaults by @bosiakov in #2747

Fixes

fix(GrafanaDashboard): clean up failed jsonnet project builds by @immanuwell in #2739
fix(controllers): add a reconciliation delay upon UID changes in dashboards and datasources by @immanuwell in #2771
fix(GrafanaDatasource): correctly handle already deleted datasource by @ChaoHuang2018 in #2767
fix(controllers): clarify folderRef failures for legacy folders by @immanuwell in #2780
fix(GrafanaManifest): always pass resourceVersion in update requests to avoid version mismatch errors by @roa-beep in #2865
fix(controllers): avoid overwriting finalizers during resource cleanup by @heliapb in #2880
fix(GrafanaManifest): add missing namespace info on delete by @theSuess in #2910
fix(Grafana): use contents for tracking cm/secret state instead of resourceVersion by @theSuess in #2908

Dependencies

fix(deps): update github.com/grafana/grafana-openapi-client-go digest to 399c666 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2751
fix(deps): update module github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 to v2.30.0 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2753
fix(deps): update kubernetes monorepo to v0.36.2 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2754
fix(deps): update kubernetes monorepo to v0.36.2 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2756
fix(deps): update module github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 to v2.31.0 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2758
fix(deps): update go-openapi packages to v0.32.4 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2768
fix(deps): update testcontainers-go monorepo to v0.43.0 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2770
chore(deps): update go-openapi packages by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2779
chore(deps): update module github.com/klauspost/compress to v1.18.6 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2778
chore(deps): update module github.com/fxamacker/cbor/v2 to v2.9.2 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2777
chore(deps): update module github.com/ebitengine/purego to v0.10.1 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2776
chore(deps): update k8s.io/utils digest to a95e086 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2774
chore(deps): update github.com/google/pprof digest to 7023385 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2772
chore(deps): update github.com/lufia/plan9stats digest to c963978 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2773
chore(deps): update module github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify to v1.10.1 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2783
chore(deps): update module github.com/go-errors/errors to v1.5.1 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2784
chore(deps): update module github.com/go-ole/go-ole to v1.3.0 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2785
chore(deps): update module github.com/docker/go-connections to v0.7.0 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2781
chore(deps): update module github.com/grafana/grafana-app-sdk to v0.56.2 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2787
chore(deps): update module github.com/felixge/httpsnoop to v1.1.0 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2782
chore(deps): update module github.com/moby/moby/client to v0.5.0 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2790
chore(deps): update module github.com/moby/sys/sequential to v0.7.0 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2791
chore(deps): update module github.com/masterminds/semver/v3 to v3.5.0 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2788
chore(deps): update module github.com/prometheus/common to v0.69.0 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2792
chore(deps): update module github.com/tklauser/go-sysconf to v0.4.0 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2794
chore(deps): update module golang.org/x/net to v0.56.0 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2798
chore(deps): update module golang.org/x/crypto to v0.53.0 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2796
chore(deps): update module golang.org/x/tools to v0.46.0 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2799
chore(deps): update opentelemetry-go-contrib monorepo to v0.69.0 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2800
fix(deps): update module github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 to v2.32.0 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2806
chore(deps): update module github.com/moby/sys/user to v0.4.1 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2811
chore(deps): update module golang.org/x/tools to v0.47.0 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2810
chore(deps): update k8s.io/kube-openapi digest to 8f3fa49 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2809
chore: bump grafana to v13.1.0 by @weisdd in #2825
fix(deps): update module github.com/go-openapi/strfmt to v0.26.4 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2813
fix(security/high/): update module oras.land/oras-go/v2 to v2.6.2 [security] by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2837
fix(deps): update module sigs.k8s.io/gateway-api to v1.6.0 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2829
fix(deps): update module github.com/alecthomas/kong to v1.16.0 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2846
fix(deps): update module sigs.k8s.io/gateway-api to v1.6.1 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2849
fix(deps): update go-openapi packages by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2848
fix(deps): update module github.com/prometheus/client_golang to v1.24.0 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2854
fix(deps): update module github.com/go-logr/logr to v1.4.4 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2855
fix(deps): update module github.com/go-openapi/runtime to v0.32.6 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2856
fix(deps): update kubernetes monorepo to v0.36.3 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2859
fix(deps): update module github.com/prometheus/client_golang to v1.24.1 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2861
fix(deps): update module github.com/go-openapi/runtime to v0.33.0 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2867
chore: update npm packages by @theSuess in #2869
fix(deps): update github.com/grafana/grafana-openapi-client-go digest to 6029e6c by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2871
fix(deps): update module github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-go to v0.44.0 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2884
fix(deps): update module github.com/alecthomas/kong to v1.16.1 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2886
fix(deps): update module github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 to v2.32.1 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2887
fix(security/unknown/): update module golang.org/x/mod to v0.40.0 [security] by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2888
fix(deps): update module github.com/stretchr/testify to v1.12.0 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2891
chore(go): bump to 1.26.6 by @weisdd in #2894
chore: update grafana image to 13.1.3 by @theSuess in #2892
fix(security/high/): update module github.com/moby/go-archive to v0.3.0 [security] by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2896
fix(deps): update module github.com/stretchr/testify to v1.12.1 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2898
fix(deps): update kubernetes monorepo to v0.36.4 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2905
fix(deps): update module k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver to v0.36.4 by @renovate-sh-app[bot] in #2907

Documentation

docs(GrafanaDashboard): add note pointing people to GrafanaManifest for V2 dashboards by @Baarsgaard in #2757
fix(docs): broken dashboard envFrom examples by @immanuwell in #2759
docs(cli): add 'All settings' section covering CLI configuration options (--help) by @Baarsgaard in #2838
proposal: GrafanaSilence crd by @smcavallo in #2877
chore: release version 5.25.0 by @theSuess in #2909

Other Changes

chore(controllers): refactor addFinalizer and simplify tests for removeFinalizer by @weisdd in #2893

New Contributors

@ChaoHuang2018 made their first contribution in #2767
@benfiola made their first contribution in #2858
@jpescalona made their first contribution in #2862
@roa-beep made their first contribution in #2865
@smcavallo made their first contribution in #2877
@dmaes made their first contribution in #2876

Full Changelog: v5.24.0...v5.25.0