Official Grafana docker image on OpenShift 3.x
Running offical docker images from Docker hub on OpenShift can be painful as it uses arbitrary user ids by default. Often you end up building your own or using 3rd party forks/clones of the offical image, which leds to additional effort to keep it up to date in terms of security and/or version upgrades. Background Technically speaking, [OpenShift] generates a dynamic uid to launch a container which will not have an associated entry in the containers /etc/passwd file. At docker image build time this user does not exist so chown files and/or directories to this uid is not possible. Grafana’s docker image gosu Grafana runs its service as grafana user and uses an entrypoint script which runs as root and launches grafana-server as grafana user by using gosu, see run.sh on github.com ...