Manage git sync using grafana operator

[O5ten]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Every time my cluster decides to restart the grafana pod i have to reconfigure the git-sync for dashboards.

(If applicable)If your feature request solves a bug please provide a link to the community issue
I searched the repo but couldn't find anything related to git sync or git-sync.

Describe the solution you'd like
I want to be able to configure the git-sync directly from the Grafana-CRD. Alternatively through some other CRD like ProvisioningConfig that is then attached to other grafanas like we do with datasources for example.

Describe alternatives you've considered
I could provision my dashboards with the operators GrafanaDashboard CRDs. But that would vastly decrease the developer experience for my dashboards contributors.

[theSuess]

Thanks for reporting this! I've taken a look at the setup instructions for git sync and since it is configured using the new app platform APIs, this will be fully supported with #2448.

I'll keep this open to remind myself to write documentation for this usecase

[O5ten]

Looking forward to when that feature reaches a release. :)

[bartier]

is this still not implemented? Last time I tried I got Repository in version 'v0alpha1' cannot be handled as a Connection: converting (v0alpha1.Repository) to (v0al pha1.Connection): unknown conversion"

  apiVersion: grafana.integreatly.org/v1beta1
  kind: GrafanaManifest
  metadata:
    name: git-sync-repository
  spec:
    instanceSelector:
      matchLabels:
        app: grafana
    manifest:
      apiVersion: provisioning.grafana.app/v0alpha1
      kind: Repository
      metadata:
        name: platform
      spec:
        type: git
        url: "https://gitlab.com/..."
        # ... etc

[theSuess]

@bartier the error message you're getting is coming from upstream grafana. configuring git sync should work but I still have to try it out myself and write docs around it. If you manage to get this working, it'd be great to share your example here!