Subfolders and Hierarchies
With the arrival of Grafana 10, you can create a complete Folder hierarchy in Grafana. To do this, you have two choices:
Create named folder references
with the .spec.parentFolderRef it’s possible to use existing GrafanaFolders in the same namespace.
---
apiVersion: grafana.integreatly.org/v1beta1
kind: GrafanaFolder
metadata:
name: folder-with-parent
spec:
title: parent folder
instanceSelector:
matchLabels:
dashboards: "grafana"
---
apiVersion: grafana.integreatly.org/v1beta1
kind: GrafanaFolder
metadata:
name: subfolder-in-parent
spec:
title: subfolder
# GrafanaFolder parent folder reference
parentFolderRef: folder-with-parent
instanceSelector:
matchLabels:
dashboards: "grafana"
Reference ParentFolder with UIDs
Under a lot of circumstances, referencing parent folders using the name of the CR is not an option.
It is therefore possible to use the UID of the parent folder directly. This allows the operator to create subfolders inside externally managed folders created/managed by other means.
apiVersion: grafana.integreatly.org/v1beta1
kind: GrafanaFolder
metadata:
name: existing-folder-uid
spec:
# parent Folder uid to retrieve in your Grafana
parentFolderUID: "3e7b4fe1-ca90-4125-a8ab-06567c1971b5"
instanceSelector:
matchLabels:
dashboards: "grafana"