SexiGraf: Is There A Docker For It?

[sdhandyjr]

Good Day All,

Not an issue but more of a question. Does anyone know if there is or will be a docker for Sexigraf? I am running Sexigraf within Oracle Virtualbox on my local desktop which is beefed up with memory. Running the SexiGraf virtual appliance within a Docker container would be more desirable.

Are there any future plans to host SexiGraf in a container?

Thanks
Steve

[rschitz]

We've been asked a lot but historicaly our customers rarely have internet connection close to the vCenter hence the ova format.
Also, why are you using Virtualbox instead of running it inside one of the ESX you are monitoring?

[sdhandyjr]

"Also, why are you using Virtualbox instead of running it inside one of the ESX you are monitoring?" Good question rschitz!!!!!! At my new place of employment at a state hosptial - they are a little reluctant and conservative about adding virtual appliances to the server infrastructure. Also being new, I don't want to just come in and start just adding servers without learning this new infrastructure first. Eventually I will request if I can just import the OVA into our VMware infrastructure.

[rschitz]

Ok i get it, then you should request access to the pre-prod env that would be used for upgrade testing for example :)
To be honest it would require a lot of work to containerize SexiGraf because there is customization of Graphite and Grafana, i'm not even sure if that would be possible actually.
I'm using packer to create the vm, you can have a look at the process if you're interesed: https://github.com/sexibytes/packer-sexigraf

[sdhandyjr]

Ahhh okay. I was suspecting it would be difficult to containerize SexiGraf. I tried to containerize SexiGraf per this link -https://www.vinnie.work/blog/2021-03-19-virtualmachine-to-docker. Of course it didn't work :). Ok thanks rschitz. I'll keep this open for awhile for others to chime in and then close this thread :)

Thanks