Complete example

[nicolaerosia]

@jhunthrop thank you for starting this repo as I'm interested in making a Python Grafana datasource.

Instead of pushing all the Python dependencies in the Grafana image, I was thinking of having a bash file that would respect the Plugin protocol, would be started by Grafana and would communicate back the gRPC address where Grafana should connect to.
Then, I would have the actual Python Datasource on a separate container which would talk over gRPC.

If you have any more resources except what is in this repo, I would be happy to take a look

[jkmnt]

nicolaerosia, please see my attempt: https://github.com/jkmnt/grafana_python_backend_plugin

[nicolaerosia]

@jkmnt thank you! My approach was a bit different, I created a shell script which just returns the address, but the address is not localhost.
I imagine that bringing Python inside grafana container is not really nice, so I was thinking of having a separate container for the datasource.
I'll try to clean up my example and push it to github as well.