Use dashboard uid to allow update / delete

[smalldave]

I'm thinking about using the uid of the dashboard to allow updating and removing dashboards without holding state somewhere.

It would mean that the uid would be mandatory in the configmap (not sure how to enforce that).

Is this of interest to you?

[gdmello]

@smalldave - I haven't tried this out, if you create the same dashboard multiple times (with different panels) via the ConfigMap, are they created as different dashboards?

[smalldave]

if they have the same uid then it replaces them.
i've got a working example at
https://github.com/smalldave/grafana-operator

[smalldave]

you'll want the uid branch

[mcasimir]

It would be great to craft theuid out of the config map namespace+name+key if is not present, both to expose less about the implementation and to avoid the need of some special script to set such uid on all the dashboards each time a dashboard is changed and we want to update the config map with the changes.

[tsloughter]

Adding a uid if not present would be great, yea.