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How to create and mount a volume to a grafana docker image and use it to strore grafana dashbords and user information

I have created a grafana docker image in aws fargate using aws ecs. The web app works well. However, I loose dashboards and user information anytime I restart the app. From my readings, this is because grafana image has no storage to keep information.

Following this link,https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/ecs-fargate-mount-efs-containers-tasks/, I have added an EFS volume to the container.

Volume configuration : Root directory = / (the default one).

On the container name: STORAGE AND LOGGING session:.

Mount points: I have added the volume name.

Container path: /usr/app.

However, I still loose all dashboards ans user information on container restart.

Is there something that I am missing ?
Thank you for your support

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    Instead of making container have persistent storage one alternative could be to have a custom entrypoint script that downloads the dashboards and put them in /etc/grafana/provisioning/dashboards/ (could be from s3) and then runs /run.sh this way you can keep your container stateless and not add any storage to it.

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    Configure custom database (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL – AWS RDS/Aurora) instead of default file based SQLite DB. RDBs are better for concurrent access, so you can scale out better.

    AWS offers also options for backups (e.g. automated snapshosts), so I would say DB is better solution than FS volumes (+ problems with FS permissions).

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