Set username and password of PMM server via Docker env

[kevinr1]

I am automating an installation of PMM server, and want to add the clients automatically as well. In my case, this requires the server username and password.

With PMM v1 I could set the username and password in Docker with extra environment variables, using:

SERVER_USER
SERVER_PASSWORD

How do I set this for v2? I tried using the same values, but this doesn’t work.

The docs. don’t describe a way of setting this. It only describes ; browse to the web-gui and login using admin as username and password. Then change the password…

This is undesired in my situation, as I’d like to set the username and password automatically.

[daniil.bazhenov]

Hi, @kevinr1

Unfortunately, it’s not supported yet, we have task for it https://jira.percona.com/browse/PMM-4673

You can subscribe to this task to learn earlier about progress.

[Vadim_Yalovets]

Grafana is used for handles authentication in PMM2 Server. So mentioned environment variables aren’t working yet.

You may use next command for changing an admin password.

docker exec -t pmm-server bash -c 'ln -s /srv/grafana /usr/share/grafana/data; grafana-cli --homepath /usr/share/grafana admin reset-admin-pass

word NEWPASSWD’

[kevinr1]

Thanks for both responses.

@adivinho, I can confirm your workaround works.

[Aleksandr_Kuzminsky]

@daniil.bazhenov

we have task for it https://jira.percona.com/browse/PMM-4673

Hi,

I can’t see the issue. How likely it’ll be possible to set a custom password?

[steve.hoffman]

Not sure why that was set “Internal Only”…I changed it to world! I didn’t see anything sensitive in there.