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Published inJun 2020
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Eric Salituro
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Eric Salituro is currently a Software Engineering Manger with the Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform team at Zendesk. He has an IT career spanning over 30 years, over 20 of which were in the motion picture industry working as a pipeline technical director and software developer for innovative and creative studios like DreamWorks, Digital Domain, and Pixar. Before moving to Zendesk, he worked at Pixar helping to manage and maintain their production render farm as a Senior Software Developer. Among his accomplishments there was the development of a Python API toolkit for Grafana aimed at streamlining the creation of rendering metrics dashboards
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We covered a lot of ground in this chapter. First, we took a closer look at users, teams, and organizations and saw how roles can be mapped to permissions for dashboards, folders, and data sources. Then, we learned how organization admins can manage both users and teams. Finally, we examined how the Super Admin role can create new users and organizations.

Don't worry if it's difficult to visualize all the possibilities afforded by the Grafana permission model. It may be that, for now, you have no need to establish multiple organizations, to specify permissions on specific dashboards or folders, or even to assemble users into teams. However, as your site grows in complexity, you may find that access control issues present themselves, and you may want to come back to this chapter. Concepts that seem a little abstract right now may have concrete relevance in the future.

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Published in: Jun 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781838826581

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Eric Salituro

Eric Salituro is currently a Software Engineering Manger with the Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform team at Zendesk. He has an IT career spanning over 30 years, over 20 of which were in the motion picture industry working as a pipeline technical director and software developer for innovative and creative studios like DreamWorks, Digital Domain, and Pixar. Before moving to Zendesk, he worked at Pixar helping to manage and maintain their production render farm as a Senior Software Developer. Among his accomplishments there was the development of a Python API toolkit for Grafana aimed at streamlining the creation of rendering metrics dashboards
Read more about Eric Salituro