From 82b3c6859760594137a1a92e6da4a6060179e865 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oleksandr Berezovskyi <berezovskyi.oleksandr@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:15:12 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] fix(mon/grafana): use Recreate strategy and disable
 initChownData

---
 kubernetes-monitoring/apps/victoria-metrics/release.yaml | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kubernetes-monitoring/apps/victoria-metrics/release.yaml b/kubernetes-monitoring/apps/victoria-metrics/release.yaml
index 7d8e38d..8df6607 100644
--- a/kubernetes-monitoring/apps/victoria-metrics/release.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes-monitoring/apps/victoria-metrics/release.yaml
@@ -66,6 +66,14 @@ spec:
 
     grafana:
       enabled: true
+      # SQLite DB on an RWO local-path volume — never run two pods at once.
+      deploymentStrategy:
+        type: Recreate
+      # The volume already carries fsGroup: 472 and 472-owned data; the chown
+      # init container drops DAC_OVERRIDE and can't traverse Grafana's 0700
+      # render dirs, so it's both redundant and breaks rollouts here.
+      initChownData:
+        enabled: false
       # VictoriaLogs datasource plugin (signed, from Grafana catalog).
       # The datasource itself is provisioned via a sidecar-labelled ConfigMap
       # (configmap-logs-datasource.yaml).