From 29ef52592396edbb6d6e4e318824417899b3b1de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephanie Hingtgen <stephanie.hingtgen@grafana.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2025 23:48:23 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Provisioning: Allow disabling controllers (#110641)

---
 pkg/registry/apis/provisioning/register.go |  2 +-
 pkg/setting/setting.go                     | 21 ++++++++++++---------
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pkg/registry/apis/provisioning/register.go b/pkg/registry/apis/provisioning/register.go
index d7c0d5c2343..5162ccd2b31 100644
--- a/pkg/registry/apis/provisioning/register.go
+++ b/pkg/registry/apis/provisioning/register.go
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ func RegisterAPIService(
 	}
 
 	builder := NewAPIBuilder(
-		false, // Run controllers
+		cfg.ProvisioningDisableControllers,
 		repoFactory,
 		features,
 		client,
diff --git a/pkg/setting/setting.go b/pkg/setting/setting.go
index 6c384c42fac..2986911c2e3 100644
--- a/pkg/setting/setting.go
+++ b/pkg/setting/setting.go
@@ -132,15 +132,16 @@ type Cfg struct {
 	HomePath                   string
 	ProvisioningPath           string
 	PermittedProvisioningPaths []string
-	// Job History Configuration
-	ProvisioningLokiURL      string
-	ProvisioningLokiUser     string
-	ProvisioningLokiPassword string
-	ProvisioningLokiTenantID string
-	DataPath                 string
-	LogsPath                 string
-	PluginsPath              string
-	EnterpriseLicensePath    string
+	// Provisioning config
+	ProvisioningDisableControllers bool
+	ProvisioningLokiURL            string
+	ProvisioningLokiUser           string
+	ProvisioningLokiPassword       string
+	ProvisioningLokiTenantID       string
+	DataPath                       string
+	LogsPath                       string
+	PluginsPath                    string
+	EnterpriseLicensePath          string
 
 	// SMTP email settings
 	Smtp SmtpSettings
@@ -2103,6 +2104,8 @@ func (cfg *Cfg) readProvisioningSettings(iniFile *ini.File) error {
 		}
 	}
 
+	cfg.ProvisioningDisableControllers = iniFile.Section("provisioning").Key("disable_controllers").MustBool(false)
+
 	// Read job history configuration
 	cfg.ProvisioningLokiURL = valueAsString(iniFile.Section("provisioning"), "loki_url", "")
 	cfg.ProvisioningLokiUser = valueAsString(iniFile.Section("provisioning"), "loki_user", "")