Lab 5.3 with fluentd is too confusing?

Hello,
While doing lab 5.3 I was disappointed to see how I found it confusing.
As a beginner it took me some time to understand the objective.
I think I saw several mistakes and I would propose following modifications:
FLUENT_CONF env var is not working
Better to use
- command: ["fluentd"]
- args: ["-c", "/etc/fluentd-config/fluentd.conf"]
We can see even coursebook is wrong
In the sample given in step 15
, the config file path is incorrect!!
- student@ckad-1:~$ kubectl logs basicpod fdlogger
- 2019-03-06 18:55:33 +0000 [info]: parsing config file is succeeded path="/fluentd/etc/fluent.conf"
They should read the ConfigMap content at /etc/fluentd-config/fluentd.conf
and not default config at /fluentd/etc/fluent.conf
ConfigMap is incorrect
- Mountpoint given in step 11 is incorrect should be /var/log/access.log instead of /var/log/nginx/access.log
- The
@type forward
type is not relevant and leads to error, use@type stdout
instead?
- echo '
- apiVersion: v1
- kind: ConfigMap
- metadata:
- name: fluentd-config
- data:
- fluentd.conf: |
- <source>
- @type tail
- format none
- path /var/log/access.log # <- we were pointing to wrong mount point /var/log/nginx/access.log in step 11
- tag count.format1
- </source>
- <match *.**> # <- we were doing a forward to server which shows nothing
- @type stdout
- </match>
- ' > weblog-configmap.yaml
I propose following modif from step 5.3.11 (I use deployment but pod is fine)
- echo '
- apiVersion: v1
- kind: ConfigMap
- metadata:
- name: fluentd-config
- data:
- fluentd.conf: |
- <source>
- @type tail
- format none
- path /var/log/access.log
- tag count.format1
- </source>
- <match *.**>
- @type stdout
- </match>
- ' > weblog-configmap.yaml
- k create -f weblog-configmap.yaml
And modify deployment as follows
- echo '
- apiVersion: apps/v1
- kind: Deployment
- metadata:
- creationTimestamp: null
- labels:
- app: basic
- name: basic
- spec:
- replicas: 1
- selector:
- matchLabels:
- app: basic
- strategy: {}
- template:
- metadata:
- creationTimestamp: null
- labels:
- app: basic
- spec:
- volumes:
- - name: weblog-pv-storage
- persistentVolumeClaim:
- claimName: weblog-pv-claim
- - name: log-config
- configMap:
- name: fluentd-config
- containers:
- - image: nginx
- name: nginx
- ports:
- - containerPort: 80
- volumeMounts:
- - mountPath: "/var/log/nginx"
- name: weblog-pv-storage
- - image: fluent/fluentd
- command: ["fluentd"]
- args: ["-c", "/etc/fluentd-config/fluentd.conf", "--verbose"]
- name: fdlogger
- volumeMounts:
- - mountPath: "/var/log"
- name: weblog-pv-storage
- - mountPath: "/etc/fluentd-config"
- name: log-config
- ' > basic3.yaml
- k create -f basic3.yaml
Then we can tail the logs
- export POD_NAME=$(k get pods -o wide | grep "basic-" | awk '{ print $1 }')
- k logs -f $POD_NAME fdlogger
- vagrant@k8sMaster:~$ k logs $POD_NAME fdlogger | grep access
- path "/var/log/access.log"
- 2020-02-13 19:08:22 +0000 [info]: #0 following tail of /var/log/access.log
Then in a separate window do:
- export POD_IP=$(k get pods -o wide | grep "basic-" | awk '{ print $6 }')
- echo $POD_IP
- watch -n1 curl $POD_IP
And it appears in first window:
- 2020-02-13 19:56:12.855010348 +0000 count.format1: {"message":"10.0.2.15 - - [13/Feb/2020:19:56:12 +0000] \"GET / HTTP/1.1\" 200 612 \"-\" \"curl/7.58.0\" \"-\""}
- 2020-02-13 19:56:13.856553408 +0000 count.format1: {"message":"10.0.2.15 - - [13/Feb/2020:19:56:13 +0000] \"GET / HTTP/1.1\" 200 612 \"-\" \"curl/7.58.0\" \"-\""}
Am I wrong, did I miss something? What do you think?
Thanks for the help,
Cheers,
Sylvain
Comments
-
Hello,
Thank you for the feedback. We'll investigate the matter and update the material as necessary.
Thank you,
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