fluentbit-formula

A SaltStack formula that for installing and configuring fluent-bit (td-agent-bit)

General notes

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If you are interested in writing or contributing to formulas, please pay attention to the Writing Formula Section.

If you want to use this formula, please pay attention to the FORMULA file and/or git tag, which contains the currently released version. This formula is versioned according to Semantic Versioning.

See Formula Versioning Section for more details.

If you need (non-default) configuration, please refer to:

how to configure the formula with map.jinja
the pillar.example file
the Special notes section

Contributing to this repo

Commit messages

Commit message formatting is significant!!

Please see How to contribute for more details.

pre-commit

pre-commit is configured for this formula, which you may optionally use to ease the steps involved in submitting your changes. First install the pre-commit package manager using the appropriate method, then run bin/install-hooks and now pre-commit will run automatically on each git commit.

$ bin/install-hooks
pre-commit installed at .git/hooks/pre-commit
pre-commit installed at .git/hooks/commit-msg

Special notes

None

`fluentbit`

Meta-state (This is a state that includes other states).

This installs the fluentbit package, manages the fluentbit configuration file and then starts the associated fluentbit service.

`fluentbit.package`

Installs the fluentbit package

`fluentbit.config`

Configures the fluent-bit service with upstart/systemd etc

Configures fluent-bit input/output plugins

`fluentbit.service`

This state will start the fluentbit service and has a dependency on fluentbit.config via include list.

`fluentbit.clean`

Meta-state (This is a state that includes other states).

this state will undo everything performed in the fluentbit meta-state in reverse order, i.e. stops the service, removes the configuration file and then uninstalls the package.

`fluentbit.service.clean`

This state will stop the fluentbit service and disable it at boot time.

`fluentbit.config.clean`

This state will remove the configuration of the fluentbit service and has a dependency on fluentbit.service.clean via include list.

`fluentbit.package.clean`

This state will remove the fluentbit package and has a depency on fluentbit.config.clean via include list.

Testing

Linux testing is done with kitchen-salt.

Requirements

Ruby
Docker

$ gem install bundler
$ bundle install
$ bin/kitchen test [platform]

Where [platform] is the platform name defined in kitchen.yml, e.g. debian-9-2019-2-py3.

`bin/kitchen converge`

Creates the docker instance and runs the fluentbit main state, ready for testing.

`bin/kitchen verify`

Runs the inspec tests on the actual instance.

`bin/kitchen destroy`

Removes the docker instance.

`bin/kitchen test`

Runs all of the stages above in one go: i.e. destroy + converge + verify + destroy.

`bin/kitchen login`

Gives you SSH access to the instance for manual testing.

vveliev/fluentbit-formula