Support of volumeMounts in sidecars#1759
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…#5950) Jira issue: SWATCH-3960 ## Description The swatch-api-nginx-proxy service was never configured to send logs to Splunk HEC. To start doing this, we will configure the existing otel collector sidecar to send the logs: - The service will send the logs via syslog (in the future, it will be using file logs, but at the moment, Clowder does not support mounting volumes that would allow us to process files: RedHatInsights/clowder#1759 to add this feature request). - The otel collector sidecar will mount a new configmap that includes logging. In ephemeral, it will simply log the statements to stdout. In stage, it will use the configmap from https://gitlab.cee.redhat.com/rhsm/splunk-otel-collector/-/merge_requests/11. ## Testing Steps: 1. Deploy all our services using the bonfire command from the iqe pipelines (important to use the same template ref). 2. Deploy the new configmap that includes the logging via syslog (UDP) from https://gitlab.cee.redhat.com/rhsm/splunk-otel-collector/-/blob/main/deploy/splunk-otel-collector.yaml?ref_type=heads#L417 3. Delete the swatch-api-nginx-proxy pods, so these are recreated.
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One of the new kuttl tests failed if you're able to take a look:
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@bsquizz I don't have permission to run the e2e tests. Can you trigger it please? |
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Summary
The Clowder
SidecarAPI currently does not support customvolumeMounts, which prevents use cases like sharing a log directory between the main container and the otel-collector sidecar. This is needed for file-based log collection (filelogreceiver), where the application writes logs to a shared volume and the otel-collector tails them for forwarding to Splunk/SumoLogic.The
filelogapproach is preferred over alternatives likesyslogortcplogbecause it requires zero coupling with the application — the app just writes to a file (which frameworks like Spring Boot, Quarkus, and NGINX already support natively), and the collector picks them up independently. It's also resilient to collector restarts since logs persist in the shared volume.Changes
volumeMountsfield ([]v1.VolumeMount) to theSidecarstruct inclowdapp_types.go. Fully backward compatible (omitempty).getOtelCollector().readOnly), nil sidecar, and empty slice.test-sidecars-volume-mountssuite with 3 scenarios: baseline (no custom mounts), single shared volume, and multiple volumes.Test plan
go test ./controllers/cloud.redhat.com/providers/sidecar/... -v)make kuttl KUTTL_TEST="--test=test-sidecars-volume-mounts")