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Bug 1763007 - --log-opt for podman run does not work as expected
Summary: --log-opt for podman run does not work as expected
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: podman
Version: 8.3
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: rc
: 8.4
Assignee: Jindrich Novy
QA Contact: Alex Jia
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Depends On:
Blocks: 1186913 1823899
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-10-18 03:38 UTC by Suhaas Bhat
Modified: 2023-10-06 18:41 UTC (History)
15 users (show)

Fixed In Version: podman-3.0
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Last Closed: 2021-05-18 15:32:02 UTC
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Description Suhaas Bhat 2019-10-18 03:38:38 UTC 
Description of problem:
Even though we can change the logging drivers for podman using --log-driver but we cannot set the configs for them. --log-opt option values is not taken up by podman. 

E;g for json-file and k8s-file max-file and max-size cannot be set.


"HostConfig": {
            "ContainerIDFile": "",
            "LogConfig": {
                "Type": "k8s-file",
                "Config": {}
            },

"HostConfig": {
            "ContainerIDFile": "",
            "LogConfig": {
                "Type": "json-file",
                "Config": {}
            },

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

podman-1.4.4-4.el7.x86_64

Additional info:
https://github.com/containers/libpod/pull/1773

Any updates after above changes ?
Comment 2 Derrick Ornelas 2019-10-18 13:00:30 UTC 
We appear to list max-file and max-size as being supported options here:

  https://github.com/containers/libpod/blob/v1.4.4/completions/bash/podman#L500

but they don't seem to be defined anywhere else.
Comment 3 Matthew Heon 2019-10-18 13:18:06 UTC 
Podman supports a (limited) set of log drivers, but does not presently support setting options for these drivers. Are there any specific options that you want to use?
Comment 6 Daniel Walsh 2019-10-23 13:59:05 UTC 
We might be able to do something here, but realize that we don't have a long running daemon, unless conmon could handle this.  I guess max-size and max-files would rename the existing log file to annother name and then start writing a new log file. Then if we had three renames, would remove the oldest.
Comment 7 Daniel Walsh 2019-10-23 14:03:01 UTC 
conmon has a --log-max-size option now.
Comment 8 Daniel Walsh 2019-10-23 14:03:40 UTC 
Oops typo above
conmon --help
...
  --log-size-max              Maximum size of log file
Comment 10 Daniel Walsh 2019-10-23 14:12:06 UTC 
My quick read of the code looks like conmon just truncates the file, I might have missed it, but I don't see it rename the previous version.
Comment 11 Derrick Ornelas 2020-04-20 16:50:33 UTC 
As Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is now in its Maintenance Support 1 phase[1] no new software functionality is planned.  We are moving this request to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 where it may be considered for inclusion in a future minor release.  

[1]
https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata#Maintenance_Support_1_Phase
Comment 12 Daniel Walsh 2020-06-03 14:19:08 UTC 
Assign an intern.
Comment 13 Daniel Walsh 2020-09-11 19:36:36 UTC 
Giuseppe could you look at this?
Comment 15 PRATIBHA MOOGI 2020-11-26 13:10:12 UTC 
Do we have supported this in the latest Podman version ?
Comment 16 Giuseppe Scrivano 2020-11-27 09:29:29 UTC 
no, this is not supported yet
Comment 17 Daniel Walsh 2021-01-29 10:37:39 UTC 
This seems to work somewhat

./bin/podman run -d --log-opt max-size=1m alpine sleep 500

Which passes to conmon the 
--log-size-max 1000000 
flag.

I don't believe this is perfect, but it does satisfy the requirement.
Comment 21 Alex Jia 2021-02-01 12:32:16 UTC 
It works on podman-3.0.0-0.33rc2.module+el8.4.0+9742+44abad1f.

[root@kvm-03-guest13 ~]# rpm -q podman
podman-3.0.0-0.33rc2.module+el8.4.0+9742+44abad1f.x86_64

[root@kvm-03-guest13 ~]# podman run -d --log-opt max-size=1m alpine sleep 500
e02f18ec462ea0f8159ada5c706d83eba72782113fc87d009623aab64ebe9799

[root@kvm-03-guest13 ~]# podman inspect pedantic_shannon | grep -i max-size
                "max-size=1m",

@subhat, please give a double check on k8s/OCP environment, thanks a lot!
Comment 22 Alex Jia 2021-02-09 06:25:46 UTC 
Also verified on podman-3.0.0-0.38rc2.module+el8.4.0+9804+5385893b.x86_64
w/ crun-0.17-1.module+el8.4.0+9804+5385893b.x86_64.

# podman run -d --log-opt max-size=1m alpine sleep 500
24a2cc1fb81c482c2342d14d21ae8bab964e7321dfdec98961bf77316fafdbf2

# podman ps
CONTAINER ID  IMAGE                           COMMAND           CREATED         STATUS             PORTS                 NAMES
24a2cc1fb81c  alpine                          sleep 500         13 seconds ago  Up 13 seconds ago                        sweet_elion

# podman inspect sweet_elion | grep -i max-size
                "max-size=1m",
Comment 24 errata-xmlrpc 2021-05-18 15:32:02 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (Moderate: container-tools:rhel8 security, bug fix, and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1796
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