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  1. OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) Strategy
  2. OCPSTRAT-568

Improve configuration of kube-apiserver audit logging

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    Description

      NOTE: Updated description

      Goal

      Provide more granular control over filtering of kube-apiserver audit logs.

      Openshift currently provides Configuring the audit log policy which filters by group.

      Users need to be able to filter by at least:

      • resources
      • users
      • namespaces
      • verbs (e.g.; get, update, patch, delete) – Note: events that cause changes are more important for audit.

      The kube-apiserver provides a rich configuration file Auditing Kubernetes which is not accessible in a supported way in OCP.

      (see first comment in this Jira for example of a configuration of what need to be achieved)
       

      Why is this important?

      Forwarding audit logs off-cluster is a common requirement for openshift logging.
      In large production environments, the volume of audit logs under the default configuration is excessively large and consists mostly of low- or 0-value data.
       
      Cluster admin wants to store important audit logs off-cluster, and needs to filter out unimportant logs to reduce data volume to affordable levels, in terms of network bandwidth and storage costs.

      Acceptance Criteria

      • Set a custom audit logging configuration, run a cluster with some test workload, verify that audit logs obey the configuration.
      • CI Testing -  Basic e2e automationTests are merged and completing successfully

      Existing load references

      • On an SNO cluster with nothing but openshift-logging installed, it is possible to see log volumes in excess of 50 lines/sec, or 100kb/sec. Customers have reported log volumes over 100 lines/sec.
      • A regular 27 nodes multi-node cluster (see attached cases) sees logs amounts in range of 40-50GB/day

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              wcabanba@redhat.com William Caban
              rhn-engineering-aconway Alan Conway
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