How to define additional manifests in rancher-logging

Article Number: 000021964

Environment

Rancher v2.8+

rancher-logging 103.0.0+up3.17.10 or posterior versions

Situation

You want to deploy additional logging resources (e.g. clusterFlows or Outputs) in the values file of rancher-logging. Although it is a best-practice to separate the deployment and configuration of the application, this is a convenient way of setting up the entire logging pipeline, as you won't need to deploy or manage these resources separately.

Resolution

There is a parameter in the values file of the rancher-logging HelmChart called "extraManifests" that you can use to deploy additional logging resource such as Outputs and Flows. The following is an example of how to set it up:

extraManifests:
  - apiVersion: logging.banzaicloud.io/v1beta1
    kind: ClusterOutput
    metadata:
      name: example-es
      namespace: cattle-logging-system
    spec:
      elasticsearch:
        host: elasticsearch.example.com
        port: 9200
        scheme: http