Fluentd Server, a Fluentd config distribution server, was released!

What is Fluentd Server

I heard as some users of Fluentd want something like chef-server for Fluentd, so I created the fluentd-server.

With Fluentd Server, you can manage fluentd configuration files centrally with erb.

For example, you may create a config whose name is worker as:

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<source>
  type forward
  port <%= port %>
</source>

<match **>
  type stdout
</match>

Then you can download the config via an API whose uri is like /api/worker?port=24224 where its query parameters are replaced with variables in the erb. The downloaded contents should become as follows:

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<source>
  type forward
  port 24224
</source>

<match **>
  type stdout
</match>

How To Use From Fluentd

The include directive of fluentd config supports http, so write just one line on your fluentd.conf as:

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# /etc/fluentd.conf
include http://fqdn.to.fluentd-server/api/:name?port=24224

where :name is the name of your config post. Fluentd downloads the configuration from the Fluentd Server.

You can see the specification detail of API at API.md.

Demo

I deployed it on heroku, so you can see the demo at http://fluentd-server.herokuapp.com.

All the end

Fluentd server is yet under development. Patches are welcome!