Logging

The Go SDK integrates with the onelog project almost out of the box. The reasons why this library has been chosen are:

• It works with WebAssembly binaries. Other popular logging solutions cannot even be built to WebAssembly.

• It provides good performance.

• It supports structured logging.

Initialize logger

You first have to initialize a logger structure. By performing this initialization in a global variable, you can easily log from the two main policy entry points: validate and validate_settings. Let's initialize this structure in our main package:

var (
	logWriter = kubewarden.KubewardenLogWriter{}
	logger    = onelog.New(
		&logWriter,
		onelog.ALL, // shortcut for onelog.DEBUG|onelog.INFO|onelog.WARN|onelog.ERROR|onelog.FATAL
	)
)

Consuming the logger

Now, we can use the logger object to log from wherever we need in our policy:

func validate(payload []byte) ([]byte, error) {
	// ...
	logger.Info("validating request")
	// ...
}

Let's add some structured logging:

func validate(payload []byte) ([]byte, error) {
	// ...
	logger.WarnWithFields("logging something important", func(e onelog.Entry) {
		e.String("one_field", "a value")
		e.String("another_field", "another value")
	})
	// ...
}

You can refer to the onelog documentation for more information.

The logging produced by the policy will be sent to the policy evaluator (kwctl or policy-server for example), and they will log on behalf of the policy using mechanisms that are easily pluggable to other components that enable distributed tracing, such as Jaeger.