Where audit logs of starting/stopping pods/containers are stored on k8s

9/3/2019

On k8s, where audit logs of starting/stopping pods or containers are stored?

On k8s, we often store logs in hostpath /var/log, and let one agent mount this path and be charged of flush these logfiles. I wonder if there is one file in hostpath, store the audit logs of starting/stopping pods or containers.

-- Tianqiu Huang
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1 Answer

9/3/2019

It is not enabled by default, but you can do it by Audit, which is a part of kube-apiserver functionality.

You should create a policy for Audit which will describe what you want to catch and then you have 2 options how to store them - push somewhere using WebHook or write to files on a Master node.

To enable writing to a file, you should set a CLI flag for kube-apiserver: --audit-log-path with a path for log files.

Also, I highly recommend you to set a size limit for that files by --audit-log-maxsize because they can be really big.

-- Anton Kostenko
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