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Cease posting the logs as k8s events out-of-the-box - #1258
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In line with the goal of preparing Kopf to run on large cluster with high-load activity, disable the automatic posting of log messages as k8s events to relevant resources. Such posting creates unnecessary load on Kubernetes API servers with little or no benefit. These events include mainly the handler successes/failures and are of little interest. Logs should remain just the logs by default, i.e. out of the box. They should not map to k8s events. For k8s events, there are explicitly posting routines. This change is slightly backwards incompatible (changes the existing behaviour), but no major release is needed. **To revert:** If needed, the operator can enable this functionality by setting `settings.posting.loggers = True` in an on-startup handler. **Not affected:** The explicit event posting via `kopf.event()`, `kopf.info()`, `kopf.warn()`, `kopf.exception()` remains unaffected (controlled by `settings.posting.enabled = True` by default). Signed-off-by: Sergey Vasilyev <nolar@nolar.info>
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In line with the goal of preparing Kopf to run on large cluster with high-load activity, disable the automatic posting of log messages as k8s events to relevant resources. Such posting creates unnecessary load on Kubernetes API servers with little or no benefit. These events include mainly the handler successes/failures and are of little interest. Logs should remain just the logs by default, i.e. out of the box. They should not map to k8s events. For k8s events, there are explicitly posting routines.
This change is slightly backwards incompatible (changes the existing behaviour), but no major release is needed.
To revert: If needed, the operator can enable this functionality by setting
settings.posting.loggers = Truein an on-startup handler.Not affected: The explicit event posting via
kopf.event(),kopf.info(),kopf.warn(),kopf.exception()remains unaffected (controlled bysettings.posting.enabled = Trueby default). Related: