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Version: 3.9.0

Configuration

Internal Configuration​

Resoto uses an internal configuration system for its components. Configuration is maintained within Resoto Core and can be edited using Resoto Shell using the config edit command.

Listing Configurations​

Start the Resoto Shell
$ resh --psk changeme --resotocore-uri https://resotocore.resoto.svc.cluster.local:8900
note

Be sure to adjust the above PSK and Resoto Core URI arguments to reflect your setup!

List available configurations
> configs list

Resoto automatically creates the following configurations by default:

  • resoto.core
  • resoto.core.commands
  • resoto.worker
  • resoto.metrics

Editing Configuration​

Edit the Resoto Worker configuration
> config edit resoto.worker

Upon execution of the above command, Resoto Shell presents the specified configuration in YAML format using the local text editor as defined by the EDITOR environment variable.

Example Resoto Worker configuration
resotoworker:
# Enable cleanup of resources
cleanup: false
# Do not actually cleanup resources, just create log messages
cleanup_dry_run: true
# How many cleanup threads to run in parallel
cleanup_pool_size: 16
# List of collectors to run
collector:
- aws
- gcp
- k8s
# Dump the generated JSON data to disk
debug_dump_json: false
# Use forked process instead of threads
fork_process: true
# Name of the graph to import data into and run searches on
graph: resoto
# Resource kind to merge graph at (cloud or account)
graph_merge_kind: cloud
# Collector thread/process pool size
pool_size: 5
# Directory to create temporary files in
tempdir: null
# Collection/cleanup timeout in seconds
timeout: 10800
# IP address to bind the web server to
web_host: '::'
# Web root in browser (change if running behind an ingress proxy)
web_path: /
# Web server tcp port to listen on
web_port: 9956
...
...
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While the configuration is presented in YAML format for easy editing, all configuration is stored within Resoto's database in a data structure following a strictly typed model.

This means that you will get an error if, for instance, you attempt to set the value of resotoworker.pool_size to foobar, because pool_size is of type int.

Setting Individual Properties​

Instead of editing a component's configuration in a text editor, it is also possible to set the values of specific properties using the config set command.

> config set resoto.worker resotoworker.pool_size=5

Overriding Individual Properties​

Resoto also has support for overriding configuration. Overrides allow for values like passwords, credentials, and API keys to be retrieved from a secure credential store and passed into the environment, rather than being stored as plain text inside Resoto's database.

There are two ways to overriding configuration properties:

  1. --override flag

    $ resotoworker --override resotoworker.pool_size=5 resotoworker.cleanup_pool_size=20
  2. <COMPONENT_NAME>_OVERRIDE environment variable

    $ export RESOTOWORKER_OVERRIDE=resotoworker.pool_size=5
    $ resotoworker

It is possible to override multiple values by delimiting them with a space:

$ export RESOTOWORKER_OVERRIDE="resotoworker.pool_size=5 resotoworker.cleanup_pool_size=20"
$ resotoworker

Alternatively, if a value contains a space, it is also possible to use separate, enumerated environment variables:

$ export RESOTOWORKER_OVERRIDE0=resotoworker.pool_size=5
$ export RESOTOWORKER_OVERRIDE1=resotoworker.cleanup_pool_size=20
$ resotoworker

Overriding List Properties​

If the property type is a list/an array, it is possible to specifying multiple values as a comma-separated list of values:

  $ resotocore --override resotocore.api.web_hosts=127.0.0.1,10.0.0.1

or

  $ export RESOTOCORE_OVERRIDE=resotocore.api.web_hosts=127.0.0.1,10.0.0.1

Restoring Defaults​

Default configurations can be restored simply by deleting the configuration and restarting the component.

Delete the Resoto Worker configuration
> config delete resoto.worker
Restart Resoto Worker
$ resotoworker

Environment Variables​

Text Editor​

The text editor opened by Resoto Shell can be configured via the EDITOR environment variable.

When running Resoto in Docker, the default text editor is nano.

$ export EDITOR=nano

Logging Format​

Resoto components produce logs in JSON format by default, with the exception of Resoto Shell.

The rationale behind this behavior is that Core, Worker, and Metrics are likely running on something like a Kubernetes cluster in a data center, with logs ingested by a central logging system. Resoto Shell, on the other hand, is executed on a user's local machine so the log output is formatted for readability.

JSON-format logging can be disabled via the RESOTO_LOG_TEXT environment variable:

$ export RESOTO_LOG_TEXT=true

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