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feat(ansible): enforce privacy-policy log retention - #26
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WalkthroughThe Ansible configuration adds journald and pod-log retention settings. It deploys an hourly pod-log cleanup service and timer, adds the role to provisioning and verification, and documents the retention behavior. The InfluxDB deployment gains comments about initialization and bucket retention. ChangesTechnical log retention
InfluxDB deployment comments
Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Ansible as Ansible logs role
participant Systemd as systemd
participant Service as pod-log-retention.service
participant Script as pod-log-retention
participant Logs as /var/log/pods
Ansible->>Systemd: Install and enable pod-log-retention.timer
Systemd->>Service: Trigger hourly timer
Service->>Script: Run cleanup script
Script->>Logs: Delete old rotated files and truncate old current files
Priority: ➖ Normal Change: Feature Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to
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Review comments at @ansible/roles/logs/templates/pod-log-retention.sh.j2:
- Around line 7-10: Update the max_age_minutes threshold used by the
rotated-file find command so deletion starts early enough to account for the
hourly timer interval and its randomized delay, keeping 30 days as the maximum
cleanup age rather than the eligibility age.
- Around line 14-15: Update the retention logic in the pod-log cleanup script so
it prunes or rotates entries in active log files based on each entry’s age,
rather than relying only on the file-mtime check in the find command; preserve
the configured max_age_minutes limit.
Review comments at @apps/influxdb/deployment.yaml:
- Line 69: Update the documented influx bucket update command in the comment to
include the bucket’s ID via --id, rather than using a bucket name to select it;
keep the existing retention value.
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| readonly max_age_minutes={{ log_retention_days * 24 * 60 }} | ||
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| # Rotated files (0.log.<timestamp>, optionally .gz) are never written again. | ||
| find "$pod_logs" -type f -name '*.log.*' -mmin "+${max_age_minutes}" -delete |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Allow for the interval between cleanup runs.
A rotated file first becomes eligible after its mtime exceeds 30 days. The hourly timer can leave it in place for another run interval plus its randomized delay. Use an earlier deletion threshold that accounts for that interval if 30 days is a maximum rather than a target cleanup age. (lists.freedesktop.org)
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Update the max_age_minutes threshold used by the rotated-file find command so
deletion starts early enough to account for the hourly timer interval and its
randomized delay, keeping 30 days as the maximum cleanup age rather than the
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| find "$pod_logs" -type f -name '*.log' -mmin "+${max_age_minutes}" -size +0c \ | ||
| -exec truncate --size=0 -- {} + |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Enforce the age limit inside active current logs.
When a container writes less than 5 MiB over more than 30 days, Kubelet need not rotate its current log. Each new write also refreshes the file's mtime, so this find command never truncates it. Its oldest entries can remain indefinitely, contrary to the stated 30-day limit. Add a mechanism that rotates or prunes current logs by entry age; truncating only idle files cannot enforce this policy. The limitation is also acknowledged in ansible/README.md.
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Update the retention logic in the pod-log cleanup script so it prunes or rotates
entries in active log files based on each entry’s age, rather than relying only
on the file-mtime check in the find command; preserve the configured
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| # Init runs only on an empty volume. The telegram_bot bucket was | ||
| # created by hand; the privacy policy keeps it 90 days, set with | ||
| # `influx bucket update --retention 90d`. |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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influx bucket update CLI reference flags --id --name --retention InfluxDB v2
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The `influx bucket update` reference lists the three flags you asked about, plus a few others.
- **`-i, --id`** (required): the bucket ID. (Required) Bucket ID The how-to guide says you can find it in the output of `influx bucket list`. The bucket ID (provided in the output of influx bucket list)
- **`-n, --name`**: the new bucket name. The reference describes it as New bucket name. Renaming a bucket affects anything that refers to it by name, such as Queries, Dashboards, Tasks, Telegraf configurations, Templates.
- **`-r, --retention`**: the new retention period. The reference describes it as New duration bucket will retain data. Valid units include nanoseconds (ns) through weeks (w). The minimum retention period is one hour. Setting it to 0 gives an infinite retention period, for example 0s.
Example commands from the reference:
```bash
influx bucket update --id 06c86c40a9f36000 --name new-bucket-name
influx bucket update --id 06c86c40a9f36000 --retention 90d
```
The same reference also lists `-d, --description` for the bucket description and `--shard-group-duration` (OSS only). The shard group duration must be shorter than the buckets retention period.
Version caveat: the reference lists the CLI as influx CLI 2.0.0+, but the page also says This page documents an earlier version of InfluxDB OSS. I could not confirm from these results whether the flag set is identical in the latest v2.x CLI. Running `influx bucket update --help` with your installed CLI would confirm it.
Citations:
- 1: https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v2/reference/cli/influx/bucket/update/
- 2: https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v2/admin/buckets/update-bucket/
Include the bucket ID in the documented command.
influx bucket update requires --id. The --name option renames the bucket; it does not select it.
Suggested documentation fix
--- "a/apps/influxdb/deployment.yaml"
+++ "b/apps/influxdb/deployment.yaml"
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
value: "polinetwork"
# Init runs only on an empty volume. The telegram_bot bucket was
# created by hand; the privacy policy keeps it 90 days, set with
- # `influx bucket update --retention 90d`.
+ # `influx bucket update --id <telegram_bot-bucket-id> --retention 90d`.
- name: DOCKER_INFLUXDB_INIT_BUCKET
value: "home"
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| # `influx bucket update --retention 90d`. | |
| # `influx bucket update --id <telegram_bot-bucket-id> --retention 90d`. |
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Update the documented influx bucket update command in the comment to include the
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existing retention value.
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Why
The PoliNetwork privacy policy ("Conservazione dei dati") commits to:
telegram_bot): 90 daysNothing enforced either of these until now.
What changed
Technical logs: 30 days (new
logsAnsible role,log_retention_days: 30)/etc/systemd/journald.conf.d/90-polinetwork-retention.confsetsMaxFileSec=1dayandMaxRetentionSec=28day. journald vacuums only on rotation and deletes whole files, so an entry can outliveMaxRetentionSecby up to two days. 28 + 2 keeps it within 30. Debian 13 keeps the journal persistently under/var/log/journal, so this setting matters./var/log/pods, where/var/log/containersonly holds symlinks): the hourlypod-log-retention.timerruns a oneshot hardened like the backup units. It:*.log.*, including.gz) whose last write is more than 30 days old;*.logthat has not been written for 30 days, so a running container keeps its file handle.config.yaml.j2):container-log-max-size=5Mi,container-log-max-files=10(defaults are 10Mi × 5). Each container keeps the same 50Mi of history, but the current file rotates twice as often, so the cleanup reaches it sooner.verify.ymlnow also requirespod-log-retention.timerto be enabled and active. The README documents the setup.Limitation: kubelet rotates by size only. A container that keeps logging but writes less than 5Mi in 30 days keeps lines older than 30 days in its current file until it rotates or the container restarts. No safe time-based rotation exists for a file containerd is still writing to: copy-truncate can lose or corrupt lines. If this is a problem for low-volume apps that log client IPs (auth, vaultwarden), the cleanest fix is to stop logging IPs, or to lower
container-log-max-sizefurther.Checked, nothing to change:
HelmChartConfigdoes not enable it, so it writes no access log and has no volume.IP_HEADERbut logs to stdout, which the pod-log cleanup covers.containerd.log(daemon log, no request data) is already rotated by k3s with lumberjack (50MB × 3,MaxAge: 28).InfluxDB
telegram_bot: 90 days (manual step)The bucket was created by hand, and the
DOCKER_INFLUXDB_INIT_*variables only run on an empty volume. The repo has no secret with an admin token: there is onlyinfluxdb-admin-password, and the CLI inside the pod uses the config written at setup. Flux owns everything inside the cluster, so having Ansible configure an app would break that split. A Job would need either the token or the RWO config volume. I therefore added only a comment inapps/influxdb/deployment.yamland left the change itself as a manual step (below).Verification (local only, nothing run against production)
ansible-playbook playbooks/{provision,verify}.yml --syntax-check: OK (pinned ansible-core 2.21.3, collections fromrequirements.yml)ansible-lint --offline roles/logs playbooks/provision.yml: 0 failures, production profilevars/main.yml.shellcheck scripts/*.shpasses on the rendered backup script and onpod-log-retention.systemd-analyze verifyon the rendered service and timer in adebian:13container: OK.systemd-analyze cat-config systemd/journald.confshows the drop-in.debian:13-slim: a rotated file 31 days old is deleted, one 29 days old is kept, a current file idle for 40 days is truncated, an active file is untouched. A second run is a no-op.kustomize build(v5.7.1) ofclusters/k3s,infrastructure/{security,storage,traefik}and everyapps/*/: OKruby tests/workload-manifests.test.rb,ruby tests/redis-manifest.test.rb: passAfter merge (manual)
./scripts/provision-and-verify.sh. The kubelet-arg change restarts k3s (pods keep running, becauseKillMode=process), and journald restarts.workflowscope. It adds the renderedpod-log-retentionscript to the shellcheck step in.github/workflows/ansible.yml:Open questions
rsysloginstalled on k3s01 (dpkg -s rsyslog)? Debian 13 does not install it by default, but some cloud images do. If it is there,/var/log/{syslog,auth.log}(SSH client IPs) follow logrotate'sweekly/rotate 4, which keeps up to about 35 days. Either remove it or add a logrotate override.