Add Vector configuration for log shipping

Author: jb3

kubernetes/namespaces/loki/README.md

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Once this is deployed, the service `loki-gateway.loki.svc.cluster.local` will po
 ```
 $ helm repo add grafana https://grafana.github.io/helm-charts
 $ helm repo update
-$ helm upgrade --install -n loki --values loki_values.yml loki grafana/loki
+$ helm upgrade --install -n loki --values loki/loki_values.yml loki grafana/loki
 ```
 
 ## Alloy
@@ -21,5 +21,23 @@ $ helm upgrade --install -n loki --values loki_values.yml loki grafana/loki
 This requires no additional configuration, just make sure Loki is up and Alloy will start shipping logs.
 
 ```
-$ helm upgrade --install -n loki --values alloy_values.yml alloy grafana/alloy
+$ helm upgrade --install -n loki --values alloy/alloy_values.yml alloy grafana/alloy
 ```
+
+## Vector
+
+Vector is a log shipping tool that we use to accept various sources and ships them to Loki.
+
+```
+$ helm repo add vector https://helm.vector.dev
+$ helm repo update
+$ helm upgrade --install -n loki --values vector/vector_values.yml vector vector/vector
+```
+
+### Vector Port Allocations
+
+Log data will be tagged and retained based on the Vector endpoint it lands in.
+
+| Port | Sending Service |
+| ---- | --------------- |
+| 6000 | Kubewatch       |

kubernetes/namespaces/loki/vector/vector_values.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+# role -- [Role](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/deployment/roles/) for this Vector instance, valid options are:
+# "Agent", "Aggregator", and "Stateless-Aggregator".
+
+# Each role is created with the following workloads:
+# Agent = DaemonSet
+# Aggregator = StatefulSet
+# Stateless-Aggregator = Deployment
+role: "Stateless-Aggregator"
+
+# customConfig -- Override Vector's default configs, if used **all** options need to be specified. This section supports
+# using helm templates to populate dynamic values. See Vector's [configuration documentation](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/)
+# for all options.
+customConfig:
+  data_dir: /vector-data-dir
+
+  api:
+    enabled: true
+    address: 127.0.0.1:8686
+
+  sources:
+    kubewatch:
+      address: 0.0.0.0:6000
+      type: http_server
+      auth:
+        strategy: custom
+        source: |-
+          true
+      decoding:
+        codec: json
+      framing:
+        method: bytes
+
+  transforms:
+    kubewatch_prepared:
+      type: remap
+      inputs: [kubewatch]
+      source: |-
+        .job = "kubewatch"
+        .kind = .eventmeta.kind
+        .name = .eventmeta.name
+        .namespace = .eventmeta.namespace
+        .reason = .eventmeta.reason
+
+        .labels = {
+          "namespace": .eventmeta.namespace,
+          "kind": .eventmeta.kind,
+        }
+
+        del(.source_type)
+        del(.path)
+        del(.eventmeta)
+
+  sinks:
+    loki:
+      type: loki
+      inputs: [kubewatch_prepared]
+      endpoint: http://loki:3100
+      labels:
+        job: |-
+          {{`vector.{{ job }}`}}
+        "*": |-
+          {{`{{ labels }}`}}
+      encoding:
+        codec: json
+
+# Log level for Vector.
+logLevel: "info"