LOG-4811: Fluentd is unable to forward logs to external ipv6 elasticsearch instance

[Clee2691]

Description

This is a forward port of #105.

Summary:

This PR fixes support for host/hosts placeholders specifically for ipv6 addresses.
Before this fix, IPv6 addresses would not be parsed correctly after evaluating host/hosts for placeholders.

/cc @cahartma
/assign @jcantrill

Links

• JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/LOG-4811

[openshift-ci-robot]

@Clee2691: This pull request references LOG-4811 which is a valid jira issue.

In response to this:

Description

This is a forward port of #105.

Summary:

This PR fixes support for host/hosts placeholders specifically for ipv6 addresses.
Before this fix, IPv6 addresses would not be parsed correctly after evaluating host/hosts for placeholders.

/cc @cahartma
/assign @jcantrill

Links

• JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/LOG-4811

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[jcantrill]

You will also need something like this:

logging-fluentd/fluentd/Dockerfile

Line 32 in ac9ccdc

mv /usr/share/gems/fluent-plugin-detect-exceptions.source0001.patch /usr/share/gems/gems/fluent-plugin-detect-exceptions-*/ && \

[Clee2691]

/retest

[jcantrill]

/approve

@Clee2691 once merged please make sure to also do a midstream PR to address the dockerfile change

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[jcantrill]

/lgtm