Fluentd, the CNCF graduated project, starts a new chapter as the OSS project. Fluentd community released the new package fluent-package as the successor of td-agent and started providing a new release cycle to fit better with needs. This talk is going to share the latest news of Fluentd, including its updates, package, rebranding and so on, with people who are using Fluentd or struggling to manage their logs. Fluentd is an open source data collector that unifies data collection and consumption. Because of its flexible plugin system and scalability, Fluentd is adopted in various systems and has become a de facto standard, especially for scale logging in distributed systems. In the new release cycle, the package applies only bug fixes and security fixes of Fluentd over a long term, about two years. We are confident that this will meet the demands of users who want to use Fluentd stably over the long term. In this session, we will talk about (a) the history of Fluentd v1 and td-agent v4, (b) why Fluentd community decided to rebrand existing td-agent to fluent-package, (c) what the benefits and impacts of the new release cycle are, and (d) how to upgrade to fluent-package from td-agent.
Daijiro Fukuda is a software engineer at ClearCode Inc., which drives forward free software and making the business with it. As a Fluentd maintainer, he is deeply involved in developing Fluentd v1.15 and v1.16 series and fluent-package.
Kentaro Hayashi is a software engineer at ClearCode Inc., which drives forward free software and making the business with it. As a Fluentd maintainer, he led the fluent-package development and worked on release manager of LTS.
