Christopher Dancy

@stevehipwell @patrick-stephens @aydosman for us, and has been mentioned and documented elsewhere (though not officially in fluent-bit docs), the problem seems to come from the fact that _dynamic configuration files_...

This is still an open issue for us. Hot reload **does not work** with glob paths in the fluent-bit config. We have an operator we run off to the side...

Apologies for the late response as I've been out on vacation... > When you say dynamic paths do you mean paths with file globs? @pwhelan exactly. Updated title of issue...

@stevehipwell is there anything we can do on our end? When we do a rolling restart with our changes applied everything works as expected with the new configs, and config...

@stevehipwell depends on what you mean by a "running containter". We've been using this model in _production_ for over a year now: to get things to stick we effectively do...

@stevehipwell oh yes I can absolutely confirm that: just not sure how to get around it or even if it’s possible.

@stevehipwell how did you test things? Did you use glob patterns like I did and then add another unique file to the config map? Any other config you applied? What...

@stevehipwell I can confirm issue does indeed exist in our environment even with latest-and-greatest. We're not relying on the "configmap reloader" sidecar but instead relying on fluentbit to reload itself...

> As I mentioned above, if you're manually hitting the HTTP endpoint @stevehipwell this is exactly what we're doing. I know you mentioned that it sometimes takes up to a...

> I didn't say half an hour, I said I'd seen a 30s delay between the API server accepting the modification to the ConfigMap and it propagating to the pod....