[operator] ao-logs going to go away - find replacement

[jmazzitelli]

the ansible operator uses the ao-logs script to log the ansible messages in the ansible container.

However, when you start the operator now, the first line that spits out is:

WARN: This script is deprecated and will soon be removed
Setting up watches.  Beware: since -r was given, this may take a while!
Watches established.

So we need to find out what the alternative is and switch to that.

[jmazzitelli]

from slack:

Task stdout is printed to the operator log now, and if you
set the ANSIBLE_DEBUG_LOGS environment variable
on your operator deployment it will print out the full
output at the end of the run as well

See: https://github.com/operator-framework/operator-sdk/blob/master/doc/ansible/dev/developer_guide.md#viewing-the-ansible-logs

[jmazzitelli]

The way the ansible operator base image logs its output changed. See:

operator-framework/operator-sdk#2321 (went in 0.14.0)
operator-framework/operator-sdk#2580 (went in 0.16.0)
operator-framework/operator-sdk#2589 (went in 0.16.0)

This is because the ao-logs are not available in RHEL8/UBI8 - see operator-framework/operator-sdk#2007

The ao-logs script is still available in 0.16.0 but we don't need it with the way 0.16.0 outputs the ansible logs now. The currently productized ansible base images are well-behind 0.16.0, though. We can move ahead with the implementation of this in the community builds, but not for the productized builds because we need 0.16.0 in order to replace the log output we lose when not using ao-logs.

As of this writing:
The latest openshift-ose-ansible-operator:v4.2.x is based on 0.10.0.
The latest openshift-ose-ansible-operator:v4.3.x is based on 0.12.0 (registry-proxy.engineering.redhat.com/rh-osbs/openshift-ose-ansible-operator:v4.3.10-202003311428)

[jmazzitelli]

PR #2644 is ready but we will need a second PR that removes the ao-logs container from the kiali-ossm metadata - this can only happen when a productized version of the ansible base image is up to at least 0.16.0.

[jmazzitelli]

Re-opening because we need to do something similar for kiali-ossm metadata.

[jmazzitelli]

The latest 4.4 also is not at the version we need as of right now. See:

$ docker run --rm -i -t registry-proxy.engineering.redhat.com/rh-osbs/openshift-ose-ansible-operator:v4.4.0-202004261927
...
{"level":"info","ts":1589532571.8891735,"logger":"cmd","msg":"Version of operator-sdk: v0.12.0+git"}

[jmazzitelli]

Base image 4.5 is now at 0.16.0 which provides the alternative to the ao-logs. We can implement this now.