Audit AMQP Rule Engine Plugin

• Modernization
  • Refactored to use nlohmann-json instead of jannson
  • Refactored to use qpid-proton's C++ API
  • Migrated to new logging framework
  • Miscellaneous other modernization
• Housekeeping
  • Repository reorganized and code reformatted
  • RPM package installation less fussy
  • Removed unused amqp_options configuration setting
  • Miscellaneous other housekeeping
• Removed JSON wrapper tokens
• Fixed JSON types for some fields
• More AMQP message metadata set
• Better handling of default configuration

Audit AMQP Rule Engine Plugin - ELK Stack

• Modernization
  • New Dockerfile syntax
  • Updated entire software stack
    • Container base image
    • Elasticsearch, Kibana, RabbitMQ
    • Temurin JDK
• Housekeeping
  • Reduced number and size of intermediate container images
  • Excluded more unneeded files from container image
• Updated for use with new version of the rule engine plugin
  • Workarounds for use with older/current versions of the plugin are togglable
• Replaced logstash with a Python daemon using qpid-proton's Python API
• Moved as much setup as possible to container build-time
• Added argument for specifying Java heap size

Python Rule Engine Plugin

• Repository reorganized and code reformatted
• Build-time memory usage reduced significantly
• Parallelized build time reduced by an order of magnitude
• Fixed package dependency declarations - no more pulling in unneeded development packages
• Miscellaneous housekeeping

Build and Packaging

We continue to move towards a more Normal and Boring approach to build and packaging.

• clang-tidy brings us closer to building against libstdc++.
• Work has begun on unprivileged build and packaging in development environment containers.

As work towards this goal continues, there will be significant changes to the pre-build configuration process. We plan to use CMake presets to smooth the transition.

We still do not have a time-table. See my talk at UGM 2022 for more details on our plans.