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+{{/* vim: set filetype=mustache: */}}
+{{/*
+Copyright 2018-present Open Networking Foundation
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+*/}}
+{{/*
+Expand the name of the chart.
+*/}}
+{{- define "onos.name" -}}
+{{- default .Chart.Name .Values.nameOverride | trunc 63 | trimSuffix "-" -}}
+{{- end -}}
+
+{{/*
+Create a default fully qualified app name.
+We truncate at 63 chars because some Kubernetes name fields are limited to this (by the DNS naming spec).
+If release name contains chart name it will be used as a full name.
+*/}}
+{{- define "onos.fullname" -}}
+{{- if .Values.fullnameOverride -}}
+{{- .Values.fullnameOverride | trunc 63 | trimSuffix "-" -}}
+{{- else -}}
+{{- $name := default .Chart.Name .Values.nameOverride -}}
+{{- if contains $name .Release.Name -}}
+{{- .Release.Name | trunc 63 | trimSuffix "-" -}}
+{{- else -}}
+{{- printf "%s-%s" .Release.Name $name | trunc 63 | trimSuffix "-" -}}
+{{- end -}}
+{{- end -}}
+{{- end -}}
+
+{{/*
+Create chart name and version as used by the chart label.
+*/}}
+{{- define "onos.chart" -}}
+{{- printf "%s-%s" .Chart.Name .Chart.Version | replace "+" "_" | trunc 63 | trimSuffix "-" -}}
+{{- end -}}
+
+{{- define "onos.logCfg" -}}
+################################################################################
+#
+#    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+#    contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+#    this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+#    The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+#    (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+#    the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+#    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+#    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+#    limitations under the License.
+#
+################################################################################
+
+# Root logger
+log4j.rootLogger=INFO, out, json, osgi:*, stdout
+log4j.throwableRenderer=org.apache.log4j.OsgiThrowableRenderer
+
+# CONSOLE appender not used by default
+log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
+log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} | %-5.5p | %-16.16t | %-32.32c{1} | %X{bundle.id} - %X{bundle.name} - %X{bundle.version} | %m%n
+
+# File appender
+log4j.appender.out=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
+log4j.appender.out.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+log4j.appender.out.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} | %-5.5p | %-16.16t | %-32.32c{1} | %X{bundle.id} - %X{bundle.name} - %X{bundle.version} | %m%n
+log4j.appender.out.file=${karaf.data}/log/karaf.log
+log4j.appender.out.append=true
+log4j.appender.out.maxFileSize=10MB
+log4j.appender.out.maxBackupIndex=10
+
+# JSON-ish appender (doesn't handle quotes in fields correctly)
+# docs: https://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/apidocs/org/apache/log4j/PatternLayout.html
+log4j.appender.json=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
+log4j.appender.json.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+log4j.appender.json.layout.ConversionPattern={"@timestamp":"%d{yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'}","levelname":"%p","threadName":"%t","category":"%c{1}","bundle.id":"%X{bundle.id}","bundle.name":"%X{bundle.name}","bundle.version":"%X{bundle.version}","message":"%m"}%n
+log4j.appender.json.file=${karaf.data}/log/karaf_json.log
+log4j.appender.json.append=true
+log4j.appender.json.maxFileSize=10MB
+log4j.appender.json.maxBackupIndex=10
+
+# Sift appender - one logfile per bundle ID
+log4j.appender.sift=org.apache.log4j.sift.MDCSiftingAppender
+log4j.appender.sift.key=bundle.name
+log4j.appender.sift.default=karaf
+log4j.appender.sift.appender=org.apache.log4j.FileAppender
+log4j.appender.sift.appender.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+log4j.appender.sift.appender.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} | %-5.5p | %-16.16t | %-32.32c{1} | %m%n
+log4j.appender.sift.appender.file=${karaf.data}/log/$\\{bundle.name\\}.log
+log4j.appender.sift.appender.append=true
+
+# Application logs
+{{ .Values.application_logs }}
+
+{{- end -}}
+