Update Stackdriver agent to latest version

[ocervell]

I really like the concept in order to install Stackdriver agent in a container, but it seems this is installing an older version of the agent.
Maybe we can modify the Dockerfile with updated install instructions available on the public docs ? https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/agent/install-agent#linux-install

[dijitali]

This was attempted in this StackOverflow post but doesn't seem to be straightforward:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52123754/stackdriver-agent-in-docker-container

Trying a docker build using a similar dockerfile (slight RUN syntax correction) of:

FROM ubuntu:16.04

USER root

ADD . /

ENV GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="/etc/google/auth/application_default_credentials.json"

RUN apt-get update && apt-get -y --no-install-recommends install wget curl python-minimal ca-certificates lsb-release libidn11 openssl \
 && curl -sSO https://dl.google.com/cloudagents/install-logging-agent.sh \
 && bash install-logging-agent.sh

Gives the below error. I've also tried using FROM debian:jessie (which is the OS I need) and get a similar result:

...
Unpacking google-fluentd (1.6.1-1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package google-fluentd-catch-all-config.
Preparing to unpack .../google-fluentd-catch-all-config_0.7_all.deb ...
Unpacking google-fluentd-catch-all-config (0.7) ...
Setting up google-fluentd (1.6.1-1) ...
Adding system user `google-fluentd' (UID 105) ...
Adding new group `google-fluentd' (GID 106) ...
Adding new user `google-fluentd' (UID 105) with group `google-fluentd' ...
Not creating home directory `/home/google-fluentd'.
Installing default conffile /etc/google-fluentd/google-fluentd.conf ...
invoke-rc.d: could not determine current runlevel
invoke-rc.d: policy-rc.d denied execution of start.
Setting up google-fluentd-catch-all-config (0.7) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu10) ...
Restarting google-fluentd:  * google-fluentd

==============================================================================
Errors occurred while installing google-fluentd-1.6.1-1. See the log snippet
above or run:
  sudo service google-fluentd status
==============================================================================
The command '/bin/sh -c apt-get update && apt-get -y --no-install-recommends install wget curl python-minimal ca-certificates lsb-release libidn11 openssl  && curl -sSO https://dl.google.com/cloudagents/install-logging-agent.sh  && bash install-logging-agent.sh' returned a non-zero code: 1

[JanMikes]

Hello! Were you able to update and if so, how to?

It scares me that issue is here opened for over year with no response.

We have run into some issues (#5) which might be solved by updating stackdriver-agent according to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47787952/dockerized-stackdriver-agent-payloaderrors-in-logs/47916514#47916514

[dijitali]

Hi @JanMikes, I'm afraid I wasn't able to get this working and I can't actually recall the specific use case I had that required this.

It looks like this repo is not currently maintained so I'd suggest you might get better support directly from Google by raising a case.