Adding a memcached instance when running logstash tests

Author: Chris Wiechmann

.env

@@ -49,6 +49,15 @@ API_MANAGER_PASSWORD=changeme
 # parameter.
 LOGSTASH=logstash:5044
 
+# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# With this parameter you tell the Logstash processing pipeline which memchached to use. It is 
+# used to cache the API-Details that has been looked up from the API-Manager via the API-Builder.
+# Even if the API-Builder is already caching the result, this improves ingest performance. 
+# The default parameter works when using the docker-compose.yml
+# Comment this parameter if you dont want to use memcached at all.
+MEMCACHED=memchached:11211
+
+
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # This is an optional parameter used by Filebeat to set a proper name. This allows for instance 
 # to identify the different Filebeat instances in the Kibana-Stack Monitoring dashboards. 

.github/workflows/logstash.yml

@@ -13,6 +13,12 @@ jobs:
           - 8080:8080
         env:
           MOCK_LOOKUP_API: true
+      memcached:
+        image: memcached:1.6.6-alpine
+        ports: 
+          - 11211:11211
+        env:
+          MOCK_LOOKUP_API: true
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v2