isabella232 / alpine-fluentd

FluentD image based on the official alpine based image - root not required

Fluentd docker image

This container image is to create endpoint to collect logs on your host.

Default configurations are to:

• listen port 24224 for Fluentd forward protocol
• store logs with tag docker.** into /fluentd/log/docker.*.log (and symlink docker.log)
• store all other logs into /fluentd/log/data.*.log (and symlink data.log)

Configurable ENV variables

Environment variable below are configurable to control how to execute fluentd process:

FLUENTD_CONF

It's for configuration file name, specified for -c.

If you want to use your own configuration file (without any optional plugins), you can use it over this ENV variable and -v option.

1. write configuration file with filename yours.conf
2. execute docker run with -v /path/to/dir:/fluentd/etc to share /path/to/dir/yours.conf in container, and -e FLUENTD_CONF=yours.conf to read it

FLUENTD_OPT

Use this variable to specify other options, like -v or -q.

References

Docker Logging | fluentd.org

Fluentd logging driver - Docker Docs