puzzle/docker-logrotate repository overview

⁠Usage

This is a logrotate container for use as a sidecar container.

Mount your volumes and logrotate configuration into the container and you're good to go!

⁠Configuration

⁠state file location

The logrotate state file should live on a persistent volume so logs are still correctly rotated in case the container is restarted.

Set the environment variable STATE_FILE to change the state file path. Defaults to /opt/logs/logrotate.status.

⁠logrotate.conf

Mount your logrotate.conf at /opt/etc/logrotate.conf.

Example logrotate.conf (remember to adjust STATE_FILE accordingly if you choose to mount the logs otherwhere than to /opt/logs):

# see "man logrotate" for details
# rotate log files daily
daily

# keep 60 days worth of backlogs
rotate 4

# create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
create

# use date as a suffix of the rotated file
dateext

# uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
compress

# your log file, mounted into the container
/opt/logs/*.log {}