If you are using Docker with Nginx as a Configuration Management System, learn how to use logrotate to prevent the log files from growing out of contr

How to Use Logrotate with Nginx in Docker

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If you are using Docker with Nginx as a Configuration Management System, learn how to use logrotate to prevent the log files from growing out of control.

Let’s turn on the Geek Mode for this article, and have a quick look at the summary on how to logrotate logs with Nginx running under a Docker container.

- Using Docker containers in clusters such as Kubernetes. - Using Docker containers as Configuration Management Systems, to achieve infrastructure-as-code in a host.

The following scenario fits when you are using Docker as Configuration Management Systems. It does not suit if you are using Docker in clusters like kubernetes.

The goal is to automate the configuration of a web server which runs Nginx. You decide, as part of the automation strategy, to use Docker containers for some services in the host.

You have Nginx running with docker . There are many ways to achieve this goal. Let’s suppose that we have a Dockerfile such as the following:

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