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Infrastructure as Code Cookbook
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Infrastructure as Code Cookbook

by Stephane Jourdan, Pierre Pomès
February 2017
Intermediate to advanced
440 pages
8h 45m
English
Packt Publishing
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Sending Docker logs to AWS CloudWatch logs

When we run dozens or hundreds of containers in production, hopefully on a clustered container platform, it soon becomes difficult and tedious to read, search, and process logs—just like it was before when containers with services ran on dozens or hundreds of physical or virtual servers. The problem is that traditional solutions don't work out of the box to handle Docker logs. Luckily, AWS has a nice and easy log-aggregating service, named AWS CloudWatch. Docker has a logging driver just for it. We'll send our Tomcat logs to it right away!

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need:

  • A working Docker installation
  • An AWS account

How to do it…

To use AWS CloudWatch Logs, we need at least one log ...

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ISBN: 9781786464910