How does one use Apache in a Docker Container and write nothing to disk (all logs to STDIO / STDERR)?

Question

I\'m running Apache2 in a docker container and want to write nothing to the disk, writing logs to stdout and stderr. I\'ve seen a few different ways to do this (Supervisord and

Answer 1

You could try using the dockerize tool. With that you could wrap the httpd-foreground command and redirect its log files to stdout/stderr (don't know exactly the httpd log file paths, simply adjust them to your needs):

CMD ["dockerize", "-stdout", "/var/log/httpd.log", "-stderr", "/var/log/httpd.err", "httpd-foreground"]

In addition to that you could grab that containers stdout/stderr then by specifying a syslog log driver and redirect them to the /var/log/syslog log file on the docker host:

docker run -d --log-driver=syslog ...