Storing Docker logs in CloudWatch

So you have your EC2 Instance running docker containers. You’re probably using soon-to-be-deprecated docker-compose or not-so-old docker stack as container orchestration software (I know there are better solutions).

In this article I’ll show you what you need to do to store Docker container logs in AWS Cloud Watch Logs service.

Why?

If your software is running couple containers for days and those containers output something from time to time soon you’ll face those problems:

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