bluedragonx/baseimage repository overview

⁠Docker Base Image

A slightly improved base image on top of Phusion's baseimage.

⁠What's Better?

We do these things on top of Phusion's baseimage:

• Add an app user and group to run services in.
• Set up sane logging and easily redirect that logging to a remote server.
• Rotate logs faster since logs are supposed to be shipped off.

⁠Building

It's as easy as:

git clone https://github.com/BlueDragonX/docker-baseimage.git
docker build --rm -t bluedragonx/baseimage docker-baseimage

⁠Running

By default the image logs to /var/log/messages. You may set the SYSLOG_REMOTE environment variable to "enable" to log messages to the host running Docker:

docker run -e SYSLOG_REMOTE=enable bluedragonx/baseimage

Alternatively you may specify a host and (optional) port number to log to:

docker run -e SYSLOG_REMOTE=log.example.net:514 bluedragonx/baseimage

If the port is omitted then the default port of 514 is used. If the host is omitted the default of 172.17.42.1 is used.

Local logging may be disabled through the use of the SYSLOG_LOCAL environment variable:

docker run -e SYSLOG_LOCAL=disable bluedragonx/baseimage

They can be combined to log remotely and not locally:

docker run -e SYSLOG_REMOTE=enable -e SYSLOG_LOCAL=disable bluedragonx/baseimage

⁠License

Copyright (c) 2014 Ryan Bourgeois. Licensed under BSD-Modified. See the LICENSE file for a copy of the license.