How to Send Kubernetes Logs to AWS CloudWatch?

Question

AWS CloudWatch Logs in Docker

Setting an AWS CloudWatch Logs driver in docker is done with log-driver=awslogs and log-opt, f

Answer 1

Sliverfox has a great answer. You don't have to build your own image. Could also directly use fluentd official docker image, fluent/fluentd-kubernetes-daemonset:cloudwatch. The code is on fluentd-kubernetes-daemonset github.

You could replace the default fluent.conf with the configmap. Like below in the ds.yaml, and write your own fluent.conf in configmap.yaml. For the complete yaml files, you could refer to the example ds.yaml and configmap.yaml that we wrote.

    volumeMounts:
    - name: varlog
      mountPath: /var/log
    - name: varlibdockercontainers
      mountPath: /var/lib/docker/containers
      readOnly: true
    - name: config-volume
      mountPath: /fluentd/etc/
  volumes:
  - name: varlog
    hostPath:
      path: /var/log
  - name: varlibdockercontainers
    hostPath:
      path: /var/lib/docker/containers
  - name: config-volume
    configMap:
      name: fluentd-cw-config