Docker container logs taking all my disk space

Question

I am running a container on a VM. My container is writing logs by default to /var/lib/docker/containers/CONTAINER_ID/CONTAINER_ID-json.log file until the disk is full.

Answer 1

CAUTION: This is for docker-compose version 2 only

Example:

version: '2'
services:
  db:
    container_name: db
    image: mysql:5.7
    ports:
      - 3306:3306
    logging:
      options:
        max-size: 50m