Dockerfile

FROM fluent/fluentd

# Installs github.com/awslabs/aws-fluent-plugin-kinesis
# Installs curl for container health check
#
# Other plugins which may be useful:
# For CloudWatch Logs support: github.com/fluent-plugins-nursery/fluent-plugin-cloudwatch-logs
# For multiline logging support: github.com/fluent-plugins-nursery/fluent-plugin-concat
# For parsing docker container log lines that are JSON: https://github.com/edsiper/fluent-plugin-docker

RUN apk add --update --virtual .build-deps \
        sudo build-base ruby-dev \
 && sudo gem install \
        fluent-plugin-kinesis \
 && sudo gem sources --clear-all \
 && apk add curl \
 && apk del .build-deps \
 && rm -rf /var/cache/apk/* \
           /home/fluent/.gem/ruby/2.4.0/cache/*.gem