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Is there a way to increase the log size in docker when building a container?

In the output when building, I am getting this message:

[output clipped, log limit 1MiB reached]

from the command

docker build --progress plain .

The current workaround I have is to pipe larger sections of the RUN command in the dockerfile to /dev/null i.e.

RUN \
 echo "**** install packages ****" && \
 apt-get update && \
 apt-get install -y libcairo2-dev libjpeg-turbo8-dev libpng-dev libtool-bin libossp-uuid-dev wget maven default-jdk > /dev/null
Solution

  • With the key link provided by @Luke Deluccia, this is what worked for me.

    docker buildx create --use --name larger_log --driver-opt env.BUILDKIT_STEP_LOG_MAX_SIZE=50000000
docker buildx build --progress plain .

    This creates a buildx instance, and sets buildx to use the instance when building. This did not clip the logs during the build process.