How to get the ColdFusion log form the Azure Container Instance?

Arun,

Follow the instructions of the following links and try to add symlinks.

https://serverfault.com/questions/599103/make-a-docker-application-write-to-stdout

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40263585/redirecting-apache-logs-to-stdout

Arun, there may be no simple answer here...or rather, there are different ones.

The bottom line is that in any use of the cf docker images (whether from ACI or otherwise), one will find that the cf logs are not exposed via "docker logs", "kubectl logs", etc. Those only expose the stdout stream, which is also what's in the coldfusion-out.log. But all the other logs in the cf logs folder are NOT exposed that way. 

And this is not unique to cf. Many apps when deployed as containers will not expose their logs inherently... and one reason is when, as in this case, it's not simply "one log" but many. And so a logging solution really needs to be prepared to accommodate that. 

So if one really WANTED to get access to such files in a logs folder, they could do it many ways, such as exposing them as a volume from within the container (an approach whose reliability depends to a degree on the platform).

Or some people setup symlinks in their dockerfile to route some log to stdout. 

Another approach is to use a sidecar container, which has access to the logs folder for the container in question, and that could then push the logs to a logging platform. 

As you can see, these are not unique to cf nor specific to it. And they vary depending on one's platform, as well as whether deploying to kubernetes. 

If you search for the generic topic of exposing log files from containers, you'll find many discussions and examples, any of which may suit your needs best. 

And of course, look to how ACI may provide specifically some solution..but that solution will know nothing of cf, so be prepared to work from examples that may be for any language/framework. 

Hope that helps, at least to give broad strokes. I saw this while on my phone and wanted to at least give you something to chew on. Perhaps someone will help with more specific examples.