Fail2ban Docker

The docker container include two customize jail normal-request and apache-bench. When condition was established, The Fail2ban will execute aws-acl-action to ban/unban ip with AWC command.

How to use

# Run 'nginx' container and expose '/var/log/nginx'
docker run -d -p 80:80 --name nginx -v /tmp/log/nginx:/var/log/nginx    

# Run `fail2ban` container with required environments and link `nginx`
docker run -d --link nginx --env AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<access_key> --env AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<secret_key> --env ACL_ID=<acl_id> --volumes-from nginx --name=fail2ban shopline/fail2ban    

Where are the logs saved

fail2ban log with STDOUT. So we can setup docker log driver to collect logs.