Oskar Okuno's Blog

Caddy in Docker with Local Time

21/11/2022

When you want to log in your time zone

Caddy does not ship tzdata

Apparently Caddy does not read the TZ enviornment variable. See: https://caddy.community/t/set-timezone-for-caddy-2-official-docker-image/8622

In order to get logs in local time you need to build your own image. I started building my own Dockerfile in the blog post: Caddy in Docker with common_log. This is what we need to add in order for TZ env var to work:

RUN apk add --no-cache tzdata

Which makes the full Dockerfile:

ARG VERSION=2.6.2

FROM caddy:${VERSION}-builder AS builder

RUN xcaddy build \
  --with github.com/caddyserver/transform-encoder

FROM caddy:${VERSION}

RUN apk add --no-cache tzdata # <-- ADD THIS

COPY --from=builder /usr/bin/caddy /usr/bin/caddy

Forking and modifying transform-encoder

Section spoiler: This was a dead end :)

I forked the transform-encoder repo and hardcoded TimeLocal = True. I think it was a fun exercise to write some Go which I don't do so often. I could successfully make the change and then tried to build a new caddy image. However, I ran into an error:

module declares its path as: github.com/caddyserver/transform-encoder
        but was required as: github.com/MrOggy85/transform-encoder

In order to replace the module with your fork you need to write your Dockerfile using = like this:

RUN xcaddy build \
  --with github.com/caddyserver/transform-encoder=github.com/MrOggy85/transform-encoder@master

I was finally able to build a new caddy image, ran it, but no change... Back to Whoogle and I finally found out what I statated in the beginning of this post, that you just need to add/install tzdata.

tl;dr

Here is the image if you want to use it right away:

docker pull mroggy85/caddy:2.6.2

See my Docker Hub Page: https://hub.docker.com/r/mroggy85/caddy