Limit amount of output from docker when restarting container

'docker-compose restart server' seems to replay all the logs, which on my mac had reached 125M and it took quite a while to replay that much data to the terminal. Found on: docker/compose#1083 (comment) and documented here: https://docs.docker.com/config/containers/logging/json-file/#options
ewjay · Jul 28, 2018 · d7c6d0e · d7c6d0e
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diff --git a/docker-compose-dev.yml b/docker-compose-dev.yml
@@ -39,3 +39,9 @@ services:
      - microauth:microauth
     depends_on:
      - mongodb
+    logging:
+      # limit logs retained on host
+      driver: "json-file"
+      options:
+        max-size: "500k"
+        max-file: "5"
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -29,3 +29,9 @@ services:
      - microauth:microauth
     depends_on:
      - mongodb
+    logging:
+      # limit logs retained on host
+      driver: "json-file"
+      options:
+        max-size: "500k"
+        max-file: "5"