&gt; I feel like logrotate, cron, etc, are worth having inside container no?<p>It depends.  If you are treating the container as a mini virtual system, then sure.<p>There is no need for logrotate if you are writing logs to stdout and letting the container system handle shipping then somewhere.<p>There&#x27;s no need for cron in the container if you have a separate system for running scheduled tasks - somehing like Chronos.