Exercise 5.3: Cannot get example for fluentd working as described

Hi,
I followed the labs and the example to get fluentd forwarding the nginx logs would not work. The issue appeared to be with forwarding to the container's localhost.

There were a few of issues:
1. Fluentd does not appear to read the environment variable FLUENTD_ARGS so I had to overwrite the default path /fluentd/etc
2. The fluent.conf file match would not forward to localhost so I had to change it to stdout.
3. There is a mistake in the lab. The correct path for weblog-pv-storage should be /var/log/nginx, not /var/log.

Below is what I ended up with to get it going. Can you please help me understand why #1 and #2 didn't work as expected?

apiVersion: v1
kind: List
items:
- apiVersion: v1
  kind: PersistentVolume
  metadata:
    name: weblog-pv
    labels:
      type: local
  spec:
    storageClassName: manual
    accessModes: 
    - ReadWriteOnce
    hostPath:
      path: /tmp/weblog
      type: DirectoryOrCreate
    capacity: 
      storage: 500Mi

- apiVersion: v1
  kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
  metadata:
    name: weblog-pvc
  spec:
    storageClassName: manual
    accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
    resources:
      requests:
        storage: 200Mi

- apiVersion: v1
  kind: ConfigMap
  metadata:
    name: fluentd-config
  data:
    fluent.conf: |
      <source>
        @type tail
        format none
        path /var/log/nginx/access.log
        tag count.format1
      </source>
      <match *.**>
        @type stdout
      </match>

- apiVersion: v1
  kind: Pod
  metadata:
    name: sidecar-example
    labels:
      app: webserver
  spec:
    containers:
    - name: nginx
      image: nginx:latest
      ports: 
      - containerPort: 80
      volumeMounts:
      - name: logging-vol
        mountPath: /var/log/nginx
    - name: fdlogger
      env:
        - name: FLUENTD_ARGS
          value: -c /etc/fluentd-config/fluent.conf
      image: fluent/fluentd
      volumeMounts:
      - name: logging-vol
        mountPath: /var/log/nginx
      - name: log-config
        # mountPath: /etc/fluentd-config
        mountPath: /fluentd/etc
    volumes:
      - name: logging-vol
        persistentVolumeClaim: 
          claimName: weblog-pvc
      - name: log-config
        configMap:
          name: fluentd-config

- apiVersion: v1
  kind: Service
  metadata:
    name: sidecar-svc
  spec:
    selector:
      app:  webserver
    type: NodePort
    ports:
    - name:  sidecar-port
      port:  80
      nodePort:  32000