diff --git a/bindep.txt b/bindep.txt
index e2b047351c..d18f11f7ae 100644
--- a/bindep.txt
+++ b/bindep.txt
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
 # will fall back to installing its default packages which
 # will potentially be detrimental to the tests executed.
 
+# Required for compressing collected log files in CI
+gzip
+
 # Requirements for Paramiko 2.0
 libssl-dev        [platform:dpkg]
 libffi-dev        [platform:dpkg]
diff --git a/scripts/scripts-library.sh b/scripts/scripts-library.sh
index 77f6538a5b..35923025f2 100755
--- a/scripts/scripts-library.sh
+++ b/scripts/scripts-library.sh
@@ -137,8 +137,16 @@ function gate_job_exit_tasks {
   if [[ -d "/etc/nodepool" ]];then
     GATE_LOG_DIR="$(dirname "${0}")/../logs"
     mkdir -p "${GATE_LOG_DIR}/host" "${GATE_LOG_DIR}/openstack"
-    rsync -av --ignore-errors /var/log/ "${GATE_LOG_DIR}/host" || true
-    rsync -av --ignore-errors /openstack/log/ "${GATE_LOG_DIR}/openstack" || true
+    rsync --archive --verbose --safe-links --ignore-errors /var/log/ "${GATE_LOG_DIR}/host" || true
+    rsync --archive --verbose --safe-links --ignore-errors /openstack/log/ "${GATE_LOG_DIR}/openstack" || true
+    # Rename all files gathered to have a .txt suffix so that the compressed
+    # files are viewable via a web browser in OpenStack-CI.
+    find "${GATE_LOG_DIR}/" -type f -exec mv {} {}.txt \;
+    # Compress the files gathered so that they do not take up too much space.
+    # We use 'command' to ensure that we're not executing with some sort of alias.
+    command gzip --best --recursive "${GATE_LOG_DIR}/"
+    # Ensure that the files are readable by all users, including the non-root
+    # OpenStack-CI jenkins user.
     chmod -R 0777 "${GATE_LOG_DIR}"
   fi
 }