Learn the right way to build your Dockerfile. You learned about Docker. It's awesome and you're excited. You go and create a Dockerfile. Cool, it seems to work. Pretty easy, right? Not so fast. You just built a container which contains a minimal operating system, and which only runs your app. But the operating system inside the container is not configured correctly. A proper Unix system should run all kinds of important system services. You're not running them, you're only running your app. When your Docker container starts, only the CMD command is run. The only processes that will be running inside the container is the CMD command, and all processes that it spawns. That's why all kinds of important system services are not run automatically, you have to run them yourself. Solving all the aforementioned problems is a huge pain. I'm sure you have better things to do than to worry about them. That's where baseimage-docker jumps in.
Features
- Modifications for Docker-friendliness
- Administration tools that are especially useful in the context of Docker
- Mechanisms for easily running multiple processes, without violating the Docker philosophy
- You can use it as a base for your own Docker images
- It reduces the time needed to write a correct Dockerfile
- It reduces download time during redeploys
Project Samples
