just-containers/s6-overlay
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s6 overlay for containers (includes execline, s6-linux-utils & a custom init)
16 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 3 stories, 13 comments · first 2015-08-27 · latest 2025-08-25
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…but don't know much about them: https://smarden.org/runit/ https://github.com/nicolas-van/multirun https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay
comment by bityard · 2025-08-25 · in Nitro: A tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor -
…especially in a production environment. A better, actively-maintained alternative, is S6-overlay: https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay
comment by d3Xt3r · 2025-04-20 · in Tini: A tiny but valid `init` for containers -
This is well thought-out and quite well documented: https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay There's a huge community https://www.linuxserver.io/ for people building "home server" containers that all use the s6-overlay, hundreds of…
comment by jitl · 2024-09-16 · in S6 – Skarnet's small supervision suite -
This has worked pretty well for me both for service control and pre-execution environment setup : https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay There is also good old supervisord, but I haven't personally used it in containers yet.…
comment by nalbyuites · 2024-06-30 · in Show HN: I am building an open-source Confluence and Notion alternative -
…or a database instead? To me, that seems much more container-compatible. However, have a look at https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay – I think it can do what you want.
comment by cpach · 2024-02-29 · in Is it possible to run related microservices on a single kata container -
…small pieces of lego that compose well instead of one big chunk of glib/dbus/glibc only c-code. 1: https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay
comment by nisa · 2022-08-04 · in Alpine Linux is reducing dependencies on Busybox -
…no reason to go to extremes where it doesn't make sense. S6-overlay people lay it out pretty neat https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay#the-docker-way
comment by folex · 2021-07-30 · in Documenting our migration to Docker -
…scripts?" This is managed through kubernetes. You can restart servers and make deployments. [0]: https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay#features
comment by andrewzah · 2021-03-16 · in We Don’t Use Docker -
…see the benefit of systemd over i.e. s6 or runit, but that is tangential to this discussion. [0]: https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay
comment by andrewzah · 2021-03-16 · in We Don’t Use Docker -
s6-overlay [1] is also a popular choice for Alpine-based containers. [1] https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay
comment by Gigablah · 2019-03-13 · in Rebuilding My Personal Infrastructure With Alpine Linux and Docker -
…tps://github.com/DanielDent/docker-powerdns For situations involving multiple processes, there's also https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay Example use: https://github.com/DanielDent/docker-nginx-ssl-proxy (automated Let's Encrypt…
comment by DanielDent · 2016-01-07 · in Introducing dumb-init, an init system for Docker containers -
s6 and s6-overlay were also created with the same goal: https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay I use it in my Alpine containers.
comment by Gigablah · 2016-01-06 · in Introducing dumb-init, an init system for Docker containers -
My favourite is Alpine Linux with s6-overlay: https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay
comment by Gigablah · 2015-12-06 · in The Curious Case of Linux Containers