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A minimal Ubuntu base image modified for Docker-friendliness

26 mentions on Hacker News by 18 people: 4 stories, 22 comments · first 2013-12-11 · latest 2022-07-18

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  1. …scripts for startup and shutdown for each service, hence the wish for Systemd inside containers. 1: https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker
    comment by zodiakzz · 2022-01-08 · in Systemd, 10 years later (2020)
  2. I'm suddenly reminded of this base image: https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker
    comment by KoenDG · 2021-02-06 · in Killing Containers at Scale
  3. …downgraded to a laptop with 8GB RAM so decided to look into Docker. I found this repos very helpful https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker I also use some bash scripts to setup local equivalents of the AWS (services I use) in Docker…
    comment by mozey · 2020-05-12 · in Docker in a Day: Beginner to Advanced with Hands-On Examples
  4. …solves the process reaping problem. The only base image suitable for production I found so far is: https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker
    comment by eddd · 2018-02-27 · in How to Write Dockerfiles for Python Web Apps
  5. …i'm a baseimage maintainer ( http://github.com/phusion/baseimage ) and I don't think that's true... https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker/blob/master/imag...
    comment by yebyen · 2017-09-20 · in Minideb – A small image based on Debian designed for use in containers
  6. …Shipyard project [2] as Docker Gui Docker also support containerized X11 desktop apps [3]. [0] https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker [1] https://kitematic.com/ [2] http://shipyard-project.com/walkthrough/ [3]…
    comment by nwrk · 2016-05-14 · in Ask HN: Is there an container based alternative to virtualbox/vmware player?
  7. …is written in python[0] - a C-based solution allows for lighter-weight containers [0]: https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker/blob/master/imag...
    comment by predakanga · 2016-01-07 · in Introducing dumb-init, an init system for Docker containers
  8. …dumb-init and add it easily to any linux container I want -- including things such as Alpine[1] [0] https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker/blob/master/imag... [1] https://github.com/gliderlabs/docker-alpine
    comment by stephen-mw · 2016-01-06 · in Introducing dumb-init, an init system for Docker containers
  9. …from now? - Does it handle all of the special corner cases that Docker causes? That's why I use https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker
    comment by kstenerud · 2015-12-23 · in Super small Docker image based on Alpine Linux
  10. …it hits a real sweet spot: lightweight and easy to use within a limited scope of processes. [0] https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker
    comment by stephen-mw · 2015-08-14 · in Runit – a Unix init scheme with service supervision
  11. …stack because it also requires cron or a few other processes. Ain't nobody got time for that. 0: https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker
    comment by stephen-mw · 2015-05-08 · in A Quick Introduction to LXD
  12. …where malicious software can be added in, and the potential container breakout techniques. [1] https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker
    comment by tobz · 2015-04-22 · in The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers
  13. …not always or even usually needed. I know the phusion/baseimage argues against excessive isolation: https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker#docker_single_pr...
    comment by jgrowl · 2014-08-27 · in Dockersh – a shell that puts users into individual docker containers
  14. …is an ongoing discussion about replacing SSH with nsenter now that nsenter is a viable alternative: https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker/issues/102 SSH was purely chosen because until recently there wasn't a better alternative.…
    comment by FooBarWidget · 2014-06-27 · in Docker containers should not run an SSH server
  15. …know what the Docker team are working on, but this is the PID 1 process we use in Baseimage-docker: https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker/blob/master/imag... It's a custom system we wrote specifically for use inside Docker.
    comment by FooBarWidget · 2014-06-26 · in Docker containers should not run an SSH server
  16. …an ongoing discussion on the baseimage-docker bug tracker about replacing SSH with nsenter: https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker/issues/102 But leaving all of that aside, we regularly get told by people that Baseimage-docker "misses…
    comment by FooBarWidget · 2014-06-26 · in Docker containers should not run an SSH server
  17. …all the time, especially since I tend to group services together (nginx+php-fpm, for example). https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker
    comment by fideloper · 2014-06-10 · in Docker Misconceptions
  18. …login' or 'docker shell' command for spawning a shell within the container. In baseimage-docker ( https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker ), we run an SSH daemon so that people can login to the container for administrative purposes. In…
    comment by FooBarWidget · 2014-06-09 · in Docker 1.0
  19. …create the excellent Passenger web server) have created some great assets for Vagrant and Docker: https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker https://github.com/phusion/passenger-docker (built on the baseimage above)…
    comment by mattjaynes · 2014-04-30 · in Vagrant Feature Preview: Docker-Based Development Environments
  20. …more with the single app (including dependencies) model (which fig also seems to attempt to solve). https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker https://github.com/phusion/passenger-docker
    comment by aidos · 2014-01-27 · in Fig: Fast, isolated development environments using Docker
  21. …the container to really work correctly as a proper Unix system should. That is why we have created https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker , and we base all our Docker containers on that. The Github page that I linked to explains the…
    comment by FooBarWidget · 2014-01-09 · in Docker at Spotify
  22. …wrong . It will not enable many kinds of important system services, such as syslog. Take a look at https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker for a full explanation. This is also the reason why I wrote baseimage-docker: to make it easy…
    comment by FooBarWidget · 2013-12-11 · in Docker will change everything