docker-debian-minit

Base docker image based on Debian Jessie.

This is a minimal Debian image used on my other images based on Debian.

Installation

Simply pull the image from docker hub:

docker pull emarcs/debian-minit

The PID 1 zombie reaper problem

This image uses minit for solving the PID 1 problem on Debian.

For more informations about this problem check the Docker and the PID 1 zombie reaping article for more details.

Using minit

This image doesn't use baseimage-docker for solving the PID 1 problem. I consider baseimage-docker to be immensely useful but sometime a little too much for simpler images like this one.

So I adopted a minimal solution called minit, more informations about minit can be found on this article: Multiple processes inside Docker.

Fixing the apt-get warnings

While installing some packages apt-get was showing warning messages during configuration of the packages, installing apt-utils seems to fix this problem. Found out about this on this docker image.