That might make the most sense.
RHEL7 == Base Image
RHEL7Systemd == BaseImage + Config to run systemd as pid1.
On 10/21/2016 12:26 PM, Daniel Riek wrote:
Question: should we separate a true minimal base image that as default run's a shell and the default iamge that runs systemd and behaves more like a linux system?
On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Clayton Coleman <ccoleman redhat com> wrote:
This seems like a breaking API change (as you note) for downstream
consumers. Seems more correct to create a new image for that.
> On Oct 21, 2016, at 11:50 AM, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh redhat com> wrote:
>
> If we make this change, we would want to do it in Fedora and Centos also.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1387282
>
> The benefits of making this change are that people new to containers
> could follow a simple workflow similar to what the do on the OS, where
> all they need to do is install an rpm service and enable and it is ready
> to go.
>
>
> # cat Dockerfile
>
> FROM rhel7
>
> RUN dnf -y install httpd; systemctl enabled httpd
>
> ADD MYAPP /
>
>
> # docker build -t MYAPP .
>
>
> And they are done. Now if they run their container
>
> docker run -d MYAPP
>
> And their app runs with systemd/journald and httpd with their app runnin
> inside of it.
>
>
> For users who don't want to use systemd, they would just override the
> CMD field and their container would work fine.
>
> Since the current default is bash, they would need to do this anyways.
>
>
> A couple of things will break,
>
> docker run -ti rhel7
>
> Currently runs a shell. With the new change, systemd would start up
> inside of the contaienr.
>
>
> Users who want a shell would need to execute
>
> docker run -ti rhel7 /bin/sh
>
> (I always do this anyways, but I guess some people do not)
>
>
> The other big issue is on stopping of containers. docker stop currently
> defaults to sending SIGTERM to the pid 1 of the container.
>
> systemd requires that SIGRTMIN+3 be sent to it to close down properly.
> If we want to have systemd work by default, we would
>
> need to change the default SIGSTOP of the base image. This means any
> application based on the base image that does not
>
> override the SIGSTOP would get SIGRTMIN+3. Most apps will die when they
> get this signal, but if the App had a signal handler for
>
> SIGTERM, the signal handler will not work correctly.
>
>
> Adding
>
> SIGSTOP SIGTERM
>
> to a Dockerfile would fix the issue, but it will cause unexpected
> breakage. I don't see an easy solution for this.
>
>
>
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