Nice article.
I would like to stress that docker is intended to be process container not system container.
In adeal (aka. Fictional unicorn) containers you would have a single process. Your start.sh should exec (to replace the shell) the application ("exec node ." Or "exec java -jar start.jar")
Many applications does not fit such restrictions. People end up using things like supervisord (a python script that manage multiple processes ) but of course it won't work out of the box. One need to rewrite services into its .ini format.
We have seen many fake systemds that are not 100% compatible.
Having real systemd would make dockerizing such apps a trivial job.
I would love if real systemd that just work. that fail gracefully for example when it does not have cgroups mounted it would just ignore cgroups-related directives.
I wish if I just run
docker run -dt fedora-systemd
Without any -v
How far are we from this?
http://developers.redhat.com/blog/2016/09/13/running- systemd-in-a-non-privileged- container/