S6-overlay Alternatives

s6-overlay reviews and mentions

• S6 Overlay for Containers
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Sep 2024
• S6 – skarnet's small supervision suite
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Sep 2024

  This one looks pretty well thought out: 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. So they have a lot of tutorials and a very busy Discord, Reddit, etc with all levels of experience from container developers to people who don't program and are just getting into Docker.

• Show HN: I am building an open-source Confluence and Notion alternative
  14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jun 2024

  This has worked pretty well for me both for service control and pre-execution environment setup

  https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay

• S6-overlay: one *thing* per Docker container
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jan 2024
• Backup Grafana SQLite with Litestream using s6-overlay in a container app
  4 projects | dev.to | 7 Oct 2023

  FROM docker.io/grafana/grafana-oss:9.5.12-ubuntu # Set USER to root escalating priviliges to perform installation of litestream and s6-overlay USER root RUN apt-get -qq update && \ apt-get -qq install -y xz-utils \ && rm -rf /var/libs/apt/lists/* # https://github.com/benbjohnson/litestream-s6-example/blob/main/Dockerfile # Download the static build of Litestream directly into the path & make it executable. ADD https://github.com/benbjohnson/litestream/releases/download/v0.3.11/litestream-v0.3.11-linux-amd64.tar.gz /tmp/litestream.tar.gz RUN tar -C / -xvzf /tmp/litestream.tar.gz ARG S6_OVERLAY_VERSION="3.1.5.0" # Download the s6-overlay for process supervision. ADD https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay/releases/download/v${S6_OVERLAY_VERSION}/s6-overlay-noarch.tar.xz /tmp RUN tar -C / -Jxpf /tmp/s6-overlay-noarch.tar.xz ADD https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay/releases/download/v${S6_OVERLAY_VERSION}/s6-overlay-x86_64.tar.xz /tmp RUN tar -C / -Jxpf /tmp/s6-overlay-x86_64.tar.xz # Copy s6 init & service definitions. COPY etc/s6-overlay /etc/s6-overlay # Copy Litestream configuration file. COPY etc/litestream.yml /etc/litestream.yml # The kill grace time is set to zero because our app handles shutdown through SIGTERM. ENV S6_KILL_GRACETIME=0 # Sync disks is enabled so that data is properly flushed. ENV S6_SYNC_DISKS=1 # Reset USER to 472 to reset the escalated privileges USER 472 # # Run the s6 init process on entry. ENTRYPOINT [ "/init" ]

• Letme Dockerize for you | share your projects
  2 projects | /r/linux | 6 Oct 2023

  Learn S6-Overlay that allows to have one docker container for multiple processes... make immich docker compose not a two page 8 containers long? But just one clean container with healthcheck. Convince the devs to switch to it.

• Code-server : Awesome VS Code container on browser (Useful for Fast Cloud Deploy - Fix Corporate Issues)
  11 projects | dev.to | 30 Sep 2022

  Custom base docker image with S6 overlay (for more details : just-containers/s6-overlay)

• xinetd/inetd/systemd socket services in Docker?
  1 project | /r/docker | 16 Aug 2022

  https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay can do what you need.

• Alpine Linux is reducing dependencies on Busybox
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Aug 2022

  Used s6-overlay[1] to start a lot daemons in a docker-image for demo purposes - postgres, tomcat, mysql, php-fpm, apache (don't ask why ;) - s6 worked really well and was reliable and stable - I enjoyed it very much. It was also possible to reliable pass SIGTERM to the daemons in the image for clean shutdown and it was easily possible to configure logging to stdout with a prefix. Modelling dependencies (waiting on database before starting app etc.pp) is possible via shell-scripts. It's super flexible but out of the box it's more like a collection of powerful tools not a complete package - but that's good. It's in the tradition of djb daemontools and is very unix - as in doesn't talk a lot and you better know how each part works but - and that's really cool - it's modular and simple and once you get a grip on it you can easily reason about it. systemd takes a completely different approach and also solves a kind of differnt problem - this is like 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

• Do Docker Containers go thru a Boot Process
  1 project | /r/docker | 20 Jul 2022

  Every container has some entrypoint, whether it launches a single binary, runs a "process supervisor" like s6, or does some pre-setup before running a service, like a database.

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