The docker was released keeping in mind, one daemon per container which makes the container lightweight. Like suppose for running a web application, one container will serve database, one container will server as web server, one container will server as caching server connecting to DB.
So while writing a Dockerfile, the limitation is : only one CMD parameter can be be used inside it to run a single foreground process, the exit of which will stop the container.
But sometime we may face situations like to run more than one daemon process in a single container that is to setup the complete stack in a single container.
For this we can have two approaches:
- A bash script that will run all the processes in backened in sequence but the last one should run with only & to run as a foreground process.
- Using supervisor : Easy templatized way of managing multiple process in the container.
UseCase : I faced a situation where I have to run ssh,httpd,mysql in a single container and here is how I approached it with supervisor.
Also using the stdout of supervisor we can redirect the logs in terminal.
The three config file used here:
- Dockerfile
- supervisor.conf
- docker-compose.yml
These files can be accessed from my gitrepo :
https://github.com/kumarprd/docker-supervisor
Next run below commands:
- docker-compose build (It will build the image by reading the files)
#docker-compose build
Building web
Step 1 : FROM oraclelinux:6.8
—> 7187d444f0ce
Step 2 : ENV container docker
—> Running in 8cff18dabcc4
—> 655b5004777a
……..
……..
Step 20 : CMD /usr/bin/supervisord -c /etc/supervisor.conf
—> Running in 4ffed54b078f
—> dfb974e07bfb
Removing intermediate container 4ffed54b078f
Successfully built dfb974e07bfb
2. docker-compose up
# docker-compose up
Creating supervisord_web_1
Attaching to supervisord_web_1
web_1 | 2016-10-01 05:57:55,357 CRIT Supervisor running as root (no user in config file)
web_1 | 2016-10-01 05:57:55,357 WARN For [program:sshd], redirect_stderr=true but stderr_logfile has also been set to a filename, the filename has been ignored
web_1 | 2016-10-01 05:57:55,357 WARN For [program:mysqld], redirect_stderr=true but stderr_logfile has also been set to a filename, the filename has been ignored
web_1 | 2016-10-01 05:57:55,357 WARN For [program:httpd], redirect_stderr=true but stderr_logfile has also been set to a filename, the filename has been ignored
web_1 | 2016-10-01 05:57:55,364 INFO supervisord started with pid 1
web_1 | 2016-10-01 05:57:56,369 INFO spawned: ‘httpd’ with pid 7
web_1 | 2016-10-01 05:57:56,373 INFO spawned: ‘sshd’ with pid 8
web_1 | 2016-10-01 05:57:56,377 INFO spawned: ‘mysqld’ with pid 9
web_1 | Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
web_1 | Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
web_1 | 161001 05:57:56 mysqld_safe Logging to ‘/var/log/mysqld.log’.
web_1 | 161001 05:57:56 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql
web_1 | httpd: Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using 172.18.0.2 for ServerName
web_1 | 2016-10-01 05:57:57,649 INFO success: httpd entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for > than 1 seconds (startsecs)
web_1 | 2016-10-01 05:57:57,649 INFO success: sshd entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for > than 1 seconds (startsecs)
web_1 | 2016-10-01 05:57:57,649 INFO success: mysqld entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for > than 1 seconds (startsecs)
3. check the ps table
# docker ps -a
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
edd870f7e3ca testimg.supervisor “/usr/bin/supervisord” 19 minutes ago Up 19 minutes 0.0.0.0:5002->22/tcp, 0.0.0.0:5000->80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:5001->3306/tcp supervisord_web_1
4. Connect to the container and check the services:
ssh -p 5002 root@<FQDN of the host where docker engine is running>
root@<FQDN>’s password:
Last login: Sat Oct 1 06:07:43 2016 from <FQDN>
[root@edd870f7e3ca ~]# /etc/init.d/mysqld status
mysqld (pid 101) is running…
[root@edd870f7e3ca ~]# /etc/init.d/httpd status
httpd (pid 7) is running…
[root@edd870f7e3ca ~]# /etc/init.d/sshd status
openssh-daemon (pid 8) is running…
[root@edd870f7e3ca ~]#
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