According to Alpine wiki I have to run rc-service apache2 startafter installation of Apache 2. However, there's no rc-service in the Alpine running inside the container. How do I get the service command to run inside Docker container?
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Psycho Punch
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It's not a duplicate question, but still relevant. Thanks for noting that. – ibaralf Sep 29 '17 at 07:03
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gliderlabs/docker-alpine issue 183 illustrate the docker Alpine image has no service or rc-service.
You can see instead nimmis/docker-alpine-apache based on nimmis/docker-alpine-micro, which includes a runit, used to handle starting and shutting down processes automatically started.
That initd will start the apache2 script, which calls:
exec /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND -f /web/config/httpd.conf
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Alpine does not have rc-service installed by default. You need to install it (either as part of your Dockerfile build process or manually in the container).
The secret invocation is:
apk add openrc --no-cache
If you want to run it from outside the container (say docker run), then use:
docker run [options etc] bin/ash -c "apk add openrc --no-cache"
PS: rc-service is good for other things and stuff like mariadb (also not included in alpine)
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1Quite impresive. I don't know the rc doesn't installed by default. Thanks for mentioning. – Benyamin Limanto Feb 05 '19 at 01:07