digrouz/alpine-s6 repository overview

⁠docker-alpine-s6

Docker base image based on Alpine Line and s6-overlay

⁠Tag

Several tag are available:

• latest: Dockerfile_alpine⁠

⁠Description

Small. Simple. Secure. Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox.

s6-overlay is an easy-to-install (just extract a tarball or two!) set of scripts and utilities allowing you to use existing Docker images while using s6 as a pid 1 for your container and process supervisor for your services.

https://www.alpinelinux.org/⁠ https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay⁠

⁠Usage

docker create --name=alpine-s6 \
  -e UID=<UID default:12345> \
  -e GID=<GID default:12345> \
  -e AUTOUPGRADE=<0|1 default:0> \
  -e TZ=<timezone default:Europe/Brussels> \
  digrouz/alpine-s6

⁠Environment Variables

When you start the alpine-s6 image, you can adjust the configuration of the alpine-s6 instance by passing one or more environment variables on the docker run command line.

⁠UID

This variable is not mandatory and specifies the user id that will be set to run the application. It has default value 12345.

⁠GID

This variable is not mandatory and specifies the group id that will be set to run the application. It has default value 12345.

⁠AUTOUPGRADE

This variable is not mandatory and specifies if the container has to launch software update at startup or not. Valid values are 0 and 1. It has default value 0.

⁠TZ

This variable is not mandatory and specifies the timezone to be configured within the container. It has default value Europe/Brussels.

⁠Notes

• This container is built using s6-overlay⁠
• The docker entrypoint can upgrade operating system at each startup. To enable this feature, just add -e AUTOUPGRADE=1 at container creation.

⁠Issues

If you encounter an issue please open a ticket at github⁠