hortonworks/haveged repository overview

⁠docker-haveged

Docker Haveged is a container as an entropy gathering service. Based on alpine linux instead of other bloated distros.

⁠Use case

In case you need an entropy gathering service on your docker host but don't want to / can't install locally an entropy gathering service.

The service makes more sense on Cloud servers and more specifically on CoreOS servers where you cannot install locally services.

⁠Checklist

The purpose of the service is to make sure you have available entropy on your host. To check if you are running low:

cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail

If the number is below 1000 then it is probably depleted.

⁠Quickstart

To run the container:

docker run --privileged -d hortonworks/haveged:1.1.0