Docker is a solution for the management of lightweight process containers.

Docker has entered Debian (see the docker.io package).

Debian images are available in the docker.io official repository, but you may as well create some yourself (see more details on both options below).

Ready-made images from docker.io's "official" Debian repository

Debian images provided in docker.io's official repositories (their "official images") are listed on their official debian images repository. These images are generated by the stackbrew application, based on the maintainer's image descriptions. At the time of writing, they are maintained in the maintainer's github repository.

Manual base image creation

See Cloud/CreateDockerImage.

Running services inside Docker containers

See http://www.debian-administration.org/article/698/Automating_the_creation_of_docker_images for a description of how to automate image creation for services running Debian, which describes a way to ensure services will be started properly by runit inside the containers.

You may also be interested in the Debian adaptation of baseimage-docker made by obergix, which also uses runit to control services run inside a container.


See below pages related to Docker :