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wereHamster on March 20, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Docker - the Linux container runtime

So docker container ABI is basically the kernel? You just create a filesystem image and docker starts that as LXC guest. You could build a statically compiled binary and put that as /bin/init into the container image, right?

shykes on March 20, 2013 [–]

Yes! Exactly :)

You wouldn't need to save it as /sbin/init. You would just type:

    $ docker run MYIMAGE /path/to/my/static/binary

Here's the smallest image I've personally used to run a docker container: http://get.docker.io/images/busybox

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