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0 pointssandGorgon8y ago0 comments

One time run commands and dependent commands are difficult in docker init. So I have to fall back upon a startup manager like supervisord. I tried that last time , but it was very funky.

Docker VM are like short lived machines with no dependency management in init. But 70$ for 3 years is a cheap price to pay versus giving up docker , nginx (vs traefik), etc

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PuffinBlue8y ago

Still, it seems unusual to not be able to run a set of commands on initialisation.

I haven't looked at Docker in a long time, but isn't there something called an entryscript? I'm not sure I'm remembering the name correctly -

- yep, entrypoint script not entryscript.

I remember something about setting up Wordpress in Docker and the official docker image has this type of script that initialised the database just once.

Might be worth looking into just for interest (maybe not for fixing this 'issue' as you point out its cheap to get a 3 year cert). I imagine one time init commands would be useful to have in their own right anyway.

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