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title: Containerized zombie spawner
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date: 2015-08-12 21:21:13
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tags: [docker]
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Recently I was playing with a fully Dockerized setup of Jenkins at work
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and found a curious issue there. Whenever Jenkins was polling the git
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server the side effect was that it created a zombie ssh process. The
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issue is actually
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[remediated](https://github.com/jenkinsci/docker/issues/54) by the
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Jenkins team now by [explicitly using](https://github.com/jenkinsci/docker/commit/d5aea67dcae9d62fe4ca6ad961ffe66f65d9a591)
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a tiny init system called ... [tini](https://github.com/krallin/tini) started as the main
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container's process instead of just starting Jenkins there. This tiny
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tini thing can properly adopt and reap the children. I was all like -
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wow, what a great blog entry is coming at me. I was planning to describe
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how zombies come to existence on Linux and why Docker should, in my
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opinion, provide an adopter-reaper by default and other very interesting
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things ! But then I found a really excellent article by the
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[Phusion](http://www.phusion.nl/) team
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[here](https://blog.phusion.nl/2015/01/20/docker-and-the-pid-1-zombie-reaping-problem/)
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explaining all that and more. It is very good. You should read it. That
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is it. The end. Happy reaping !
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