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Building Microservices with Go
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Building Microservices with Go

by Nic Jackson
July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
358 pages
10h 54m
English
Packt Publishing
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Running Daemons in containers

One of the things you might be used to when deploying an application to a VM or physical server is to use a Daemon runner such as initd or systemd to ensure that the application is started in the background and continues to run even if it crashes. This is an anti-pattern when you are using Docker containers, for Docker to successfully stop the application it will attempt to kill the process running with PID 1. Daemons will generally start with PID 1 and start your application with another process ID, which will mean they are not killed when you stop the Docker container. This can cause containers to hang when the docker stop command is executed.

In the instance that you need to ensure that your application keeps ...

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