github.com/guilhermebr/docker@v1.4.2-0.20150428121140-67da055cebca/docs/sources/articles/using_supervisord.md (about) 1 page_title: Using Supervisor with Docker 2 page_description: How to use Supervisor process management with Docker 3 page_keywords: docker, supervisor, process management 4 5 # Using Supervisor with Docker 6 7 > **Note**: 8 > - **If you don't like sudo** then see [*Giving non-root 9 > access*](/installation/binaries/#giving-non-root-access) 10 11 Traditionally a Docker container runs a single process when it is 12 launched, for example an Apache daemon or a SSH server daemon. Often 13 though you want to run more than one process in a container. There are a 14 number of ways you can achieve this ranging from using a simple Bash 15 script as the value of your container's `CMD` instruction to installing 16 a process management tool. 17 18 In this example we're going to make use of the process management tool, 19 [Supervisor](http://supervisord.org/), to manage multiple processes in 20 our container. Using Supervisor allows us to better control, manage, and 21 restart the processes we want to run. To demonstrate this we're going to 22 install and manage both an SSH daemon and an Apache daemon. 23 24 ## Creating a Dockerfile 25 26 Let's start by creating a basic `Dockerfile` for our 27 new image. 28 29 FROM ubuntu:13.04 30 MAINTAINER examples@docker.com 31 32 ## Installing Supervisor 33 34 We can now install our SSH and Apache daemons as well as Supervisor in 35 our container. 36 37 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y openssh-server apache2 supervisor 38 RUN mkdir -p /var/lock/apache2 /var/run/apache2 /var/run/sshd /var/log/supervisor 39 40 Here we're installing the `openssh-server`, 41 `apache2` and `supervisor` 42 (which provides the Supervisor daemon) packages. We're also creating four 43 new directories that are needed to run our SSH daemon and Supervisor. 44 45 ## Adding Supervisor's configuration file 46 47 Now let's add a configuration file for Supervisor. The default file is 48 called `supervisord.conf` and is located in 49 `/etc/supervisor/conf.d/`. 50 51 COPY supervisord.conf /etc/supervisor/conf.d/supervisord.conf 52 53 Let's see what is inside our `supervisord.conf` 54 file. 55 56 [supervisord] 57 nodaemon=true 58 59 [program:sshd] 60 command=/usr/sbin/sshd -D 61 62 [program:apache2] 63 command=/bin/bash -c "source /etc/apache2/envvars && exec /usr/sbin/apache2 -DFOREGROUND" 64 65 The `supervisord.conf` configuration file contains 66 directives that configure Supervisor and the processes it manages. The 67 first block `[supervisord]` provides configuration 68 for Supervisor itself. We're using one directive, `nodaemon` 69 which tells Supervisor to run interactively rather than 70 daemonize. 71 72 The next two blocks manage the services we wish to control. Each block 73 controls a separate process. The blocks contain a single directive, 74 `command`, which specifies what command to run to 75 start each process. 76 77 ## Exposing ports and running Supervisor 78 79 Now let's finish our `Dockerfile` by exposing some 80 required ports and specifying the `CMD` instruction 81 to start Supervisor when our container launches. 82 83 EXPOSE 22 80 84 CMD ["/usr/bin/supervisord"] 85 86 Here We've exposed ports 22 and 80 on the container and we're running 87 the `/usr/bin/supervisord` binary when the container 88 launches. 89 90 ## Building our image 91 92 We can now build our new image. 93 94 $ docker build -t <yourname>/supervisord . 95 96 ## Running our Supervisor container 97 98 Once We've got a built image we can launch a container from it. 99 100 $ docker run -p 22 -p 80 -t -i <yourname>/supervisord 101 2013-11-25 18:53:22,312 CRIT Supervisor running as root (no user in config file) 102 2013-11-25 18:53:22,312 WARN Included extra file "/etc/supervisor/conf.d/supervisord.conf" during parsing 103 2013-11-25 18:53:22,342 INFO supervisord started with pid 1 104 2013-11-25 18:53:23,346 INFO spawned: 'sshd' with pid 6 105 2013-11-25 18:53:23,349 INFO spawned: 'apache2' with pid 7 106 . . . 107 108 We've launched a new container interactively using the `docker run` command. 109 That container has run Supervisor and launched the SSH and Apache daemons with 110 it. We've specified the `-p` flag to expose ports 22 and 80. From here we can 111 now identify the exposed ports and connect to one or both of the SSH and Apache 112 daemons.