Docker Node.js Application Supervision

Examples of running a nodejs app under Docker with various process managers.

Plain Docker
supervisor
s6
nodemon
forever

Examples have both the Debian based node image and the Alpine mhart/alpine-node image using Node v8.9.3

The node app will run as nobody in each setup.

Plain Node + Docker

The app must handle the sigint (ctrl-c) and sigterm (docker stop) signals when running as PID 1 in Docker

docker build -f Dockerfile.plain -t dply/node-docker-demo-app:plain .
docker run -dp 8080:8080 --restart always dply/node-docker-demo-app:plain
curl http://localhost:8080

s6

Uses the s6-overlay project.

docker build -f Dockerfile.s6 -t dply/node-docker-demo-app:s6 .
docker run -dp 8080:8080 dply/node-docker-demo-app:s6
curl http://localhost:8080

forever

Forever doesn't handle sigint and sigterm when running a script in the foreground.

docker build -f Dockerfile.plain -t dply/node-docker-demo-app:forever .
docker run -dp 8080:8080 dply/node-docker-demo-app:forever
curl http://localhost:8080

nodemon

-ti is required to attach and control nodemon

docker build -f Dockerfile.nodemon -t dply/node-docker-demo-app:nodemon .
docker run -dtip 8080:8080 dply/node-docker-demo-app:nodemon
curl http://localhost:8080

supervisor

Supervisor is easy to configure and provides an XMLRPC API to programatically manage your services running in Docker

docker build -f Dockerfile.plain -t dply/node-docker-demo-app:supervisor .
docker run -dp 8080:8080 dply/node-docker-demo-app:supervisor
curl http://localhost:8080

make.sh

The ./make.sh script can build and run everything

The default is ./make.sh build

./make.sh build_s6

./make.sh run s6

./make.sh run s6-alpine

./make.sh test

./make.sh build plain

./make.sh run plain

etc