Docker Notes

centos7systemd.txt

My guess is that you're running a non-privileged container. systemd requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability but Docker drops that capability in the non privileged containers, in order to add more security.

systemd also requires RO access to the cgroup file system within a container. You can add it with –v /sys/fs/cgroup:/sys/fs/cgroup:ro

So, here a few steps on how to run CentOS with systemd inside a Docker container:

Pull centos image
Set up a docker file like the one below:

FROM centos
MAINTAINER “Yourname" <youremail@address.com>
ENV container docker
RUN yum -y update; yum clean all
RUN yum -y install systemd; yum clean all; \
(cd /lib/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/; for i in *; do [ $i == systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service ] || rm -f $i; done); \
rm -f /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/*;\
rm -f /etc/systemd/system/*.wants/*;\
rm -f /lib/systemd/system/local-fs.target.wants/*; \
rm -f /lib/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/*udev*; \
rm -f /lib/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/*initctl*; \
rm -f /lib/systemd/system/basic.target.wants/*;\
rm -f /lib/systemd/system/anaconda.target.wants/*;
VOLUME [ “/sys/fs/cgroup” ]
CMD [“/usr/sbin/init”]

Build it - docker build --rm -t centos7-systemd - < mydockerfile
Run a container with docker run --privileged  -ti -e container=docker  -v /sys/fs/cgroup:/sys/fs/cgroup  centos7-systemd /usr/sbin/init

You should have systemd in your container