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Tini is a tiny but valid init for containers. All Tini does is spawn a
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single child (Tini is meant to be run in a container), and wait for it
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to exit all the while reaping zombies and performing signal forwarding.
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Using Tini has several benefits:
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- It protects you from software that accidentally creates zombie
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processes, which can (over time!) starve your entire system for PIDs
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(and make it unusable).
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- It ensures that the default signal handlers work for the software you
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run in your Docker image. For example, with Tini, SIGTERM properly
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terminates your process even if you didn't explicitly install a signal
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handler for it.
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- It does so completely transparently! Docker images that work without
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Tini will work with Tini without any changes.
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