Fundamental Docker

Since there are plenty of documents on the web with details about basic Docker use and writing state-of-the-art Dockerfiles, they’re just listed here instead of repeating the same information.

Reference Documents

• Official Docker Documentation

Articles & How-Tos

• Why Your Dockerized Application Isn’t Receiving Signals by Hynek Schlawack explains how to write your Dockerfile so that your main application actually receives shutdown signals sent by the Docker daemon. Otherwsise it cannot do an orderly cleanup, and instead is terminated forcibly after the shutdown timeout.

See also Gracefully Shutdown Docker Container.