ubuntu-upstart Docker official image overview

⁠DEPRECATED

This image is officially deprecated (especially now that Upstart is no longer the default init system for Ubuntu) and will receive no further updates. Please adjust your usage accordingly.

⁠Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links

• 12.04, precise (sbin-init/ubuntu/upstart/12.04/Dockerfile)⁠
• 14.04, trusty, latest (sbin-init/ubuntu/upstart/14.04/Dockerfile)⁠
• 14.10, utopic (sbin-init/ubuntu/upstart/14.10/Dockerfile)⁠

For more information about this image and its history, please see the relevant manifest file (library/ubuntu-upstart)⁠. This image is updated via pull requests to the docker-library/official-images GitHub repo⁠.

For detailed information about the virtual/transfer sizes and individual layers of each of the above supported tags, please see the ubuntu-upstart/tag-details.md file⁠ in the docker-library/docs GitHub repo⁠.

⁠What is Upstart?

Upstart is an event-based replacement for the traditional init daemon – the method by which several Unix-like computer operating systems perform tasks when the computer is started. It was written by Scott James Remnant, a former employee of Canonical Ltd.

⁠Supported Docker versions

This image is officially supported on Docker version 1.11.2.

Support for older versions (down to 1.6) is provided on a best-effort basis.

Please see the Docker installation documentation⁠ for details on how to upgrade your Docker daemon.

⁠User Feedback

⁠Documentation

Documentation for this image is stored in the ubuntu-upstart/ directory⁠ of the docker-library/docs GitHub repo⁠. Be sure to familiarize yourself with the repository's REAMDE.md file⁠ before attempting a pull request.

⁠Issues

This image is provided on an as-is basis. If problems with it are discovered, they can be discussed in the #docker-library IRC channel on Freenode⁠, but any support will be best-effort.