I am not sure if I saw it HN recently, but there is an article by Phusion [1] talking about the init process and how to handle it with Docker. They have a base image, baseimage-docker [2], that is supposed to solve that problem.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.phusion.nl&#x2F;2015&#x2F;01&#x2F;20&#x2F;docker-and-the-pid-1-zombie-reaping-problem&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.phusion.nl&#x2F;2015&#x2F;01&#x2F;20&#x2F;docker-and-the-pid-1-zomb...</a>
[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;phusion.github.io&#x2F;baseimage-docker&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;phusion.github.io&#x2F;baseimage-docker&#x2F;</a>