Exactly. I don't expect Upstart or even SysV init (in the configuration as provided by distributions) to work well inside Docker either. For an example how you

Exactly. I don't expect Upstart or even SysV init (in the configuration as provided by distributions) to work well inside Docker either. For an example how you should build a Docker container, take a look at http://phusion.github.io/baseimage-docker/ http://phusion.github.io/baseimage-docker/