Is it possible to run prefork mode inside docker? 🤗

[renatojf]

Question description
When I run fiber with prefork: false inside docker, all works fine. prefork: true causes the container to panic out.

Code snippet Optional

package main

import "github.com/gofiber/fiber/v2"

func main() {
  app := fiber.New(fiber.Config{
	Prefork: true,
  })

go func() {
	if err := app.Listen(fmt.Sprintf(":%d", viper.GetInt("server.port"))); err != nil {
		log.Panic(err)
	}
  }()

  c := make(chan os.Signal, 1)   // Create channel to signify a signal being sent
  signal.Notify(c, os.Interrupt) // When an interrupt is sent, notify the channel

  _ = <-c // This blocks the main thread until an interrupt is received
  fmt.Println("Gracefully shutting down...")
  _ = app.Shutdown()
}

**Output

$ docker run test
┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────┐  ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
 │                    Fiber v2.2.0                   │  │ Child PIDs ... 16, 17, 21, 28                     │
 │               http://127.0.0.1:3000               │  └───────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
 │                                                   │
 │ Handlers ............. 7  Threads ............. 4 │
 │ Prefork ........ Enabled  PID ................. 1 │
 └───────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

2020/11/14 21:17:53 exit status 1
panic: exit status 1

goroutine 19 [running]:
log.Panic(0xc00009dfb8, 0x1, 0x1)
        /usr/local/go/src/log/log.go:351 +0xae
main.main.func2(0xc0000cb320)
        /build/cmd/ad-delivery/main.go:55 +0x110
created by main.main
        /build/cmd/ad-delivery/main.go:53 +0x507

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[hi019]

We just did a little investigation in the Discord. Prefork uses environment variables so it will need to be executed within a shell. Docker docs:

Unlike the shell form, the exec form (CMD [...]) does not invoke a command shell. This means that normal shell processing does not happen. For example, CMD [ "echo", "$HOME" ] will not do variable substitution on $HOME. If you want shell processing then either use the shell form (CMD ./app) or execute a shell directly, for example: CMD [ "sh", "-c", "echo $HOME" ]. When using the exec form and executing a shell directly, as in the case for the shell form, it is the shell that is doing the environment variable expansion, not docker.

So execute your app with either CMD ./app or CMD ["sh", "-c", "/app"]. Let me know if this works.

We've also mentioned this case in the docs, gofiber/docs#144

[renatojf]

Sorry I have missed the discussion in the Discord chat :(
Thanks a lot for looking into this one. I confirm it runs perfectly now!

[slaveofcode]

Another workaround if you still have a problem running Prefork: true inside a docker container
#1036