consul-template is not reaping children in container

[mvanholsteijn]

We are running consul-template as a simple wrapper around HAproxy. Whenever the configuration changes, we perform a soft restart of haproxy. However, the exited HAProxy processes are not reaped and left as zombie processes.

Would you consider having consul-template take the PID 1 responsibility and handle the SIGCHLD events? Otherwise we would need to complicate the container with an init system.

Cheers,

Mark

[sethvargo]

Cross-linking with hashicorp/consul#1183. @slackpad is going to take this. Thanks!

[mvanholsteijn]

Hi Seth, consul-template is running inside a container without a consul agent, so I do not see who the consul agent can assume the role as PID 1....

[sethvargo]

Hi @mvanholsteijn

It won't. James is going to work on both tickets at the same time.