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* **Twitter**: https://twitter.com/phusion_nl
* **Blog**: http://blog.phusion.nl/
### Why should I use baseimage-docker?
### Why use baseimage-docker?
Why use baseimage-docker instead of doing everything yourself in Dockerfile?
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You don't have to download anything manually. The above command will automatically pull the baseimage-docker image from the Docker registry.
### Wait, I thought Docker is about running a single process in a container?
Absolutely not true. Docker runs fine with multiple processes in a container. In fact, there is no technical reason why you should limit yourself to one process - it only makes things harder for you and breaks all kinds of essential system functionality, e.g. syslog.
Baseimage-docker *encourages* multiple processes through the use of runit.
## Using baseimage-docker as base image
The image is called `phusion/baseimage`, and is available on the Docker registry.