[freedomben]

You already know this, but I would be remiss if I didn't first point out that this is bad practice for a number of reasons.

That said, I have had to do this before and if I ever have to do it again, I will be going right for a base image that has systemd. Red Hat provides UBI images that have systemd in it for reasons similar to this. Assuming that a pod or deployment using something like podman is not an option, This what I would use personally.