Comment by ndsipa_pomu

Ideally, you have a separate docker container for each process (i.e. a separate container for the ssh service, one for cron etc). The text editor can be installed if it's needed - that's not an issue apart from slightly increasing the container size. Most of the time, the monitoring agent would be running on the host machine and setup to monitor aspects of the container - containers should be thought of as running a single process and not as running a VM along with all its services.