sometimes when you start a Docker container, it exits immediately without running the desired application. In this article, we will explore the reasons behind this issue and provide solutions to resolve it.
You’re running a shell in a container, but you haven’t assigned a terminal:If you’re running a container with a shell (likebash) as the default command, then the container will exit immediately if you haven’t attached an interactive terminal. If there’s no terminal attached, then yo...
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Docker is a containerization tool used by most organizations for building, testing, and deploying their applications in different environments. Most of you must have faced the problem of a Docker container exiting immediately after the execution is completed. While we have situation where we would ...
#Option 2: Exiting containers immediately using the docker kill command The previous command, docker container stop, sends a SIGTERM signal to the main process of the container. And after a grace period which is 10 seconds, it sends a SIGKILL signal to the main process, ending the container....
Same problem here with a first time installed Docker Desktop on Windows 11. An image started running via DD exiting immediately, but the only one that is created via thedocker run -it --name ubuntu ubuntu:latest(thanks@jorisdonkers) works. ...
analpineimage with anshshell as its main process. The-doption (shorthand for--detach) sets the container to run in the background, in detached mode, with a pseudo-TTY attached (-t). The-ioption is set to keepSTDINattached (-i), which prevents theshprocess from exiting immediately. ...
Common Causes of Containers Exiting There are several reasons why a Docker container may exit after just a few seconds. Some common causes include: Incorrect Command or Parameters: If the command or parameters used to start the container are incorrect, the container may exit immediately. ...
RUN Execute build commands. SHELL Set the default shell of an image. STOPSIGNAL Specify the system call signal for exiting a container. USER Set user and group ID. VOLUME Create volume mounts. WORKDIR Change working directory. Format Here is the format of the Dockerfile: ...
Having a container exiting immediately and being restarted in loop might not be better than having an error message saying that otel-agent binary doesn’t exist. I think it would be better to have a way to avoid starting a container with ENTRYPOINT=otel-agent on images where otel-agent is ...