I am trying to start a docker container using the ubuntu image:
docker container run -d --name ubuntu_assignment_4 6e4f1fe62
However as soon as I start the container it stops again.
Why does this happen and how can I ensure the container stays running?
The image I am trying to run here is: ubuntu:14.04
If you are going to use the ubuntu:14.04 image without any modifications to it, you would not require a separate Dockerfile. And it is not possible to keep the plain ubuntu:14.04 image running as a container.
You can directly launch the container with an interactive shell using the ubuntu:14.04 image.
docker run -it ubuntu:14.04 /bin/bash
But the plain ubuntu:14.04 image does not have curl pre-installed on it.
You will need a custom Dockerfile for this.
I can't say exactly what is happening without seeing the complete Dockerfile that was used to build the image, but I am pretty certain that the trouble you are having is just because whatever task that is being started inside the container is finishing and exiting.
Docker containers work by having some command assigned (using ENTRYPOINT or CMD directives in the Dockerfile, or as an argument to docker start or docker run on the command line) which is the program that is started when the container loads. The container will live for as long as that task continues to run, and once that program finishes the container will terminate.
To specify the startup entrypoint at the command line, try:
docker create -it [image] /bin/bash
Then start it like this:
docker start -ia [Container ID]
The container will exit once the shell exits, because this is assigning the shell as the entry point.
cURL may not be installed by default. It is possible to install it using apt-get. But again, once the shell is closed, the container will stop and any changes will be lost. As a start, try creating a new directory somewhere, and then add a file called Dockerfile with this content:
FROM ubuntu:latest
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y curl
ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/bash"]
That will create a new image with curl installed. then, from inside the new directory where the Dockerfile was created, use:
docker build .
docker images
which will build a new image, using the Dockerfile as the blueprint.
Once the build finishes, find the image ID for the new container, and run it using:
docker run -it [image id]
Ultimately, to make Docker really useful, the typical approach is to replace that last line in the Dockerfile (ENTRYPOINT ["command"]) with something that will continue running forever (like ENTRYPOINT ["apache2"] or ENTRYPOINT ["redis"] or similar). If you have experience using regular desktop/server OS installs, and full virtual machines like VMWare or VirtualBox, just remember that Docker is very different; the way it works and the patterns used to deploy it are not the same.
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I am new to docker container. Can someone please tell me what is difference between these two commands. In my knowledge, have the same out put than why we use the bash command.
docker run -it ubuntu
docker run -it ubuntu bash
In docker, we run a linux container. As you know, a linux system is alive when it's init 0 service is alive. 'init 0' is kind of the heart of a linux system. when 'init 0' is killed, the linux system also dies.
In a containerized architecture, you run a container for simply one purpose i.e. to simply run one service. we want if the service fails, the container also dies. so we define the servcie as init 0 job for the container.
when you run docker run -it ubuntu bash, here, bash is the init 0 job for the container. As soon as you exit from bash, the container stops working.
Instead of using bash you can also try another commands like #Shmuel suggested.
Well, when we create custom images, often we want to pre-define default 'init 0' job for our custom image. If the init 0' is predefined, you don't need to mention it in docker run command.
In ubuntu image, the pre-defined 'init 0' job is bash. So, if you don't mention bash in the run command, it works the same.
docker run -it ubuntu let's you run command inside the container.
The bash is the command to run.
For example instead you can run
docker run -it ubuntu ls /home
This will list the /home dir inside the container.
I am just learning Docker, I pulled my first container using:
docker run -it debian:latest /bin/bash
After installing some services, like systemd, openssh, etc... I exit the container, using CTRL+D and the next time i start the container (using the same command) I get fresh install of debian without my configs.
I tried using docker run -it --restart no debian:buster without success.
How can I prevent this from happening?
Each time you use
docker run
command, you create a new container from an existing docker image. With
docker start $containerName
command, you can start the existing container ($containerName should replace your container real name). Otherwise, to have a custom image of a debian, it is better to write a dockerfile and build an image out of it. Here are the best practices to write a Dockerfile: https://docs.docker.com/develop/develop-images/dockerfile_best-practices/
How can I debug docker container that I set to always restart.
I have a container that launch nodejs app, with a
CMD ["nodemon", "/usr/src/app/app.js »] that work very well on other container but not on the new one i created it says with docker logs containerName :
Usage: nodemon [nodemon options] [script.js] [args]
See "nodemon --help" for more.
How can I connect to the container to have more informations than logs, for example see some config file or if my nodejs files have been copied.
I didn’t find a way : I would like to use docker exec -it bash and navigate in my docker but because it is always restarting I cannot. How to debug this kind of container ?
EDIT : i use the CMD["bash"] but when i use docker exec -it bash i doesn't work
Because the container keep restarting.
You could make a new image base on your container image, and a different starting script (one which runs the node command for testing, and then opens a bash for instance)
You could need to COPY that script
COPY myscript /usr/local/bin
CMD ["/usr/local/bin/myscript"]
That way, you can test your current image as wrapped in a test image.
You can even only use bash in that new image
CMD["bash"]
And launch the command manually.
For that, you would need to run that image with:
docker run -it --rm myNewImage
That will open an interactive bash session.
I would like to start a stopped Docker container with a different command, as the default command crashes - meaning I can't start the container and then use 'docker exec'.
Basically I would like to start a shell so I can inspect the contents of the container.
Luckily I created the container with the -it option!
Find your stopped container id
docker ps -a
Commit the stopped container:
This command saves modified container state into a new image named user/test_image:
docker commit $CONTAINER_ID user/test_image
Start/run with a different entry point:
docker run -ti --entrypoint=sh user/test_image
Entrypoint argument description:
https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/run/#/entrypoint-default-command-to-execute-at-runtime
Note:
Steps above just start a stopped container with the same filesystem state. That is great for a quick investigation; but environment variables, network configuration, attached volumes and other stuff is not inherited. You should specify all these arguments explicitly.
Steps to start a stopped container have been borrowed from here: (last comment) https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/18078
Edit this file (corresponding to your stopped container):
vi /var/lib/docker/containers/923...4f6/config.json
Change the "Path" parameter to point at your new command, e.g. /bin/bash. You may also set the "Args" parameter to pass arguments to the command.
Restart the docker service (note this will stop all running containers unless you first enable live-restore):
service docker restart
List your containers and make sure the command has changed:
docker ps -a
Start the container and attach to it, you should now be in your shell!
docker start -ai mad_brattain
Worked on Fedora 22 using Docker 1.7.1.
NOTE: If your shell is not interactive (e.g. you did not create the original container with -it option), you can instead change the command to "/bin/sleep 600" or "/bin/tail -f /dev/null" to give you enough time to do "docker exec -it CONTID /bin/bash" as another way of getting a shell.
NOTE2: Newer versions of docker have config.v2.json, where you will need to change either Entrypoint or Cmd (thanks user60561).
Add a check to the top of your Entrypoint script
Docker really needs to implement this as a new feature, but here's another workaround option for situations in which you have an Entrypoint that terminates after success or failure, which can make it difficult to debug.
If you don't already have an Entrypoint script, create one that runs whatever command(s) you need for your container. Then, at the top of this file, add these lines to entrypoint.sh:
# Run once, hold otherwise
if [ -f "already_ran" ]; then
echo "Already ran the Entrypoint once. Holding indefinitely for debugging."
cat
fi
touch already_ran
# Do your main things down here
To ensure that cat holds the connection, you may need to provide a TTY. I'm running the container with my Entrypoint script like so:
docker run -t --entrypoint entrypoint.sh image_name
This will cause the script to run once, creating a file that indicates it has already run (in the container's virtual filesystem). You can then restart the container to perform debugging:
docker start container_name
When you restart the container, the already_ran file will be found, causing the Entrypoint script to stall with cat (which just waits forever for input that will never come, but keeps the container alive). You can then execute a debugging bash session:
docker exec -i container_name bash
While the container is running, you can also remove already_ran and manually execute the entrypoint.sh script to rerun it, if you need to debug that way.
I took #Dmitriusan's answer and made it into an alias:
alias docker-run-prev-container='prev_container_id="$(docker ps -aq | head -n1)" && docker commit "$prev_container_id" "prev_container/$prev_container_id" && docker run -it --entrypoint=bash "prev_container/$prev_container_id"'
Add this into your ~/.bashrc aliases file, and you'll have a nifty new docker-run-prev-container alias which'll drop you into a shell in the previous container.
Helpful for debugging failed docker builds.
This is not exactly what you're asking for, but you can use docker export on a stopped container if all you want is to inspect the files.
mkdir $TARGET_DIR
docker export $CONTAINER_ID | tar -x -C $TARGET_DIR
docker-compose run --entrypoint /bin/bash cont_id_or_name
(for conven, put your env, vol mounts in the docker-compose.yml)
or use docker run and manually spec all args
It seems docker can't change entry point after a container started. But you can set a custom entry point and change the code of the entry point next time you restart it.
For example you run a container like this:
docker run --name c --entrypoint "/boot" -v "./boot":/boot $image
Here is the boot entry point:
#!/bin/bash
command_a
When you need restart c with a different command, you just change the boot script:
#!/bin/bash
command_b
And restart:
docker restart c
My Problem:
I started a container with docker run <IMAGE_NAME>
And then added some files to this container
Then I closed the container and tried to start it again withe same command as above.
But when I checked the new files, they were missing
when I run docker ps -a I could see two containers.
That means every time I was running docker run <IMAGE_NAME> command, new image was getting created
Solution:
To work on the same container you created in the first place run follow these steps
docker ps to get container of your container
docker container start <CONTAINER_ID> to start existing container
Then you can continue from where you left. e.g. docker exec -it <CONTAINER_ID> /bin/bash
You can then decide to create a new image out of it
I have found a simple command
docker start -a [container_name]
This will do the trick
Or
docker start [container_name]
then
docker exec -it [container_name] bash
I had a docker container where the MariaDB container was continuously crashing on startup because of corrupted InnoDB tables.
What I did to solve my problem was:
copy out the docker-entrypoint.sh from the container to the local file system (docker cp)
edit it to include the needed command line parameter (--innodb-force-recovery=1 in my case)
copy the edited file back into the docker container, overwriting the existing entrypoint script.
To me Docker always leaves the impression that it was created for a hobby system, it works well for that.
If something fails or doesn't work, don't expect to have a professional solution.
That said: Docker does not only NOT support such basic administrative tasks, it tries to prevent them.
Solution:
cd /var/lib/docker/overlay2/
find | grep somechangedfile
# You now can see the changed file from your container in a hexcoded folder/diff
cd hexcoded-folder/diff
Create an entrypoint.sh (make sure to backup an existing one if it's there)
cat > entrypoint.sh
#!/bin/bash
while ((1)); do sleep 1; done;
Ctrl+C
chmod +x entrypoint.sh
docker stop
docker start
You now have your docker container running an endless loop instead of the originally entry, you can exec bash into it, or do whatever you need.
When finished stop the container, remove/rename your custom entrypoint.
It seems like most of the time people are running into this while modifying a config file, which is what I did. I was trying to bypass CORS for a PHP/Apache server with a Vue SPA as my entry point. Anyway, if you know the file you horked, a simple solution that worked for me was
Copy the file you horked out of the image:
docker cp bt-php:/etc/apache2/apache2.conf .
Fix it locally
Copy it back in
docker cp apache2.conf bt-php:/etc/apache2/apache2.conf
Start your container back up
*Bonus points - Since this file is being modified, add it to your Compose or Build scripts so that when you do get it right it will be baked into the image!
Lots of discussion surrounding this so I thought I would add one more which I did not immediately see listed above:
If the full path to the entrypoint for the container is known (or discoverable via inspection) it can be copied in and out of the stopped container using 'docker cp'. This means you can copy the original out of the container, edit a copy of it to start a bash shell (or a long sleep timer) instead of whatever it was doing, and then restart the container. The running container can now be further edited with the bash shell to correct any problems. When finished editing another docker cp of the original entrypoint back into the container and a re-restart should do the trick.
I have used this once to correct a 'quick fix' that I butterfingered and was no longer able to run the container with the normal entrypoint until it was corrected.
I also agree there should be a better way to do this via docker: Maybe an option to 'docker restart' that allows an alternate entrypoint? Hey, maybe that already works with '--entrypoint'? Not sure, didn't try it, left as exercise for reader, let me know if it works. :)
I tried to start a exited container like follows,
I listed down all available containers using docker ps -a. It listed the following:
I entered the following commands to start the container which is in the exited stage and enter into the terminal of that image.
docker start 79b3fa70b51d
docker exec -it 79b3fa70b51d /bin/sh
It is throwing the following error.
FATA[0000] Error response from daemon: Container 79b3fa70b51d is not running
But when I start the container using docker start 79b3fa70b51d. It throws the container ID as output which is normal if it have everything work normally.
What is the cause of this error?
By default, docker container will exit immediately if you do not have any task running on the container.
To keep the container running in the background, try to run it with --detach (or -d) argument.
For examples:
docker pull debian
docker run -t -d --name my_debian debian
e7672d54b0c2
docker ps -a
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
e7672d54b0c2 debian "bash" 3 minutes ago Up 3 minutes my_debian
#now you can execute command on the container
docker exec -it my_debian bash
root#e7672d54b0c2:/#
Container 79b3fa70b51d seems to only do an echo.
That means it starts, echo and then exits immediately.
The next docker exec command wouldn't find it running in order to attach itself to that container and execute any command: it is too late. The container has already exited.
The docker exec command runs a new command in a running container.
The command started using docker exec will only run while the container's primary process (PID 1) is running
If it's not possible to start the main process again (for long enough), there is also the possibility to commit the container to a new image and run a new container from this image. While this is not the usual best practice workflow (the new image is not repeatable), I find it really useful to debug a failing script once in a while.
docker exec -it 6198ef53d943 bash
Error response from daemon: Container 6198ef53d9431a3f38e8b38d7869940f7fb803afac4a2d599812b8e42419c574 is not running
docker commit 6198ef53d943
sha256:ace7ca65e6e3fdb678d9cdfb33a7a165c510e65c3bc28fecb960ac993c37ef33
docker run -it ace7ca65e6e bash
root#72d38a8c787d:/#
This happens with images for which the script does not launch a service awaiting requests, therefore the container exits at the end of the script.
This is typically the case with most base OS images (centos, debian, etc.), or also with the node images.
Your best bet is to run the image in interactive mode. Example below with the node image:
docker run -it node /bin/bash
Output is
root#cacc7897a20c:/# echo $SHELL
/bin/bash
First of all, we have to start the docker container
ankit#ankit-HP-Notebook:~$ sudo docker start 3a19b39ea021
3a19b39ea021
After that, check the docker container:
ankit#ankit-HP-Notebook:~$ sudo docker ps -a
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
3a19b39ea021 coreapps/ubuntu16.04:latest "bash" 13 hours ago
Up 9 seconds ubuntu1
455b66057060 hello-world "/hello" 4 weeks ago
Exited (0) 4 weeks ago vigorous_bardeen
Then execute by using the command below:
ankit#ankit-HP-Notebook:~$ sudo docker exec -it 3a19b39ea021 bash
root#3a19b39ea021:/#
Here is what worked for me.
Get the container ID and restart.
docker ps -a --no-trunc
ace7ca65e6e3fdb678d9cdfb33a7a165c510e65c3bc28fecb960ac993c37ef33
docker restart ace7ca65e6e3fdb678d9cdfb33a7a165c510e65c3bc28fecb960ac993c37ef33
docker run -it --entrypoint /bin/bash <imageid>
This was posted by L0j1k in the below post and worked for me.
How do I get into a Docker container's shell?
use command
> docker container ls
> docker image ls
Check your Image id and note it down. Here my Image id is "6c929ca002da" , you guys have to use your own Image id instead of mine..
> docker start 6c929ca002da
here our image is in down mode we have to start it first by using image id.
6c929ca002da is my image id
> `docker exec -it 6c929ca002da bash`
after running this command you can see
your image file in running mode like this
root#6c929ca002da
Here I am using root mode go root mode by using command
sudo su
The reason is just what the accepted answer said. I add some extra information, which may provide a further understanding about this issue.
The status of a container includes Created, Running, Stopped,
Exited, Dead and others as I know.
When we execute docker create, docker daemon will create a
container with its status of Created.
When docker start, docker daemon will start a existing container
which its status may be Created or Stopped.
When we execute docker run, docker daemon will finish it in two
steps: docker create and docker start.
When docker stop, obviously docker daemon will stop a container.
Thus container would be in Stopped status.
Coming the most important one, a container actually imagine itself
holding a long time process in it. When the process exits, the
container holding process would exit too. Thus the status of this
container would be Exited.
When does the process exit? In another word, what’s the process, how did we start it?
The answer is CMD in a dockerfile or command in the following expression, which is bash by default in some images, i.e. ubutu:18.04.
docker run ubuntu:18.04 [command]
docker run -it <image_id> /bin/bash
Run in interactive mode executing then bash shell
For anyone attempting something similar using a Dockerfile...
Running in detached mode won't help. The container will always exit (stop running) if the command is non-blocking, this is the case with bash.
In this case, a workaround would be:
1. Commit the resulting image:
(container_name = the name of the container you want to base the image off of,
image_name = the name of the image to be created
docker commit container_name image_name
2. Use docker run to create a new container using the new image, specifying the command you want to run. Here, I will run "bash":
docker run -it image_name bash
This would get you the interactive login you're looking for.
Here's a solution when the docker container exits normally and you can edit the Dockerfile.
Generally, when a docker container is run, an application is served by running a command. From the Dockerfile reference,
Both CMD and ENTRYPOINT instructions define what command gets executed when
running a container. ...
Dockerfile should specify at least one of CMD or ENTRYPOINT commands.
When you build a image and not specify any command with CMD or ENTRYPOINT, the base image's CMD or ENTRYPOINT command would be executed.
For example, the Official Ubuntu Dockerfile has CMD ["/bin/bash"] (https://hub.docker.com/_/ubuntu). Now, the bin/bash/ command can accept input and docker run -it IMAGE_ID command attaches STDIN to the container. The result is that you get an interactive terminal and the container keeps running.
When a command with CMD or ENTRYPOINT is specified in the Dockerfile, this command gets executed when running the container. Now, if this command can finish without requiring any input, it will finish and the container will exit. docker run -it IMAGE_ID will NOT provide the interactive terminal in this case. An example would be the docker image built from the Dockerfile below-
FROM ubuntu
ENTRYPOINT echo hello
If you need to go to the terminal of this image, you will need to keep the container running by modifying the entrypoint command.
FROM ubuntu
ENTRYPOINT echo hello && sleep infinity
After running the container normally with docker run IMAGE_ID, you can just go to another terminal and use docker exec -it CONTAINER_ID bash to get the container's terminal.
Perhaps too late for this active community, but there are a lot of causes because a container may not execute correctly and exit writing a console message or not. For all the newbies making nodeJS containers I'll recommend you to change the Dockerfile and erase all CMD and ENTRYPOINT you may have, and add only an ENTRYPOINT to ["/bin/sh"] (See my attached test Dockerfile example). Then rebuild the Docker image and run it with the command:
docker run -it --rm your_named_image:tag
Voilà you will be getting inside the container with a shell. Then you can test your app typing the command yourself i.e. node app.js and see what is happening. After you see all is ok, you can then change your docker file and erase the ENTRYPOINT to "/bin/sh" and use yourself i.e ["node","app.js"] or whatever. Always consider the previous answers to this post; When the app inside the container finish it will stop the running container.
Here is an example for my "test" Dockerfile:
FROM node:16.4.0-alpine
ENV NODE_ENV=production
WORKDIR /app
COPY ["package.json","package-lock.json*", "./"]
RUN npm install --production
COPY ./dist .
ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/sh"]
NOTE: My source files for the app (.js) on the local computer are on directory ./dist, so I have to copy at the container as you can see.
In my case , i changed certain file names and directory names of the parent directory of the Dockerfile . Due to which container not finding the required parameters to start it again.
After renaming it back to the original names, container started like butter.
I have a different take on this. I could do a docker ps and see that there is a docker container running, I even tried to restart it, but as soon as I tried to get a session for it with New-PSSession -ContainerId $containerId -RunAsAdministrator It would error out, saying:
##[error]New-PSSession : The input ContainerId xxx does not exist,
##[error]or the corresponding container is not running.
My problem was I was running with network service and it did not have enough permissions to see the container, even though I had given it permissions to run docker commands (with docker security group configuration)
I didn't know how to enable working with containers, so I had to revert to running it as an admin user instead
In my case, I had previously killed the running container with,
sudo docker kill testdeb
So when I exec the container I got the error,
Error response from daemon: Container fcc29295fe78a425155c533506f58fc5b30a50ee9eb85c21031e8699b3f6ff01 is not running
The solution was to start the container with,
sudo docker start testdeb
Now I have a container running ,
sudo docker ps
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
fcc29295fe78 debian "bash" 9 hours ago Up 11 seconds testdeb
Which wasn't previously running
The below approach I tried works in an windows vscode environment.
docker run --name yourcontainer -p 3306:3306 -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=your password -d mysql
I see lot of similar answers but adding port number '-p 3306:3306', made the status up and running. You can verify by using the command docker ps -a