How to keep Docker container running after starting services

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Although I've read many instructions that appear to do what I'm trying to do, for some reason my Docker containers keep failing. In essence, I'm configuring a Docker container to house a web server and a few daemons. In my Dockerfile, I run a bash script called run-all.sh through CMD to complete the remaining steps. run-all. Sh appears as follows:

service supervisor start
service nginx start

And I start it inside of my Dockerfile as follows:

CMD ["sh", "/root/credentialize_and_run.sh"]

When I run things manually (by connecting to the image with -i -t /bin/bash), I can see that all of the services start up properly. When I run the image, however, it exits after starting up my processes. According to my understanding, for the processes to continue operating indefinitely, the container must remain active. But when I use docker ps -a, I observe:

➜  docker_test  docker ps -a
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                            COMMAND                CREATED             STATUS                      PORTS               NAMES
c7706edc4189        some_name/some_repo:blah   "sh /root/run-all.sh   8 minutes ago       Exited (0) 8 minutes ago                        grave_jones

How come? Why is that happening? What's the proper technique to prevent my bash script from exiting? I know I could just add a while loop to the end of it to keep it going.

Dec 13, 2022 in Docker by Edureka
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