How do I set max lifetime for Docker Container

Question

I wanted to know that is it possible to start a Docker container and make sure it stops after a specified period time?

Suppose that I have an Ubuntu container, which I start, executed some commands and exited in the end. But it’s possible that those commands may include infinite loops or may just last a very long time, so how do I make sure that the Docker container is automatically killed after an amount of time.

Thank you.

Answer 1

Try this:

docker run -d --name busybox busybox:1.26.2-glibc  sleep 25; sleep 10; docker rm -f busybox

In the busy box container what I am doing is I'm running sleep 25 command, so the container will be alive for 25 seconds. But I want to timeout and remove the container in 10 seconds.

Answer 2

There is one more way which you can try:

timeout --signal=SIGKILL 5 docker run --rm -it busybox:1.26.2-glibc /bin/sh