When running a container, you have a choice to run it in the foreground or detached mode. Let's start with the detached mode.
You can start a Docker container in a detached mode with adoption. The container starts up and runs in the background. After the container startup, you can use the console for executing other commands. Dockerfile can launch only one process at a time. Take note of the fact that the containers started in detached mode exit when the root process used to run the container exits. Understanding this is important even if you have some process running in the background (started from the instruction in the Dockerfile). Docker will stop the container if the command that started the container finishes. In other words, Docker requires your command to keep running in the foreground; otherwise, it thinks that your application stops and shuts down the container. For example, if the default command in your container is bash
, when you...