How to run container for a long time?

Question

Hi Everybody,

I downloaded an official MS docker image (mcr.microsoft.com/windows/servercore/iis), and made a container from it.

The container runs only for minutes long than stops.

How can run it for hours or days long? Is there any solution for this?

 

Thank you answer in advance.

Zsolt

Answer 1

Hello Zsolt,

You may want to add in PowerShell "timeout -1" in command section when creating the container instance. That is the equivalent of "sleep infinity" for bash. "timeout -1" means that the system will wait indefinitely before terminating the process.
So something like: ["powershell", "timeout -1"]

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Answer 2

Hi Andrei,

That would be my next question. :)

Thank you answer in advance.

Zsolt