I am creating a docker image using a Dockerfile. I would like to execute some scripts while starting the docker container. Currently I have a shell script to execute all the necessary processes
CMD ["sh","start.sh"]
I would like to execute a shell command with a process running in background example
CMD ["sh", "-c", "mongod --dbpath /test &"]
Besides the comments on your question that already pointed out a few things about Docker best practices you could anyway start a background process from within your start.sh
script and keep that start.sh
script itself in foreground using the nohup
command and the ampersand (&
). I did not try it with mongod
but something like the following in your start.sh
script could work:
#!/bin/sh
...
nohup sh -c mongod --dbpath /test &
...