Run a service automatically in a docker container

Question

I\'m setting up a simple image: one that holds Riak (a NoSQL database). The image starts the Riak service with riak start as a CMD. Now, if I run it as a daemon

Answer 1

To keep docker containers running, you need to keep a process active in the foreground.

So you could probably replace that last line in your Dockerfile with

CMD /bin/riak console

Or even

CMD /bin/riak start && tail -F /var/log/riak/erlang.log.1

Note that you can't have multiple lines of CMD statements, only the last one gets run.