Why docker container exits immediately

Question

I run a container in the background using

 docker run -d --name hadoop h_Service

it exits quickly. But if I run in the foreground, it works

Answer 1

Why docker container exits immediately?

If you want to force the image to hang around (in order to debug something or examine state of the file system) you can override the entry point to change it to a shell:

docker run -it --entrypoint=/bin/bash myimagename