Create a Never Stop Container

Fri, 14 Mar 2025 16:45:58 +0800

Sometimes we need to start a container that does not stop, for debugging our application or using devcontainer.

If we want to accomplish this in the Dockerfile, we can add the following:

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# 其他内容

ENTRYPOINT ["tail", "-f", "/dev/null"]

If it’s docker-compose.yml, we can do it like this

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services:
 your-app:
 entrypoint: ["tail", "-f", "/dev/null"]

This way, the container will not stop.

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