Docker won't start service

General
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Hi,

I have a centos container with a mongodb service installed and configured. When i start container manuallyl like this:

docker run -it image bash

after start i enter in container and start a mongo manually (/etc/init.d/mongodb start), the service works perfectly,

but when i start a service with container (docker run -it image /etc/init.d//mongodb startt) the container enter in “exited” mode and don’t start.

someone can help me??

Thanks

2

Which Docker image is used? If the official MongoDB image “mongo” is used the command is
docker run --name mongodb -d mongo

3

Hi dvohra

I used official mongo image, but the service won’t start when i run “docker run” with start service parameter. For start a service, i need to enter in container and start service manually.

4

To run the service in the container, you shouldn’t need more than:
docker pull mongo
docker run -d -p 27017:27017 mongo
This will start the container with MongoDB running. You can verify this with a tool like Robo 3T (formerly Robomongo).

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Hi issjohnm,

right, but this way how i restore a database in container for example and save ?

restore manually in container and commit?

i make this way and get the problem above :confused:

6

If you aren’t worried about saving the new version of your container, I would do the restore from a second container that is linked to the first:
docker run --link mymongod:db ... mongo mongorestore -h db ...
If you need a new version of the container as part of the restore process, I recommend researching some of the scripts available for doing backups and restores. I would either utilize one of them as-is or use them as a guide to write your own.

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Right, i tried to make this way this week and post here my results.

thanks issjohnm