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Samekh
Samekh

Reputation: 117

Starting a Windows service in a Docker container

I am using Docker for Windows and am trying to convert a Asp.NET MVC 5 to a container. The one remaining roadblock is that I need the ASPNET State server running. I can start up the service through the interactive terminal and it works just fine, but am unable to get the container to start the service automatically. I've tried using CMD, ENTRYPOINT, and RUN, but from what I gather some of these will only execute the command while the image is building, not when the container starts.

My DOCKERFILE is as follows

FROM microsoft/aspnet:4.7.1-windowsservercore-1709
ARG source
WORKDIR /inetpub/wwwroot
COPY ${source:-obj/Docker/publish} .
CMD powershell -Command \
Set-Service aspnet_state automatic; \
Start-Service -name "aspnet_state"; \

EXPOSE 1433

Upvotes: 4

Views: 7280

Answers (2)

QA Collective
QA Collective

Reputation: 2419

You simply need the following code after you have properly installed the service into the image.

ENTRYPOINT ["powershell"]
CMD Start-Service \""MyWindowsServiceName\"";

NOTE: The name of a windows service may be different to its executable name. You need the windows service name here, not the executable name.

Upvotes: 0

Samekh
Samekh

Reputation: 117

Instead of using CMD, I used RUN to commit the command to the image, and used multiple RUN commands:

# Enable Session State Server
RUN powershell -Command Set-Service aspnet_state -startuptype automatic 
RUN powershell -Command Stop-Service aspnet_state
RUN powershell -Command Start-Service aspnet_state 
RUN powershell -Command Set-ItemProperty Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\aspnet_state\Parameters -Name  AllowRemoteConnection -Value 1

Upvotes: 4

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