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dominique120
dominique120

Reputation: 1302

Passing arguments to Docker entry point

I'm having difficulty getting my docker image execute its entry point with the arguments I'm specifying.

In my docker file I have the following:

...
EXPOSE 8123
WORKDIR /bin_vts
VOLUME /bin_vts
ENTRYPOINT ["/bin_vts/vts", "$(hostname -I | awk '{print $1}')", "8123"]

I want my program to take as an argument the output of hostname -I | awk '{print $1}'(an ip address). I have tested this on my local machine and it works fine when I use /bin_vts/vts $(hostname -I | awk '{print $1}') 8123

However when I use this in docker my program tells me that I'm passing "$(hostname -I | awk '{print $1}')" instead of the expected ip address.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I've tried using a script but that says permission denied. This is getting deployed to ECS using Fargate and I tried it locally as well and in both places it fails.

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 431

Answers (1)

Alex Watt
Alex Watt

Reputation: 937

Something like this should work:

ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/bash", "/bin_vts/vts", "$(hostname -I | awk '{print $1}')", "8123"]

The original entrypoint

ENTRYPOINT ["/bin_vts/vts", "$(hostname -I | awk '{print $1}')", "8123"]

is passing the literal argument $(hostname -I | awk '{print $1}') to vts. By using bash, you can evaluate the argument before passing it to vts.

Upvotes: 2

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