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Why my docker-compose container is not running?

I have a Virtualbox VM running debian 10.11 whith docker, everything is up to date. I want to start a very basic container from a debian image using deocker-compose.

I have the following docker-compose.yml file

version: "3"
services:
  deb1:
    image: debian:latest

I run the command sudo docker-compose up -d but the container is not running when running sudo docker ps -a so I try to start manually sudo docker start <container_id> but the container is still not running and I have a success return code (echo $?).

It works well when I use docker command to create the container sudo docker run -td --name deb1 --hostname deb1 debian:latest

Does someone have any idea to fix that ?

thanks Louis

Solution

  • UPDATE: a container can only work if a service is running inside. As David Maze said, the Debian image can be extended in a Dockerfile for example.