I have developed a Windows-worker service and I want to start it in a docker-based environment for automated testing. Therefore I built it with the following command:
dotnet publish -r win-x64 -c Release /p:PublishSingleFile=true
Additionally I have the following Dockerfile:
FROM mcr.microsoft.com/windows/servercore/insider:10.0.17763.107
COPY ["Install/", "C:/Service/Name/"]
RUN powershell New-Service -Name "Name" -BinaryPathName "C:\Service\Name\Name.exe"
When trying to start the service with Start-Service -Name "Name" the startup takes long and the service stays in the state Starting and then I get an 1053-error in the Eventlog (LogName=System).
Due to the fact, that the service did not start I made another one, that is mainly based on the template in Visual Studio, so it should only log a message to the eventlog. This service has the same behavior. When installing it on my local machine everything works fine.
Do you have any ideas why the service remains in the state Starting even though it does already the tasks of the Running-state?
I solved the problem now, because I found the following issue: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/50020
UseWindowsService() does not work in Docker, so I had to specify WindowsServiceLifetime:
services.AddSingleton<IHostLifetime, WindowsServiceLifetime>();