Access Redis CLI inside a Docker container

Question

I have Redis running inside of a docker container.

docker run --rm -d --name "my_redis" redis

I'd like to access it via CLI:

If I run docker exec -it my_redis redis-cli the console becomes unresponsive until I leave the container (Ctrl + P, Ctrl + Q)

C:\Users\Andrzej>docker exec -it my_redis redis-cli // nothing here until I go Ctrl + P, Ctrl + Q exec attach failed: error on attach stdin: read escape sequence C:\Users\Andrzej> 

If I run docker exec -it my_redis sh and then run redis-cli from inside of the container it works.

C:\Users\Andrzej>docker exec -it my_redis sh # redis-cli 127.0.0.1:6379> set hello world OK 127.0.0.1:6379> get hello "world" 127.0.0.1:6379> 

My OS is Windows 10.

Is there any way to fix docker exec -it my_redis redis-cli behavior?

UPDATE

When the console gets unresponsive and I click "arrow up" key exactly 11 times I get the Redis cli. This is 100% reproducible. What kind of voodoo magic is that?

Answer 1

Run a redis container in detached mode:

docker run -d redis 

Run redis-cli on it:

docker exec -it e0c061a5700bfa400f8f24b redis-cli 

where e0c061a5700bfa400f8f24b is the id of the container.

According to the documentation:

Detached (-d)

To start a container in detached mode, you use -d=true or just -d option. By design, containers started in detached mode exit when the root process used to run the container exits, unless you also specify the --rm option. If you use -d with --rm, the container is removed when it exits or when the daemon exits, whichever happens first.

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--interactive , -i Keep STDIN open even if not attached

--tty , -t Allocate a pseudo-TTY

Answer 2

1. Run redis container at 6379 port with the name redis in detached mode.

docker run --name redis -p 6379:6379 -d redis

2. Run the redis-cli command in the container.

docker exec -it redis redis-cli